Genealogy / Adopted from Poland; trying to find my biological parents [99]

Sounds a bit obvious, but in point 4 you say he has two sons who are fairly young. Do you know their first names? If so, something might come up on Facebook or Nasza Klasa...

Easier to find if you have an idea of the town or even region they're in.

Real Estate / Building a house in Poland need advice from anyone that has built [100]

A deposit and one or more interim payments are normal. This is Poland so get everything in writing.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Some very interesting points there, even though some are just repetitions of things refuted by people earlier. The answer to your first question, by the way, is already in the thread - it won't change.

Language / Family members in Polish [8]

Indeed. I'd heard a few of these titles before and avoided using them because


are easier to remember but had no idea there were so many. I found this on facebook in a Polish language group for professional translators and some of the people there seemed surprised too:

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History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]


Outsiders for one generation, then insiders as much as anyone else.Their own country too by that stage, unless you believe that one group should have perpetual rights and another be denied them.


Now I've heard everything!


So what. Start a thread about it if you like.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Not much of an answer. If your house is damp, why don't you move into a hotel. If your job as a cleaner sucks, why not train as a fund manager. If life was hard at timesfor gentile Poles, why didn't they move.

Anyway, plenty did...

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

So anyone really, including people of Polish background who "Stalin managed to subjugate".

For the Poznan Pogrom, you must be using a very unusual search engine. Perhaps one from Moscow centre. Why not try it again with the year 1367 added.

Even try: 1367 Poznan ,1399 Poznan ,1407 Krakow, 1423 Krakow, 1434 Poznan, 1445 Kazimierz- Krakow, 1498 Warsaw...

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]


Thy were Russian. So going off topic.

Pol3, what are your views on the Poznan Pogrom?

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]


A pleasure.


I don't see that there at all. Poles ofJewish and Gentile heritage were on both sides of that issue, Jewish Poles and Gentile Poles were on both sides of that issue.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]


Nice of you to show the proper respect however that isn't much of a question at all, since victims as well as perpetrators can be Poles of whatever heritage.In the post-war years both the groups you mention fell into both the categories you mention...

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]


So they were Poles .

And the deeds of a foreign regime in one brief period of time in no sense dtracts fro earlier sufferimg by any particular group. Basically a red herring.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]


So are you suggesting that DNA determines character?


So were all the others.

Law / USD shooting up so high for PLN [76]

Yes - the weak USD hadn't been doing much for them travelling however this may well change as it is likely to for Brits with the strong pound GBP/PLN. I suspect that most who come spend many times more than 4x the spend of an average domestic tourist.

Work / How does a person join the Poland's army? [39]

That was for conscripts - most people on a professional contract started that way.

Law / USD shooting up so high for PLN [76]


Not so much - remember they have a far higher spend per head than locals. And the strong Pound will hopefully attract more British visitors. All of the local holidaymakers aren't going to suddenly desert Poland though - their spending power hasn't increased that much.

Law / USD shooting up so high for PLN [76]


The strong USD/PLN is very good if it encourages visitors from the US.


Tourism patterns fluctuate. This summer it's good for Americans and British who want to visit Europe. Hopefully some of that mony will come to Poland.


That makes little difference - their average spend is lower.

Law / USD shooting up so high for PLN [76]


Even a tiny change in the exchange rate has a significant effect on large scale industrial production - I know whereof I speak. And dropping from 4.35 in December to 4.15 yesterday has had its effect.

There are also significant raw and processed material imports realised in GBP and USD and of course all petroleum based products are traded in USD.

Law / USD shooting up so high for PLN [76]


The low zloty is great for Poland's tourist industry too (and the GBP/EUR rate is great for British tourists going anywhere in Europe). Also good for Poland's agricultural/food exports (all those oven fries/pot noodles, yummy, plus jam, gherkins, mustard, flax/linen, sugar) and other things PL produces a lot of, plaster, ceramic tiles etc.. Not so good for other exports where all or part of the raw materials are bought in Euro but lower labour and other running costs will partly mitigate that.

Plus of course the remittances from Poles working in Britain and elsewhere.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]


It's all detailed on the previous page of this thread goof.
This:


doesn't sit well with:

This is spot on and you can still hear the echoes of that today.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]


Not that most people there have roots in Europe, but don't let facts cloud your bigotry. And don't assume that the oppression in Poland (or indeed elsewhere in Europe) started only 70 years ago

Very sad when someone falls into a negative stereotype.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]


I was waiting for the racism to become explicit and bingo, I didn't have to wait long.

You could even go a step further and suggest that there are character traits among that


which have some bearing on their experiences over the centuries in Poland.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]


Both tolerance and intolerance play their part in its history. If you read the thread, you'll see it explained that people today are not responsible for the crimes of the past. Poland is very fortunate though to have a centuries old liberal tradition.


No.

Life / Polish people are the most ignorant people in the world! [335]

I'm glad you agree. It's impossible to brand an entire nation as either ignorant or wholly unignorant - only individual people can be described as that.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]


The history of Poland didn't start in 1939 - before then there were both good times and bad.


Do check out the pogrom mentioned in this thread - it makes sad reading.


Don't forget that some Poles are also Jewish. Interesting that you mention ONR.


Remember Poland voted to join the EU (and has done extremely well out of that) - one of the central tenets of that is freedom of capital.

Life / Polish people are the most ignorant people in the world! [335]

I wonder why you think that the English don't know where Berlin is?

And by the way, as I've said before, this is an unfortunate thread - no single nationality is especially ignorant - ignorance, like fanaticism, is a very individual trait.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Fortunately, Poland throughout its history has not been an "exclusive ethnical (sic) enclave" - it has always had a multicultural tradition, nor has sovereignty been vested in one ethnolinguistic group of Poles to the exclusion of another. Though there are unfortunately those who would prefer that not to be.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]


Rightly so in a matter of so many ambiguities.


Do you claim exclusive rights to restrict the nationality of anyone else who owns property in your street or feel,attached to the idea that certain people rather than others can spend or use the same currency?


Indeed. And the statutes (like so much else in those parts and in those times were honoured more in the breach than the observance. Unless the Poznan Pogrom was just an illusion.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Were there any comparably sized minorities of comparable population density in the region and were the pogroms elsewhere (for example the Poznan Pogrom) any less vicious?

Law / Is it possible to change visit visa to student or work permit in Poland? [16]


Yes, if the condition Looker mentions is fulfilled. This is rare though.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]


That would depend how egregiously it was broken.


A non-question.