rybnik
6 Jun 2012
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5 Jun 2012
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5 Jun 2012
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5 Jun 2012
History / Why WERE Those Death Camps Built in Poland, Then? [47]
He knows what he was taught :(
You really have no idea, do you?
He knows what he was taught :(
rybnik
5 Jun 2012
History / Why WERE Those Death Camps Built in Poland, Then? [47]
you sound angry not full of pity. I'm starting to pity you. I'm afraid you've been sold a bill of goods and are now realizing, to your dismay, that some of it might be untrue.
Poland about Polish Jews. Ergo, Poland abandoned HERSELF. We hold Poland with shame and pity in our hearts, not with anger.
you sound angry not full of pity. I'm starting to pity you. I'm afraid you've been sold a bill of goods and are now realizing, to your dismay, that some of it might be untrue.
rybnik
5 Jun 2012
History / Why WERE Those Death Camps Built in Poland, Then? [47]
With respect, I find this very hard to believe. Unless your people belong to the Sephardim, not having heard about Poland, not even a word from within an Ashkenazi family? This is not plausible. I'm sure you were told something (maybe even some good things).
And my elders never mentioned Poland
With respect, I find this very hard to believe. Unless your people belong to the Sephardim, not having heard about Poland, not even a word from within an Ashkenazi family? This is not plausible. I'm sure you were told something (maybe even some good things).
rybnik
5 Jun 2012
History / Why WERE Those Death Camps Built in Poland, Then? [47]
I wouldn't be so sure of that. The Polish Jews I've spoken to do not share your sense of finality.
I said India and Pakistan. Surely you see the analogy.
Poland has forsaken the Jewish people, and yet still pretend to be pertinent to them I assure you they are not.
I wouldn't be so sure of that. The Polish Jews I've spoken to do not share your sense of finality.
It is NOT like Israel and Palestine
I said India and Pakistan. Surely you see the analogy.
rybnik
5 Jun 2012
History / Why WERE Those Death Camps Built in Poland, Then? [47]
I'm assuming that you're young and that the above is what you were taught by your elders. If so, I am not at all encouraged that a resolution to the problem between Poles and its Jews exists. India and Pakistan comes to mind. It's really very sad.
Don't dismiss Polish complicity.
I'm assuming that you're young and that the above is what you were taught by your elders. If so, I am not at all encouraged that a resolution to the problem between Poles and its Jews exists. India and Pakistan comes to mind. It's really very sad.
rybnik
5 Jun 2012
News / Anty-Polish v column is located in White House [88]
I found this quote among the most annoying. Carl suggests that the Poles had the ability to "object" to their Nazi occupiers about what they build and where they build it. One of the most ignorant statements I've ever read.
The Nazis built all six of their infamous death camps in Poland, knowing it was one of the most anti-Semitic countries in Europe, who would object the least to their creation. Carl Umator
I found this quote among the most annoying. Carl suggests that the Poles had the ability to "object" to their Nazi occupiers about what they build and where they build it. One of the most ignorant statements I've ever read.
rybnik
5 Jun 2012
rybnik
4 Jun 2012
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]
Hey, wait for me! lol (I just got home from work)
Good job Boletus with the romanesque-like facade. I never would have gotten it. :)
Hey, wait for me! lol (I just got home from work)
Good job Boletus with the romanesque-like facade. I never would have gotten it. :)
rybnik
4 Jun 2012
News / Anty-Polish v column is located in White House [88]
Huh? many of the above quotes attributed to me are not mine. fyi.
Huh? many of the above quotes attributed to me are not mine. fyi.
