Genealogy /
How common is it for other people of Polish origin to discover they are actually Jewish? [127]
Turns out you Poles didn't really want the Jews back, my great-grandfather was a medic in the Polish army in the mid 30s and they used to beat him every night in a sack shouthing 'filhy zyd!.My grandfather's brother died fighting for Poland in '39, and when his famaily came back to ostrolenka after escaping to Russia during the war they were treated with nothing but contempt.
Maybe my grandpraents should have come back from being refugeess in Siberia to this? A nice warm welcome.
PS Jews were just sick and tired of being treated like crap,tossed from place to place at the whim of repressive anti semetic governments,tsars and kings, Zionism did not start becuase of the holocoust, it began in the 1880s.
And as DE comes from the States I took "we in the west" to refer to USA, although of course GB has responsibility too.
Britain was opposed to the creation of the state of Israel, after the Arab rebellion of 1936-39 they became pro arab, the Jews did it with their own toil and sweat. British officers were leading the Arab Jordanian Legion in the war of 1948 and refused to regonise Israel until 1951.
