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harrassed again! |
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stopped in the subway |
They tried to make us buy another three-day pass, but Dr. O'Sullivan refused. Not only were the policemen unhelpful and irritating, we also believed they unnecessarily forced us to miss our train, scammed us, and likely befitted financially from the incident.
On our way back from the museum, the same policeman detained three of us again! He made another attempt to get us to buy a three-day pass. In the future, other traveling students should be aware of the Metro rule or take special pains to avoid the Metro “police.”

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Resistance armbands |
Two students described aspects of the Museum that were not of major focus (heroism was the major focus), but which they found very interesting.

One of the panels at the Uprising Museum was about what happened to the Polish Home Army in the city of Lviv (Lwów). Michelle's mother came from Lviv, so she had personal interest and knowledge from her family's experience.
She writes: Lviv was a highly coveted city historically, and it was often called the Jewel of the East due to its more Western European architecture and design. The German Army conquered it from Poland during World War II. The Soviet Union launched Operation Burza (Tempest) which started in March 1944. This was an effort in which Soviet forces allied with the Polish/Ukrainian forces at Lviv and forced the German army out of the city and liberated it. The Soviets had always regarded the region as rightfully their own.
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535 Slovaks Platoon armbands |
The 535 Slovaks Platoon also included Czechs, Georgians, Armenians, Ukrainians,
and Azerbaijani. There were also about a dozen Frenchmen and Hungarians,
a handful of Belgians, Dutch, Greeks, English, and Italian soldiers, and even
one Romanian and one Australian. These were mainly runaway POWs from camps, or
others who were not necessarily in Warsaw by choice. Their willingness to
fight displayed how hated the Nazis were, even by those whose countries were
officially allied to Germany such as Slovakia or Hungary. Their efforts were doomed
from the beginning. Following an unsuccessful attack on the Belvedere
Palace at the "W-Hour", or time the rising began, part of the Slovak
Platoon retreated to the Chojnowskie Woods, with the remaining forces fighting
in Czerniakow under the 1st Company.
After the Uprising Museum, we returned to the hotel, loaded our luggage onto the bus, and went to the railroad station. We took a lovely 2.5 hour train ride to Krakow. You'll hear about that on the next post.
{Contributors to the post: Samantha C., Michelle, Ed, and Joseph}
After the Uprising Museum, we returned to the hotel, loaded our luggage onto the bus, and went to the railroad station. We took a lovely 2.5 hour train ride to Krakow. You'll hear about that on the next post.
{Contributors to the post: Samantha C., Michelle, Ed, and Joseph}
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