Upper Silesia
Americannoun
noun
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“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
In the winter of 1848, a 26-year-old Prussian pathologist named Rudolf Virchow was sent to investigate a typhus epidemic raging in Upper Silesia, in what is now mostly Poland.
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
Better yet, he added, allow for a full and unlimited democracy in Upper Silesia.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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