Racism in poland - the future

there were plenty of poles killing jews to save themselves and their own families.. don't you all fool yourselves. not all things were all that peachy.

Michal the poles are your brothers as well we all came from our father Abraham.

I'm sure there were plenty of those. The issue though is the definition of plenty. To some 2 is plenty and two too many. To others "plenty" carries a connotation of majority. That of course was not the case in Poland. As it was not the case in Hungary where about 1/2 million Jews were sacrificed to save only 1000 rich and influential Jews. Is then 1000 out of 500,000 plenty?

Put this into perspective. People of every country occupied in the war carried out acts to save their and their families lives. Self preservation is a stong instinct. We all like to think that we would act in a noble and righteous way. Pray that we never have to find out how we would react.

i sure won't even try to fool myself.. war is war and life is a b..

If the future mirrors the past then we all end up being ourselves forever.

To awake as a child on a new day with the expectation of something never yet seen nor yet expected to see the raidiance in that childs eyes, we must forget the past and move to this future ourselves.

Good point and I came its iteration (but don't remember the source):

history teaches us that history teaches us nothing.

Even the teachers learned from their own pupils that is how they could understand the meaning of teaching and learning. For if none of us grows and follows even the example of the lowly mushroom living in the wood first without the light and then becoming such a sweet delight. We cannot lift our hearts to fulness to the flavour of true goodness.

only when he lets her out the house:)

timar good i understand. I am not putting energy into hating poles I loves Poles will never hate them. i just only know what I was toght.and what I heard.
I bought 2 books and ww2 yesturday.I have nothing against Poland just the poles that are antisemetic and that wanted the jews dead.. I just hope there is not a lot of antisemitism in poland now. I am trying to learn polish

you are right plk life can be a real b

greg you are right that is the most popular subject talked here in the USA about Poland and its history. is ww2. crazy isn,t this

@AmirahJanowitz

if you want to learn abot "antisemitism" in Poland, then you may start gently here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Kalisz

The try the ones below:

amazon.com/Zegota-Irene-Tomaszewski/dp/1896881157/ref=sr_1_ 2/105-1386016-2284430?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192735520&sr=1-2

amazon.com/Karski-How-Tried-Stop-Holocaust/dp/0471145734/re f=pd_bbs_sr_2/105-1386016-2284430?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192735400&sr=1- 2

amazon.com/Question-Honor-Kosciuszko-Squadron-Forgotten/dp/ 037572625X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-1386016-2284430?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=119 2735435&sr=1-1

btw. what is your native language?

is he a female impersonator

If you can read my previous post, you'll see that I'm in the NY area. I was raised in an all Jewish town and have Jewish family members. You don't know me. You're the one who's a fake. Why don't you bow your head in shame and go away now?

Niełaska

As a younger generation of Poles, we do not have problems with Jews or other nationalities. We did not live through the war and had not have negative contacts with the Jews.
It is the older generations who still remember the hardships of war and how people were seperated according to race. Nowadays we could care less if someone's Jewish or not.
It is the Jews that bring forth their attention.

Hey Amirah. Please tell your husband to stop calling me and I don't want any of your eggs either. This is too freaky weird!!

Please all of you stop this nonsence behave as if you did have some polish blood in you if that is what it takes to wake you up. and those who do not remember God sees into every heart.

AmirahJanowitz say hallo to everyone in your house and wish them all well.

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Racism in Poland.

I am a indian male I was thinking of going to poland for hoilday. My polish friend has told me that most polish people dont like black or dark skin people. This has put me off going. Why do you think most polish people dont like colour people in poland?

Yawn...

Ditto.........G...were you and I separated at birth.....or.....

A lot of Polish people are racist. The good news is that racism of the kind which is more unpleasant than just being stared at gets more and more common as the towns get more and more unpleasant in general. For example, Slupsk has a serious problem with racism (as I know from personal experience) but the town is such a ******** that you wouldn't want to go anywhere near it anyway!