Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

FITKOWSKI looks to be a name of toponymic origin, traceable to the locality of Fitków in the Lwów region (now in Ukraine). Nearly all Polish last names with the -owski ending or of toponymic origin.

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

ORLCZYSKI (???): This does not look right. The only surnames anywhere close or Orlewicz, Orlewski, Orlic, Orlicki, Orlicek and Orlich, all of which were dervied from the Polish word for eagle "orzeł".

KUCZYŃSKI: Kuczinski is incorrect, as the letter "i" never follows diagraphs such as cz, sz or rz or the letter ż. This is a name of toponymic origin identifying a native of the village of Kuczyn or Kuczyna.

Language / What computer keyboards are in use in Poland? [34]

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History / Jaruzelski vs Pinochet [120]


Some examples priests themselves have shared with me:
**A leaky church roof was destroying valuable religious art but building materials and all the necessary permits and paperwork wase availkable only to those clerics willing to play ball.

**A priest's elderly parents were often harassed if their son did not want to collaborate.
**Priests not willing to do the UB's bidding were denied passports to travel to Rome and uncooperative bishops had their semiarains conscripted. (Popiełuszko did time in one such special army unit for seminarians who were brainwashed by commie indoctrinators.)

**A village priest who declined to collaborate may have received a little girl's First Holy Communion photo sent like an open non-enveloped postcard addressed to FAther So & So with the message: 'Daddy, I wanted you to have this souvenir of my First Holy Communion. Your loving daiughter Marysia.'.

**The paedophile business wasn't in vogue back then or the UB would have surely used that to destroy the credibiltiy of uncooperative priests.
Just a small snippet of the system personified by the Jaruzelskis and Urbans of this world!

History / Jaruzelski vs Pinochet [120]

His name is Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski and he has estimated that some 10% of the clergy collaborated. Not a bad result when compared to the writers, journalists, teachers, actors and academics who supported the regime. The figure would undoutbedly be smaller if one considered only those priests who voliuntarily and servlistically collaborated for private gain as opposed to thsoe hwo were blackmailed, harassed and/or intimidated in various ways. The UB had their tried and proven methods.

History / Jaruzelski vs Pinochet [120]


PAX was never supported by the Church which knew its prupsoe was to weaken and undermine Poland's mainstream Catholicism. It was the only way a pre-war Falangista Piasecki could have hoped to play any role in Soviet-occupied Poland. he story goes that he personally was received by Stalin who spared his life in exchange for hsi pledge to undermine the Church. There was also a group of renegade Priest-Patriots under the thumb of the regime who collaborated for different perks and privileges. Professor Edmund Ordon of Detroit's Wayne State Unviersity once told me that PAX's only redeeming factor was that it made it possible to publish books by Catholic thinkers that would otherwise not been published in a Soviet-bloc country.

History / Jaruzelski vs Pinochet [120]


That Stalinism was turned into a religous cult, creaqted a pseudo-litrugy and annexed many of its trappings is obvsious, but that pseudo-religion had far fewer adherents in Poland than in any other captive nation. Catholicism increased the nation's resistance to Stalinism, whilst secularism made it more receptive to the intrusive false ideology brought to Poland on Soviet bayonets.

History / Jaruzelski vs Pinochet [120]


Church-bashers will never comprehend that it was mainly Holy Mother the Church that enabled the Polish nation to survive as well as it did despite attempts at de-Polonisation over 123 years of partitions, the WW2 Nazi-Soviet occupation and 45 years of Soviet enslavement. De-Catholicised countries such as Czechoslovakia and Hungary and Protestantised East Germany became the harshest of Stalinist dictatorships. The Church helped stop the collectivsiaton of Polish argciutlure, and only in Poland were hardly any churches converted into warehouses, offices, communtiy centres, etc. The Church and its millions of faithful were a force to be reckoned with even by the despotic Soviet-imposed regime. A weak or decorative church not involved in public affairs crucial to the nation's well-being could not have achieved that. It was largely the Church's uncompromising stance that softened the regime's oppressive MO and helped turn Poland into what has been called 'the jolliest barracks in the Soviet camp' (najweselszy barak sowieckiego obozu).

USA, Canada / Poles in America: How do you pronounce your Polish surname? [128]

Wulkan


Fah-nee-LYOO-la (the capitalised syllable is stressed).
Just tell 'em the 'g' is silent or respell the name to Fanilyula. Doesn't look very nice but the Anglos will pronounce it better. Buona fortuna! - Powodzenia!

Genealogy / Americans of Polish descent. How many of us are on Polish forums? [216]

Indeed, not only Poles have idealised and glamoruised America.Since the 19th century it has been a beacon of hope to the downtrodden and improversihed, a land of opportuntiy where the bootblack could become a millionaire. And it was unravaged by the two greatest wars in human history. In America the averaga worker lived like the Old Country elite.

Genealogy / Americans of Polish descent. How many of us are on Polish forums? [216]

Still got a recognisable Scottish brough (spelling)?

Genealogy / Americans of Polish descent. How many of us are on Polish forums? [216]


I often wonder what iis it about that cesspool that makes it so attractive to others (Europeans, Third Worlders) who are tripping over themselves to copy it ASAP.

Life / Help me find this Polish band and song.... [117]

Yiddish maybe?

History / Jaruzelski vs Pinochet [120]


Yeah sure, he had a crystal ball that never lies.

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

KRAWIEC: You surely know this means tailor in Polish. In Yiddish it is Kravitz, in German -- Schneider.

