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  • She'd give her two eyes to have a house like this with flowers and birds abroad in the garden and the wireless playing that lovely Warsaw Concerto or the Dream of Olwyn and no end of cups and saucers with angels shooting arrows.†   (source)
  • The foreman was a Pole, Franek, a former student from Warsaw.†   (source)
  • Marvin returned to a toilet for a newspaper he'd left behind, he was looking vainly for baseball scores in a Warsaw daily, and he was surprised by the heat in the little room, the steamy aura he'd established there, it was heavy and humid, an air mass of sweltry stench—all that radiant energy from a single BM.†   (source)
  • She'd been in law school in Warsaw until she'd been forbidden to attend classes.†   (source)
  • Warsaw, Dresden, Berlin, Cologne, Budapestall were horribly scarred in the last war.†   (source)
  • … That crazy woman from Warsaw, wasn't it?†   (source)
  • Some of you may have passed through the Brennero on the way to Munich or Warsaw.†   (source)
  • A few miles to the north was Lohamei HaGeta'ot, a kibbutz founded by survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.†   (source)
  • Now that the other children were older and there was so much going on in the kitchen, I had to get close to the actual radio set in order to concentrate my hearing, and in that intent proximity to the dial I grew familiar with the names of foreign stations, with Leipzig and Oslo and Stuttgart and Warsaw and, of course, with Stockholm.†   (source)
  • They had not bombed the city like Warsaw, and so we feel a little special and protected, spared.†   (source)
  • Portage, Castile, Perry, Warsaw, Alexander.†   (source)
  • The line's struck from Moscow to Warsaw.†   (source)
  • So the Warsaw Pact marines are going home.†   (source)
  • The Germans evacuated Warsaw, including the contents of the unfinished hospital building opposite.†   (source)
  • One day I found myself back in the city of Warsaw.†   (source)
  • They ride in boxcars through Lodz, Warsaw, Brest.†   (source)
  • It was the last live music broadcast from Warsaw.†   (source)
  • The Warsaw Pact was on its way to hegemony before the First Invasion.†   (source)
  • I had been announcing to all of Warsaw: Look!†   (source)
  • Demosthenes wasn't wrong to suspect that the Warsaw Pact was not abiding by the terms of the League.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, the first German race raids were beginning in Warsaw.†   (source)
  • Nothing but the patrols moved in Warsaw at this time of night.†   (source)
  • Food is getting scarcer every day; famine is growing in Warsaw.†   (source)
  • But between the Warsaw Pact nations these things are internal matters.†   (source)
  • Her mother was sewing uniforms for Jackboot soldiers in a Warsaw factory.†   (source)
  • —February 26, 1941 Scroll of Agony: The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan I am running.†   (source)
  • We could find ourselves locked into the Warsaw Pact.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile the siege of Warsaw, the first chapter in the city's tragic story, was coming to an end.†   (source)
  • This is an alarm warning for the city of Warsaw … Be on the alert!†   (source)
  • Everybody but the Warsaw Pact, and they want you dead.†   (source)
  • You have to call for the Warsaw Pact to lose official status.†   (source)
  • The entire responsibility for the fate of Warsaw rested on his shoulders.†   (source)
  • Not all the Warsaw Pact people went with the Polemarch.†   (source)
  • Number four on the list could be deciphered as 'Wladislaus Spielmann, pianist with Warsaw Radio'.†   (source)
  • This way of life looked distinctly odd in the besieged city of Warsaw.†   (source)
  • Perhaps they were afraid of coming upon a large group of rebels still lurking in Warsaw.†   (source)
  • Now the reports say they are emptying the Warsaw ghetto in the same way.†   (source)
  • Warsaw surrendered on Wednesday, 27 September.†   (source)
  • II August 1944 The Fuhrer is to issue a decree that Warsaw is to be razed to the ground.†   (source)
  • Wladyslaw Szpilman began working for Radio' Warsaw again as a pianist at once.†   (source)
  • They're already in Warsaw, in Praga on the other side of the Vistula.†   (source)
  • The same day, at three-fifteen in the afternoon, Warsaw Radio went off the air.†   (source)
  • This book paints a picture of life in the Warsaw ghetto on a broad canvas.†   (source)
