A World Jewish Congress delegation meets with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, June 2008As the Jewish community dwindled, over successive waves of emigration ( the last in 1968 ), the WJC saw Poland as an important repository of Jewish history as well as the custodians of the killing grounds in which much of European Jewry fell victim to the German Final Solution.

The successive and periodic waves of emigration diminished the population down to roughly 14, 000 inhabitants.

These islands have a long history of occupation dating back to the Mesolithic and the culture of the residents has been affected by the successive influences of Celtic, Norse and English-speaking peoples.

* 1795 – The first occupation by United Kingdom of Cape Colony, South Africa with the Battle of Hout Bay, after successive victories at the Battle of Muizenberg and Wynberg, after William V requested protection against revolutionary France's occupation of the Netherlands.

Gimbutas lived through great turmoil in her homeland during the Second World War, which was under successive Soviet and Nazi occupation from 1940 – 1941 and 1941 – 1943, respectively.

Since the Duchess's death WestCombe has been in the successive occupation of Lord Clive, the Marquis of Lothian, his widow the Marchioness, the Duchess of Athol, Mr. Halliday the banker, and William Petrie, Esq.

Fortescue argues that the Uralo-Siberian proto-language ( or a complex of related proto-languages ) may have been spoken by Mesolithic hunting and fishing people in south-central Siberia ( roughly, from the upper Yenisei river to Lake Baikal ) between 8000 and 6000 BC, and that the proto-languages of the derived families may have been carried northward out of this homeland in several successive waves down to about 4000 BC, leaving the Samoyedic branch of Uralic in occupation of the Urheimat thereafter.

Karyotakis was born in Tripoli, Greece, his father's occupation as a county engineer resulted in his early childhood and teenage years being spent in various places, following his family ’ s successive moves around the Greek cities, including Argostoli, Lefkada, Larisa, Kalamata, Athens and Chania.

Archaeological excavation in Ashkelon began in 1985, led by Lawrence Stager The site contains of accumulated rubble from successive Canaanite, Philistine, Phoenician, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Islamic, and Crusader occupation.

His childhood and early teens coincided with the occupation of Kakheti by the Ottomans from 1732 until 1735 when they were ousted from Georgia by Nader, Shah of Iran, in his two successive campaigns of 1734 and 1735.

Ecological succession is generally defined as the successive occupation of a site by different plant communities.

During the long period of Japanese invasion and occupation from 1890 to 1945, the disbanded imperial guard, and Confucian scholars, as well as farmers, formed over 60 successive righteous armies to fight for Korean freedom on the Korean peninsula.

He was already known as a climber, as a contributor to Peaks, Passes and Glaciers ( 1862 ), and as one of the earliest presidents of the Alpine Club, when in 1871, in commemoration of his own first ascents in the Alps, he published The Playground of Europe, which immediately became a mountaineering classic, drawing – together with Whymper's Scrambles Amongst the Alps – successive generations of its readers to the Alps.

All these successive layers of the greywacke zone were probably-together with those of the Northern Limestone Alps-overturned to the northern edge of the Alps during the time of Alpine orogeny from a region of deposition far to the south.

The planning and attention / arousal components comes from structures located in the frontal lobe, and the simultaneous and successive processes come from structures located in the posterior region of the cortex.

In 1559, the region fell to successive Arab tribes claiming descent from the Prophet Muhammad: first the Saadi Dynasty who ruled from 1554 to 1659 and then the Alaouites, who founded a dynasty that has remained in power since the 17th century.

Somalia has also over the centuries seen successive waves of immigration from Yemen, with Hadhrami settlers being instrumental in helping to consolidate the Muslim community in the coastal Banaadir region in particular.

In 1888, after signing successive treaties with the then ruling Somali Sultans such as Mohamoud Ali Shire of the Warsangali Sultanate, the British established a protectorate in the region referred to as British Somaliland.

In the Middle Ages successive rulers of the Odessa region included various nomadic tribes ( Petchenegs, Cumans ), the Golden Horde, the Crimean Khanate, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Ottoman Empire.

With Japan divided into individual territories ( Han ) with the restrictions on travel already in place under Toyotomi Hideyoshi and strengthened afterwards by the successive Tokugawa governments of the Edo period ( 1600-1868 approximately ) provided a fertile ground for the development of formalized methods of tying prisoners who had to be transported across territories because of measures then in place mandating that a prisoner had to be handed off from one set of officials to another at the border of each territory with each law-enforcement group employing a different school ’ s or region ’ s often jealously-guarded methodology.

He had two successive strokes, which knocked out the region in both his left and right hemisphere.

Since the Han, successive Chinese governments had to deal with secessionist movements and local rebellions from different peoples in the region.

Owing to his efforts, successive Tudor and Stuart administrations in England and Scotland were presented with ongoing strategic difficulties in the region of east Ulster and south-west Scotland.

The Puget Sound region from Olympia, Washington to Vancouver, BC received several inches of rain per day in November 2006 from a series of successive Pineapple Express storms that caused massive flooding in all major regional rivers and mudslides which closed the mountain passes.

The region that forms today's Kayin State was part of successive Burmese kingdoms since the formation of the Pagan Empire in mid-11th century.

