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Oľšavica
Oľšavica is a village and obec in Levoča District in the Prešov Region of central-eastern Slovakia. History The village was first mentioned in 1300 or 1308. From its establishment, villagers have followed the Greek Catholic Church, Greek Catholic faith; in 1700 there were 348 Greek Catholics out of 351 people living in the village. It is located in the Slovak Catholic Metropolitan Archeparchy of Prešov, Greek Catholic Metropolitan Archeparchy of Prešov. Two natives of the village, brothers Stefan Olshavskyi, Šimon Štefan and Manuil Olshavskyi, Michal Manuel Olšavský, made their hometown famous as bishops of the Greek Catholic Eparchy of Mukachevo in the eighteenth century. In the late nineteenth century, many villagers emigrated to the United States. In 1944, the village was the site of a mass rescue of some 50 refugees, including 35 Jews who escaped the Holocaust in Slovakia, due to the exhortations of local Greek Catholic priest Michal Mašlej, who was held in high es ...
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Manuil Olshavskyi
Manuil Mykhaylo Olshavskyi, Order of Saint Basil the Great, O.S.B.M., (born as Michal Židik; , , , c. 1700 – 5 November 1767) was the bishop of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Mukacheve, Vicariate Apostolic for the Ruthenians in Mukacheve from 1743 to his death in 1767. Life Mykhaylo Olshavskyi was born in about 1700 in the village of Oľšavica, from which he took his surname (which originally was ''Židik''). He studied philosophy in Košice and then in the Jesuit college of Trnava. At the end of his studies, he was ordained a secular priest in 1725 and assigned to the Eparchy of Mukacheve, where he later became vicar of the eparchs (bishops) Stefan Olshavskyi (who was his older brother) and Havryil Blazhovskyi. At the death of his predecessor, he was appointed on 8 February 1743 as vicar general by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Eger, Latin Bishop of Eger: as at that time, following the Union of Uzhhorod, the eparch of Mukacheve was formally an apostolic vicar of ...
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Stefan Olshavskyi
Stefan Simon Olshavskyi, O.S.B.M. (born as Simeon Židik; , , , c. 1695 – 24 December 1737) was the bishop of the Vicariate Apostolic for the Ruthenians in Mukacheve from 1733 to his death in 1737. Life Simon Olshavskyi was born on about 1695 in the village of Oľšavica, from which he took his surname (which originally was ''Židik''). He studied philosophy in Košice and then in the Jesuit college of Trnava. At the end of his studies, he was ordained a secular priest in 1719 and assigned to the Vicariate Apostolic of Mukacheve. At the death of his predecessor, he was appointed, on 26 August 1733 as general vicar by the Latin bishop of Eger (actually at that time, following the Union of Uzhhorod, the eparch of Mukacheve was formally an apostolic vicar of that Latin diocese.). He received the titular see of Pella on 20 May 1735 and was consecrated bishop later in this year by the Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus', Atanasiy Sheptytskyi in Lviv. A short time before consecrati ...
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List Of Municipalities And Towns In Slovakia
This is an alphabetical list of the 2,891 (singular , "municipality") in Slovakia. They are grouped into 79 Districts of Slovakia, districts (, singular ), in turn grouped into 8 Regions of Slovakia, regions (, singular ); articles on individual districts and regions list their municipalities. The average area of Slovak municipalities is about and an average population of about 1,888 people. * Ábelová * Abovce * Abrahám * Abrahámovce, Bardejov District * Abrahámovce, Kežmarok District * Abramová * Abranovce * Adamovské Kochanovce * Adidovce * Alekšince * Andovce * Andrejová * Ardanovce * Ardovo * Arnutovce * Báb, Nitra District, Báb * Babie * Babín * Babiná * Babindol * Babinec, Slovakia, Babinec * Bacúch * Bacúrov * Báč * Bačka, Slovakia, Bačka * Bačkov, Trebišov District, Bačkov * Bačkovík * Baďan * Bádice * Badín * Báhoň * Bajany * Bajč * Bajerov * Bajerovce * Bajka * Bajtava * Baka, Slovakia, Baka * Balá ...
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Levoča District
Levoča District (''okres Levoča'') is a district in the Prešov Region of eastern Slovakia Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's m .... Until 1918, the district was part of Spiš County, a county of the Kingdom of Hungary. Municipalities References Districts of Prešov Region Spiš {{Prešov-geo-stub ...
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Le Chambon-sur-Lignon
Le Chambon-sur-Lignon (, literally "Le Chambon on Lignon"; ) is a commune in the Haute-Loire department in south-central France. Residents have been primarily Huguenot or Protestant since the 17th century. During World War II these Huguenot residents made the commune a haven for Jews and other refugees fleeing from Nazi Germany and countries controlled by Nazi Germany. The refugees were hidden both within the town and in the countryside or were helped to flee to neutral Switzerland. Humanitarian organizations, both Jewish and non-Jewish, and local religious leaders had a priority of hiding children to protect them from deportation to Nazi concentration camps. Estimates of the number of people sheltered in Chambon and its area range from 800 to 5,000. In 1990 the town was one of two collectively honoured as the Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in Israel for saving Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe. The other awardee was the Dutch village of Nieuwlande. Geography Le Cham ...
