Kultura i społeczeństwo na Środkowym Nadodrzu w XIX i XX wieku

303 s. : il., portr.

W służbie władzy czy społeczeństwa? Wybrane problemy kultury i nauki na Środkowym Nadodrzu w latach 1945-1989

148 s. : il. : portr.

Marzec 1968 roku w województwie katowickim

The opinion that the youth of the former Katowice voivodship, except for the academic environment of the Technical University in Gliwice, was one of passive student environments during the 1968 March days, proved to be widely-held till the end of the1990s or even longer. Mainly, it derived from the lack of access to documents of that time, and the fact that the mass media in the voivodship did not transmit any information on the events taking place in Silesian higher schools in March 1968. It was only when the Institute of National Memory received the materials of the Security Services and made them available to the researchers, making it possible to fully report the March events in all higher schools, and, at the same time, reveal the names of the majority of activists and participants of demonstrations and protests in the Katowice voivodship at that time. The truth is that the student environment in Gliwice, Częstochowa and Katowice reacted to a brutal defeat of student demonstrations in Warsaw by marshal forces on 8 and 9 March 1968 a bit late, but fairly violently, which resulted from its dispersion. As early as on 11 March they demonstrated at Krakowski Square in front of the edifice of the Technical University in Gliwice Mickiewicz monument, the PZPR local committee, and the building of the president of the Technical University in Gliwice, sympathising with the students from Warsaw. In the demonstration participated students from Katowice representing the branch of the Jagiellonian University, Higher School of Pedagogy and other higher schools in Katowice. The attempt to organize the next demonstration in Gliwice on 12 March ended up with an extremely brutal intervention of militia forces and arrest of several students. At night preceding 12 March the students from the Technical University in Częstochowa demonstrated in a march through the streets of the city under the slogans of solidarity with the youth from Warsaw, however, the attempt to organize a protest rally on 12 March did not succeed as a result of decicive and protective measures taken by the university authorities. After 14 March, an uproar among the students was seemingly weaker, however, the students stepped out from the branch of the Jagiellonian University, Higher School of Pedagogy, Higher School of Economics, Higher School of Music and the Academy of Medicine located at that time in Rokitnica having been informed that the students and the staff of the Jagiellonian University had been beaten by the militia officers on 13 March, as well as as a sign of sympathy with the students from Gliwice and Warsaw. The manifestation organized on 14 March resulted in beating up demonstrators at Wolności Square. On 15 March, after a stormy rally in the hall of the Faculty of Law, the militia officers intervened again, which ended up with the so called battle at the Rawa River. Irrespective of that, the next attempt to organize a manifestation was taken in the afternoon. This time, it was on the market square and caused the ZOMO forces to intervene. On 16 March, with few students engaged, demonstrations took place again on the streets of Katowice. On 14 March, the students from the Technical University in Częstochowa made themselves felt, but the attempt to organize a march through the streets of the city was only partially successful. Similarly, the students from the Teacher College in Cieszyn, managed to only accentuate their sympathy with the students from Warsaw by means of a minute’s silence in one of cafes in Cieszyn and in front of Adam Mickiewicz Theatre. Within the next days, the atmosphere of rebellion was gradually weakening, also as a result of threats of exempting the students from higher schools and informing their parents. The last note of fears among the youth in the voivodship was a demonstration of higher school students in Bielsko-Biała in front of Adam Mickiewicz monument dispersed by militia on 21 March

Pilotaż wycieczek turystycznych. Testy i pytania egzaminacyjne

W niniejszym, drugim już wydaniu testów i pytań egzaminacyjnych dla kandydatów na pilotów wycieczek uwzględniono wszystkie aktualnie obowiązujące przepisy (stan prawny na dzień 01.01.2007 r.). Celem publikacji jest przedstawienie specyfiki egzaminu przeprowadzanego przez Komisję Egzaminacyjną ds. Pilotów Wycieczek w Łodzi (w każdym województwie wygląda on trochę inaczej). Mamy nadzieję, że uwagi o przebiegu egzaminu, zasadach i kryteriach oceniania, a zwłaszcza zbiory przykładowych pytań egzaminacyjnych ułatwią kandydatom właściwe przygotowanie