History / Jaruzelski vs Pinochet [120]


Again a heaten lecturing Chrisitians about Christianity?! Their ilk love to latch on to the forgiveness and mercy bit but conveniently forget that that hinges on CONTRITION AND REPENTANCE. Jaruzelski never even as much as apologised for serving the Evil Empire that killed his dad through cold, stravation and overwork; he never apologised for being a NKVD informer in postwar Poland, for not attending his own mother's funeral for the sake of his career, for martial law (repeating his broken-record 'lesser of two evils' mantra), the 1970 massace or sending troops to quash the Czech freedom struggle.

Life / Babcia or Busha - any social class difference? [359]


Has anybody said it is? Busia and dziadzia (sometimes spelt jaja in America) are part and parcel of a multi-ethnic salad-bowl country like the USA. Would you also tell America's Afros they're wrong to say 'axe me a question' (instead of ask) or 'hep you' (may I help you? in service trades). It works both ways -- elements of English are found in ethnic-minority speech and their English also displays traces of their ancestral language. The Cannucks of New England and the Milwaukee Deutsch, Italo-Ameircans, Jews, Hispanics and others all display such linguistic tendencies. Are you against them all?

On another score, some people (without mentioning any names) would help this country the most if they went back where they came from rather than constantly badmouthing patriotic Catholic Poland.

History / Jaruzelski vs Pinochet [120]

Average Poles by and large are not happy with their present situation. Recent uni grads and young people in general (highest unemploymetn figures), OAPs (small pensions, high prices of everything), workers whose workplaces have gone bust... A decent society is one which provides a decent lfie for as large a cross-seciton of people as possible, not one that creates and caters for a caste of chosen elites. Until refcently the US was pretty much such a country where 85% or more had a fairly decent life, were fairly satisfied with their situaiton and were fairly decent citizens.

History / Jaruzelski vs Pinochet [120]


Yes, cut-throat capitalism truly does produce a fair and free society. However, only for tycoons, bankers and assorted plutocrats as well as their well-connected servilistic flunkies and yesmen!

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

WOLSZA: Yes, very Polish. In a Małopolska dialect wolsza is the way the olsza or olcha (alder tree) is called.

BEM: Polish phonetic spelling of the German word for Bohemian (Czech). To the Polish ear Böhm sounded pretty much like Bem

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

SZCZEPANOWSKI: this would be a name of toponymic origin traceable to a village called Szczepanów or Szczepanowo (Stevensville).

SZECZPAŃSKI: would be a patronymic nick to indicate the son of Szczepan (Stevenson).

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

TELKOWSKI: Yes, quite rare, only a dozen users in Poland today. Possible source: the Ukrainian (tel') or Czech (tele) word for calf; in Polish cielę. Someone might have been nicknamed Telko for whatever reason and the son he fathered would have been dubbed Telkowski or Telkowicz. Toponymic possibilities include places called Telki in Russia and Hungary and Telke in Slovakia.

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

SALABA: Not currently used in Poland. Possibly dervied from the old, now archaic word szalaban (drinking bout). The closest now found in Poland are: Sałabaj, Sałaban and Salaban.

History / Jaruzelski vs Pinochet [120]


Was it common to draft exiled Polish nationals into the Soviet Army? He must have volunteered. Despite his gentry roots (Noble Clan of Ślepowron), exemplary upbringing in a patriotic Polish home and a Catholic school run by the Marian Fathers, he turned his back on all that for the sake of a career. He began serving the Soviet empire that had murdered his dad, adopted the alien Marxist ideology and betrayed his Catholic faith. He didn't even attend his mother's funeral mass becuase of fthe Polish Puppet Army's anti-Catholic agenda.

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]


We've been through this many times. But just to give you a hint, it's the minorites the murkstream media immediately spring to defend by hurling their stock 'anti-', '-phobe' and '-bashing' labels. 'Anti-Polish', 'Polanophobe' and 'Church-bashing' are of little interest to the murkstreamers.

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

KOBOS: that was the Old Polish name for a goatskin bagpipe, one of the old peasant instruments; in modern Polish it's called a kobza.

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KRAS: This is a root with several different meanings; krasota was an Old Polish word for beauty; krasny as an adjective can mean ruddy-cheeked but also described black or red on white cattle or horses. The verb krasić means to embellish or (regarding food) to garnish. A krasomówca (literally beautiful speaker) describes an eloquent orator. A kraszanka is an Easter egg. A krasnopiórka (English rudd) is a red-finned panfish.

PAPIEŻ: This is the Polish word for pope; It could have originated as a toponymic tag describing someone from the central Polish village of Papieże.

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

jackie5275
GAJEWSKI: root-word gaj (grove, wood); toponymic tag for someone hailing from the village of Gajewo (Groveville, Woodbury).

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]

Anyway, the material Kondzior has posted has helped put things into sharper focus. One thing that has become abundantly clear is that allegedly oppressed pet PC minorites always cry 'victim' when in actuality they are terrorising society. Through various overt and covert means, mostly crafty and clever propaganda and behind-the-scenes social engineering, they are taking over. Anyone who dares disagree, let alone criticise them can expect public ostracism or even administrative sanctions, job loss and/or blackballing.

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]


A kid might much rather play computer games, watch the telly and munch on unhealthy snacks than go to school, but......
Hopefully an educated adult person has a bit more foresight than a 10-year-old and does not limit everything to liking, disliking and personal preference.