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| 1887. 26 Jul | Leyzer (Eliezer) Levi Zamenhof published, in Russian, La Unua Libro, (The First Book) of his fully-formed manual of the Esperanto language, signing it “Doktoro Esperanto”, the nom de plume of its creator. By way of explanation, the word "esperanto", in Esperanto, means "One who hopes".
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Warsaw; Poland | Leyzer (Eliezer) Levi Zamenhof; Zamenof; Lidia Zamenof; Esperanto | |
| 1926 Apr c. | Lidia Zamenhof, a daughter of the founder of Esperanto Ludwik Zamenhof, became a Bahá’í, the first Pole to accept the Faith. [Lidia71]
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Poland | Lidia Zamenhof; Ludwik Zamenhof | |
| 1939 3 Sep | World War II began with Britain and France declaring war on Germany after Germany invaded Poland. | Europe; Germany; United Kingdom; France; Poland | World War II; History (general); War (general) | |
| 1942 Aug | Lidia Zamenhof was killed in the gas chambers at Treblinka. [HDBF516]
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Treblinka; Poland | Lidia Zamenhof; World War II; Persecution, Poland; Esperanto | |
| 1990. 12 Nov | 12 November 1990: To the Followers of Bahá’u’lláh throughout the World SEVEN MONTHS AFTER LAUNCHING SUPPLEMENTARY TWO YEAR PLAN REJOICE ANNOUNCE FOURTEEN LOCAL SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLIES IN SOVIET UNION, PLUS SIX IN ROMANIA WHERE THERE ARE NOW OVER 600 BELIEVERS, AND ONE LOCAL SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLY EACH IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA, HUNGARY AND YUGOSLAVIA. DEVELOPMENT FAITH IN ALL THESE COUNTRIES AS WELL AS IN ALBANIA, BULGARIA, MONGOLIA AND POLAND GOING FORWARD WITH EXTRAORDINARY SPEED, FORMATION MORE LOCAL ASSEMBLIES IN PROCESS OR EXPECTED SHORTLY. The Universal House of Justice [Mess86-01p178] |
USSR; Romania; Czechoslovakia; Hungary; Yugoslavia; Albania; Bulgaria; Mongolia; Poland | Supplementary Two Year Plan; Plans | |
| 1991. Mar 1991 | In March the first Baháʼí Local Spiritual Assembly was re-elected in Warsaw. By 1992 the National Spiritual Assembly was elected. [Wikipedia] | Warsaw; Poland | Local Spiritual Assembly, formation | |
| 1992 Ridván | The National Spiritual Assembly of Poland was formed with its seat in Warsaw. [CBN Jan92 p2, BINS270:2; BW92–3:119; VV121] | Warsaw; Poland | National Spiritual Assembly, formation; | |
| 2004 2 Apr | The passing of Ola Pawlowska (b. Ola Clemens 14 February, 1910 in Lakta, outside Cacow, Poland) in Newfoundland, Canada. Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for St. Pierre and Miquelon, translator of the Writings (into Polish), pioneer to Poland, Luxembourg and Congo (30 years), Auxiliary Board Member. [BW'03-‘04pg236, BWNS248]
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Lakta; Cacow; Newfoundland; Canada; St Pierre and Miquelon; Poland; Luxembourg; Congo | Knights of Bahaullah; Ola Pawlowska; Births and deaths; BWNS; Auxiliary Board Members |
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| 2004 2 Apr |
The passing of Ola Pawlowska (b. Ola Clemens 14 February, 1910 in Lakta, outside Cacow, Poland) in Newfoundland, Canada. Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for St. Pierre and Miquelon, translator of the Writings (into Polish), pioneer to Poland, Luxembourg and Congo (30 years), Auxiliary Board Member. She had fled her native Poland iduring World War II and settled in Canada where she became a Bahá'í. [BW'03-‘04pg236, BWNS248]
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Lakta; Cacow; NL; St Pierre and Miquelon; Poland; Luxembourg; Congo | Knights of Bahaullah; Ola Pawlowska; Births and deaths; Suzanne Schuurman; Auxiliary Board Members |
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- "A.J." and the Introduction of the Baha'i Faith into Poland, by Jan T. Jasion, in Bahá'í Studies, 4 (1978). On the earliest mentions of the Bábí Faith in Polish, and the writings of Aleksander Walerian Jablonowski, a well-known historian and linguist who met Babis in Baghdad in 1870. [about]
- Lidia Zamenhof, by John T. Dale (1996). Brief biography of the daughter of Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto. [about]
- Polish Response to Soviet Anti-Bahá'í Polemics, The, by Jan T. Jasion, in Associate, 29 (1999). Response of non-Bahá'í scholars to Marxist-Leninist polemics and attacks on the Bahá'í Faith, in particular the attitude of Polish scholars writing between 1945 and 1988, while Poland was still a 'satellite' of the Soviet Union. [about]
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