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My grandfather, Paul Scobel or Skobel, left Poland for Canada in about 1910. He died at 77 in about 1959. He was an atheist but apparently raised Catholic. My father, who fought in the Canadian Army, was also an atheist. He once remarked that there couldn't be a God because no God would ever let a war like that happen. Whenever my father would ask Gigi Paul about Poland, he'd reply with something like "You want to know? Go there." I always thought the name was Polish. Then, I ran into a Scobel family in Brazil, and they insist it's a German name. Apparently, they came from a town in Germany, Vorst, which was divided between Poland and Germany. Does anyone know whether it's Scobel or Skobel, German or Polish. There was a Brauerie Hugo Scobel in Gliwickie, but the Russians firebombed it in 1945. I hear that the name Scobel/Skobel in Polish means something like door hinge or deadbolt. It may also mean something like carpenter. In 1998 I was in Warsaw for two days on my way to Israel for a business trip. There were lots of Poles and Russians at the Intel plant in the middle of the desert, where the Israeli Western Europeans stuck the Eastern European Jews. They served perogies in the company cafeteria with a little hummus on the side. T
Great food and people there. If only they would learn to share. I hope to hear from you. Thanks! Which I don't even know how to say in Polish.
My grandfather, Paul Scobel or Skobel, left Poland for Canada in about 1910. He died at 77 in about 1959. He was an atheist but apparently raised Catholic. My father, who fought in the Canadian Army, was also an atheist. He once remarked that there couldn't be a God because no God would ever let a war like that happen. Whenever my father would ask Gigi Paul about Poland, he'd reply with something like "You want to know? Go there." I always thought the name was Polish. Then, I ran into a Scobel family in Brazil, and they insist it's a German name. Apparently, they came from a town in Germany, Vorst, which was divided between Poland and Germany. Does anyone know whether it's Scobel or Skobel, German or Polish. There was a Brauerie Hugo Scobel in Gliwickie, but the Russians firebombed it in 1945. I hear that the name Scobel/Skobel in Polish means something like door hinge or deadbolt. It may also mean something like carpenter. In 1998 I was in Warsaw for two days on my way to Israel for a business trip. There were lots of Poles and Russians at the Intel plant in the middle of the desert, where the Israeli Western Europeans stuck the Eastern European Jews. They served perogies in the company cafeteria with a little hummus on the side. T
Great food and people there. If only they would learn to share. I hope to hear from you. Thanks! Which I don't even know how to say in Polish.
