tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post6229488532201768910..comments2024-03-11T08:31:04.022-04:00Comments on Bieganski the Blog: No. 4 Street of Our Lady: Watch Amazing Documentary of Hidden Courage D Goskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-16647488602472071632019-05-14T15:09:01.169-04:002019-05-14T15:09:01.169-04:00Visit the "Notes from Poland" Facebook p...Visit the "Notes from Poland" Facebook page. You will encounter plenty of Poles who think that being Polish is shameful and that their only hope is to belittle all rural or Catholic or patriotic Poles, thereby to elevate themselves. <br /><br /><br />Oikophobia, an ailment of highly developped,civilized nations. No worries, they are a Tiny minority in Poland and younger Poles are mainly proud of their identity.Hannanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-23071739811710527842019-05-14T15:06:19.591-04:002019-05-14T15:06:19.591-04:00To me a "great deal of murderous antisemitism... To me a "great deal of murderous antisemitism" looks bigger than this (killing commies who happen to be Jewish does not Fall into this category)Hannanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-47610440121695579912019-05-06T06:26:31.792-04:002019-05-06T06:26:31.792-04:00Please read academic book "Wielka Trwoga"...Please read academic book "Wielka Trwoga" https://www.znak.com.pl/ksiazka/wielka-trwoga-marcin-zaremba-3365Jerzy Pankiewicznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-10715993493213061792019-05-05T08:00:35.988-04:002019-05-05T08:00:35.988-04:00https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Jewish_violence...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Jewish_violence_in_Poland,_1944%E2%80%931946D Goskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-49196389751756554322019-05-05T07:54:48.359-04:002019-05-05T07:54:48.359-04:00"We were afraid that you endangered our lives..."We were afraid that you endangered our lives" is not the only reason Poles did not share about sheltering Jews. <br /><br />The war was over and the Nazis were defeated. <br /><br />There was a great deal of murderous anti-Semitism in Poland after the war. There were pogroms and individual murders of Jews returning from concentration camps. <br /><br />D Goskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-56066977110587917492019-05-05T07:29:47.077-04:002019-05-05T07:29:47.077-04:00"I know people caught by the Germans with the..."I know people caught by the Germans with the weapon in their hands who survived camps; I neither know nor have I ever heard about a man who survived after being caught for hiding a Jew. Moreover, a soldier of the Howe Army knew that, when caught, he had to prepare for tortures, maybe for his wife's arrest, finally for the execution; still, he could expect that his children will survive. The one who was hiding a Jew could hardly count on that." <br />Jan Józef LipskiŁukasz Klimeknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-27938754822463560392019-05-05T07:28:09.231-04:002019-05-05T07:28:09.231-04:00"Often it was difficult to admit to one's..."Often it was difficult to admit to one's neighbor that by sheltering a Jew one was risking one's neighbor's life without his knowledge; therefore, it was easier not to tell one's neighbor about the risk similar to a "time bomb" in form of a hidden Jew next door. For this reason many people did not celebrate the fact that the happy occasion that their hidden Jews have survived. The neighbors, who did not know about the presence of these Jews near them, would immediately realize that their life was put at risk without their knowledge or consent."<br />Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski Łukasz Klimeknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-23296870616355693722019-05-04T19:05:37.622-04:002019-05-04T19:05:37.622-04:00"Too many Poles punished other Poles who save..."Too many Poles punished other Poles who saved Jews."<br /><br />I have seen this written many times in other places and have always had a question about it. I don't suppose you have an idea about the relative size of this cohort?<br /><br />Chris HelinskyAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06570987335490313726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-48789007105325176512019-05-04T09:13:23.761-04:002019-05-04T09:13:23.761-04:00For a long time on this blog I was more lax about ...For a long time on this blog I was more lax about posting comments. My hope was that free speech would allow people who disagree to correct points of view with which they disagree. <br /><br />But people are lazy or cowardly or just mean spirited. and they would send me private posts excoriating me for allowing free speech on the blog. They lacked the courage or the gumption to contest the posts with which they disagreed. They wanted, rather, for me to prevent free speech. <br /><br />There's one kind of post that I am now deleting and not posting, because I've gotten really tired of arguing with the person who posts this same message again and again. <br /><br />"Jews are responsible for negative stereotypes of Poles." <br /><br />This statement is false. As I've said, and proven, many times. <br /><br />People of various ethnicities and religions, including Poles themselves, spread negative stereotypes of Poles. Visit the "Notes from Poland" Facebook page. You will encounter plenty of Poles who think that being Polish is shameful and that their only hope is to belittle all rural or Catholic or patriotic Poles, thereby to elevate themselves. <br /><br />Further, it's possibly true that Jews have done more to disseminate positive depictions of Poles than Polish Catholic Americans. <br /><br />The above post is a case in point. Haaretz tells this woman's story, and the man whose family she rescued took the time to make a documentary about her. <br /><br />Remember that next time anyone tries to post on this blog that all Jews and Jews only spread negative stereotypes of Poles. D Goskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.com