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kaprys   
23 Jul 2017
Genealogy / Luzka, Dolnogo, Poland - Help with Polish Geography? [2]

I think it comes from '(z) Luzka Dolnego' which literally means 'from Luzek Dolny' - now a village in Ukraine. Historically it was inhabited by a lot of people of Polish origin. It is close to Drohobych and 'from Drohobych' would be 'z Drohobycza' so the names might have been mispelt.

pl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolny_%C5%81u%C5%BCek -there's an English version of this Wiki page, too, although there is not much information given either in English or Polish.
kaprys   
23 Jul 2017
News / 2ND MIRACLE OF THE VISTULA: youth mysteriously appear out of nowhere! [231]

As much as you may like foreign judical systems, this is Poland and we have every right to accept the system as it is now. Or dislike the reforms. And believe it or not, just because someone has a different opinion than you doesn't mean they have been paid to oppose the changes. You write that there is a surprisingly high number of young protesters. Just yesterday one of PiS senators called them 'ubeckie wdowy'. I just don't get one thing-so many PiS followers can't understand that an average citizen may have a different opinion. I'm in my thirties and I can't recall any other government that would refer to people of other views as traitors. If you don't agree with them - no matter whether it's about the judical system, the educational reform or the Bialowieza Forest - you're a traitor/commie.

It's 2017 and Poles have had an opportunity to express their beliefs for almost thirty years. Deal with it. We know our rights and we want to keep them. We still have a right to express our views.

I don't agree with the proposed changes. The proposed bill has some mistakes. Even Duda noticed that.
kaprys   
23 Jul 2017
News / 2ND MIRACLE OF THE VISTULA: youth mysteriously appear out of nowhere! [231]

@mafketis we're no longer PRL and it seems too many MPs are too fond of the 'old way'
@gumishu Is Kopacz a role model for you?

People still have a right to disagree with the government. I can just hope they won't try to follow the PRL way of dealing with the opposition.
kaprys   
23 Jul 2017
News / 2ND MIRACLE OF THE VISTULA: youth mysteriously appear out of nowhere! [231]

@gumishu
The problem is that you see the protesters as people who want to lead to a civil war. Is the society divided? Yes, it is. It has always been. There have always been protests against parties in charge. Nothing new here. But I can't remember other governments bringing water cannons to the protests. I don't recall politicians of former governments threatening the opposition with prison. Not after 1989. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Or the absurd situation when one of prominent PiS politicians is a former communist prosecutor. His fellow MPs see nothing wrong here. Just as they see nothing wrong about former Solidarity activists treated as enemies of the state.
kaprys   
23 Jul 2017
News / 2ND MIRACLE OF THE VISTULA: youth mysteriously appear out of nowhere! [231]

The rubber bullets were used against people storming the building.
Sadly, recently Independence Day has been 'celebrated' by demolishing the capital.
As for the police, do you seriously believe they are totally new people. Not the same as two years ago? Whether it's PO or PiS in power they need to protect themselves from pavement bricks thrown at them.

And I guess further discussion is simply pointless as the major argument here is 'bo za PO'.
I disapprove of both PO and PiS.
I have had enough of people spitting their venom at others.
kaprys   
24 Jul 2017
News / 2ND MIRACLE OF THE VISTULA: youth mysteriously appear out of nowhere! [231]

I have just listened to the President's announcement in which he stated he is going to veto both bills.
In the speech he mentioned that he had talked to professor Zofia Romaszewska. The distinguished professor told him that she had already lived in a state in which Prokurator Generalny had all the power and that is not the way it should be.

He critcised policticians of both the leading party and the opposition for making the citizens live in fear. That's how I feel. I live here and I still believe I can make my own conscious opinions about what is happening in Poland regardless of what political party is in the government.

@Polonius I'm not your kaprysik. Stop patronising people just because they don't follow your opinions. I'm not a commie or a fool.

@gumishu You keep talking about prowokacje policji. The police forces consist of the same guys as two years ago. They need to follow the orders. If there is a riot, they need to react. If someone is throwing bricks at them, should they just wait? I guess it's a matter of perspective in your case. If it's people you agree with that attack the police, you think it's prowokacja policji. If it's the opposition, you believe it's the police taking the right measures. Just like with elections in Poland, whenever PiS lost they kept screaming about 'sfalszowane wybory'. But when they won, everything was fine ...

To sum up, I'm far from loving PiS. I strongly believe PO won the elections just because too many people chose the lesser evil on two occasions and failed in the end as people realised they hadn't done much and just kept threatening with PiS.

