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In Cracow, a watchman still blows his trumpet every full hour from one of the towers of St. Mary's Church, in memory of a precursor, killed by a Tartar's arrow in 1241.
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In Cracow, a watchman still blows his trumpet every full hour from one of the to...

Gdansk (Danzig), Poland, after massive destruction during World War II. In the center Marienkirche, Saint Mary's church, to the right the "Krantor", the crane-city gate.
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Gdansk (Danzig), Poland, after massive destruction during World War II. In the c...

Gdansk (Danzig), Poland, after massive destruction during World War II. In the center Marienkirche, Saint Mary's church, to the right the "Krantor", the crane-city gate.
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Gdansk (Danzig), Poland, after massive destruction during World War II. In the c...

Miners leaving a mine in Katovice. Paintings above the entrance show the Warsaw "wedding-cake", the multi-function building the Soviet Union offered the Poles as a gift, peace doves and the solidarity of a white, a black and an Asian worker. Katovice,1956
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Miners leaving a mine in Katovice. Paintings above the entrance show the Warsaw...

Miners returning home after work. Katovice, 1956
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Miners returning home after work. Katovice, 1956

The drab streets of Katovice, Poland's most important mining town. Katovice, 1956
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The drab streets of Katovice, Poland's most important mining town....

The drab streets of Katovice, Poland's most important mining town. An old wayside cross shows the same neglect as the housefronts. Katovice, 1956
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The drab streets of Katovice, Poland's most important mining town. An old waysid...

Above every Warsaw street looms the "Gangsters' wedding cake", so named by writer Graham Greene. The multi-purpose cultural center was a gift from the Soviet Union. Warsaw, 1956
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Above every Warsaw street looms the "Gangsters' wedding cake", so named by write...

Ruins in war-destroyed Gdansk. Poland began rebuilding Gdansk in all its medieval splendour immediately after World War II, a time of great poverty. Gdansk, 1956
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Ruins in war-destroyed Gdansk. Poland began rebuilding Gdansk in all its medieva...

Josef Gottschalk and his wife at lunch. A miner in the former Hohenzollern mine, he was drafted into the German army and returned to Poland and his old job in 1949, after years in a Russian POW-camp. His eldest son, aged 20, works in the same mine. Bytom, 1956
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Josef Gottschalk and his wife at lunch. A miner in the former Hohenzollern mine,...

Photographs of outstanding workers on the walls of the former Koenigshuette-steelmill in Stalinogrod (Katovice), 1956.
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Photographs of outstanding workers on the walls of the former Koenigshuette-stee...

Eleven years after the end of World War II, quality shoes are still a rarity and very expensive. Katovice (Stalinogrod), Poland, 1956.
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Eleven years after the end of World War II, quality shoes are still a rarity and...