Jews...and their Polish experience

Tell my wife’s grandmother that who was in Majdanek (lublin) for 2 years and stood in a queue every morning, and THEN the German guard would walk behind them counting and when he tapped on their shoulder, depending on his mood, if they were lucky they were shot and then burned. If they were unlucky they were drowned in the cesspit or hung and then burned some still alive. These were Polish and Jewish people; there was no distinction once you were in there. Don’t you dare have the balls to come in here and hide behind some stupid name, and try to change history as most of small-minded idiots do. Have you ever visited a death camp and walked into the gas chambers and seen the green stains of gas in the walls, have you ever seen the scratches of human fingernails on the walls? Well I have and I am thankful it is there, because it reminds me that never again will we accept pathetic minorities like you.

Uk...I can only but echo your sentiments......however as we have seen even in Europe in the last 10 years, the instinct to destroy/commit genocide on your enemies etc......is still very strong...

We have to be vigilant.

Too true

This is me probably...

Frank, obviously there was anti-semitism in Poland, just like there is anti-Polonism in Ireland now... It's not possible to avoid such feelings, when there is a large unassimilated minority in some country.

Hahah... :-) Yeah, those are definitly trustful sources of information.

I don't agree...............there is not a general feeling of ill will or a feeling of superiorty towards our migrant EU guests......nor will we legislate against them....nor deny them!!

Yes there are a**holes........as in ALL societies.........am sure there are few anti Irish people in Poland.........but not a campaign or laws against them.

Feel free to apologise G.........:)

You should see young Jews on March of Living in Auschwitz. I am talking about their behavior. Their grandparents have told them that in Poland everybody is anti-semitic. So they come to Poland and when nobody acts like anti-semite they provoke young Poles by calling names, so they can return home and confirm that in Poland jews eaters are still living. True story.

why would you think that? Do you really think that people think like you in Poland.
I have many friends and family neighbours and I have never heard such a thing.
Grzegorz, not everybody is against other nationalities and people who are different.
A lot of Poles /Irish are just too busy enjoying their life and working to waste their energy on such thinking:)
I hope you will find a wolrd a little more friendly one day:)

This is an "intresting" video.. should give us some insight lol.. For those who don't understand Polish, this particular man doesn't like Jews too much.

 

This is not a proof for anti-semitism in Poland. He is simply frustrated. In polish slang to call somebody “jewish” also means not trustworthy. But you know what? People talking on streets like this all around the world. Even in USA. Another true story.

Radia Maryja supporter written all over him!!!!

Is this acceptable? Pig also means an animal but you would get upset if I called you one

I didn't say it was, I just found this an intresting funny video. The view of one man cannot represent the one of a nation.

As far as the meaning of the word Jew (jew) I'm aware of it, but this particular man doesn't use it in that context.

Cheers.

Maybe. But I also know what Jews are talking about Palestinians and whole Arab world.

I don’t know abort genesis of this saying, but I think people have had their reasons to start talking like this.

Go figure lol

go figure indeed that Jews and Christians both subscribe to this book in there religions. The old testament of christians is the core basis of judaism.

So it can confound me sometimes to the divisions.

Come on... I wasn't saying about any general feelings... Simply there are many Poles in Ireland, so many more people don't like Poles than let's say 20 years ago when you could hardly find any in the whole country...

You "don't egislate against them" because you need them to do ****** jobs and because in 21th century that's rather impossible... In UK there's a party, which calls to kick Polish immigrants out (and in France a guy, who wanted to kick out all immigrants got into the final round of the presidential elections a few years ago) one serious economical crisis and they will get into the government.

What... ?

but not in Ireland, by and large the general public WELCOME them :)

But If they will make 10% of the whole population, won't assimilate for the next 100 years + serious economical problems the general attitude will change, no doubt about It...

Lets just say im not as pessimistic about it - I live here and see a different picture to you entirely, Back on topic Jews and their POLISH experiences

approximately what is the %population of Polish people who are jewish out of curiosity?

I don't know how much % has Jewish heritage, such as a Jewish surname. But as far as religion it's less than 0,3% of the population

cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/pl.html

It's used to be much more before 2nd WW, after that those who survived moved to Israel/USA

Thanks Sparrow, So i guess synagogues are not highly visable as catholic churches?
Here in Cork there is one small Jewish synagoge but you'd miss it if you blinked.

They are but mainly because of historic reasons. Since they were there before the 2nd WW, lots of them aren't used or stay empty. Some are really nice architectural pieces of art.

But Poland is so catholic.. it's hard not to see a church..

Also, some communities abroad, such as Jews tend to live in close knitted comunities so you might only see the synagogues in you venture in certain Jewish neighbourhoods. :)

Sparrow....could you remove the video...its an English speaking board.....90% don't understand him anyways.....and racist views are all too easy to find and denigrating to those people of that faith, ethnic background.

perhaps he could translate it - and if its on topic then... but other than that Frank is correct - it IS an engliish speaking board sparrow

Can you please make it topic friendly for all us non-polish who are interestin about the topic

Eeeeemmmm...no Daffy...ask him to take it down..am not interested in hearing any anti- Semitic/Polish/German/Irish/English video full stop.......its no doubt crude and offensive.

you might not be interested - you dont have to read - i am interested to hear both sides of this and understand how big of an issue it is or not at all

But I wrote what would happen IF...