  • This time their hunts ranged all over Warsaw.†   (source)
  • I said I was living outside Warsaw now and had come back to fetch some of my things.†   (source)
  • The German artillery began shelling Warsaw again, first the suburbs, then the city centre too.†   (source)
  • The Warsaw rebellion itself had been put down.†   (source)
  • The boy from Warsaw who played the violin in the band at Buna….†   (source)
  • "Before I was sent to the camp," she said, "I had a lover in Warsaw.†   (source)
  • They found him in a barn, down near Warsaw, and he gave himself up.†   (source)
  • "Warsaw," he said to himself again, almost aloud.†   (source)
  • Then when you mentioned Warsaw, I was sure.†   (source)
  • The dreadful bruise inflicted on her face in Warsaw had never really gone away.†   (source)
  • I would think about the size of Warsaw maybe, before the Nazis got to it.†   (source)
  • Now just then when I listened I realize that I heard it once after that, in Warsaw.†   (source)
  • He gave rabble-rousing speeches in Warsaw.†   (source)
  • It was not long after this that we went to Warsaw—it was necessary that I find work ….†   (source)
  • She left Warsaw on the thirtieth of March.†   (source)
  • They make me under arrest and bring me to the Gestapo prison in Warsaw.†   (source)
  • You can't imagine how terrible Warsaw was then during the occupation.†   (source)
  • That winter in Warsaw, I didn't feel any guilt about my father and what he had written.†   (source)
  • We lived in this building in Warsaw that was bombed but fixed up.†   (source)
  • The shift in mood—the grisly chronicle of Warsaw, followed in a flash by this wanton playfulness.†   (source)
  • I was on a railroad car in Warsaw when the Gestapo staged a roundup.†   (source)
  • No one in Warsaw knew much about my background, I was living under my married name.†   (source)
  • One Jewish family in our building took a barge up the Vistula River to Warsaw, more than one hundred fifty miles to the northeast.†   (source)
  • Analysis of consequences of Soviet Revisionists and Warsaw Pact making initial contact with extraterrestrial intelligence and monopolizing such contact: [still classified]†   (source)
  • Surely not in Kiev, or Lvov, or Warsaw.†   (source)
  • One morning several Poles stormed our building to raid the apartment upstairs, where the Jewish family that fled to Warsaw had lived.†   (source)
  • Fortunately, Krakow was spared the destructive bombardments that targeted Warsaw and other cities; even without the threat of bombs, there was terror on the streets.†   (source)
  • We knew that in Warsaw the Jews had already been forcibly relocated into a small area of the city, where they now lived in desperately overcrowded conditions.†   (source)
  • All of Warsaw had been our food market.†   (source)
  • We raided the finest homes in Warsaw.†   (source)
  • Of course, I could not do this more than once at any one house, but there were many large, fine houses in Warsaw.†   (source)
  • It's very complicated, but what it means here is that the I.F. will stay in existence, but without the Warsaw Pact in it.†   (source)
  • On this bitterly cold night the streets of Warsaw were almost as deserted as those of the ghetto, but the blue camel hotel was always bright and warm.†   (source)
  • Everyone knows that from the beginning the Warsaw Pact was to be regarded as a single entity where those rules were concerned.†   (source)
  • We boys decided to believe he was a Warsaw sausage maker—he looked like a pile of fat sausages—who hated Jews so much that he pretended to be one so that he could live in the ghetto.†   (source)
  • They're going to start a war, Americans claiming the Warsaw Pact is about to attack, and the Pact saying the same thing about the Hegemon.†   (source)
  • And so, thanks to Uri, in a cellar beneath a barbershop somewhere in Warsaw, Poland, in autumn of the year nineteen thirty-nine, I was born, you might say.†   (source)
  • I heard flies: "Remember Warsaw?†   (source)
  • If I write this like you say I should, Peter, I'm pretty much calling for war to break up the Warsaw Pact.†   (source)
  • And suddenly we'll look around and discover that all the old alliances are gone, dead and gone, except one, the Warsaw Pact.†   (source)
  • Warsaw.†   (source)
  • Out of Warsaw.†   (source)
  • Certain military people who corresponded with her dropped hints about things without meaning to, and she and Peter put them together to build up a fascinating and frightening picture of Warsaw Pact activity.†   (source)
