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SUMMARY:Demographic Losses in Poland during World War II 1939–1945. Veri
 fication of Mass Sources and the Method of Estimation during Border Change
 s - Konrad Wnęk (Jagiellonian University)
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CONTACT:Aleksandra Dul
DESCRIPTION:The paper discusses the applied method of verification of sour
 ce data collected by local administration units after the end of World War
  II in Poland in relation to demographic losses during this conflict. The 
 basic research problem was the question of the reliability and completenes
 s of the questionnaires and the tabular summaries compiled on their basis.
  Such questionnaires\, however\, are lacking for the areas of Poland that 
 fell within the borders of the USSR after 1945\, and therefore cannot be u
 sed to investigate population losses in this area. In this case\, the resu
 lts of the 1931 census and a lesser known census conducted by the occupyin
 g German authorities on 1 March 1943 were used. The analysis was hampered 
 by border shifts and subsequent changes of occupants\, so in this case met
 hods of geostatistical analysis based on a population density grid were us
 ed.\n\nThe seminar meets Wednesdays at 1:15 pm in the History Faculty and 
 online on Zoom\nhttps://zoom.us/j/96176307098?pwd=aHNlWEZ4SHd1a0MrVkpUQ05a
 ZVFuUT09\n
LOCATION:Board Room (Faculty of History) and on Zoom
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