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Spółka Nakładowa Młodych Kompozytorów Polskich (1905-1912) and the Myth of Young Poland in Music

Description: This study deals with the four-composer Polish musical association, Young Polish Composers' Publishing Company, which became commonly known as the group Poland in Music. Young Poland in Music is considered by Polish and non-Polish music historians to be the signal inaugurator of modernism in Polish music. However, despite this most important attribution, the past eighty-odd years have witnessed considerable confusion over the perceptions of: 1) exactly who constituted the publishing company, 2)… more
Date: December 1987
Creator: Hebda, Paul Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries

[Jerzy Popiełuszko]

Description: Poster used in the Polish Solidarity movement during the 1980s depicting a portrait of the Catholic priest Jerzy Popiełuszko. The figure is depicted in black on a white background. In the margins, registration marks can be seen for creating multiples of this image and in the lower right are the handwritten in pencil words, kolor czarny (drugi), color black, second.
Date: 1980/1990
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Najlepszego Jajka

Description: Postcard used in the Polish Solidarity movement during the 1980s depicting a bird wearing a crown breaking out of an egg that is decorated with a red pattern.
Date: 1980/1990
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Wesołych Świąt. Niech przemówią wreszcie ludzkim głosem!

Description: Poster used in the Polish Solidarity movement during the 1980s depicts a Christmas message, in Polish, across the top portion. A yellow star floats in the dark blue ground. Beneath are two figures, one resembles a donkey wearing sunglasses and the other a elephant or a man with huge ears. The two figures appear to be behind a trough, in red.
Date: 1980/1990
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Kościoły Lwowa: Herb Lwowa, Polska; Katedra Ormianska, Polska; Katedra Łacińska, Polska; Katedra Unicka, Polska

Description: Postage stamps used in the Polish Solidarity movement during the 1980s depicting churches in the once Polish town of Lwowa, Poland, now L'viv, Ukraine. The background is silver with black depictions for the church structures and the crest. The words, Poczta Solidarność [Solidarity Stamp], are in red at the bottom of each stamp.
Date: 1980/1990
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Loteria Funduszu Niezależnych Plastyków

Description: Lottery ticket used during the Polish Solidarity movement during the 1980s. Four tickets, each stamped with a number in purple, depict a pencil, broken on one end in the center of the ticket. The Polish Solidarity logo is in the lower right hand corner.
Date: 1980/1990
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Solidarność

Description: Poster used in the Polish Solidarity movement during the 1980s depicting a group of soldiers wearing gas masks and wielding clubs. Across the bottom part of the poster, in red, is the word Solidarność. The boot of one soldier encroaches upon the word, Solidarność.
Date: 1980/1990
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Wesolego 1987 Zyczy Solidarność Ciagle Młody

Description: Postcard used in the Polish Solidarity movement during the 1980s depicting best wishes for the year 1987. The words wesolego 1987 zyczy solidarność ciagle młody are in red on a brownish tan background. The year, 1987, is depicted with people forming the shapes of the numbers.
Date: 1980/1990
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Grudzien 1983. Solidarność

Description: Poster used in the Polish Solidarity movement during the 1980s depicting a large group of upraised arms in black silhouette. Each of the hands is holding up two fingers. In the black sky above the crowd is a large white star with rays radiating from it. Across the bottom, the red portion contains the word Solidarność and a crest.
Date: 1980/1990
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

RTPD 20 zł

Description: Postage stamp depicting a young female in the center. At the top of the stamp are the letters RTPD and in the lower section, the denomination of the stamp, 20 złoty. The stamp is printed in all blue on a cream paper.
Date: 1980/1990
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

[Jerzy Popiełuszko]

Description: Poster used in the Polish Solidarity movement during the 1980s depicting a portrait of the Catholic priest Jerzy Popiełuszko. The background is red with the figure depicted in black and a thin white halo around his head. In the margins, registration marks can be seen for creating multiples of this image.
Date: 1980/1990
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

1987 ZYJ GODNIE! Solidarność nie pije

Description: Poster used in the Polish Solidarity movement during the 1980s depicting five figures in reddish orange silhouette. The figure on the far left is chimpanzee like and the next four figures evolve to man. The man at the front of the line is holding a flower in one hand and his other hand holds up two fingers.
Date: 1980/1990
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Zapluty karzeł reakcji

Description: Poster used in the Polish Solidarity movement during the 1980s depicting a man with large ears, spectacles and spewing from his mouth. The words Zapluty karzeł reakcji are underneath the figure. The words and image are in black on a white ground.
Date: 1980/1990
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Oral History Interview with Mike Jacobs, November 26, 1989

Description: Interview with Mike Jacobs, a Holocaust survivor from Konin, Poland. Jacobs discusses his family background and growing up in Konin's Jewish community, the growth of antisemitism, attending an integrated school, the German invasion and occupation, moving to the ghetto and life inside, collaborators and Jewish police, hostages, moving to a smaller ghetto, losing his family to Treblinka, working with Polish partisans, escaping the ghetto and working from Ostrowiec concentration camp, engaging in … more
Date: November 26, 1989
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Jacobs, Mike
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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The Polish Debt and American Policy

Description: This study is concerned with the relationship between the accumulation of Poland's massive hard-currency debt, from 1970 to 1983, and changes in American economic and political policy toward Poland. Prior to and during the 1970s, a tacit American policy of promoting economic and political ties with Poland can be discerned. But the domestic problems Poland exacerbated by mismanaging its debt to the West and the consequent declaration of martial law in 1981 led to the current discriminatory Ameri… more
Date: May 1984
Creator: King, John Christopher
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Clip: Local Poles]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: December 13, 1982, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 46 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Oral History Interview with Lore Price, December 3, 1989

Description: Interview with Lore Price, a Holocaust survivor from Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Wesphalia, Germany. Price discusses her family, growing up, antisemitism, the Kristallnacht and subsequent growth of arrests and deportations, the Berlin ghetto, the Riga ghetto, the Riga concentration camp and events there, transfer to camps at Stutthof and Thorn, a forced march to Bromberg, escaping and hiding, becoming a nurse with Polish soldiers, the end of the war and immigration to Israel, and reflections on … more
Date: December 3, 1989
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Price, Lore
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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