  • It seems Russian intelligence is concerned that some of the active citizens on the nets are already figuring how America ought to use the I.F. to destroy the Warsaw Pact as soon as the buggers are destroyed.†   (source)
  • Warsaw Pact?†   (source)
  • When Hitler came to power in 1933, he returned to Warsaw and began working as a pianist for Polish Radio.†   (source)
  • Through a family he knew in Warsaw he met our father, who got him a pass with a false name and took him on as a worker at the sports centre.†   (source)
  • Stalingrad was now in the third month of its defence, and there had been a conspiracy in Warsaw: grenades were thrown into the German Cafe-Club.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the only difference was that in the Warsaw ghetto these hunts suddenly stopped in the spring of 1942.†   (source)
  • After about a week announcements of a new selection from all the Jews left in Warsaw were pasted on the ghetto walls.†   (source)
  • Jewish businessmen bargained over them, later supplying them to the Warsaw shops from depots in Nalewki Street and Simon Passage.†   (source)
  • During the worst of that winter, numbers of Jewish deportees evacuated from the west arrived in Warsaw.†   (source)
  • Our policy in the east is bankrupt, and we are erecting a final memorial to it with the destruction of Warsaw.†   (source)
  • In any case, thanks to his invention and German venality many Jews in Warsaw were saved from dying of typhus, if only to die another death later.†   (source)
  • He told me he was leaving Warsaw with his detachment, and I must on no account lose heart, since the Soviet offensive was expected any day now.†   (source)
  • Silence fell, a silence such as even Warsaw, a dead city for the last three months, had not known before.†   (source)
  • A week before the Soviet army invaded, he was shot by Germans in a little town not far from the ruins of Warsaw.†   (source)
  • Warsaw, 17 April 1942 I have spent a number of peaceful days here at the College of Physical Education.†   (source)
  • Public executions in the streets of Warsaw had begun in the autumn and now took place almost every day.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the rising plotted and organized by the small remnant of Jews left in the Warsaw ghetto would have had at least a tiny chance of success then.†   (source)
  • Sosnowiec was even the only place to get a glass of decent beer, because you couldn't buy anything but disgusting, undrinkable dishwater in Warsaw.†   (source)
  • The idea of the census was to allow the Germans to track down all Jews hiding in Warsaw in one fell swoop.†   (source)
  • It often took several days for these ghastly transports to reach Warsaw, and only then were the people let out.†   (source)
  • If the news of this decree is true then it's clear to me that we have lost Warsaw, and with it Poland and the war itself.†   (source)
  • Soviet air raids on Warsaw came more and more frequently; I could see the fireworks display from my window.†   (source)
  • The situation all round Warsaw was improving too; the German artillery had stopped shelling the city.†   (source)
  • She looked from one to another of us, her eyes wide with fear, putting forward new arguments in favour of getting out of Warsaw.†   (source)
  • The armed fighting in the Warsaw ghetto and thousands of brave deeds performed by Jewish partisans show that it was a very capable resistance too.†   (source)
  • More credible was the rumour that the Jewish ghettos in Poland were to be limited to four: Warsaw, Lublin, Cracow and Radom.†   (source)
  • The afternoon of the same day something happened that shook the whole of Warsaw, on both sides of the wall.†   (source)
  • On 29 July Lewicki came bursting in with the news that the rebellion in Warsaw would begin any day now.†   (source)
  • By 31 August 1939 everyone in Warsaw had been sure for some time that war with the Germans was inevitable.†   (source)
  • Radio loudspeakers set up somewhere nearby were broadcasting announcements in Polish of the defeat of Germany and the liberation of Warsaw.†   (source)
  • There was a Soviet air raid on Warsaw.†   (source)
  • He had never liked Warsaw, and the worse it was for us there the more he longed for and idealized Sosnowiec.†   (source)
  • I began my wartime career as a pianist in the Cafe Nowo-czesna, which was in Nowolipki Street in the very heart of the Warsaw ghetto.†   (source)
  • The privileged labourers working on the conversion of the Warsaw SS commandant's palace in Aleje Ujazdowskie were off to work.†   (source)
