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Polish and other Slavic nobility in our time [71]
yes, yes
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Well at some point from my grandparents I come from the family of Grunwald and Pacewicz (both noble family's)
Reason I said Polish-German is because they have always felt Polish but with Lithuanian ancestry so it's irrelevant if I say I am half Lithuanian really. (Pacewicz-Pacevicius)
From the Grunwald side there is the family of Schultz (later Szulc), although from the Grunwald side there was pretty many Emil's and one of them took part in a Polish uprising either in Listopadowe or Styczniowe (Polish months). Either how the GRUNWALD family got their nobility status from either the battle of Grunwald OR from one of those uprisings for taking part of it. (I am not sure)
Although one of the reasons why my granddad's father wasn't jailed was because during ww2 the Germans said, "Oh your family come from the family Schultz, you German!"
then he responded "No Sir, I am Polish"
That way he didn't become Volksdeutsche, also considering he took part in the Warsaw uprising and got wounded and sent to a Concentration camp in Western Germany. He got liberated by the Americans later on but out of need to know how his family is doing and that he was responsible for taking care of his own family he returned back to Poland. The family had always a tough time during the commie times in Poland, on Pacewicz side they lost all their estate and had to move to Warsaw. (the estate was in Lublin)
Since my family had noble ties they didn't get to have it easy in commie Poland. But they weren't "hunted" since they didn't go much into politics or underground parties or something. Until Solidarity movement in 1980's.
We have a coat of arms but it's at my grandmother's place, as she lives in Poland and I live in Norway I can't show it at the moment. But if anyone would be interested I can ask her to take a photo and mail it to me.
