Liegnitz
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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"I believe that my grandfather served as a train driver, commuting between the death camps. He stayed in Liegnitz, now Legnica, in a boarding school, so there was a certain separation from the family and between the death camps."
From BBC
The filmmakers said on Facebook that the aim of their “Liegnitz Plot” project is to “confirm the story, recover the stamps, and return them to their rightful owners,” in remembrance of the 6 million Holocaust victims.
From Seattle Times
“We’ve made a lot of friends over the years,” said Klaus Bodenstein, a tenor, who was born in Liegnitz, Germany, and joined the choir shortly after immigrating here in 1966 to join his brother, Wolfgang Bodenstein, in a wrought-iron business.
From Seattle Times
Their most famous set-piece victories, against the Russians at the Kalka river in 1222, against the Poles at Liegnitz in 1241 and against the Hungarians at Mohi the same year, all fit into this category.
From Time
The two towns of G�rlitz and Bresslau held a consultation at Liegnitz, to devise what measures it were best to adopt in order to relieve themselves from this system of persecution.
From Project Gutenberg
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