  • They only paid one of the two SS headquarters in Warsaw, and it was their bad luck to fall into the hands of men from the other.†   (source)
  • He and seven others managed to get away, and now he is living in Warsaw; I'm told there are quite a number of them in the city.†   (source)
  • On 14 November 1950 a pleasant young Pole turned up and asked for my father, whom he had met in Warsaw during the war.†   (source)
  • Warsaw, 13 August 1942 A Polish shopkeeper expelled from Posen at the beginning of the war has a business here in Warsaw.†   (source)
  • 'I'm a German,' the man whispered feverishly, 'and I helped Szpilman when he was hiding in the attic of the fortress commando unit in Warsaw.†   (source)
  • Their execution of the first hundred innocent citizens of Warsaw in December 1939 was a crucial turning point.†   (source)
  • Another day the leader of the Warsaw Philharmonic, Jan Dworakowski, saw me as he was crossing the square.†   (source)
  • He was outstandingly popular in pre-war Warsaw, thanks to his intelligence, his personal charm and his elegance.†   (source)
  • The men still left in Warsaw had to report for labour there: everyone was to do six days' physical labour a month.†   (source)
  • I was going to be shot by Polish soldiers in liberated Warsaw, on the very verge of freedom, as. the result of a misunderstanding.†   (source)
  • If he did not leave Warsaw it was more because he didn't want to be too far from Sosnowiec, where he came from.†   (source)
  • Then aircraft bombed the parts of the city of Warsaw under German control and carried out airdrops over the city centre by night.†   (source)
  • Don't you know the staff of the Warsaw fortress commando unit is moving into this building any time now?†   (source)
  • That could have been the reason why he was made officer in charge of all the Warsaw sports facilities taken over by the Wehrmacht so that German soldiers could keep fit there with games and athletics.†   (source)
  • The doctor's wife left Warsaw again a few days later, but before she went she provided me with lavish food supplies, and promised me more reliable care.†   (source)
  • The large ghetto comprised the whole northern part of Warsaw, containing a great many narrow, evil-smelling streets and alleys and crammed with Jews living in poverty in dirty, cramped conditions.†   (source)
  • Many Jews did not wait for the Russians to march in, but sold their possessions in Warsaw and moved east, the only way they could still go to get away from the Germans.†   (source)
  • At the end it was Captain Hosenfeld who found the half-dead pianist in the ruined city of Warsaw, now empty of its inhabitants — and did not kill him.†   (source)
  • About two weeks later one of my Polish Radio colleagues, the violinist Zygmunt Lednicki, who had taken part in the rebellion, came back to Warsaw after his wanderings.†   (source)
  • 'In the winter of 1939 to 1940 my father's unit, which had left Fulda for Poland in the autumn of 1939, was stationed in the little town of Wegrow, east of Warsaw.†   (source)
  • He was head of the music department of Polish Radio until 1963, when he gave up the position to devote more of his time to concert tours and the Warsaw Piano Quintet founded by himself and Gimpel.†   (source)
  • Maciej Cieciora told us that, probably in 1943, Polish freedom fighters had shot some German soldiers in the part of Warsaw where the Koschel family lived.†   (source)
  • This was to be my last hiding place before the Polish rebellion and the complete destruction of Warsaw — a roomy fourth-floor bachelor flat entered direct from the stairway.†   (source)
  • I was going east towards the Vistula to Praga — it used to be a remote, poor suburb, but it was now all there was of Warsaw, since the Germans had not destroyed what was left of it.†   (source)
  • Then, for a change, rumours began going around suggesting that the people in the Warsaw ghetto were to be resettled in the east and were to leave in transports of six thousand people a day.†   (source)
  • My face, arms and legs were already beginning to swell up when Mrs Malczewska came, unhoped for: I knew that she, her husband and Lewicki had been forced to leave Warsaw and go into hiding.†   (source)
  • A little later the only Warsaw newspaper published in Polish by the Germans provided an official comment on this subject: not only were the Jews social parasites, they also spread infection.†   (source)
