Wow, I almost forgot that thread exists. It used to be our fav thread in the past.
So, I quickly looked through it and can tell you we have discussed the following Jewish contributors to Polish heritage:
writers, poets and linguists such as:
Julian Tuwim
Bolesław Lesmian
Jan Brzechwa
Bruno Schulz
Stanisław Lem
Artur Sandauer
Janusz Korczak
Roman Brandstaetter
Mieczysław Jastrun
Jerzy Lec
Leopold Tyrmand
Władysław Kopaliński
Film directors (Agnieszka Holland), sportspeople (Irena Szewińska), politicians (Geremek).
We have also talked about Jewish culinary contribution: challach, carp ala Jewish, cebularz - onion pie.
Now, it is time for new concepts.
A very important one - I wonder why nobody mentioned it before. Did you know that 6-7% Polish officers executed in Katyń Massacre was if Jewish origin? They were doctors, lawyers, engineers, merchants, teachers. They felt Polish and loved Poland and didn`t renounce it during interrogations by Soviet NKVD. In result, they were marked for extermination.
In central Warsaw, among modern architecture, there is a monument honouring the victims of Soviet invasion of 17 September 1939 and to all who perished in the East. The form is of a train carriage - in such carriages people were transported to Siberia to gulag camps.
The monument contains symbols of Catholic, Jewish, Muslim and Orthodox religions - all of them became objects of persecution when the USSR attacked Poland.
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Jewish matzevah among crosses