Although scholars of 20th-century folklore have signalled concern at the potential disappearance of this tradition, it has seen a rebirth – a clear example of which can be found in Lviv. Karel Zap’s ...
He grew up in Sambor and Lwów (Lviv today), where he studied Polish and classic studies at Lviv University. As a young boy, Grabiński suffered an infection (resulting from a wound sustained in school ...
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How Polish professors let infected lice feed on them to avoid concentration camps in WWIIThe Lviv Institute for Study of Typhus employed over 4,000 "louse-feeders" - people who strapped wooden boxes containing hundreds of infected lice to their legs for 45 minutes daily to help ...
‘It’s like a rebirth’: At 83, a feminist icon from Jamaica Plain unravels a Holocaust family mystery
In the early 1940s, authorities had consigned her parents to a Jewish ghetto in their hometown, now known as Lviv, but Diskin escaped their fate when she was left in the care of others.
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