Feb 26, 2021 | Society Poland yesterday had its hottest February day on record with a highest temperature of 22.1°C (71.8°F) recorded in the town of Maków Podhalański Warsaw also broke its record for highest February temperature twice in two days But the warm spell follows soon after weeks of sub-zero temperatures and heavy snowfall with climate scientists warning that the pattern is a dangerous sign #IMGWlive 12:45 🔴PADŁ KOLEJNY REKORD TEMPERATURY. 🌡️Tym razem w Makowie Podhalański, termometry pokazują już 22°C.📆Przypomnijmy, że dotychczasowy rekord temperatury dla Makowa Podhalańskiego w lutym był zarejestrowany 25 lutego 1990 roku i wynosił 21,4°C.#MakówPodhalański pic.twitter.com/I6riI3MjdY — IMGW-PIB METEO POLSKA (@IMGWmeteo) February 25, 2021 in the foothills of Poland’s southern mountains also held Poland’s previous February record That was the same year that Warsaw had its previous warmest February day Cities in southwestern Poland came close to breaking the record on Wednesday with Pszenna in Lower Silesia reaching 21.3°C Wrocław also recorded a temperature above 20°C 40 weather stations noted new local records Poland had been experiencing one of its coldest and snowiest winters in years before the recent sharp rise in temperatures The maximum daily temperature in Warsaw rose by 21°C in the week leading up to yesterday’s record temperatures at ground level in the city of Suwałki in northeastern Poland plummeted to -30.8°C while the lowest temperature at the standard measurement height above the ground was -25.5°C in nearby Gołdap Poland’s 1979 “winter of the century” in photographs But the general trend in recent years has been for hotter winters and summers. 2019 was Poland’s hottest year since records began in 1781 Climatologists from Wrocław University warn that the increasing number of warm days in winter is a sign of serious climate change noting that temperatures exceeding 15°C have been recorded in February in six of the last 20 years “The increase in 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AUTHOR ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR The Lampertheim Displaced Persons ("DP") camp was located in a small town on the bank of the Rhine in the Frankfurt District of the American occupational zone It operated between the end of 1945 and May 1949 and housed 1200 Jewish DPs the inhabitants of Lampertheim were relatively well-off They lived in requisitioned private houses in the village The camp organized its own civic administration with thirty unarmed policemen and a uniformed fire service There was a post office which operated as a tracing bureau for missing relatives of the camp’s community The health center in the camp was operated by doctors who were at the same time DPs and residents of the center The camp had a strong orthodox community and maintained a developed religious life with a synagogue located in a converted private house a kosher kitchen for ninety DPs and a Talmud Torah The camp also ran a secular elementary school and a kindergarten A summer camp was organized for the children during the holidays the camp operated a kibbutz for thirty young people training in farming in preparation for their emigration to Palestine most of whom attended a course in dressmaking and worked in the modern clothes repairing workshop organized in the camp Below is an extract of an interview with June (Goldie) who spent several months in Lampertheim after the war Can you tell me a little about yourself and your family from before the war There wasn't much of a Jewish community there - I'm not sure why my parents chose to live there but my father didn't want to send us there My father wasn’t a Rabbi but he was the “posek” for the community and quite well-known in our little town They died from natural causes before the war Do you remember what happened when war broke out my father said he couldn’t leave until Motzei Shabbos (after the Sabbath had ended) and by Motzei Shabbos the borders were closed and it was too late to leave but it was increasingly difficult to get food we were able to remain in our house and there was no ghetto the Gestapo came and took my brother Mordechai away with the Psalm "Min Hametzer” written on it We know he was sent to Auschwitz and was killed there A literal translation of the prayer is as follows: In distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and brought me reliefThe Lord is on my side I have no fear; what can man do to me?With the Lord on my side as my helper I will see the downfall of my foesIt is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in mortalsIt is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in the great [human benefactors]All nations have beset me; by the name of the Lord I will surely cut them downThey beset me the surround me; by the name of the Lord I will surely cut them downThey have beset me like bees; they shall be extinguished like burning thorns;by the name of the Lord I will surely cut them downYou pressed me hard I nearly fell; but the Lord helped meThe Lord is my strength and might; He has become my deliveranceThe tents of the righteous resound with joyous shouts of deliverance,the right hand of the Lord is triumphant!The right hand of the Lord is exalted the right hand of the Lord is triumphant!”I shall not die but live and proclaim the works of the LordThe lord has punished me severely but did not hand me over to deathOpen the gates of victory for me that I may enter then and praise the LordThis is the gateway to the Lord the righteous shall enter through itI praise You and have become my deliveranceThe stone that the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstoneThis is the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our sightThis is the day that the Lord has made - let us exult and rejoice in it the Gestapo came to our door and took my father away he was somewhat of a communal figure for our small community He was shot at Gestapo headquarters that night No explanation was given as to why they were taken and all were buried in the same church yard in Krakow Since my father was not shot with the rest of the Jews Our town was "liquidated" in September 1942 exactly three years after the outbreak of the war All the Jews from the town were told to leave their homes and prepare for deportation They had no idea they were being taken to Belzec At that time she didn’t know her husband was already dead We drew straws to decide who should go with her and I won which were actually baptismal certificates which were then converted to ID papers My sister was taken to Auschwitz with some Polish