I have a right to make my own decisions and doubt what political parties do no matter what fraction they are. I still do. I can only hope the President will keep vetoing any bills that try to take our freedoms.
kaprys   
29 Jul 2017
Po polsku / Dlaczego uczysz się Polskiego? [101]

Do tej pory w nauczaniu języków obcych stosuje się elementy metody gramatyczno-tlumaczeniowej. Dobrym rozwiązaniem jest mieszanie kilku metod. Każdy uczeń jest inny. Nie ma uniwersalnego podejścia.
kaprys   
29 Jul 2017
History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [582]

@Lyzko
Can you elaborate on what you wrote? In what way was Poland responsible for the Holocaust?
I do realise there were Polish anti-semites during the war. Just like today. But antisemitism is not unique for Poland only. It exists everywhere.
Just like anti-Polish sentiments.
I suggest watching an interview with Władysław Szpilman - the man whose life was the basis for 'The Pianist'. It's entitled 'Własnymi słowami' and you can find it on YouTube. A real story of a Polish Jew who survived the war.
kaprys   
29 Jul 2017
History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [582]

Over a quarter of all Righteous among the Nations are Poles. Even though Poland was the only country where helping Jews was punished by death. One of the most notorious cases was what happened to the Ulma family.

etnhnic Poles were also victims of the war -imprisoned in labour camps, Nazi and Soviet concentration camps, shot dead in the battle or in the street. Not to mention what happened after the war.
kaprys   
29 Jul 2017
History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [301]

Is Poland to be blamed for being invaded by Nazi Germany and the USSR?
Lyzko, what are your family's experiences during the war that make you state such things? Did your family live here then?
kaprys   
29 Jul 2017
History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [582]

You see, I come from a town that was half Jewish before the war. The synagogue was about 200 metres from the Catholic church. When Germans put the synagogue on fire and started shooting at Jews, they were offered shelter and first aid by the priest and nuns from the church. A nun-nurse from the local hospital was sent to Ravensbruck when it was found out she had helped two doctors in providing false identities and treatment to Jewish patients against the Nazi order.

Oh, those Polish catholics ...
kaprys   
29 Jul 2017
History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [301]

@Lyzko
I'm sorry but your Polish is far less fluent than anybody's English here. I refrained myself from making any comments about mistakes you make in Polish so why don't you do the same?

Patronising people is not an argument in a discussion.
kaprys   
29 Jul 2017
History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [582]

@Lyzko
The Polish Catholic clergy were also prosecuted by the Nazis and imprisoned in concentration camps.
Jewish children were given shelter and false identities in Catholic orphanages.
Pope John Paul II had lots of friends of Jewish origin. How come if he grew in the society and religiion you claim to be so anti Jewish?
kaprys   
30 Jul 2017
Work / Opening a kindergarten / daycare business in Poland [12]

As for EU funding, you need to check at the local job centre (urząd pracy) if there are any grants available and what the conditions are.

As for competition, it also depends on the location.If you're thinking about this school year, it's the first year of the new educational reform and even schools offer daycare and classes for kids as young as 4-year-olds so that teachers won't lose jobs.

Starting a business in Poland is said to be easier than it used to be but it still requires lots of paperwork and coping with ZUS. Private kindergartents are not uncommon in Poland, though, so I guess the idea may work out and your wife should be able to find some useful information online from people who have experience in it. Just do a little research first.
kaprys   
30 Jul 2017
History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [582]

The thing is that I do understand what you're posting and I disagree with you - about your claims about Poland's responsibilty for the Holocaust - that's what made me start this obviously pointless discussion with you.

Or what you have just written: 'for every "good" Catholic Pole there were plenty out there willing to turn in their Jewish neighbour'.
You see, you're so biased that even when you write about Poles who risked or sacrificed their lives for their Jewish neighbours, you put the word 'good' in inverted commas. Not to mention, the way you compare the numbers: one "good" Pole vs plenty bad ones. Any sources or just your prejudice again?

I'm afraid you are as biased towards Poles as anti-semites are biased against Jews. It's hatred both ways.
Honestly speaking, I'm tired and disgusted by the amount of hatred in these two treads. If that's how you want to feel about people, it's your choice.

Have a good life.
kaprys   
31 Jul 2017
History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [582]

I quoted what I found disturbing about your posts. You can read it above in both mine and your post. Read them again. Perhaps, after all, it's you who can't understand.

I remember your post about Socha and Karski. But I also remember those about Poland's responsibility in the Holocaust and about "good" Poles (these inverted commas ...)

Just to get it straight, so that you could understand: Poland is not responsible for the Holocaust.
kaprys   
31 Jul 2017
History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [582]

Any difference in numbers concerning Jewish population in both groups? It just keeps me wondering why there were so many Polish Jews if Poland was such a terribly anti-semitic country. Care to explain?

Any difference in the rage with which they were invaded?
Any agents form the latter group who volunteered into Auschwitz to gather intelligence which was then totally ignored by the Allies?
kaprys   
31 Jul 2017
History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [582]

As I have already pointed out, I'm not denying anti-semitism in Poland. But it exists everywhere. Even among Jews.
Gross - a son of an ethnic Pole and a Polish Jew. Yet another example of how anti-semitic Poles are. I mean, if you can't hurt Jew in any other way, just marry one ... pff

So care to explain why there were so many Jews in Poland despite its anti-semitism?
kaprys   
31 Jul 2017
History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [582]

Lyzko seems to be nicer in PMs.
I told him about my grandparents' war experiences -all of them forced labourers. Now I wish I hadn't. Waste of time.

I'm sorry for your family, dolnoslask. From what I have read it was hell on earth.