Genealogy / Komorowski clan-name Korczak [16]

The likely future president of Poland, Bronisław Komroowski, is from the noble Korczak line. His father was Count Zygmunt Korczak-Komorowski. The clan-name was often part of a Polish nobleman's signature, hence they signed themselves eg:

Stanisław Pobóg-Konarzowski, Aleksander Dołęga-Radzimowski, Michał Lubicz-Kuźmiński, etc.
Besides Korczak, there were at least 15 other noble lines amongst the Komorowski blue-bloods, entitled to use one of such clan-names as: Abdank, Boża Wola, Ciołek, Dołęga, Gryf, Kotwicz, Lis, £abędź and Ślepowron.

Does anyone on PF use a clan-name as part of theri signature?

UK, Ireland / Brit Polonia fighting anti-Polish stereotypes [46]

The British Polonia is fed up wtih anti-Polish stereotypes circulating in the UK and branding Poles as anti-Semites, homophobes or people trying to steal British jobs, If you read Polish, check out:

polonia.wp.pl/kat,1010223,title,W-Londynie-chca-walczyc-z-antyp olskimi-stereotypami,wid,12365557,wiadomosc.html?ticaid=1a589

News / Poland to penalise commie symbols [27]

Polish lawmakers have finally doen somethign sensible by amending the penal code as regards the propagation of totalitarian ideas, symbols and artefacts. Displaying a swastika or sickle & hammer in pulbic can now earn the offender up to 2 years behind bars. That also includes T-shirts with the image of butcher Che Guevara which trendy airheads have fancied for years.

What say ye Rooskies? Is your country capable of severing ties with its disgraceful, evil commie past?

Communist Propaganda banned just as fascism and anti-Semitism

All thanks to the recent amendment to the Criminal Code. Now, it provides up to two years in prison for promoting communist symbols.

So far, the prosecution reminded game of cat and mouse, although the constitution prohibits the operation of organizations equally referring to totalitarian methods and practices of Nazism, fascism and communism.

Language / Why x.xx$ in Poland? [20]

Why do Poles insist on writing 25$ and the like. Shouldn’t currency symbols precede the numerals thus: $25, ₤3,50 or €4.89?

Genealogy / Why did Jews convert? [3]

The przechrzta (christened Jew) was a Jew who accepted the Cahtolic faith in Poland. Some adotped names such as Narwocki or Nawrot (convert) or days of the week when their conversion occurred. I have heard that Nowicki arose to mean "nowy Icek", but that is surely an urban legend. Anone have any figures on what percentage of Jews did this in particular centuries? What was their motivation: religious, family-oriented (marrying into a Polish family), political (the right to hold office), economic (the right to own land), other? Of course, during the Nazi occupation real or feigned conversions (esp. by females) plus the right physiognomy were a key to physical survival.

News / Father Popiełuszko beatified in Warsaw [28]

Father Jerzy Popiełuszko, murdered by Poland's communist secret police in 1984, was beatified during an open-air Mass held in Warsaw's Piłsudski Square. More than 120,000 pilgrims from across the country came to the capital to take part in the celebratory Mass, led by Papal envoy Archbishop Angelo Amato.The Papal envoy underlined that Father Popiełuszko suffered because he was a faithful servant of the Catholic Church, and who defended his own dignity as well as the freedom of those who like him were oppressed and humiliated.

thenews.pl/national/artykul133001_jerzy-popieluszko-beatified-in-warsaw.html

Although Popiełuszko himself never mentioned communism, the Soviets or Russians by name, Poles in general have plenty of reason to be anti-Russian. That oppressor nation time and again tried not only to conquer and physically subjugate Poland but to poison the Polish soul with its authoritarian Mongol-Byzantine tsarism and then its toxic Soviet ideology of communism under their Lenins, Stalins and other Brezhnevs. Let us never forget that Stalin murdered more people than Hitler. And to this day his badge of disgrace, the Soviet swastika in the shape of a sickle & hammer, is still displayed in public as is the notorious red star of infamy.

Now the Muscovites are manipulating information about the black boxes. There is growing evidence now being collected by the IPN that the murder of Father Popiełuszko was masterminded at the Kremlin. That really wouldn't surprise anyone, would it? They flubbed the papal assassination attempt, but in 1984 they succeeded with the Polish priest.

No wonder there is a Polish saying: Jak świat światem, Moskal Polakowi nie będzie bratem. (As long as the world exists the Muscovite will never be the Pole’s brother.)