rybnik
4 Jun 2012
News / Anty-Polish v column is located in White House [88]
The Jewish perspective (I couldn't copy the link. It's from an article in the NY Daily News website "Reader sound off on Poland, sugar and the Donald")
Poland, Jews and the Holocaust
Staten Island: The Poles want an apology from President Obama for his comment last week about "Polish death camps?" I want an apology from them for forcing my Jewish grandfather to leave Poland in the 1920s. I want an apology for the 1946 Kielce pogrom. I want an apology from every Pole who uses "Jew" as an insult. David Rubin
Staten Island: My father was a Jewish Holocaust survivor from Poland. In 1941, he was on a forced march in freezing weather. He collapsed from exhaustion and the cold. When a laborer collapsed, they were immediately put to death by the Nazis if they could not continue. A Polish soldier, also a prisoner, picked up and carried my father and saved his life. He never found out who that anonymous soldier was. He always taught me there are good and bad in every group. President Obama should personally apologize for his words. Harold Frydman
History of blood
Fresh Meadow: With extreme sympathy to Corky Siemaszko whose Catholic family suffered excruciating agonies in the years of the Holocaust, I must disagree with him on some points ("Why the words 'Polish death camps' cut so deep" Op-Ed June 1). True, the Poles did not create the death camps, but, notwithstanding Poland's 6,000 Righteous Gentiles, that number is a mere pittance to its 30 million pre war inhabitants. The Nazis built all six of their infamous death camps in Poland, knowing it was one of the most anti-Semitic countries in Europe, who would object the least to their creation. Carl Umator
Accessories to a crime
Valley Stream, L.I: There are 6,000 Poles on the list of the Righteous Among The Nations. There are more than 20 million Poles who are not. They were the paid laborers who built the camps. They stood along the rail lines, laughing at those in the box cars on the way to the slaughter. When the Jews who survived came back to their towns to reclaim their property, they were driven away. Some were killed by the townspeople who were only too happy to live on Jewish property. In the town of Sedziszow, where my grandparents, aunts and uncles and cousins lived, the townspeople burned down the town hall after the war so no records of Jewish ownership could be proven. The Poles didn't invent the Holocaust and can't be blamed for it, but they sure took advantage of it in stealing and keeping Jewish property. Larry Cohen
Read more: nydailynews.com/opinion/readers-sound-poland-sugary-drinks-donald-article-1.1088653#ixzz1wp2HjXf3
The Jewish perspective (I couldn't copy the link. It's from an article in the NY Daily News website "Reader sound off on Poland, sugar and the Donald")
Poland, Jews and the Holocaust
Staten Island: The Poles want an apology from President Obama for his comment last week about "Polish death camps?" I want an apology from them for forcing my Jewish grandfather to leave Poland in the 1920s. I want an apology for the 1946 Kielce pogrom. I want an apology from every Pole who uses "Jew" as an insult. David Rubin
Staten Island: My father was a Jewish Holocaust survivor from Poland. In 1941, he was on a forced march in freezing weather. He collapsed from exhaustion and the cold. When a laborer collapsed, they were immediately put to death by the Nazis if they could not continue. A Polish soldier, also a prisoner, picked up and carried my father and saved his life. He never found out who that anonymous soldier was. He always taught me there are good and bad in every group. President Obama should personally apologize for his words. Harold Frydman
History of blood
Fresh Meadow: With extreme sympathy to Corky Siemaszko whose Catholic family suffered excruciating agonies in the years of the Holocaust, I must disagree with him on some points ("Why the words 'Polish death camps' cut so deep" Op-Ed June 1). True, the Poles did not create the death camps, but, notwithstanding Poland's 6,000 Righteous Gentiles, that number is a mere pittance to its 30 million pre war inhabitants. The Nazis built all six of their infamous death camps in Poland, knowing it was one of the most anti-Semitic countries in Europe, who would object the least to their creation. Carl Umator
Accessories to a crime
Valley Stream, L.I: There are 6,000 Poles on the list of the Righteous Among The Nations. There are more than 20 million Poles who are not. They were the paid laborers who built the camps. They stood along the rail lines, laughing at those in the box cars on the way to the slaughter. When the Jews who survived came back to their towns to reclaim their property, they were driven away. Some were killed by the townspeople who were only too happy to live on Jewish property. In the town of Sedziszow, where my grandparents, aunts and uncles and cousins lived, the townspeople burned down the town hall after the war so no records of Jewish ownership could be proven. The Poles didn't invent the Holocaust and can't be blamed for it, but they sure took advantage of it in stealing and keeping Jewish property. Larry Cohen
Read more: nydailynews.com/opinion/readers-sound-poland-sugary-drinks-donald-article-1.1088653#ixzz1wp2HjXf3
rybnik
4 Jun 2012
rybnik
4 Jun 2012
News / Why are many Poles anti-Euro2012 [16]
yep
It's very important for Poland to be able to show its neighbors it can wear the "big boy pants" and pull this off.
yep
It's very important for Poland to be able to show its neighbors it can wear the "big boy pants" and pull this off.
rybnik
4 Jun 2012
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4 Jun 2012
rybnik
3 Jun 2012
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]
to look intimidating? to give directions? ................now powaznie: crowd control?
What are the typical tasks of this Polish military formation?
to look intimidating? to give directions? ................now powaznie: crowd control?
rybnik
3 Jun 2012
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3 Jun 2012
rybnik
3 Jun 2012
Language / What is the best way to say comfortable? [7]
I prefer this
Czuję się jak u siebie w domu."