Nowa kronika wałbrzyska, t. 3

Wałbrzych i jego słynny „złoty pociąg”, od pierwszej wzmianki na jego temat, zajmuje obecnie szczególne miejsce w wielu informacjach publicystycznych i naukowych. Na nowo rozbudzona ciekawość historyczna naszym miastem i regionem zbiegła się z siedemdziesiątą rocznicą przejęcia miasta przez władze polskie. Każdy niemalże mieszkaniec Wałbrzycha odczuwa ten pozytywny wzrost zainteresowania. Przygraniczne położenie, wielonarodowe wpływy w rozwoju politycznym, gospodarczym i kulturalnym odcisnęły swoje piętno na dziejach miasta, widzianych przez nas jako ciągłość od czasów najdawniejszych po czasy współczesne. I właśnie ta różnorodność stała się nagle niezwykle atrakcyjnym elementem dla przybywających tu turystów zaintrygowanych tajemniczymi historiami. Kolejny, trzeci tom Nowej kroniki wałbrzyskiej stara się jak zwykle uwzględnić wyniki najnowszych prac naukowych lokalnych badaczy, jak i wykorzystać te ustalenia, które posiadają istotną wartość poznawczą. Jak pisze Andrzej Garlicki „Najtrudniejsze w historii jest zrozumienie. Czyli odpowiedź na pytanie, dlaczego wydarzenia potoczyły się tak, a nie inaczej”, dlatego też staramy się zapewnić Czytelnikom szerokie spectrum poruszanych problemów oraz różne wątki wałbrzyskiej historii, podzielone na cztery części.Elżbieta Kwiatkowska-Wyrwis

Wilhelm Szewczyk (1916-1991) : śląski polityk i działacz społeczny

Wilhelm Szewczyk was bom into a coal-mining family in 1916 in Czuchów near Rybnik. Having finished education, he became affiliated with “Kuźnica”, a national-radical magazine published in Katowice and edited by P. Musiol, where he published his first works, and began his political activity in Związek Młodej Polski (one of the “wings” of Obóz Zjednoczenia Narodowego). Wilhelm Szewczyk fought in the German army during World War II. After the war, he returned to the region of Upper Silesia, where he started his political activity (he was a member of Stronnictwo Demokratyczne, Polska Partia Robotnicza, and Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza), and social activity (he belonged to many public-life institutions of the region, such as, Związek Literatów Polskich, Wojewódzka Rada Narodowa, Komitet Słowiański w Polsce, Śląska Rada Kultury, to name a few). Due to his activity, he was repeatedly invigilated by the secret police, dismissed from the Polish Radio, forced to close down “Odra” and “Przemiany” - the periodicals he edited. He was dismissed from PZPR in 1950. In 1957, he was admitted to the Sejm of the Polish People’s Republic where, apart from a short break, he was an MP till 1985. From the beginning of 1960s, Wilhelm Szewczyk was connected with the ruling party, and in 1980 became a member of the executive composition of KW PZPR. As a highly-regarded columnist writer and regional activist, Wilhelm Szewczyk took an active part in a public life (above all as an MP for the Sejm of the Polish People’s Republic, and an editor-in-chief of “Poglądy”), contributing to the promotion of Upper Silesia, and taking care of the cultural development in the region. The issues that were close to his interests, such as the Slavic and German studies, were raised by him throughout his whole columnist writing activity. The twilight of his socio-political career was at the time of the formation of the third Republic of Poland. He observed this process as a columnist writer, sharing his own knowledge and, again, promoting his region. Wilhelm Szewczyk died in Katowice in 1991