  • The city was declared a fortress and given a commandant, who issued an appeal to the population to stay where they were and show themselves ready to defend Warsaw.†   (source)
  • We once had a conversation in Warsaw; he had toured the world as a pianist and was now sitting, exhausted, at his old grand piano, which needed tuning.†   (source)
  • Looking down the dark street, I saw floodlights illuminating the new wooden grating: the ghetto gate, beyond which free people lived — unconfined, with adequate space, in the same city of Warsaw.†   (source)
  • This time I had ended up in one of the most German parts of Warsaw, right in the lion's den, which may in fact have made it a better, safer place for me.†   (source)
  • If I leaned out of the window in the evening, when it was time to sleep, I could see the firelight to the north of Warsaw, and heavy masses of smoke drifting over the clear, starry sky.†   (source)
  • These shelters accommodated Jews from the country around Warsaw who had been thrown into the ghetto, as well as those expelled from Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Hungary.†   (source)
  • The same has happened in Warsaw.†   (source)
  • After two weeks, well cared for by the military, clean and rested, I walked through the streets of Warsaw without fear, a free man, for the first time in almost six years.†   (source)
  • The city now had to feed not only itself but also the soldiers trapped inside it, and the Poznari army from the west that had made its way through to Warsaw to reinforce the defence.†   (source)
  • When the sun came up in the sky, a very clear sky in those days, the whole of Warsaw was echoing to rifle fire again, and the sound of heavy artillery began to mingle with it more and more frequently.†   (source)
  • Leon Warm got in touch with Szpilman in Warsaw, care of Polish Radio, conveying to him the names of the people Hosenfeld had saved and passing on his urgent request for help.†   (source)
  • When I told him that the others had been taken away from Warsaw he looked at me with what struck me as particular sympathy, and opened his mouth as if to say something.†   (source)
  • The simple fact is that we decided to stay because of our fondness for Warsaw, although we could not have given any logical explanation for that either.†   (source)
  • In those weeks of late autumn, not quite two months after the Germans took Warsaw, the city suddenly and completely unexpectedly returned to its old way of life.†   (source)
  • Several German planes had already been shot down over Warsaw, and eyewitness accounts claimed to have seen the corpses of enemy airmen wearing paper clothes and paper shoes.†   (source)
  • The news did not improve: bitter battles were being fought in the city centre, no support was coming from outside Warsaw, and the German terror was growing in our part of the city.†   (source)
  • I learned from her that Szalas had been collecting money for me all over Warsaw, and since no one would grudge it when a man's life was to be saved, he had amassed a handsome sum.†   (source)
  • He wrote his story, as it is printed here, in Warsaw directly after the war, that is to say in the heat of the moment, or more accurately in deep shock.†   (source)
  • They could stay in Warsaw.†   (source)
  • Today, as I look back on other, more terrible memories, my experiences of the Warsaw ghetto from November 1940 to July 1942, a period of almost two years, merge into a single image as if they had lasted only a single day.†   (source)
  • Those were the first Germans I saw, A few days later bilingual proclamations went up on the walls of Warsaw, issued by the German commandant and promising the population peaceful working conditions and the care of the German state.†   (source)
  • Several of my friends could not take me in, others could not leave home because our organizations had successfully raided one of the biggest Warsaw banks that day, and the whole city centre was surrounded by police.†   (source)
  • They would show how well off the Jews of Warsaw were — and how immoral and despicable they were too, hence the scenes of Jewish men and women sharing the baths, immodestly stripping naked in front of each other.†   (source)
  • He was in a hurry, but he thought it his duty to let us know the Germans were advancing on Warsaw, the government had moved to Lublin, and all able-bodied men were to leave the city and go to the far side of the river Vistula, where a new line of defence would be built up.†   (source)
