Genealogy /
Seeking Czarniecki family members and ancestors from Lublin, also Margiewicz, Danilowicz and Andrulewicz [77]
I would like to make some comments about all of this “cultural exchange” which I encountered while looking for information about my great grandfather Julian Czarniecki.
My ancestor, Stefan Czarniecki from whom my grandfather Julian Czarniecki is believed to originate, represented “typical” Polish attitudes: faith, patriotism and courage to face the oppressor and to fight for freedom of his homeland: “Rzeczpospolita”. This is how Polish people are as cultural group: courageous, heroic fighters against Turks, Nazis, Communists and other oppressors and regimes. Poles as a group do not forget to honour God; this is why they begin their lives in a new place with building a church not a bank…
Anyways, all of those great Polish people such as Stefan Czarniecki, Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Slowacki,… John Paul II had guts to fight with extraordinary military strategies, words, prayers and LOVE. They fought for freedom from oppression, for freedom of human dignity, for freedom from regimes including regime of moral relativism in which everything goes…It does not really matter if they had some Jewish roots or not, if they had some blood of “the other” or not; what matters is what they have done; and how they contributed to the COMMON GOOD OF THE COUNTRY in which they lived and COMMON GOOD OF THE WORLD to which they emigrated!
Let us not forget that at the end of our earthly journey, God will judge us not by our cultural background or the amount of arguments that we have won; but by the amount of goodness and love that we have spread throughout the world on which we lived. It will be only between us and Him not between us and “the other”. After all the Ten Commandment is universal law of love which should be a common ground for Jews and Poles and “the others”. If you are an atheist and relativist on either side, you are neither a true Jew nor a true Pole…
