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Carol, if you feel so strong about your past then sell up and come home.You seem to have a big chip on your shoulder and you should lay this past to rest and get over it and start living a modern Poland as most Poles are.
What good can come from going over old hurt making yourself feel bad all the time?
I wish I could. As with my family leaving Poland in 1951, I have built my life here, it's all I know. I would be in the same boat they were. Going to another country and having to start all over. Selling my farm here and my horses. Not to mention the family that have been born here, my own children would not understand.
After many years the USA has grown an appreciation for the Polish in the USA. It was not always this way. As a child I recall being told to go home to Poland as I did not belong here. A "ski" in your name made you a target in school and an outcast/misfit that simply did not belong. Yes, children can be cruel. I do not say this for pity as I have a happy ending. Around 7th grade I became popular for who I am. I never forgot though the feeling I had as a child, and know first hand the damage prejudist can do, Each and every person is the same reguardless of color or religion.
My chip is due to Polish family's mostly non Jewish that never spoken out like the Jewish family's and are not taken into consideration. We were all victims. If you are Polish you were targeted. Some lost entire blood lines, some were lucky and lost only a few. My point is reguardless of your loss we all have scars. My father as with many victims, lived a lifetime in silence and pain within his heart vs. having a "holocaust" as the Jewish have and a nation digging for the truth. If you see this as "a chip" so be it. In the USA since 1989 groups that never spoke out are now finding a voice. We are at long last doing what Jewish family's have always done. Documents that we did not have access to in the past are at long last being released.
Don't get me wrong I know of the suffering that the Jewish family's endured. Jewish also were aware of what took place to ours. If the tables were reversed and the only ones looked at as victims were the ones that were born in Poland or just Roman / Greek Catholics I believe Jewish would be saying the same thing I am, what about our families? Remember we are all the same.
And no Polish people were deported to the USA, they fled to the USA, because the other choice as you said would be arrest.
arrest or death.
My point was that no one was deported to the USA from Poland.
I believe the word that should be used is, "exiled".
webster-dictionary.net/definition/Exile
Definition of Exile
Ex`ile'
n. 1. Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's native country.
Let them be recalled from their exile.
- Shak.
2. The person expelled from his country by authority; also, one who separates himself from his home.
Thou art in exile, and thou must not stay.
- Shak.
v. t. 1. To banish or expel from one's own country or home; to drive away.
[imp. & p. p. Exiled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Exiling.]
Calling home our exiled friends abroad.
- Shak.
a. 1. Small; slender; thin; fine.
Carol
