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Breslau versus Wrocław: how the names of the city and its streets changed after 1945 Historia Wrocławia
Breslau versus Wrocław: how the names of the city and its streets changed after 1945
The name Wrocław and the German Breslau share a common Slavic root, and after 1945 the city had to rethink the names of its streets too: some were translated from German, others broke completely with the old tradition.
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Renesans Theatre and three school networks: the Jewish cultural life of post-war Wałbrzych Historia Wrocławia
Renesans Theatre and three school networks: the Jewish cultural life of post-war Wałbrzych
For two post-war decades Wałbrzych had its own Jewish theatre, several competing schools and a Yiddish-language newspaper. This chapter of the town's history closed with successive waves of emigration.
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A Jewish stronghold: how Dzierżoniów and Bielawa became the largest concentration of Holocaust survivors in Poland Historia Wrocławia
A Jewish stronghold: how Dzierżoniów and Bielawa became the largest concentration of Holocaust survivors in Poland
In the second half of the 1940s Dzierżoniów and Bielawa filled with Holocaust survivors faster than any other towns in post-war Poland. The story of this phenomenon lasted less than a decade.
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