I prefer this
rybnik
1 Jun 2012
News / Anty-Polish v column is located in White House [88]
Yes
Try to find a way for reconciliation for these two nations
Yes
rybnik
1 Jun 2012
News / Anty-Polish v column is located in White House [88]
p3 I appreciate what you're saying but I'm of a generation, that believes and fears the power in the adage, which has been repeatedly proven to be valid, that" a lie told often enough becomes the truth". It's enough for people to repeat the phrase "Polish death camps" enough times (after all it has to be true if the leader of the free world said it)for it to take hold. Repeated enough times, "Polish death camps", "Polish death camps", "Polish death camps",................before long, folks forget about the Nazi/German aspect of these death camps in Poland. It's right and just for the Polish leaders to demand an apology. I doubt they'll get it......I know this is off-topic but I strongly believe that the key to putting an end to this discrimination/disinformation is for Poland to end its family squabble with its Jewish citizens- make peace and bring them back. Many will dispute this but I maintain that Poland will never be whole until it reconciles itself with it Jewish counterparts.........
but most Americans know about Nazi Germany and I don't think anyone over here is bound to forget about it anytime soon.
p3 I appreciate what you're saying but I'm of a generation, that believes and fears the power in the adage, which has been repeatedly proven to be valid, that" a lie told often enough becomes the truth". It's enough for people to repeat the phrase "Polish death camps" enough times (after all it has to be true if the leader of the free world said it)for it to take hold. Repeated enough times, "Polish death camps", "Polish death camps", "Polish death camps",................before long, folks forget about the Nazi/German aspect of these death camps in Poland. It's right and just for the Polish leaders to demand an apology. I doubt they'll get it......I know this is off-topic but I strongly believe that the key to putting an end to this discrimination/disinformation is for Poland to end its family squabble with its Jewish citizens- make peace and bring them back. Many will dispute this but I maintain that Poland will never be whole until it reconciles itself with it Jewish counterparts.........
rybnik
1 Jun 2012
News / Anty-Polish v column is located in White House [88]
Right
Will Obama give an apology for his mistake? Tusk want one. Brońko wrote the White House urging Obama to give one. Will Barak comply?
It's a mistake that happens way too commonly. The more often these camps are referred to as being Polish, the more likely it is that this will be known as truth among people
Right
Will Obama give an apology for his mistake? Tusk want one. Brońko wrote the White House urging Obama to give one. Will Barak comply?
rybnik
1 Jun 2012
Love / It is more fun to have sex in Polish than in English. Discuss. [27]
I like this sentence.
Hearing it makes me wanna have sex, but when I have sex, I don't necessarily wanna hear it.
I like this sentence.
rybnik
31 May 2012
Love / It is more fun to have sex in Polish than in English. Discuss. [27]
Wow, I've never read those two words juxtaposed next to each other!!! ...Polish-sensual ....I guess Polish's sexiness lies in the ears of the beholder :)
Polish is a sensual language
Wow, I've never read those two words juxtaposed next to each other!!! ...Polish-sensual ....I guess Polish's sexiness lies in the ears of the beholder :)
rybnik
31 May 2012
History / Early 80s - Could just anybody come stroling on in? [11]
The East Germans would literally take my VW Bug "garbus" apart!
kinda complicated.....check the threads ;)
The East Germans would literally take my VW Bug "garbus" apart!
Unrelated question - "post war" - in light of everything that occured....is / was there any pro or con jewish sentiment prevalent in the general populace? Let me guess, .....complicated issue
kinda complicated.....check the threads ;)
rybnik
31 May 2012
Life / You've been in Poland a while if .... [49]
Kudos to you for speaking Polish in public! We all went/go through it. I hope you won't/don't dwell on that stuff too much. I'm sure your friend told you how to say it correctly right? Now you'll never forget :) That's how I learned the best (I know it's painful at times). Just keep at it.
Kudos to you for speaking Polish in public! We all went/go through it. I hope you won't/don't dwell on that stuff too much. I'm sure your friend told you how to say it correctly right? Now you'll never forget :) That's how I learned the best (I know it's painful at times). Just keep at it.
rybnik
31 May 2012
Life / You've been in Poland a while if .... [49]
ok. not grammatical but how did it make you look foolish? You got your ice cream right? :) Isn't that ultimately what matters?
ok. not grammatical but how did it make you look foolish? You got your ice cream right? :) Isn't that ultimately what matters?
rybnik
31 May 2012