At the end of the 18th century the French anatomist Georges Cuvier proposed that there had been a series of successive creations due to catastrophism, Curvier believed that God regionally destroyed previously created forms through regional catastrophes such as floods and afterwards repopulated the region with new forms.

The Kurgan hypothesis was first formulated in the 1950s by Marija Gimbutas, who defined the " Kurgan culture " as composed of four successive periods, with the earliest ( Kurgan I ) including the Samara and Seroglazovo cultures of the Dnieper / Volga region in the Copper Age ( early 4th millennium BC ).

Lakhimpur figures largely in the annals of Assam as the region where successive invaders from the east first reached the Brahmaputra.

The right secondary auditory cortex processes pitch change and manipulation of fine tunes ; specifically, this region distinguishes the multiple pitches that characterize melodic tunes as contour ( pitch direction ) and interval ( frequency ratio between successive notes ) information.

It was separated from the countship ( part of Habsburg's Burgundian inheritance ) in 1659 due to the Peace of the Pyrenees, which ended the French-Spanish conflict in the Thirty Years War, and other parts of the region were added in successive treaties in 1668 and 1678.

The people and successive governments always longed to bridge the mighty Jamuna and thereby integrate the communication systems of the region.

Three successive Byzantine recovery attempts failed over the next few years, and the island became a base for Muslim piratical activity in the Aegean, radically upsetting the balance of power in the region.

The region is prone to wildfires, and over the years, successive lodges have been rebuilt when they burned down.

The repeated build up of the Scandinavian ice cap during successive ice ages after this interglacial resulted in a complete destruction of the source area, decapitating the fluvial system, and in the birth of a glacially excavated area surrounding the Scandinavian mountainous areas, in which region the Baltic Sea would later came into existence.

Proceeding from Parry's conclusions and adopting one of his schemata, Francis P. Magoun, Jr., argues that Beowulf likewise was created from a legacy of oral formulas inherited and extended by bards of successive generations, and the thesis is striking and compelling.

The algorithm proceeds by successive subtractions in two loops: IF the test B ≥ A yields " yes " ( or true ) ( more accurately the number b in location B is greater than or equal to the number a in location A ) THEN the algorithm specifies B ← B − A ( meaning the number b − a replaces the old b ).

In reincarnation, spiritual development continues after death as the deceased begins another earthly life in the physical world, acquiring a superior grade of consciousness and altruism by means of successive reincarnations.

Certain stones, when examined in thin sections by transmitted light, show a diffraction spectrum due to the extreme delicacy of the successive bands, whence they are termed rainbow agates.

Thus misfortune hounded successive generations of the House of Atreus, until atoned by Orestes in a court of justice held jointly by humans and gods.

Since the implementation of the Statute of Westminster 1931 in each of the Commonwealth realms ( on successive dates from 1931 onwards ), the Act of Settlement cannot be altered in any realm except by that realm's own parliament and, by convention, only with the consent of all the other realms, as it touches on the succession to the shared throne.

Not all life cycle stages have been observed, and study of these organisms has been hampered mainly by an inability to maintain these organisms in culture through successive generations.

ANSI C refers to the family of successive standards published by the American National Standards Institute ( ANSI ) for the C programming language.

This is a manifest contradiction because infinity cannot, by definition, be completed by " successive synthesis " -- yet just such a finalizing synthesis would be required by the view that time is infinite ; so the thesis is proven.

Immediately, Peel hoped that the repeal of the tariff on wheat ( the Corn Laws ) and the resultant influx of cheaper wheat into Britain would remedy the suffering caused by the Great Famine in Ireland due to the successive failure of potato crops.

The Balmoral Estate has been added to by successive members of the Royal Family, and now covers an area of about.

Cultural and political influences from many parts of Asia, carried by successive waves of immigration, expansion, and cultural assimilation, are part of the modern culture of China.

Confucius ' descendants were repeatedly identified and honored by successive imperial governments with titles of nobility and official posts.

Despite repeated dynastic change in China, the title of Duke Yansheng was bestowed upon successive generations of descendants until it was abolished by the Nationalist Government in 1935.

The continuity between presidencies is provided by an arrangement under which three successive presidencies, known as Presidency trios, share common political programmes.

The T-number is calculated by ( 1 ) applying a grid to the surface of the virus with coordinates h and k, ( 2 ) counting the number of steps between successive pentagons on the virus surface, ( 3 ) applying the formula:

It has animated a great deal of social reform undertaken by successive Conservative governments.

By inserting separate, successive sections of V. cholerae DNA into the DNA of other bacteria, such as E. coli that would not naturally produce the protein toxins, researchers have investigated the mechanisms by which V. cholerae responds to the changing chemical environments of the stomach, mucous layers, and intestinal wall.

If this process happens faster than it is naturally quenched by ions recombining, the new ions multiply in successive cycles until the gas breaks down into a plasma and current flows freely in a discharge.

This separation, by successive distillations, is also referred to as rectification.

The work De nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae (" About the wedding of Mercury and Philologia ") written by Martianus Capella ( 4th-5th century ) was very influential on the successive medieval encyclopedias.