The former Jewish ghetto in Opatów, Poland
Opatów is a town of some 8,000 people in south - central Poland. Tourist attractions include the 13th-century Collegiate Church of St. Martin, 15th-century baroque Bernardine monastery, 16th-century city gate, an enormous town square and a underground network of tunnels now open to the public! It is also the location of a WW2 ghetto which functioned across four streets which you can see in this film. Treblinka escapee Samuel Willenburg was deported from Opatów to the death camp in October 1942 - he was the only survivor of that deportation.
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Crown Tribunal, Lublin, Lublin Province, Poland, Europe
In 1578 the Diet general Warsaw created a new instance of the court Crown Court (Iudicium Ordinary General Tribunalis Regni). King Stefan Batory, as iudex supremus, renounced the existing powers of the highest judge for the state court nobility. Since then the supreme court (of appeal) for the nobility was the Crown Court.
Court under the Constitution of 1578. Subject only crown. Places of meetings Crown Court trybunalskich were: Piotrkow Wielkopolska and Mazowsze and Lublin for Malopolska. The Court began deliberations in Piotrkow, where the judge Monday after St. Martin (November 11th) to Sunday, Palm (Dominica Palmarum). In Lublin began deliberations Monday after the first Sunday after Easter (Dominica conductus Paschae) until all of the issues raised in the year, which usually lasted until St. Bartholomew (24 August). However, already in 1611. At the ordinary Diet in Warsaw decided to contributing to the courts trybunalskich time. The Constitution of parliament convocation of 1764. Divided the Court of the Crown on two separate existing and judging simultaneously tribunals: Court Crown Court Crown Wielkopolski and Malopolska. These changes do not apply for long. Sejm extraordinary turn of 1767 and 1768. Issued a constitution under the name Merge Crown Court, under which returned to a Crown Court for both provinces. Composition Crown Court judges were called deputatami, both elected annually from among the nobility so. deputaci laity and clergy called. deputaci clergy. At the head of the court Trybunalskiego became Speaker of the elected deputies of the laity and the President, which has always been the allowance Gniezno Chapter. Lublin by the Court became the center of the legal noble Republic. With the collapse of centers of university education of lawyers, an arcade Trybunalska has become for many palestrantów university here just they made their first steps and acquire practice. Preferably, this fact influenced the proximity Zamoyski Academy, where he studied law. Lublin attracted candidates for the study of law, not only from the area of the Republic, but also foreigners. You should also cross out the Court's role in the life of the city. It is thanks to him Lublin not only transformed into the capital of the court, but also in the rapidly developed. Almost immediately after its establishment in Lublin started to increase magnates palaces and manor houses. For the duration of the session TRYBUNALSKI life in Lublin is animated. After the loss of independence Crown Court Lubelski like, and how other courts of nobility former Polish authorities have closed. Files Crown Court in Lublin stored in the archives of court, located in the refectory of the Dominican convent in 1811. Were transferred to the Bernardine monastery and 1827. Transferred to the newly created Archives of Historical Records in Lublin. In the years 1836-1840 have been transferred in full to the Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw, where during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. Were completely destroyed. The present building of the Crown Tribunal, erected on the Old Town Square in Lublin, replaced the old wooden town hall burned down in 1389. Initially, the newly built building served as the town hall, and from 1578 years housed the Crown Court for the gentry of Malopolska.The Gothic building of the former town hall was built in the fourteenth century and was a wooden building with two towers and the outside stairs. The former town hall burned down in the fire of Lublin in 1389, and another, larger and exposed brick building in this place also in the Gothic style. In the first half of the sixteenth century, during the reconstruction of the building was given the appearance of the Renaissance. Among other things, it was topped with an attic and was built outside stairs leading to the first floor. After another fire of Lublin in 1575, the building was rebuilt in the Renaissance style and had to refer to the town halls in Sandomierz and Tarnow. In the 80s the seventeenth century there was another, this time a Baroque reconstruction of the Old Town building. It was superstructures second floor and rebuilt tower, a Baroque appearance of the object image shows fire the city of Lublin from 1719, located in the church today oo. Dominicans. In the years 1781-1787 the building of the Court was rebuilt to a modern appearance designed by Dominik Merlini, it is the court architect Stanislaw August Poniatowski. He was given the classical appearance, the building was expanded and almost twice extended. They finished the second floor intended for the land courts, while the remaining interior was left unchanged. The entire exterior walls of the Court is decorated with neoclassical pilasters, placed in the tympanum relief depicting the symbol of justice.
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The Congregation of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri is a pontifical society of apostolic life of Catholic priests and lay-brothers who live together in a community bound together by no formal vows but only with the bond of charity. They are commonly referred to as Oratorians (Oratorian Fathers). This Congregation of the Oratory should not be confused with the French Oratory, a distinct congregation, the Society of the Oratory of Jesus (Société de l'Oratoire de Jésus), founded by Pierre de Bérulle in 1611 in Paris.
Founded in Rome (then capital of the Papal States) in 1575 by St. Philip Neri, today it has spread around the world, with over 70 Oratories and some 500 priests. The post-nominal initials commonly used to identify members of the society are C.O. (Congregatio Oratorii). The abbreviation Cong. Orat. is also used.
Unlike a religious institute (the members of which take vows and are answerable to a central authority) or a monastery (the monks of which are likewise bound by vows in a community that may itself be autonomous and answerable directly to the Pope), the Oratorians are made up of members who commit themselves to membership in a particular, independent, self-governing local community (an Oratory, usually named for the place in which it is located: e.g., Birmingham Oratory, Oxford Oratory, Brooklyn Oratory) without actually taking vows, an unusual and innovative arrangement created by St. Philip. Normally an oratory must have a minimum of four members, two being ordained, in order to be founded. If a group of men seeks to establish an oratory, they may apply to do so, going through the proper diocesan channels; during the process of formation a member (or members) of a well-established oratory resides in the community to facilitate every aspect of the proposed foundation.