Upper Silesia

American  

noun

1. a highly industrialized region divided between Germany and Poland after World War I.

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Upper Silesia British  

noun

1. a region of SW Poland, formerly ruled by Germany: coal mining and other heavy industry

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Example Sentences

“I’m always against weapons,” said Kramer, who as a 1-year-old in Upper Silesia, now part of Poland, was among those fleeing an invading Russian army.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2022

But one consistent association held on, and it’s the same one that Dr. Virchow found in Upper Silesia: Our current pandemic is socially patterned.

From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2021

In the mid-1800s, he began a government-commissioned investigation into outbreaks of typhus in Upper Silesia, a coal-rich region in what is now Poland.

From Scientific American • May 13, 2021

The outbreak of World War II found Wodehouse in France, and he was interned by the Germans in Upper Silesia.

From Time • Nov. 23, 2011

At age twenty-six, Virchow wrote passionately that terrible social conditions in an impoverished part of Germany called Upper Silesia were the cause of a malaria and dysentery epidemic.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French