tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post9057798178971966752..comments2024-03-11T08:31:04.022-04:00Comments on Bieganski the Blog: The State-Mandated Sterilization of a Polish-American Teenage GirlD Goskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-819214450118509952012-06-20T19:05:01.564-04:002012-06-20T19:05:01.564-04:00The story of Janina Pacosz is truly heart-wrenchin...The story of Janina Pacosz is truly heart-wrenching. Period.<br /><br />On a different note, how much I would love to see the following short video (34 seconds) from 1940 as a Super Bowl commercial...<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UHchnOIa4c&feature=relmfu<br /><br /><br />These videos are not half bad either:<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO7xcdlGVY0&NR=1&feature=endscreen<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wZp9IIwiB0&feature=relmfu<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYCzDw3FFK8&NR=1&feature=endscreen<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub209FOYt4c&feature=endscreen&NR=1<br /><br />FollowerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-18078810479439591612012-06-18T11:02:46.482-04:002012-06-18T11:02:46.482-04:00What awful, AWFUL places those state institutions ...What awful, AWFUL places those state institutions were back then. When I was a student nurse, we were required to tour the remnants of our state hospital -- originally a place underground with dirt floors where "patients" were chained like animals, and later housed in colorless cells, victimized by cruel caretakers. I suspect sterilization back then was not done for any "eugenic" reason, but so the staff would not make babies with the patients.<br />As always, Pacosz documents her Aunt's existence through beautiful prose. And Danusha makes the valid point that -- regardless of political leaning or religious belief -- there is more than enough blame to go around for such injustices.Laurel Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00653916738652927923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-75517581367416145392012-06-18T08:45:44.741-04:002012-06-18T08:45:44.741-04:00I've known other real life histories like this...I've known other real life histories like this. This story is not wildly unusual. I've been told similar stories about young<br />women of working class origins who ended up destroyed by the legal and institutional agencies of the state they lived in. What happens is the relatives are too frightened to do anything or they work in collusion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-55688256554054908472012-06-17T13:01:32.514-04:002012-06-17T13:01:32.514-04:00A sad sad story and thanks to you Christina for te...A sad sad story and thanks to you Christina for telling it, and to Danusha for publishing it, on behalf of your aunt, who could not tell her own story, and on behalf of the many victims of those chilling Eugenics policies. <br /><br />What a pretty little toddler your aunt Janina was, Christina. <br /><br />I am sure she will wake up from the dreamless sleep of death when the time comes. Her Creator must long to see her again. <br /><br />"If an able-bodied man dies can he live again? All the days of my compulsory service I shall wait, Until my relief comes. You will call, and I myself shall answer you. For the work of your hands you will have a yearning." - Job 14:14,15<br /><br />Jehovah yearns to see your aunt again, for the time to come when He will call her out of death.<br /><br />But much as we long to see those we have lost in death, if God woke them up now, it would be into an earth more full of violence than the one they knew before. <br /><br />When your aunt opens her eyes again, it will be into the restored earthly Paradise - an earth more lovely and more full of joy then we can now imagine. Isn't this what we pray for when we say The Lord's Prayer, for God's will to be done on earth?<br /><br />Truly, we do not say that prayer in vain. <br /><br />Oh, and thanks for reminding me about "Maus" Danusha. I have always meant to write to a member of the Catholic hierarchy about that, given what Jesus has to say about the love and respect we owe to each other.<br /><br />I am wondering how they justify teaching it?<br /><br />Maybe I will find a moment...Sue Knight's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12597157298218651144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-55091412051304158022012-06-16T15:53:34.341-04:002012-06-16T15:53:34.341-04:00Margaret, thanks so much for weighing in.
Christ...Margaret, thanks so much for weighing in. <br /><br />Christina, "In unity is our strength." Amen. Thank you.D Goskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-63660520967442767222012-06-16T14:41:19.517-04:002012-06-16T14:41:19.517-04:00In unity is our strength it says on the cornerston...In unity is our strength it says on the cornerstone of the crumbling Dom Polski Hall on Detroit's West Side, which is the neighborhood I write about. <br /><br />There is too much to lose if we don't find our common ground as Poles and as human beings. Christina PacoszAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-8326670799133213032012-06-16T13:50:13.555-04:002012-06-16T13:50:13.555-04:00A heart wrenching story. She died far too young, ...A heart wrenching story. She died far too young, a victim of the eugenics program in the US. Something that should be better known.<br />On the second point, I would agree that the anti-Polish stereotype is not a religious or leftist issue. I am also non-religious, though of mixed religious heritage, and left of center in my politics. I oppose prejudice against any group.Margaret Wackernoreply@blogger.com