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Służew New Cemetery
The Służew New Cemetery () is a Roman Catholic cemetery in Warsaw's Mokotów district, Poland. The cemetery is located at Wałbrzyska Street. The cemetery was established in 1900. From 30 June to 10 July 2014, the Institute of National Remembrance, the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom and the Ministry of Justice carried out work as part of the research project "Searching for unknown burial places of victims of communist terror from 1944–1956". The exhumations were conducted under the supervision of Krzysztof Szwagrzyk. Notable burials * Josepha Kodis * Jerzy Kolendo * Janusz Wójcik Janusz Marek Wójcik (18 November 1953 – 20 November 2017) was a Polish politician, football player and manager. Playing career He played in several clubs at home and abroad, including Agrykola, Gwardia, Ursus and Hutnik Warsaw, Ravalpandi ... References Mokotów Cemeteries in Warsaw Roman Catholic cemeteries in Poland 1900 establishments in Poland Ceme ...
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Warsaw
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at 1.86 million residents within a Warsaw metropolitan area, greater metropolitan area of 3.27 million residents, which makes Warsaw the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 6th most-populous city in the European Union. The city area measures and comprises List of districts and neighbourhoods of Warsaw, 18 districts, while the metropolitan area covers . Warsaw is classified as an Globalization and World Cities Research Network#Alpha 2, alpha global city, a major political, economic and cultural hub, and the country's seat of government. It is also the capital of the Masovian Voivodeship. Warsaw traces its origins to a small fishing town in Masovia. The city rose to prominence in the late 16th cent ...
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Mokotów
Mokotów () is a district of Warsaw, the capital city of Poland. It is densely populated, and hosts many companies and foreign embassies. Only a small part of the district is lightly industrialised (''Służewiec Przemysłowy''), while the majority is full of parks and green areas ( Mokotów Field). Although the area has been populated at least since the early Middle Ages, Mokotów was not incorporated into Warsaw until 1916. The origins of the area's name are unclear, first appearing as the village of Mokotowo in documents from the year 1367. It is hypothesised to have come from the name of a German owner of the village, who called himself Mokoto or Mokot, although no exact reference to such an individual has been found in historical records. In the 18th century, Moktów developed as a place where mansions, villas and palaces of the magnates and wealthy bourgeoisie were built. However, most of the area was urbanised and redeveloped throughout the 1930s in the style of modernism. ...
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Institute Of National Remembrance
The Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation (, abbreviated IPN) is a Polish state research institute in charge of education and archives which also includes two public prosecution service components exercising investigative, prosecution and Lustration in Poland, lustration powers. The IPN was established by the Polish parliament by the Act on the Institute of National Remembrance of 18 December 1998 through reforming and expanding the earlier Main Commission for the ''Investigation'' of Crimes against the Polish Nation of 1991, which itself had replaced the General Commission for Research on Fascist Crimes, a body established in 1945 focused on investigating the crimes of the Nazi administration in Poland during World War II. In 2018, IPN's mission statement was amended by the controversial Amendment to the Act on the Institute of National Remembrance to include "protecting the reputation of the Republic of Poland ...
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Josepha Kodis
Josepha Fabianna Kodis (1865 – 1940), was a Polish philosopher, psychologist and women's rights activist, who advocated for women's emancipation and equal rights. She was a co-organizer of the People's University for Polish emigrants in the St. Louis, Missouri. In Minsk, she organized the Free Polish University and public library. Life and work Josepha Krzyżanowska was born on 19 April 1865 on the Załucze estate in Nowogrodek west of Minsk, into a Polish landowning and clergy family in Belarus. Her parents, Erazm Krzyżanowski and Zofia Kozielska, had become impoverished as a result of the confiscation of their property after the unsuccessful November and January uprisings of 1863/1864 against the Russian Empire. In 1881, she passed the state teacher's examination and after her father died she began to work as a private teacher in Lithuania. In 1886 she went to Geneva, Switzerland to study and a year later she moved to Zürich, Zurich, to study philosophy. She received h ...
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Jerzy Kolendo
Jerzy Władysław Kolendo (9 June 1933, Brest, Belarus, Brześć, Poland – 28 February 2014, Warsaw) was an acknowledged Polish authority on the history and archaeology of Ancient Rome. He was an exponent of the French Annales school, an epigraphy, epigraphist and specialist in the relations between the Barbaricum and the early Roman Empire. Life He was the son of parents involved in education. His father died when he was young and the family moved from Brześć to Białystok where he spent his schooldays. While his desire was to become an archaeologist, he feared his lack of drawing ability would discount his chances of gaining a university place, so he opted to study ancient history. Kolendo graduated from the University of Warsaw in 1955, going on to a masters and a doctoral degree at Warsaw in 1960. He completed his habilitation in history in 1968. He gained a professorship in 1979. The burden of his Archaeology, archaeological research was into the Ancient Mediterranean ...
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Janusz Wójcik
Janusz Marek Wójcik (18 November 1953 – 20 November 2017) was a Polish politician, football player and manager. Playing career He played in several clubs at home and abroad, including Agrykola, Gwardia, Ursus and Hutnik Warsaw, Ravalpandi in Pakistan and the Toronto Falcons in Canada. Coaching career Wójcik also trained several Polish clubs like Hutnik Kraków, Jagiellonia Białystok, Legia Warsaw, Pogoń Szczecin and Świt Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki as well as the Polish Olympic team which won the silver medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics, the senior national team, and the numerous youth national teams of Poland. He worked as a manager also out of his country like Al-Khaleej, Anorthosis Famagusta and the Syria national team. On 21 April 2008, he was appointed Widzew Lodz manager. In 2010, Wójcik was hired as manager for Omani club Al-Nahda. Political career He was a member of the Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland party and was elected to Sejm (the lower c ...
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Cemeteries In Warsaw
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many death, dead people are burial, buried or otherwise entombed. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek language, Greek ) implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally applied to the Ancient Rome, Roman catacombs. The term ''graveyard'' is often used interchangeably with cemetery, but a graveyard primarily refers to a burial ground within a churchyard. The intact or cremated remains of people may be interred in a grave, commonly referred to as burial, or in a tomb, an "above-ground grave" (resembling a sarcophagus), a mausoleum, a columbarium, a niche, or another edifice. In Western world, Western cultures, funeral ceremonies are often observed in cemeteries. These ceremonies or rites of passage differ according to culture, cultural practices and religion, religious beliefs. Modern cemeteries often inclu ...
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