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Polish culture: MUSEUM OF MANOR HOUSE INTERIORS (187 words) |
 | The museum is housed in a late Baroque manor house built of larch, with four alcoves, constructed during the years 1752-1757 for the family of a moderately well-to-do nobleman by the name of Wladyslaw Bartochowski, Count/h. |
 | of Rola, the castellan of Wielun, and Master of the Royal Hunt in Sieradz; it was restored during the years 1970-1980. |
 | These illustrate the way of life of the Wielun nobility, its degree of wealth, its aesthetic tastes, and the quality of provincial craftsmen who were working for the landed gentry, for example. |
| Women & The Holocaust - Mothers (5527 words) |
 | She was born in 1882 in a small village near the town of Boleslawiec called Wojcin. |
 | First they were taken to Wielun, the district capitol, then the men went to a camp near Posnan. |
 | Wielun was 30 kilometers from my home town. |