people who were randomly gathered up when a Nazi was shot I wandered from Poland to Hungary (Budapest) before the Germans got there and in Romania I was helped by an organization that gave help to refugees but this was all due to the fact that I had Aryan papers and managed to hide my Jewish identity There was a committee there that helped survivors and I was the only survivor from my family I wanted to rebury my father in a Jewish cemetery because they said they didn't even have enough money to help the living They also sent me clients who needed/wanted sewing done I found out from the church that all 33 people had to be reburied I started saving money so that I could do it but it was a task that might have taken me forever since I was told that it would be very expensive to do this Can you tell me about your husband and his family husband and brother-in-law all had Aryan papers and I know that my husband worked as a farmhand I don't know how they got the papers or when They started to leave the ghetto one at a time First my brother-in-law Simon and mother-in-law left My father-in-law and future husband were there until the Germans started liquidating the ghetto My father-in-law couldn't get out in time and was sent to Auschwitz My husband walked out during the confusion of the liquidation and got onto a wagon At some point he was severely beaten by some Germans which caused permanent damage to his kidney Much later in 1955 or 1956 it had to be removed He tried to go back to his town (Ujscie Jezuickeie - near Tarnow) after the war He told me that he saw someone who had been lynched "This is what we do to Jews who come back." In any case the family members who had survived decided to go to Germany I think this was in late 1945 or early 1946 returned to Poland later from Germany to sell the house that his family had owned and to dig up jewelry that he had buried somewhere I said that I couldn't get married until all the people were reburied in a Jewish cemetery The money that he had from the house and the jewelry was used for that After the reburial I felt I could think about getting married When did you get to the DP Camp Lampertheim where we had a Jewish wedding in June 1948 I would not have been able to live there if we had not been married because by 1948 they weren't taking any more people It made sense to go there because my husband’s brother and mother were there The term "DP camp" may be misleading This particular camp was just a neighborhood where the Americans had housed Jewish survivors I don't know what happened to the Germans who lived there during the war (I think there may have been some black market activity there) as there were a lot of children born there Simon Schmalholz (who later changed his name to Salholz) and apparently worked very hard to get money to Israel I don't know why he decided to go the US instead of Israel - it really doesn't make sense mostly to people who had come from the same country as they did and many would have never gotten married to each other before the war very few had been hidden or had Aryan papers Some had lost families and were starting again I personally didn't take part in any activities and we just sat around waiting to go somewhere else Most people there were in their 20’s and 30’s because the older and younger people hadn’t survived We didn't want to wait to get a visa to the US and I didn't want to have a baby in Germany and were told to go to Nice to get on the ship The journey on a ship took three weeks and was by no means luxurious but we were excited to be starting our new life We arrived in Haifa in the winter of 1948-49 We knew a family that I had met in Romania These people were living in a large apartment my husband found an apartment in Ramat Gan and we moved into it in the winter of 1949-50 Our baby was born with a congenital heart defect and only lived a month I still feel that if she had stayed in Germany What do you remember about those first months We were in Israel for the first Yom Haatzma'ut (Independence Day) People who generally didn't really have much to do with each other (everyone was friendly with people who spoke the language of the country they came from) were hugging each other in the streets I felt thankful that I could be there to see Why did you eventually go to live in America It didn't turn out to be what we expected I never stop thinking about Israel and all that it means to me I am grateful for all that the United States offers but to me Israel was and will always be home I feel blessed to have in total three grandchildren and I am happy that my granddaughter Liana lives in Israel with her husband Michael and three of my great-granddaughters The Yad Vashem website had recently undergone a major upgrade The page you are looking for has apparently been moved We are therefore redirecting you to what we hope will be a useful landing page For any questions/clarifications/problems, please contact: webmaster@yadvashem.org.il This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page We invite you to listen to the discussions about the first effects of the thermomodernisation projects implemented under the Environment Energy and Climate Change Programme and now include adaptation and mitigation activities regarding climate change The broadcasts featured representatives of the Programme Operator and Project Promoters of thermomodernisation projects the preliminary results of the Programme were presented by Piotr Bogusz deputy director in the Department of European Funds at the Ministry of Climate and Environment The effects of the Comprehensive thermal modernization of the building of the Primary School in Zagrodno its impact on the life of the school and the local community were presented by Karolina Bardowska while the Mayor of the Maków Podhalański Commune presented the effects of the Comprehensive improvement of the energy efficiency of the six primary school buildings in the Maków Podhalański The broadcasts can be found on the Polish website of the Programme The series was created as part of the activities related to information and promotion of the EEA Climate Programme carried out by the Programme Operator Although the thermomodernisation projects are still ongoing, we already encourage you to visit the subpage dedicated to this call what problems are overcome by entities implementing project and what activities are carried out We also show the benefits of thermomodernisation and the effects of the investment and education measures Check out what other activities are being implemented under the the Environment  Editorial