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Zamość
Zamość, region (and town) in the General Government area of Poland (see Poland, 2(b)) where the Nazis' largest single so-called pacification programme was started in November 1942 after they had decided that it should become a German region. Some 150,000 Poles from nearly 300 villages were either deported as forced labour, sent to concentration camps, or distributed elsewhere in Poland. They included 30,000 children, most of whom disappeared, though it is known that 4,454 of the more Aryan-looking ones became part of the Lebensborn programme. The Polish inhabitants were replaced by settlers from Germany and the Ukraine, but the SS lacked the manpower to deport everyone—400 villages were untouched—and when those who remained began attacking the new settlers the operation was abandoned.
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I. C. B. DEAR and M. R. D. FOOT. "Zamość." The Oxford Companion to World War II. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. I. C. B. DEAR and M. R. D. FOOT. "Zamość." The Oxford Companion to World War II. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O129-Zamo.html I. C. B. DEAR and M. R. D. FOOT. "Zamość." The Oxford Companion to World War II. 2001. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O129-Zamo.html |
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Zamość
Zamość , Rus. Zamostye, town (1993 pop. 63,500),Lubelskie prov., SE Poland, on the Łabuńką River. It is a commercial center, trading mainly in agricultural products. The town's chief industries are meat processing and the manufacture of furniture and clothing. Zamość was founded in 1579 by a Polish chancellor, Jan Zamojski, who also established a college there. The town defended itself against a Cossack invasion in 1648 and against the Swedish king Charles X in 1656. The city passed to Austria in 1772 and to Russia in 1815; it reverted to Poland after World War I. |
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"Zamość." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Zamość." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Zamosc.html "Zamość." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Zamosc.html |
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Zamość
Zamość, Poland Himmlerstadt Founded in the 16th century on an estate called Zamość by Jan Zamoyski (1542–1605), chancellor and Grand Hetman of the Crown (commander‐in‐chief of the armed forces), who took his name from that of the estate. It might mean ‘Beyond the Bridge’ from the Slavonic za and most ‘bridge’. It was called Himmler Town briefly during the Second World War after Heinrich Himmler (1900–45), Nazi leader and chief of the Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei ‘Secret State Police’).
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JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Zamość." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Zamość." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-Zamo.html JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Zamość." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-Zamo.html |
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