tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post9010707217441883799..comments2024-03-11T08:31:04.022-04:00Comments on Bieganski the Blog: Polish Scum RespondsD Goskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-63999864163765094162013-11-01T11:28:20.472-04:002013-11-01T11:28:20.472-04:00Eyton, I wish you had found this blog before, when...Eyton, I wish you had found this blog before, when I was still active. I retired from Polish Jewish matters when I realized that Polonia had virtually no interest in my work and there was zero hope of any forward movement on any of these matters. D Goskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-5504513234631849342013-10-31T01:54:04.517-04:002013-10-31T01:54:04.517-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.eyton shalomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18097341997357527673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-59097305393193261532011-03-01T11:36:24.133-05:002011-03-01T11:36:24.133-05:00Thank you John. I have also written. Let us hope.Thank you John. I have also written. Let us hope.D Goskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-89492338368493656532011-03-01T11:27:09.583-05:002011-03-01T11:27:09.583-05:00I wrote to the museum asking that the statement be...I wrote to the museum asking that the statement be withdrawn.John Guzlowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13052735138993479204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-79157613881238211342011-03-01T07:19:43.734-05:002011-03-01T07:19:43.734-05:00Peter Rechniewski, thank you very much for reading...Peter Rechniewski, thank you very much for reading and responding. I really appreciate it.<br /><br />If you do email the museum, could you please post an update here? I would greatly appreciate it. <br /><br />FWIW, Rabbi Polak did respond to my email alerting him to my blog post on this matter. He said he is very busy right now and will offer a longer response later when he has more time.<br /><br />He's always been very courteous in his emails to me, so I have nothing against him personally. It's the essay I find objectionable, for the reasons mentioned.D Goskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-80464812170980391802011-02-28T23:06:16.245-05:002011-02-28T23:06:16.245-05:00I would email the Museum itself and complain. That...I would email the Museum itself and complain. That is what I intend to do in the most strongest terms. To give them the benefit of the doubt at this stage, it may be that there is simply no-one there with native competence of English who saw this article for what it was. Let's hope so and let's hope that with enough complaints they will take it down. <br /><br />The Museum should (amongst other things), be there to foster tolerance and work towards bringing Poles and Jews together but the tone, structure and substance of Polak's article are intended to do the very opposite. His agenda and sense of self-importance are clear<br /><br />If the Museum doesn't eventually take this article down my very modest, intended gift to it of 5,000 zl will never be made.Peter Rechniewskinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-21188110208251378432011-02-27T20:21:07.961-05:002011-02-27T20:21:07.961-05:00William H. Szych, I am very grateful for your open...William H. Szych, I am very grateful for your openess. <br /><br />In the past four months alone, I've had two students, both under age 23, tell me that they are of Polish origin but that they have changed their names to disguise that, and that they did not want me to mention their ancestry to anyone.D Goskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-72990793865381103462011-02-27T20:17:08.645-05:002011-02-27T20:17:08.645-05:00Out for a walk today, I met an older lady with a R...Out for a walk today, I met an older lady with a Red Sox hat and I always engage fellow fans when I see the hat in Virginia. We had a nice discussion and I told her I was currently very involved in researching my Polish heritage....and this is what she said...Oh you mean Polish Jokes? She seemed like such an intelligent woman up to that point.<br /><br />About three years ago I mentioned to a colleague at work that I of Polish hertitage on both sides of my heritage. He said: I wouldn't go around repeating that. <br /><br />Like you, I have met too many people are either completely ignorant of the what happened to Poland in WWII or they have bought into the idea that Poland somehow contributed to the Jewish holocaust, or the only thing they know about Poland is Polish jokes.William H. Szychnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-9622117684184510542011-02-27T13:54:51.946-05:002011-02-27T13:54:51.946-05:00How reliable is the Rabbi's memory? How relia...How reliable is the Rabbi's memory? How reliable is his command of the English language?<br />He was 3 years old when liberated, and cannot remember the faces of his adoptive family. He was never incarcerated in Poland.<br /><br />"•Two weeks before liberation the Nazis decided to send a section of the camp toward Poland. Joseph and his parents were among those who were loaded on three trains for this journey. The trains started out with 2500 people. They were intercepted by the Soviet Army and liberated by Marshall Zhukov. At that point there 1900 people still alive. Joseph’s father died at this time and his mother was given up for dead.<br /> <br />•Joseph was taken back to Holland and adopted by a Jewish family. He has no recollection of the faces of the members of that family."<br /><br />http://namesnotnumbers.org/student_research_Rabbi_Joseph_Polak.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-71484353291580297102011-02-27T13:54:03.431-05:002011-02-27T13:54:03.431-05:00How reliable is the Rabbi's memory? How relia...How reliable is the Rabbi's memory? How reliable is his command of the English language?<br />He was 3 years old when liberated, and cannot remember the faces of his adoptive family. He was never incarcerated in Poland.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com