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[Pirate Ponderings] ID Cards Tell My Story | Pirate Ponderings: Mieczyslaw, began attending public elementary school in 1930 when he was 7 years old.On August 1, 1944, our units attacked the Germans in Warsaw in open combat On the fifth day of fighting, my platoon, which was using two captured German tanks, helped free 350 Jews from the Gesiowka concentration camp.Mieczylaw was captured in Warsaw on September 20, 1944. He escaped several days later from a camp at Pruszkow and went into hiding.

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[Julian and Bianca Overseas] Lessons from Buda and beyond - Julian and Bianca Overseas: We explored the Hungarian History Museum built into the palace, wandering through old cellars and Bianca falling asleep on a beanbag waiting for Julian to finish the weapons exhibition (seriously they are old guns, whats the fascination...). We also bused out to Memento Park which houses heaps of old Soviet statues - the huge ones!

[Comments for Killing Batteries] Killing Batteries » Romania/Moldova lists: Worst located tourism information office ever: The state of the art Piatra Craiului National Park Office in ZarneÅŸti. Or more accurately outside ZarneÅŸti.

[Perth County Ontario] Can You Name a City Featured in a Song? | Perth County Ontario: Galveston, Memphis, New York City, New Orleans, San Francisco, Detroit, Nashville, Albuquerque. I could go on and on!

[Bucharest Life] Bucharest Life | Udrea makes sensible suggestion. So do we | Travel: I for one would appreciate more Udrea’s coming with a not so fancy, but more appropriate idea of not allowing these idiots to build any sort of monstrosity and call it a hotel, disregarding of whether they are set in a medieval town, in a nature park or in the countryside. Because, in the end of the day, her institution is the one granting the tourism operation license for them all.

[Property Secrets - Expert Property Investment Advice & Opportunities] PS FDI Monitor - January 2008: Real estate developers Gemini Holdings held the corner-stone laying ceremony for their Gemini Park shopping and leisure centre in Bielsko Biala. The 35,000-square-metre project will include a 10-screen Cinema City, a Real hypermarket and parking for around 1,100 cars.

[World66 changes for Europe] Deva travel guide: DEVA has one 3-star hotel (Vila Venus, Decebal Hotel) , two 3-star B&Bs (Paradis and Venus), two 2-star hotels (Deva and Sarmis) and two Motels (Beno Oil and Oil Glat Exim). With close-by access to the Apuseni Mountains (Western Transylvanian Alps) to the North, to the Retezat Mountains and National Park (to the South), to areas of outstanding natural beauty and with traditional crafts such as Tara Zarandului, Tara Hatzegului, Tinutul Padurenilor, the Hunedoara Medieval Castle, the Dacian fortresses, DEVA is expecting its visitors to discover this enchanted SW Transylvanian area at the cross-roads of historical Principality of Transylvania and the Banat province.

[Online Classifieds Listings ! Advance Link Properties Singapore] Waterina The | Online Classifieds Listings ! Advance Link ...: Iran’s water polo team will take on Italy on its first match in the FINA Men’s Water Polo Olympic Games Qualifiers in Oradea, Romania. …

