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Narewka
Narewka () is a village in eastern Poland, with its population estimated at 935 residents (as of 2011). It is located in Gmina Narewka, Hajnówka County, within Podlaskie Voivodeship. The village is located near Poland's border with Belarus, and is situated on the river Narewka. Many of its residents belong to Poland's Belarusian minority. It is in one of five Polish- Belarusian bilingual regions in Podlaskie Voivodeship regulated by the ''Act of 6 January 2005 on National and Ethnic Minorities and on the Regional Languages'', which permits certain gminas with significant linguistic minorities to introduce a second, auxiliary language to be used in official contexts alongside Polish. The village has Polish Catholic and Belarusian Eastern Orthodox churches. It used to have a synagogue, but it was burned down by the local Jewish population in 1940, angered after the Red Army, which had invaded Poland in 1939, desecrated the synagogue by turning it into a storage building. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narewka (river)
The Narewka (; Belarusian ''Нараўка'') River is a left-bank tributary of the Narew River in western Belarus and northeastern Poland. Etymology The Narewka River's name comes from a Proto-Indo-European root, ''*nr'', primarily associated with "water" (compare Narva, Neretva, Neris, Ner, and Nur). Geography The Narewka flows through the European region known as the (Podlasie–Belarus Plateau) in Poland's Podlaskie Voivodeship and Belarus' Grodno Region. A major part of the river flows through the Białowieża Forest. The Narewka River is the main watercourse of the Polish part of the Białowieża Forest. The river is 61.1 km long, including 21.7 kilometers in the Republic of Belarus. Catchment (basin) covers an area Narewka 710.7 km2, of which the Polish border is 491.32 km. Within the forest is 380 km2 catchment area, part of which falls in the Białowieża National Park. Catchment forest cover is 49.9%. Until dry, the Narewka flowed through qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gmina Narewka
__NOTOC__ Gmina Narewka () is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Hajnówka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, on the border with Belarus. Its seat is the village of Narewka, which lies approximately north-east of Hajnówka and south-east of the regional capital Białystok. The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 4,019. It is one of five Polish/Belarusian language, Belarusian Bilingual communes in Poland, bilingual Gmina in Podlaskie Voivodeship regulated by the ''Act of 6 January 2005 on National and Ethnic Minorities and on the Regional Languages'', which permits certain gminas with significant linguistic minorities to introduce a second, auxiliary language to be used in official contexts alongside Polish language, Polish.Dz. U. z 2005 r. Nr 17, poz. 141 Villages Gmina Narewka contains the villages and settlements of Babia Góra, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Babia Góra, Baczyńscy, Bazylowe, Bernacki Most, Bielscy, Podlaskie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leon Leyson
Leon Leyson (born Leib Lejzon; September 15, 1929 – January 12, 2013) was a Polish-American Holocaust survivor and one of the youngest , Jews saved by Oskar Schindler. His posthumously published memoir, ''The Boy on the Wooden Box- How the impossible became the possible, on Schindler's List'' details his extraordinary survival during the dark times of the dreaded Holocaust. Leyson's Life Early life Leyson was born Leib Lejzon in Narewka, Poland to Moshe Lejzon and Chanah Lejzon (née Golner) on September 15, 1929. He had four siblings: Hershel, Betzalel (called Tsalig), Pesza, and David. He also had a large extended family. He and his family members were all observant Jews. The Lejzons were also farmers, and came from an ancestry of farming. Narewka was a small town, with only one car and little to no access to electricity. Leyson later recalled there being some division between Jews and gentiles in Narewka, including antisemitic jokes, or being chased away from a place for bein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danuta Siedzikówna
Danuta Helena Siedzikówna (nom de guerre: ''Inka''; underground name: ''Danuta Obuchowicz''; 3 September 1928 – 28 August 1946) was a Polish people, Polish medical orderly in the 4th Squadron of the Home Army 5th Wilno Brigade , 5th Wilno Brigade of the Armia Krajowa, Home Army. In 1946 she served with the Brigade's 1st Squadron in Poland's Pomerania region. Considered a national heroine, she was captured, tortured and sentenced to death at the age of 17 by the communist authorities. Early life Siedzikówna was born on 3 September 1928 in Guszczewina, near Narewka, Bielsk Podlaski. Her father, Wacław Siedzik, was a forester sent to Siberia under the Russian Empire, Tsar for involvement in pro-Polish independence organisations. He came back to Poland in 1923. In 1940 he was arrested by the NKVD and once again deported to Russia. In 1941 her father Wacław Siedzik joined Władysław Anders' Polish Armed Forces in the West, Polish Army (he died in Teheran in 1943). Her mothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hajnówka County
__NOTOC__ Hajnówka County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Podlaskie Voivodeship, north-eastern Poland, on the border with Belarus. