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	Polish culture: MUSEUM OF MANOR HOUSE INTERIORS
		The museum is housed in a late Baroque manor house built of larch, with four alcoves, constructed during the years 1752-1757 for the family of a moderately well-to-do nobleman by the name of Wladyslaw Bartochowski, Count/h.
		of Rola, the castellan of Wielun, and Master of the Royal Hunt in Sieradz; it was restored during the years 1970-1980.
		These illustrate the way of life of the Wielun nobility, its degree of wealth, its aesthetic tastes, and the quality of provincial craftsmen who were working for the landed gentry, for example.
	www.culture.pl /en/culture/instytucje/muzea/in_mu_ozarow (187 words)

	Women & The Holocaust - Mothers
		She was born in 1882 in a small village near the town of Boleslawiec called Wojcin.
		First they were taken to Wielun, the district capitol, then the men went to a camp near Posnan.
		Wielun was 30 kilometers from my home town.
	www3.sympatico.ca /mighty1/mothers/sky2.htm (5527 words)

	Pinkas Hakehillot Polin: Wielun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is a fact that the Jews of Wielun did not remain indifferent to the uprising, and actively supported it: a team of Jews, members of a rebel brigade from Wielun, fought at the side of Polish artists.
		Wielun was completely destroyed in the first two days of the outbreak of the Second World War by air bomb attacks and artillery shelling.
		The Jewish population of Wielun was subjected to continuous kidnappings of men who were transported to labor camps in the region of Poznan, and to the area of the Reich itself.
	www.jewishgen.org /yizkor/pinkas_poland/pol1_00094a.html (3605 words)

	Axis History Forum :: View topic - German Air War in Poland 1939: War Crime? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Wielun story however stands for a correction since this town regularly comes up together with Warsaw, Rotterdam and Guernica when it comes to the question who started bombing undefended cities.
		The bombing of Wielun is already mentioned in the first edition of Cajus Bekker's "Angriffshöhe 4000" back in the Sixties with details regarding the attacking units and the polish cavalry units in and near the town.
		Wielun was simply a town not that far from the front line, with troops in and around it and therefore a legitimate target for a bombing as for artillery fire.
	forum.axishistory.com /viewtopic.php?t=51772 (2994 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Wladislaw
		In 1912 the Diocese of Wloclawek and Kalisz comprised 13 deaneries (Wloclawek, Nieszawa, Kalisz, Kola, Konin, Sieradz, Slupca, Turek, Wielun, Piotrkow, Czenstochowa, Lask, Radomsk), with 352 parish or subsidiary churches.
		The total number of churches was 511, of which 286 were of stone and 125 of wood; the chapels numbered 176, of which 114 were of stone.
		According to official statistics, the number of regulars in the diocese is 37; the number of religious women, 24, besides 55 Sisters of Charity.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15680b.htm (1757 words)

	Bombing of Wieluń in World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bombing of Wieluń in World War II refers to the German bomb raid on the Polish city of Wieluń at the outbreak of World War II.
		Summary of a German TV report making the case for the bombing of Wielun as a war crime (German).
		Response and criticism by historian Horst Boog, arguing that the attack was tactical in nature (German).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bombing_of_Wielun_in_World_War_II (372 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		President Aleksander Kwasniewski said these words during ceremonies marking the 65th anniversary of the start of World War II in Wielun, the first town to be bombed by Nazi warplanes on Sept. 1, 1939.
		On September 1, 1939 in Wielun the Nazis broke the Geneva conventions bombing a town and a hospital, which had a red cross sign on it.
		The attack killed nearly 1,200 people and the town was destroyed in 75 percent, the president said.
	www.polishembassy.ca /news_details.asp?nid=204 (289 words)

	Women & The Holocaust - Mothers
		The day before a Christian acquaintance came from the city of Wielun and told me that they were assembling all the Jews from there.
		From Wielun the able bodied Jews were sent to Lodz, to labor in the ghetto.
		Rachel ran away from Wielun when her husband was taken away to labor camp.
	www3.sympatico.ca /mighty1/mothers/sky3.htm (4002 words)

