Parent
involvement during the summer months is crucial to student success. According
to the National Education Association, “Parents
who are actively involved in their children’s learning … help their children
become more successful learners in and out of school.”
Summer
vacation gives endless opportunities to explore the world and learn various
things.
This
summer 7 years old Basia has learned a lot about her family heritage and looked
into a history of Poland
and its capital Warsaw. Old
Town was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage
Castle
Square with the Royal Castle the iconic King Sigismund's Column Zygmunt'sColumn
The Presidential Palace
The WarsawUprising
The WarsawGhetto
National monument at the Ghetto's former Umschlagplatz
symbolizing an open
freight car, Warsaw
Victory Square in Warsaw
The Palace
of the Ministry of Revenues and Treasury
(Pałac Komisji Rządowej Przychodu
i Skarbu)
It is sometimes known as Leszczyński Palace.
The Saxon Garden
View
of the VistulaRiver
1855
bronze sculpture of The Warsaw Mermaid in the Old Town Market Place
Long
Kept in Secret History
Prime
Minister Władysław Sikorski
General
Józef Piłsudski Chief of State of the Second Republic of Poland
The Katynmassacre
The Katynmassacre The number of Polish intelligence victims is estimated at about 22,000. Of the total
killed, about 8,000 were officers takenprisoner during the 1939 Soviet invasion ofPoland, another 6,000 were police officers, and the
rest were arrested Polish intelligentsia the
Soviets deemed to be "intelligence agents, gendarmes, landowners,
saboteurs, factory owners, lawyers, officials and priests."
The crash of a Polish Air Force Tu-154
in Smolensk catastrophe
The 2010
crash of a Polish Air Force Tu-154
occurred on 10 April 2010 near the city of Smolensk,
Russia, killing all 96 Polish intelligence on board. These included president LechKaczyński and his wife Maria, former president Ryszard Kaczorowski, the chief of the Polish
General Staff and other senior Polish military officers, the president of the
National Bank of Poland, Poland's deputy forain minister, Polish
government officials, 18 members of the Polish Parliament, senior members of
the Polish clergy, and relatives of victims of the Katyn massacre.
They were on route from Warsaw to Smolensk to attend an event marking the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre.
They were on route from Warsaw to Smolensk to attend an event marking the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre.
I
recommend to watch “Gladiators of World War II -The Free Polish Forces WW2”
Warsaw was the beloved city of Isaac Bashevis Singer, which he described in many of his novels: “Warsaw has just now been destroyed. No one will ever see the Warsaw I knew. Let me just write about it. Let this Warsaw not disappear forever”, he commented.
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