[Blogosfera] True Moldova <- Blog din Moldova: [Română] Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism June 3rd, 2008, Prague, Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic Prague DeclarationBearing in mind the dignified and democratic future of our European home, whereas societies that neglect the past have no future,whereas Europe will not be united unless it is able to reunite its history, recognize Communism and Nazism as a common legacy and bring about an honest and thorough debate on all the totalitarian crimes of the past century,whereas the Communist ideology is directly responsible for crimes against humanity,whereas a bad conscience stemming from the Communist past is a heavy burden for the future of Europe and for our children,whereas different valuations of the Communist past may still split Europe into "West" and "East",whereas European integration was a direct response to wars and violence provoked by totalitarian systems on the continent,whereas consciousness of the crimes against humanity committed by the Communist regimes throughout the continent must inform all European minds to the same extent as the Nazi regimes crimes did,whereas there are substantial similarities between Nazism and Communism in terms of their horrific and appalling character and their crimes against humanity,whereas the crimes of Communism still need to be assessed and judged from the legal, moral and political as well as the historical point of view,whereas the crimes were justified in the name of the class struggle theory and the principle of dictatorship of the "proletariat" using terror as a method to preserve the dictatorship, whereas Communist ideology has been used as a tool in the hands of empire builders in Europe and in Asia to reach their expansionist goals, whereas many of the perpetrators committing crimes in the name of Communism have not yet been brought to justice and their victims have not yet been compensated, whereas providing objective comprehensive information about the Communist totalitarian past leading to a deeper understanding and discussion is a necessary condition for sound future integration of all European nations,whereas the ultimate reconciliation of all European peoples is not possible without a concentrated and in depth effort to establish the truth and to restore the memory,whereas the Communist past of Europe must be dealt with thoroughly both in the academy and among the general public, and future generations should have ready access to information on Communism,whereas in different parts of the globe only a few totalitarian Communist regimes survive but, nevertheless, they control about one fifth of the world's population, and by still clinging to power they commit crimes and impose a high cost to the well-being of their people,whereas in many countries, even though Communist parties are not in power, they have not distanced themselves publicly from the crimes of Communist regimes nor condemned them,whereas Prague is one of the places that lived through the rule of both Nazism and Communism, believing that millions of victims of Communism and their families are entitled to enjoy justice, sympathy, understanding and recognition for their sufferings in the same way as the victims of Nazism have been morally and politically recognized, we, participants of the Prague Conference "European Conscience and Communism", having regard to the European Parliament resolution on the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe on 8 May 1945 of May 12th, 2005,having regard to Resolution 1481 of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe of January 26th, 2006,having regard to the resolutions on Communist crimes adopted by a number of national parliaments,having regard to the experience of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa,having regard to the experience of Institutes of Memory and memorials in Poland, Germany, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, the United States, the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania, the museums of occupation in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia as well as the House of Terror in Hungary,having regard to present and upcoming presidencies in the EU and the Council of Europehaving regard to the fact that 2009 is the 20th anniversary of the collapse of Communism in Eastern and Central Europe as well as the mass killings in Romania and the massacre in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, call for: reaching an all-European understanding that both the Nazi and Communist totalitarian regimes each to be judged by their own terrible merits to be destructive in their policies of systematically applying extreme forms of terror, suppressing all civic and human liberties, starting aggressive wars and, as an inseparable part of their ideologies, exterminating and deporting whole nations and groups of population; and that as such they should be considered to be the main disasters, which blighted the 20th century, recognition that many crimes committed in the name of Communism should be assessed as crimes against humanity serving as a warning for future generations, in the same way Nazi crimes were assessed by the Nuremberg Tribunal,formulation of a common approach regarding crimes of totalitarian regimes, inter alia Communist regimes, and raising a Europe-wide awareness of the Communist crimes in order to clearly define a common attitude towards the crimes of the Communist regimes, introduction of legislation that would enable courts of law to judge and sentence perpetrators of Communist crimes and to compensate victims of Communism,ensuring the principle of equal treatment and non-discrimination of victims of all the totalitarian regimes, European and international pressure for effective condemnation of the past Communist crimes and for efficient fight against ongoing Communist crimes, recognition of Communism as an integral and horrific part of Europe’s common history acceptance of pan-European responsibility for crimes committed by Communism, establishment of 23rd August, the day of signing of the Hitler-Stalin Pact, known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, as a day of remembrance of the victims of both Nazi and Communist totalitarian regimes, in the same way Europe remembers the victims of the Holocaust on January 27th, responsible attitudes of National Parliaments as regards acknowledgement of Communist crimes as crimes against humanity, leading to the appropriate legislation, and to the parliamentary monitoring of such legislation, effective public debate about the commercial and political misuse of Communist symbols, continuation of the European Commission hearings regarding victims of totalitarian regimes, with a view to the compilation of a Commission communication, establishment in European states, which had been ruled by totalitarian Communist regimes, of committees composed of independent experts with the task of collecting and assessing information on violations of human rights under totalitarian Communist regime at national level with a view to collaborating closely with a Council of Europe committee of experts;ensuring a clear international legal framework regarding a free and unrestricted access to the Archives containing the information on the crimes of Communism, establishment of an Institute of European Memory and Conscience which would be both - A) a European research institute for totalitarianism studies, developing scientific and educational projects and providing support to networking of national research institutes specialising in the subject of totalitarian experience, B) and a pan-European museum/memorial of victims of all totalitarian regimes, with an aim to memorialise victims of these regimes and raise awareness of the crimes committed by them, organising of an international conference on the crimes committed by totalitarian Communist regimes with the participation of representatives of governments, parliamentarians, academics, experts and NGOs, with the results to be largely publicised world-wide, adjustment and overhaul of European history textbooks so that children could learn and be warned about Communism and its crimes in the same way as they have been taught to assess the Nazi crimes the all-European extensive and thorough debate of Communist history and legacy, joint commemoration of next year’s 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the massacre in Tiananmen Square and the killings in Romania.

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