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University Of Alberta
The University of Alberta (also known as U of A or UAlberta, ) is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta, and Henry Marshall Tory, the university's first president. It was enabled through the ''Post-secondary Learning Act.'' The university is considered a "comprehensive academic and research university" (CARU), which means that it offers a range of academic and professional programs that generally lead to undergraduate and graduate level credentials. The university comprises four campuses in Edmonton, an Augustana Campus in Camrose, Alberta, Camrose, and a staff centre in downtown Calgary. The original north campus consists of 150 buildings covering 50 city blocks on the south rim of the North Saskatchewan River valley parks system, North Saskatchewan River valley, across and west from downtown Edmonton. About 37,000 students from Canada and 150 other countries partici ...
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Pavel Peter Gojdič
Pavel Peter Gojdič (also known as Pavol Gojdič or Peter Gojdič; 17 July 1888 — 17 July 1960), was a Rusyns, Rusyn Order of Saint Basil the Great, Basilian monk and the eparch of the Slovak Greek Catholic Church, Slovak Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Prešov, Eparchy of Prešov. Following the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état, he was arrested by the StB, the secret police of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, communist regime in Czechoslovakia, and imprisoned on charges of high treason. Despite promises of immediate release if he would agree to become patriarch of the Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church, Orthodox Church in Czechoslovakia, Gojdič died at Leopoldov Prison as a prisoner of conscience in 1960. Following the 1989 Velvet Revolution, Gojdič was posthumously honoured by post-communist Czechoslovakian President Vaclav Havel and beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2001. For his Rescue of Jews by Catholics during the Holocaust, role in saving 1500 Slovak Jew, Jewish lives duri ...
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Nieuwlande
Nieuwlande (Dutch Low Saxon: ''Neilaande'') is a Dutch village located in the north-eastern province of Drenthe situated in the municipality of Hoogeveen. The population, as of 2023 is 1419. Nieuwlande is one of only two villages in the world that collectively received the Righteous Among the Nations award for its Holocaust Rescue story where nearly all of the towns residents hid and saved the lives of hundreds of Jews as well as resistance fighters and German deserters during World War II. Nieuwlande is on peatland in the south of Drenthe. It arose where five municipalities meet: Oosterhesselen (by far the largest part), Dalen, Coevorden, Hardenberg, and Hoogeveen. For this reason, a book about Nieuwlande's history had the catching title "Nieuwlande, village with five burgomasters". This situation obstructed to a great extent the extension possibilities and an efficient governing board: for many municipalities it was but an unimportant peripheral area. Therefore, at the municipa ...
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Righteous Among The Nations
Righteous Among the Nations ( ) is a title used by Yad Vashem to describe people who, for various reasons, made an effort to assist victims, mostly Jews, who were being persecuted and exterminated by Nazi Germany, Fascist Romania, Fascist Italy, and other local close allies and collaborators, during the The Holocaust, Holocaust. The term originates from the concept of , a legal term used to refer to non-Jewish observers of the Seven Laws of Noah. Endowment Criteria of the Knesset When Yad Vashem, the Shoah Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, was established in 1953 by the Knesset, one of its tasks was to commemorate the "Righteous Among the Nations". The Righteous were defined as non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. Since 1963, a commission headed by a justice of the Supreme Court of Israel has been charged with the duty of awarding the honorary title "Righteous Among the Nations". Guided in its work by certain criteria, the commission m ...
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The Holocaust In Slovakia
The Holocaust in Slovakia was the systematic dispossession, deportation, and murder of Jews in the Slovak Republic, a client state of Nazi Germany, during World War II. Out of 89,000 Jews in the country in 1940, an estimated 69,000 were murdered in the Holocaust. After the September 1938 Munich Agreement, Slovakia unilaterally declared its autonomy within Czechoslovakia, but lost significant territory to Hungary in the First Vienna Award, signed in November. The following year, with German encouragement, the ruling ethnonationalist Slovak People's Party declared independence from Czechoslovakia. The Slovak government blamed the Jews for the territorial losses. Jews were targeted for discrimination and harassment, including the confiscation of their property and businesses. The exclusion of Jews from the economy impoverished the community, which encouraged the government to conscript them for forced labor. On 9 September 1941, the government passed the Jewish Code, which it c ...
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Brutovce
Brutovce is a village and municipality in Levoča District in the Prešov Region of central-eastern Slovakia. History In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1319. Geography The municipality lies at an altitude of 863 metres and covers an area of  (2020-06-30/-07-01). Population It has a population of 151 people (2020-12-31). Genealogical resources The records for genealogical research are available at the state archive "Statny Archiv in Levoca, Slovakia" * Roman Catholic church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1653-1896 (parish A) * Greek Catholic church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1746-1929 (parish B) See also * List of municipalities and towns in Slovakia This is an alphabetical list of the 2,891 (singular , "municipality") in Slovakia. They are grouped into 79 Districts of Slovakia, districts (, singular ), in turn grouped into 8 Regions of Slovakia, regions (, singular ); articles on individu ... References External linksof living ...
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