Sosnowiec
Americannoun
noun
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The youngest of eight children, he was born into a Hasidic family as Lejzor Gastfrajnd on March 20, 1925, and grew up in Wodzislaw and later Sosnowiec, Poland, near the German border.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
When all remaining Jews in Sosnowiec were ordered to report to a stadium in August 1942, many of them showed up “as if they were going to a picnic,” Gastfriend wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
The Vatican embassy in Poland said a temporary administrator, Archbishop Adrian Galbas of Katowice, would run the diocese of Sosnowiec until a new bishop is named.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 24, 2023
This was certainly true of “I Feel Mint for You,” a play by two Ukrainian actresses who escaped devastated eastern Ukraine and now shelter in the southern Polish city of Sosnowiec.
From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2023
When they tell Kaiser their hero grew up in a Polish city far from Sosnowiec, you know what’s coming.
From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2021
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