	The Agonist \| Poland: A Zero Sum Game? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		At 4:40 this morning, the people of Wielun woke to the deafening roar of aircraft diving toward the rooftops.
		But the people of Wielun have always known that their town in central Poland had shaken under German bombs five minutes previously, and so the town's authorities decided to stage today's rather unusual commemorative event.
		But while locals may take a sort of perverse pride in their town making current-day headlines, the anniversary has reawakened the vexed question of responsibility for the sufferings of civilian victims of the war, Poles and Germans alike.
	www.agonist.org /story/2004/9/3/233456/9628 (1614 words)

	Polish Socinians \| Page 2
		The apostates from the Catholic religion he calls "sons of the devil" who should be punished according to the Edict od Wielun for "betraying the state," others should be considered "infidels" and not Christians and should be classified with Jews and Moslems.
		He claims that the Church never will recognize the Statutes and maintains that the Edict of Wielun of 1424 is still valid and in effect.
		He justifies closing of the Protestant schools (in 1638 and in 1640), Protestant centers and printing presses (in 1638 the press in Raków) as a "duty of good pastors," an act of the King and the republic.
	www.socinian.org /polish_socinians2.html (5756 words)

	An Historical Outline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		On the limehills extending from Krakow to Wielun ("land of the eagle's nest") on the River Warta, rises the city of Czestochowa, the capital of the province of the same name.
		It is believed that the name of the city derives from its founder, a Slav called Czestoch.
		They marked the sings of the robbers' outrage on the face of the image with a pen, inmemory of the barbarism.
	www.jasnagora.pl /english/z_dziejow_sanktuarium.html (874 words)

	Saints
		In a village near Wielun, not too far from Czestochowa, Poland, lived a young girl, Jozia, with her parents.
		When she was nineteen, she became engaged to Stach, who was from the same village, and the first two announcements of the marriage banns had been made in church.
		The Sisters were buried in the church yard in Nowogrodek, where they remained until the process for their beatification was initiated.
	www.tx-csfn.org /saints/reddress.htm (1172 words)

	Achtung Panzer ! - Invasion of Poland (Fall Weiss) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		On Friday, September 1st of 1939, Germany invaded Poland after long-term political crises.
		German invasion began with an air raid on undefended city of Wielun at 4:40am.
		Over 1200 people were killed in first warcrime of World War II.
	www.achtungpanzer.com /polcamp.htm (2527 words)

	<yomag.net> interview: Do you still think you are too fat? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I would never like to look the same.
		Wielun, 4.1.2001 Do you still think that you are too fat?
		Maybe it is the first step to hell (anorexia).
	www.yomag.net /e-zine/626.htm (427 words)

	PolishRoots - Geography & Maps
		1) a village and manorial farmstead, Wielun~ county, Starzenice district, Ruda parish, 6 km.
		It has a distillery and water mill; the village has 61 houses, 477 inhabitants; the farmstead has 7 houses.
		This translation was completed by William F. Hoffman, for PolishRoots.
	www.polishroots.org /slownik/maslowice.htm (307 words)

	WW II ACE STORIES
		1 September 1939, 4:50 - 5:30 a.m., Wielun city.
		On this morning, despite the complete lack of military installations in the city, and with the nearest Polish troops of the 28th Infantry Division situated southwest of Wielun, German bombers of I./KG76 (4.
		Walter Sigel, brutally bombed the center of the city.
	www.elknet.pl /acestory/pol39/pol39.htm (1402 words)

	Polish Socinians \| Page 1
		The first major innovative movement brought to Poland was Hussitism introduced by Hieronymus of Prague (1378-1416).
		At the instigation of the bishops, King Wladyslaw Jagiello issued the edict of Wielun in 1424 which declared Hussitism treason against the state and condemned to death every heretic caught.
		The secular and religious lords organized a private war in 1439 and massacred a Hussite nobleman, Melstinus, and his followers.
	www.socinian.org /polish_socinians.html (5474 words)

	Hitler in the East
		The planes in the hangers or on the field went up in flames."
		The Warte River was crossed east of Wielun.
		After its decisive attacks on 2 September, the German air force totally dominated the air over Poland, and was ready for further attacks."
	www.calvin.edu /academic/cas/gpa/booklet4.htm (864 words)

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