  • My father, who was then officer in charge of the sporting facilities of the city of Warsaw appropriated by the Wehrmacht, protected him by giving him work at his office under the false name of "Cichocki".†   (source)
  • I did not sleep at all that night: if the Germans were going to defend the ruins of Warsaw, the street fighting would begin at any moment and I could be killed as the finale to all my earlier tribulations.†   (source)
  • Warsaw, 23 July 1942 If you read the newspapers and listen to the news on the radio you might think everything was going very well, peace was certain, the war already won and the future of the German people full of hope.†   (source)
  • A counter-attack by Polish troops was being organized on the other side of the bend in the river, and meanwhile we had to hold back the main force of the enemy in Warsaw until our own men came to relieve us.†   (source)
  • So the Germans did not intend to resettle us just yet, since in such cases (as we had heard in reports from outside Warsaw where much smaller Jewish communities had been resettled long ago) they always began by liquidating the officials.†   (source)
  • The evacuation of Warsaw by the Germans — something I had been able to observe from my window myself — the panic-stricken flight westward of overloaded trucks and private cars, had come to a halt in the last few days.†   (source)
  • I sometimes give recitals in the building at number 8 Nar-butt Street in Warsaw where I carried bricks and lime — where the Jewish brigade worked: the men who were shot once the flats for German officers were finished.†   (source)
  • Although people were alarmed by the severity of the German laws, they did not lose heart, comforting themselves with the thought that the Germans could hand Warsaw over to Soviet Russia at any moment, and areas occupied just for the sake of appearances would be restored to Poland as soon as possible.†   (source)
  • Spring had finally come, and now there could be no doubt that the Allies, who had spent the winter making suitable preparations, would attack Germany simultaneously from France, Belgium and Holland, break through the Siegfried Line, take the Saarland, Bavaria and northern Germany, conquer Berlin, and liberate Warsaw that summer at the latest.†   (source)
  • In exactly the same way, Germany shifted the borders of the European countries it had subdued, appropriating province after province; it was as if the Warsaw ghetto were no less important than France, and the exclusion of Zlota Street and Zielna Street as significant for the expansion of German Lebensraum as the separation of Alsace and Lorraine from French territory.†   (source)
  • The German police headquarters in Warsaw had given him a pass to let him into the ghetto, but once he had arrived and was beginning the operation SS men made their way into the flat where it was going on, shot the anaesthetized patient lying on the operating table, and then shot the surgeon and everyone else present.†   (source)
  • In Warsaw?†   (source)
  • There was an article about East German interference with the Bonn government's liaison office in Warsaw.†   (source)
  • Alma Mereminski, and my father, David Singer, and my great-aunt Dora who died in the Warsaw Ghetto, and for whom I was given my Hebrew name, Devorah.†   (source)
  • That same evening, in the lavatory, the dentist from Warsaw pulled out my crowned tooth, with the aid of a rusty spoon.†   (source)
  • What it does not say is that his sister, Miriam, was shot in the head by a Nazi officer in the Warsaw Ghetto, or that aside from Boris, who escaped on a kindertransport and lived out the remaining years of the War, and his childhood, in an orphanage in Surrey, and later Boris's children, who were at times smothered by the desperation and fear that accompanied their father's love, Litvinoff had no surviving relatives.†   (source)
  • She named my brother Emanuel Chaim after the Jewish historian Emanuel Ringelblum, who buried milk cans filled with testimony in the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Jewish cellist Emanuel Feuermann, who was one of the great musical prodigies of the twentieth century, and also the Jewish writer of genius Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel, and her uncle Chaim, who was a joker, a real clown, made everyone laugh like crazy, and who died by the Nazis.†   (source)
  • A ration of bread for one of my pals a famous dentist from Warsaw, so that he can take your crown out.†   (source)
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