Genealogy / Displaced Persons Camp / Work camp and concentration camp difference [86]

Thanks Delph. One of those historical quirks I guess.

@Yagutka Did your mother in law spend time in any other DP camps. It was very common for people to be moved around many many times. My mum said she was better fed whilst working under the Germans as a farm labourer then after the war in DP camps.

Genealogy / Displaced Persons Camp / Work camp and concentration camp difference [86]

A couple of years ago an I decided out of the blue to try to rekindle some contact with an old school friend that I hadn't been in touch with for many years. He emailed me back telling me that he was in the middle of a cycle journey in Germany. He was riding solo along the old West-German border for a book he was writing and told me he was that he was about to arrive at a small German village called Marienborn-I nearly fell of my chair when he told me !

Genealogy / Displaced Persons Camp / Work camp and concentration camp difference [86]

Exactly. Actually proved to be a sad logistical obstacle to my mother ever being able to visit her father's grave.

Marienborn before the war was an anonymous village where she happened to work with her family on the fields. My grandfather died a few weeks before the war ended and was buried in Marienborn.

Bad luck led to Marienborn (as you rightly say) becoming one of the main checkpoints on the West/East German border meaning it became very difficult for her to visit his grave until the Berlin wall came down.

She visited with her brother around 1995 but the cemetery was overgrown and all the markers she had remembered were obviously gone so she couldn't find his grave. Locals had told her that when the Russians arrived in 1945 they desecrated a lot of the graves so perhaps it's better for us not to know exactly what happened at that time :(

Genealogy / Displaced Persons Camp / Work camp and concentration camp difference [86]

My mother was in Fallingbostel as well as about 10 other DP camps in Germany from 1946 to around 1952. However, I doubt she will know the name as there were thousands of people in those camps.

Where did she work as farm slave labour ? My mother worked in a small German village called Marienborn.

Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [69]


You are obviously lying as your experience completely contradicts Delphian's claims that the babcias selling produce on the roads purchased them from the supermarkey instead :)

News / New European Council's report: "Poland oasis of racism, xenophobia and homophobia" ... [343]


why would Polish locals be making remarks in English when the girls weren't even English. Something doesn't add up with this story....

Sounds to me like a group of muslim activists.....

Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [69]


As we only have your word for that then we should choose to ignore that claim.

Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [69]


Something that I rarely if ever see here in the UK. Farmers markets don't count....

Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [69]

Yes. Have to be honest in that I have never heard of "historical food trauma".

@NoToForeigners I think you understand the point I was clumsily trying to make. I

I was referring to the Polish love of food and it's preparation. It's something that is very noticeable especially when compared with English colleagues.

I was at our local Polish shop yesterday and they had brought a new shipment of Malinowe tomatoes in-the Polish customers were all over them. English people wouldn't know what all the fuss was about. Then again, how many English people have tasted Polish tomatoes :)

Love / Recommendations for live wedding bands in different cities in Poland. [36]

Budget ? Location ?

you gotta help us to help you

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]


You may have a good point there.

I remember reading somewhere that most immigrants to the UK are technically illegal as they require some form of travel insurance.

Having said that, I think we need to accept the spirit of the pledge that May made. I doubt Poles or other EU immigrants will be sent back

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

Merged:

Teresa May-and EU citizens

Looks like Poles in the UK are now safe :)

Language / Poles struggle with English vowels [42]

I often have to stifle a smile when I hear Polish friends say they have been to the "beach" but make it sound like "*****" :)

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]


The price of peace perhaps ?

Britain did not want to go to war again with Stalin over Poland's independence. Poland was just collateral damage.

I think when some Poles talk about Poland being "sold" they do not mean literally

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

@Marsupial

People will hate whoever is in power-I don't think it's just a "Tory" thing.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]


On "an" open forum.......see the point I was making about how easily it can be used as a weapon of condescension ? :)


The whole thing is a complete mess :(

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

@Lyzko
It's for the poster to decide if it's a learning forum or not. Perhaps they simply want to make a point in English about the topic being discussed and not be corrected on any grammatical mistakes they make en route to doing that. Without face to face communication then correcting someone's language can sometimes be considered as pedantic or condescending. I don't think you were trying to be either of those two things but there are some on this forum who are happy to score cheap points against anyone who disagrees with them so I think it could be a dangerous precedence to set.

Love / Do Polish girl interested in Indonesian guy? [8]

In answer to your post title...."yes"-every single Polish girl loves Indonesian guys. Please invite us to the wedding

Food / What happened to the fish and chip restaurant in Krakow? [4]

Have you ever tried explaining to a Pole that you eat chips with vinegar ? :)

Life / Settle in Poland, which city is best? [30]

How does the tax situation affect any UK pensions that might be payable.......I'm trying to think ahead

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]


Not really or is it a learning forum because you say it is ? I agree with the poster that it's pretty poor form to criticise someone's English on a forum where people from all round the world regularly contribute (often in their second language).


Nothing is straightforward in life especially in politics. The Brexit delivered an outcome that most politicians, even the pro-Brexit ones, did not expect. I'm convinced that Johnson and Gove believed it would make a nice protest vote and then once Brexit was defeated then it would be back to business as usual.

Instead, the calamitous decision has led to one PM resigning and another one on the verge of being kicked out. Europe would prefer the UK to remain and I think they will accept a change of heart from the UK if ever that happens.

What is more likely to happen is that the hard Brexit that May was pursuing will now soften and that could well include freedom of movement for workers and therefore Poles

Love / DO RELIGIOUS POLISH GIRLS STILL EXIST IN THIS GENERATION [66]


Ah you mean in the same way that you pretend to know what you're talking about when discussing muslim integration despite never having lived amongst a muslim community in any significant number ? Or when you declare that the IRA were "Catholic terrorists" thereby drawing a parallel with Islamic terrorism.....still waiting for you to respond to that buddy :)

Love / DO RELIGIOUS POLISH GIRLS STILL EXIST IN THIS GENERATION [66]


Another example of "Harry-logic". Talk to a few people and then extrapolate so he becomes an expert on every church goer. Interesting that you are convinced I do not speak to Polish people. Taking cheap shots by firing random accusations eh Harry ?

Love / DO RELIGIOUS POLISH GIRLS STILL EXIST IN THIS GENERATION [66]


Not only that but Harry evidently has supernatural powers as he can read the minds of Polish church goers and know their real reasons for attending mass.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]


Depends how you look at it. I assume the 80% you are referring to is from the General Election. However, in the EU referendum 48% of people did not want to leave and the way the question was formed to the people even the 52% who did vote to leave didn't really know what exactly they were voting for.

Teresa May has interpreted the result her own way and that means a hard Brexit

Love / DO RELIGIOUS POLISH GIRLS STILL EXIST IN THIS GENERATION [66]


And how will you know that ? By asking a bunch of strangers (mostly men) on a Polish forum (many of whom don't live in Poland). Of course, you could ask every single Polish woman in Poland but of course we're not generalising

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]


That was just a soundbite from a leader determined to sound ............determined-nothing more. I think even as she was uttering the words "Brexit means Brexit" she didn't have crystal clear clarity on what form of Brexit we were pursuing. With the events over the last few days I think the UK has moved closed to a very open interpretation of what Brexit means and I'm still not entirely convinced it will ever actually happen