Posts by Gene Sokolowski
Educational Resource Slide Sets for the 1948 Genocide Convention.
The five slide sets below condense the main points of the Educational Resource’s Lesson Plan and are provided to assist educators in presenting the Lesson Plan concisely. The slide sets should be presented in their numerical order. Slide Set 1 – Introduction Slide Set 2 – Section 1 Slide Set 3 – Section 2, Points…
Read MoreThe 1948 Genocide Convention – A Critically Important Outcome of World War II
Educational Resource for Virginia Public Schools10th-grade History and Social Science Standards of Learning To Virginia Educators and Students, World War II was the most destructive war in all of history and it is essential to study the war as it occurred in Europe because it helps us understand the underlying ideologies that started the war…
Read MoreA Virginia Teacher’s Guide for 10th-Grade Students Poland’s Role in World War II
A History and Social Science Supplement for the Virginia Curriculum Click on the image of the Virginia Teacher’s Guide and learn little-known, compelling facts about Poland’s role in World War II. Download the Guide at this link.
Read MorePropaganda and Disinformation in the Russian Federation’s Historical Policy Towards Poland and Ukraine, by the Janusz Kurtyka Foundation
(For professors, college students, and interested adults.) This report by the Janusz Kurtyka Foundation presents Russian propaganda and disinformation based on publications in Russian and pro-Russian internet portals in 2023. The publications cited are products of the Russian Federation’s historical policy, which seeks to undermine relations between Poland and Ukraine by distorting their respective histories,…
Read MoreThe Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum & Memorial Site, The Former German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp: The History of the Institution of Memory and Its Operating Principles, by Franciszek Dąbrowski PhD
(For historians, professors, college students, and interested adults.) The author is with the Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw, Poland, and the War Studies University, Warsaw, Poland. It appeared in the Institute of National Remembrance’s Review in February 2020. The image above is from the first page of Dąbrowski’s article and shows the location of the…
Read MoreThe Accomplished Senator, by Laurence Grimald Gozliski, 1568 A.D.
(For professors, college students, and interested adults.) The paragraphs below are, first, taken from the Preface, written by Blanka Rosenstiel, Founder and President of the American Institute of Polish Culture, and second, from the Introduction, written by Professor Kenneth Thompson, Director of the White Burkett Miller Center for Public Affairs, University of Virginia. “In 1568,…
Read MoreConstitutions, Elections and Legislatures of Poland, 1493-1993: A Guide to Their History, by Jacek Jędruch
(For professors, college students, and interested adults.) The paragraphs below are taken from the Foreword written by Norman Davies, one of the world’s most respected historians noted for his publications on the history of Europe, Poland, and the United Kingdom. “In the English-speaking world, it is absolutely natural that England’s parliamentary history should hold pride…
Read MoreCrime and Pillage. How the Germans Try to Conceal the Truth About Themselves 1939–2019, by Wojciech Polak and Sylwia Galij-Skarbińska
(For professors, college students, and interested adults.) Crime and Pillage presents a reality from Poland’s past that still painfully reverberates today, 80 years after it finished occurring – the German occupation of Poland from 1939 to 1945. Every Pole seems to have a story – a grandparent, aunt, or uncle that was murdered, became a…
Read MoreThe Constitutions of Poland and of the United States, by Joseph Kasparek-Obst
(For professors, college students, high-school students and teachers, and interested adults.) This well-structured work explores the historical and intellectual connections between Poland’s Constitution of May 3, 1791, and the U.S. Constitution of 1787, and places both constitutions within the lineage of constitutional thought. Kasparek-Obst begins by situating the Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791, which…
Read MoreU.S. Ambassador to Poland, Thomas Rose, Invalidates a Longstanding Slanderous Accusation
Thomas (Tom) Rose, the new U.S. Ambassador to Poland and a Jewish-American, presented his perspective about Poland and the Poles that is rare among Jews around the world. Ambassador Rose pointed out that Poland and the Polish people have long been wrongly accused by the Jewish community of sharing responsibility for Germany’s genocide of Polish…
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