Travel / Overland travel between Poland to Belarus. How easy? [4]

[Moved from]: How easy is it to cross the border to Belarus from Bialystok?

I'd like to go to visit Bialystok and then go onto Minsk across the border, can I get a visa at the border with a British passport?

Genealogy / How common is it for other people of Polish origin to discover they are actually Jewish? [127]

Her father used to beat her and his wife she hated her parents so she ran away at 15 and and wanted to erase every trace of Jewishness and at 18 changed her name and converted to Catholicism she never saw her parents again. I have checked the history of deed poll name changes in Warsaw for the 1933 and she is there.

I always knew she ran away from home and hated her parents but I never knew that she was Jewish up until recently.

Genealogy / How common is it for other people of Polish origin to discover they are actually Jewish? [127]

She changed it before the war,she didn't look very Jewish and started to wear a cross and she was never found out but her parents were not so lucky.

Genealogy / How common is it for other people of Polish origin to discover they are actually Jewish? [127]


She was a nurse in an military hospital in Warsaw from 1936-42'. They met at the hospital in 36' and got married soon after. He escaped via Romania in 39' and were reunited after the War.

Genealogy / How common is it for other people of Polish origin to discover they are actually Jewish? [127]

My Grandfather escaped and joined the RAF

Genealogy / How common is it for other people of Polish origin to discover they are actually Jewish? [127]

Yes she moved from Bialistok to Warsaw and changed her name then she married a Polish guy

Genealogy / How common is it for other people of Polish origin to discover they are actually Jewish? [127]

Jason Isaacs Famous English actor from Eastern European Jewish descent could easily pass for a native Pole

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Isaacs

Genealogy / How common is it for other people of Polish origin to discover they are actually Jewish? [127]

Not genetic tests, my maternal grandmother was lying about the fact she was Jewish, she changed her name, and only now Iv'e discovered documents that show that her parents were Jewish. being a Jew is determined through the descent of the mother, so technically I'm also Jewish.

Genealogy / How common is it for other people of Polish origin to discover they are actually Jewish? [127]

I'm not interested in discussing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict I'm just curious about intermarriage in Pre 1939 Poland.

It works both ways... can you always tell a Polish Jew from a Pole? Allot of them look Mediterranean, but some of them could pass native Poles, I'm sure there would have been some admixture throughout the centuries, I mean many Ashkenazi Eastern European Jews don't look Middle Eastern.

For instance:

Alicia Silverstone : /uk.askmen.com/celebs/women/actress/41_alicia_silverstone.html

Blue eyed Russian Jew Abramovich

Israeli Actor Itay Tiran:

Genealogy / How common is it for other people of Polish origin to discover they are actually Jewish? [127]

It's not just the name Kaplan, I have seen census records stating they were Jewish.

Genealogy / How common is it for other people of Polish origin to discover they are actually Jewish? [127]


It's the opposite of an anti-semite. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo-Semitism

I am ashamed of my grandparents generation's views on Jews, they never caused us any trouble and lived amongst us in peace for almost 1000 years. Many Poles really were really quite anti-semetic before the war with incidents such the Pinsk Pogrom of 1918 a stain on our history. Not to mention the Kielce Pogrom of 1946 which I believe Poland should officially apologise for.


It seems that you are the racist, implying that Jews run every country they have a large population in.

Genealogy / How common is it for other people of Polish origin to discover they are actually Jewish? [127]

I have always been a Philo-semite I think Poland would be a better place today if they were still all there.