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Perhaps you mean Borschtsch (German spelling, kind of soup), but AFAIK that's of Russian or Ukrainian origin, not Polish.Shas said:one more thing i like but can't spell: barscz (cz sz complicated spelling! barschtsch
Can't say I ever heard of that particular game. It's most probably not a commercial one, since it would be forbidden to distribute it in Germany (elements of offence being Volksverhetzung ~ incitement of the people).Kama said:Bossel, there is some guilt on the German's side. Lately, Germans made a game about IIWW where it was clearly said that Poland attacked Germany and started the war. And it went to the world as far as I know, that game I mean.
Kama said:Who drank ZUBROWKA? It's a vodka with grass. Once, i found there was a Japanese band calle like that.
I've been to Poland a couple of times. Our Scout district has been exchanging camps for several years now with a district by Krasnystaw. I have been to Cracow and Warsaw and visited the camps at Auschwitz. Climbed the Tatra mountains and swam in the Baltic. I can remember a lot on the news when Poland fianlly became a democratic country. The only problem I have with Polish is how to pronounce the language. I know a few words, especially how to order Piwo. I also got my taste for Vodka from my visits to Poland. I know that the Polish regard their vodka superior to Russian vodka. I like Bison vodka. I like the country. A lot of churches and some pipe their sunday services outside. Is this enough for general info? I could name names, but I have problems spelling Polish names, except Chopin. Great composer.
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Winston Churchill once said about the Polish 'There a few virtues that the Poles do not possess and few mistakes that they ever avoided'
I was in Poland too, I saw the same places that you. I was in Krakow exactly I saw the old town, Wieliczka Salt Mine and what more important I visited the Auschwitz Museum (I think the terrible place in the world). In future I want go to the Warsaw to Museum of the Warsaw Uprising (I heard it's very different museum with movies and some 3D special effects) Maybe someone of that was there? Can you tell me what is the best way to go there? I mean: airport transfer, accommodation, pick up to and from hotel, some tour services? Last year I used the Krakowdirect, maybe You know like website? thanks in advance |
I was in Poland too, I saw the same places that you. I was in Krakow exactly I saw the old town, Wieliczka Salt Mine and what more important I visited the Auschwitz Museum (I think the terrible place in the world). In future I want go to the Warsaw to Museum of the Warsaw Uprising (I heard it's very different museum with movies and some 3D special effects) Maybe someone of that was there? Can you tell me what is the best way to go there? I mean: airport transfer, accommodation, pick up to and from hotel, some tour services? thanks in advance |
We know a lot about Poland since Poland is part of Europe. Almost everyone knows Maria Curie, Shopen, Pope John and a lot of jokes about Poland. Myself I know many Polish ladies I met in New York. I wish somebody pay for me so I can visit the country since I am short of moneyI'm curious what do people know about Poland. Like facts/history/politics/famous places/famous people/customs etc.
Yes, it was partly Maciamo's post that inspired me to write this, but also some people on the other forum.
Sometiems I have a feeling that Japanese know more about Poland than Europeans.
when I think about Poland I remember the stories of the holocaust... I think I have Polish roots in me...
Yiddele Memory wrote: Visiting my first apartments in Warsaw (considering leaving antisemite Tsarfat)
I survived the Holocaust in a sub-cellar in Tarnopol (Ternopil), a city now located in western Ukraine that once had a thriving Jewish as well as Polish population.
Before coming to the U.S., I grew up after the war in France when philo-Semites like Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, as well as Pierre Mendès France, the country’s second Jewish prime minister, were luminaries.
Jewish origins have been an important part of that nation’s genius from Montaigne to composers as different as Giacomo Meyerbeer and Jacques Offenbach; to painter Camille Pissarro; to the inventor of sociology Emile Durkheim; to the writer Marcel Proust; to the philosopher Henri Bergson; to the actor Sarah Bernhardt; to the movie superstar Jean-Pierre Aumont; to the groundbreaking writer Georges Perec; to the multitalented Serge Gainsbourg … to mention only a few.
Today I am under the impression that France has forgotten about its Jewish cultural roots. The televised events from the streets of Paris and Marseilles fill me with sadness and consternation.
In the middle of July 2014, thousands of Muslims, along with anti-Semitic French Catholic demonstrators, walked through the center of Paris shouting “death to the Jews”. They burned cars, vandalized Jewish stores and, as reported by the press, a number of them, armed with knives, threw stones and bottles at the Isaac Abravanel Synagogue not far from the Bastille.
I read that the polls indicate that as many as 40 percent of French Jews hide Jewish symbols. It is not surprising, as so many incidents of anti-Semitism happen daily in France.
It is not better in other parts of Western Europe. A bomb was planted in the new synagogue in Wuppertal, Germany; swastikas were painted on stores in the Jewish quarter of Rome; Israeli soccer players were attacked in Austria. These are but a few examples of the daily realities faced by European Jews.
It is not just a one-time eruption of anti-Semitism by Muslim immigrants caused by the actions of Israel in the Gaza Strip. The hatred of Jews in Western Europe has been growing for many years. More and more, it is expressed by elites and the educated middle class. (...)
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