Poland

​ = Invasion of Poland =

Germany invaded Poland in the fall of 1939. Nazi Germany occupied the remainder of Poland. when it invaded the Soviet Union on June 1941. Poland remained under German occupation until January 1945. When the Soviets took control of eastern Poland, about 300,000 Jewish refugees from German-occupied Poland were trapped. Thousands of refugees escaped to the south and booked passage on ships leaving Black Sea ports in Bulgaria and Romania. The British White Paper of May 1939 had severely limited Jewish immigration to Palestine. Those caught trying to cross between occupation zones or trying to flee without papers faced arrest and arbitrary violence at the hands of both Soviet and German border guards.

= Economy = = = = The money of Poland is Zloty. Notes are in denominations of zł200, 100, 50, 20 and 10. The new coins are in denominations of zł5, 2 and 1, and 50, 20, 10, 5, 2 and 1 groszy.In Poland they have the same jobs as we do for example,doctors, clerks, lawyers, artists, carpenters, fashion models, writers, plumbers, drivers, teachers etc...In Poland they speak Polish. =

= Concentration Camps =

=The Concentration Camps in Poland were located in Auschwitz/Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Gross-Rosen, Majdanek, Sobiboc, stuttof and Treblinka.The Germans, ruled by Hitler, took Jewish and other types of people there and worked them to death and if they were sick they would kill them. Of the approximately 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, more than half were killed in the highly rationalized gas chamber of the Nazi Death Camps between 1942 and 1945.Almost immediately following his rise to power, Hitler began the creation of concentration camps. Initially these were designed to incarcerate political prisoners (enemies of the regime), criminals and security risks.= media type="youtube" key="dJBxdRIQx7Y" height="141" width="208" align="center"  Map of Concentration Camps

media type="youtube" key="281m-sh4Zzg" height="161" width="206" align="left" = Poland =

=The six biggest cities in Poland are Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Wroclaw, Poznan, and Gdansk. The highest point in Poland is Rysy in the Tatra Mountains (2,499m).The coldest part of Poland is in the the North-East and the warmest is in the South-west. Poland is the the ninth biggest country in Europe and it shares frontiers with seven countries: Russia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Germany. The national symbol of Poland is the White tailed Eagle. The Population of poland is 39,560,388. = = Government = =Poland's constitution has been in place since 1997. The country is a republic with an elected president. Legislative authority resides in the National Assembly, which consists of two houses. The Sejm (parliament), or lower house, is composed of 460 members. The senate, or upper house, has 100 seats. Members of both houses are elected to four-year terms. The president is the head of state and is elected by the people to a five-year term.= = Culture =

== The World War II in Poland was an astounding 6 million-including 3 million Jews slaughtered in the Nazi death camps. More than 98 percent of the people are Poles, with small groups of Ukrainians, Belorussians, Germans, Slovaks and Lithuanians. The Poles speak a Slavic language. English is the most popular foreign language in Poland. The Polish population is mostly urban centric with 60% of the population living in cities. Poland's culture deals with Latin and Byzantine influences and was also influenced by many European occupations, throughout its history. ==