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Hajnówka, which lies south-east of the regional capital Białystok. The only other town in the county is Kleszczele, lying south-west of Hajnówka. The county covers an area of . As of 2019 its total population is 42,851, out of which the population of Hajnówka is 20,580, that of Kleszczele is 1,250, and the rural population is 21,021. Neighbouring counties Hajnówka County is bordered by Siemiatycze County to the south-west, Bielsk County to the west and Białystok County to the north. It also borders Belarus to the east. Administrative division The county is subdivided into nine gmina The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' ) is the basic unit of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bilingual Communes In Poland
The bilingual status of gminas (municipalities) in Poland is regulated by the Act of 6 January 2005 on National and Ethnic Minorities and on the Regional Languages, which permits certain gminas with significant linguistic minorities to introduce a second, auxiliary language to be used in official contexts alongside Polish. So far 44 gminas have done this: German Polish/ German bilingual gminas (''Gemeinden'') in *Opole Voivodeship (28 municipalities) ** Gmina Biała / Gemeinde Zülz (since 06.03.2006) ** Gmina Bierawa / Gemeinde Birawa (since 23.04.2007) ** Gmina Chrząstowice / Gemeinde Chronstau (since 25.01.2006) ** Gmina Cisek / Gemeinde Czissek ** Gmina Dobrodzień / Gemeinde Guttentag (since 13.05.2009) ** Gmina Dobrzeń Wielki / Gemeinde Groß Döbern (since 22.04.2009) **Gmina Głogówek / Gemeinde Oberglogau (since 22.04.2009) ** Gmina Gogolin / Gemeinde Gogolin ** Gmina Izbicko / Gemeinde Stubendorf (since 06.03.2006) ** Gmina Jemielnica / Gemeinde Himmelwitz (since 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belarus–European Union Border Crisis
In August 2021, the government of Belarus began sponsoring an influx of migrants, mostly from the Middle East and North Africa, to the borders of Lithuania, Poland and Latvia. Although Belarus denied involvement, both the European Union and independent observers viewed it as hybrid warfare undertaken in response to the deterioration in Belarus–European Union relations following the 2020 Belarusian presidential election and the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests. Between August and December 2021, tens of thousands of unauthorized border crossing attempts were recorded, peaking in October. At least 20 migrants died in the following winter due to the harsh weather and abuse from border authorities. Attempted border crossings fell sharply the following year, but never returned to their pre-crisis levels. In the spring of 2024, numbers began rising again, although they remain well below those seen in the peak of the crisis in 2021. The crisis began sometime around 7 July 2021, when Bel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Orthodox Church
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is List of Christian denominations by number of members, one of the three major doctrinal and jurisdictional groups of Christianity, with approximately 230 million baptised members. It operates as a Communion (Christian), communion of autocephalous churches, each governed by its Bishop (Orthodox Church), bishops via local Holy Synod, synods. The church has no central doctrinal or governmental authority analogous to the pope of the Catholic Church. Nevertheless, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is recognised by them as ''primus inter pares'' (), a title held by the patriarch of Rome prior to 1054. As one of the oldest surviving religious institutions in the world, the Eastern Orthodox Church has played an especially prominent role in the history and culture of Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Since 2018, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thousands of Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War, military casualties and tens of thousands of Ukrainian Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, civilian casualties. As of 2025, Russian troops Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, occupy about 20% of Ukraine. From a population of 41 million, about 8 million Ukrainians had been internally displaced and more than 8.2 million Ukrainian refugee crisis, had fled the country by April 2023, creating Europe's List of largest refugee crises, largest refugee crisis since World War II. In late 2021, Russia Prelude to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, massed troops near Ukraine's borders and December 2021 Russian ultimatum to NATO, issued demands to the Western world, West i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Refugee Crisis (2022–present)
An ongoing refugee crisis began in Europe in late February 2022 after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Over 6 million refugees fleeing Ukraine are recorded across Europe, while an estimated 8 million others had been displaced within the country by late May 2022. Approximately one-quarter of the country's total population had left their homes in Ukraine by 20 March. 90% of Ukrainian refugees are women and children, while most Ukrainian men between the ages of 18 and 60 are banned from leaving the country. By 24 March, more than half of all children in Ukraine had left their homes, of whom a quarter had left the country. The invasion caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II and its aftermath, is the first of its kind in Europe since the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s, as well as the fourth largest refugee crisis in history, and is the largest refugee crisis of the 21st century, with the highest refugee flight rate globally. The vast majority of refugees initially e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belarus–Poland Border
The Belarusian–Polish border is the state border between the Republic of Poland (EU member) and the Republic of Belarus ( Union State). It has a total length of , or Informacje o Polsce - informacje ogólne . Page gives Polish PWN Encyklopedia as reference. (sources vary). It starts from the triple junction of the borders with in the north and stretches to the triple junction borders with to the south. It is also part of the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Israeli-occupied territories, It occupies the Occupied Palestinian territories, Palestinian territories of the West Bank in the east and the Gaza Strip in the south-west. Israel also has a small coastline on the Red Sea at its southernmost point, and part of the Dead Sea lies along its eastern border. Status of Jerusalem, Its proclaimed capital is Jerusalem, while Tel Aviv is the country's Gush Dan, largest urban area and Economy of Israel, economic center. Israel is located in a region known as the Land of Israel, synonymous with the Palestine (region), Palestine region, the Holy Land, and Canaan. In antiquity, it was home to the Canaanite civilisation followed by the History of ancient Israel and Judah, kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Situate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
