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The present considerations focus on the intersection of translation and memory. The starting point of these considerations is the lost letter of General Władysław Sikorski to the president of Czechoslovakia, Edvard Beneš, dated 17 February 1941, known only in its German and Czech translations. In the history of translation, there are many known examples of texts saved only through translation that have been incorporated into a cultural system, thereby preserving their continuity. However, this is not what occurred regarding the translation described here. The historical and political context of the correspondence of General Sikorski to President Beneš concerning the post-war expulsion of German populations inclines one to consider the subject of the mutual relationships between collective memory and historical knowledge. The article describes the role of translation as an act of communication in cultural processes, thus in building and transferring knowledge resources, as well as in the processes of constituting collective memory and shaping a memory narrative. The question of the role of the described text centers on – in view of the lack of the original – the issue of its authenticity. It seems that the lack of the original text has become a pretext for excluding from discourse the translation whose content is not in accordance with the official narrative. The fact that it is impossible to settle this question also inclines one to view the translation as a possible tool of manipulation. The authors of the article thus pose the question as to whether the assumption of a transnational perspective would allow the incorporation of this translation into discussions concerning the memory of the expulsions.

Im Fokus der vorliegenden Uberlegungen steht die Schokoladenwerbung, die in der Tagespresse der Freien Stadt Danzig veroffentlicht wurde. Aus textlinguistischer Perspektive wird das Problem der Textsorte mit ihren Eigenschaften kurz beleuchtet. Ferner werden die Strategien dargestellt, die in den untersuchten Werbeanzeigen verwendet wurden. Es wird auf intertextuelle Beziehungen der Werbeanzeigen sowie auf die Verflechtung der Werbung mit dem soziokulturellen, politischen und wirtschaftlichen Kontext verwiesen.

Der vorliegende Beitrag wird den im Zeitraum 1913–1938 in Danzig herausgegebenen Weinpreislisten gewidmet, die in der Bibliothek der Polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Gdańsk aufbewahrt werden. Die an die Kunden verschickten Preislisten haben die Form mehrseitiger, teilweise reich verzierter gehefteter Broschüren mit kartoniertem Um schlag und sind als Texte mit dominierender informativer Funktion aufzufassen. Den Ausgangspunkt für die Analyse der Preislisten stellt der Katalog der Textualitätsmerkmale von de Beaugrande / Dressler (1981) dar. Das besondere Augenmerk gilt dem räumlichen und zeitlichen Kontext der Entste hung der Preislisten, der Einblick in die Danziger Wirklichkeit der jeweiligen Epoche gewährt und vermittelt, welche urbanen und kulturellen Elemente im kollektiven Gedächtnis der Einwohner der Stadt und in ihrer gemeinsamen Identitätsbildung eine Rolle spielten.

Introduction: Despite the current decline in the number of suicides, they are the second most common cause of death among children and adolescents. At the end of the 20th century, suicides represented about 10% of all causes of death of people up to 18 years old, but currently they reach up to 20%. Over the years, the number of suicide attempts (SA) has also increased. Aim of the study: The aim of the study was to analyse the cases of hospitalisation of children in the Department of Paediatrics of the Independent Public Clinical Hospital No. 1 in Zabrze (DP IPCH1) due to a suicide attempt. Material and methods: Medical records of 87 patients hospitalised due to SA in the years 2010–2016 in the DP IPCH1 were retrospectively analysed. Results: All children who were admitted to the hospital survived their suicide attempt. An almost 2.5-fold increase was observed in the numbers of hospitalisations in years 2010–2016. Up to 86.2% of the patients were girls. The average age in group was 15.2 ±1.4 years. In order to commit suicide, children most often used medications (97.7%). They regularly combined them with alcohol or self-harm. 3/4 of overdose incidents included prescription-only medicaments. Almost half of the patients previously showed self-destructive tendencies in the form of self-harm. For 78.2% of the responders it was the first suicide attempt. 40.7% of patients had pre-existing chronic diseases, and the next 20% were under the control of a psychologist or psychiatrist. After hospitalisation 11 children were transferred to a psychiatric ward for further treatment. Conclusions: The increase of hospitalisations due to suicide attempts is disturbing. In this context, special attention should be given to children from risk groups such as: previous suicide attempts, chronically ill, addicted to alcohol or drugs, with impaired parent-child relationship, or with self-harm history

Two methods of isolation and pre-concentration of volatile organohalogen compounds from liquid samples prior to their gas chromatographic analysis — thin layer headspace analysis with autogenous generation of the liquid sorbent and liquid-liquid extraction — were compared using model solutions of four such compounds. Statistical analysis of the results obtained was performed using (i) Dixon's Q test for the detection of outliers; (ii) Snedecor's F-test for the comparison of the precision of the determinations; (iii) Aspin-Welch's test for the comparison of the accuracies of the two methods; (iv) Student's t-test for the comparison of the mean values with the true value. It was found that the precisions and accuracies of the results obtained by the two methods did not differ significantly, while liquid-liquid extraction was much more labour- and time-consuming.

A procedure for simultaneous determination of volatile and semivolatile chloroorganic compounds (from trichloromethane to di- and trichlorobenzenes to hexachlorobutadiene) in aqueous samples was developed. The procedure is based on a DAI-GC-ECD technique widely used for trihalomethanes determination in drinking water. The DAI technique application could have been extended to semivolatile chloroorganic compounds by using a Rtx-624 (60 m x 0.32 mm I.D., df 1.8 microns (6% cyanopropyl, 94% dimethyl polysiloxane). Precision (R.S.D.) and detection limits of the DAI-GC-ECD procedure with respect to 12 volatile and semivolatile chloroorganics were determined. Relative standard deviations (R.S.D.) were lower than 22% and the detection limits (concentration equivalent to a peak height three times the baseline noise) range from 0.02 microgram L-1 for trichloroethene and tetrachloroethene to 0.25 microgram L-1 for hexachlorobutadiene to 1.6 micrograms L-1 for 1,2-dichlorobenzene. The method was successfully used to determine chloroorganic pollutants in river water.