I listened to this podcast right after watching Francesca Albanese and the other guests on Piers Morgan, and it made her position even more appalling. How dare they accuse Isreael of genocide? What happened in Poland was genocide. They have no respect, no idea, no conscience. Thank you for this very moving podcast and, yes, you have definitely won and should be proud of it!
I am listening. I told my mother about this. We went to Poland in 2006 and went to Krakow too, and I also remember that weird feeling, being in the Jewish Quarter. At that point, it was just being restored, but it was very, very creepy.
And I think the problem with Poland is, yes, its Catholic citzens were victims of the Third Reich, for sure. But they also did a great job of getting rid of pretty much all the Jews who came back after the war. My grandfather got off the train in his hometown after the war, and barely stayed because other Jews who'd come back had been killed.
My aunt's former fiance, he was from Lodz, and his mother survived the ghetto and then Aushwitz. It's so very odd, because I think it was Rumkowski who headed the ghetto, and as horrible as what he did was, it did mean the ghetto was liquidated so late that a lot more people from Lodz survived.
About the cold. I went to McGill and when my mom visisted me in January, stupidly, she was like, 'I have not experienced cold like this since Poland." But she did have a good jacket this time.
I wanted to add, my mom grew up in Poland after the war, and peope were openly antisemtiic, and I remember she was surprised at how people were acting like it was no big deal that we were Jewish, and some excitement too, when we visited in 2006, which was the first time my mom and her sister had been back since they'd made aliyah in the 60s. But my mom went back a few years ago with a friend who was also from Poland. And now that there are a lot more Jews actually living in Poland, it's not as "oh, Jews, yay!"
I listened to this podcast right after watching Francesca Albanese and the other guests on Piers Morgan, and it made her position even more appalling. How dare they accuse Isreael of genocide? What happened in Poland was genocide. They have no respect, no idea, no conscience. Thank you for this very moving podcast and, yes, you have definitely won and should be proud of it!
I am listening. I told my mother about this. We went to Poland in 2006 and went to Krakow too, and I also remember that weird feeling, being in the Jewish Quarter. At that point, it was just being restored, but it was very, very creepy.
And I think the problem with Poland is, yes, its Catholic citzens were victims of the Third Reich, for sure. But they also did a great job of getting rid of pretty much all the Jews who came back after the war. My grandfather got off the train in his hometown after the war, and barely stayed because other Jews who'd come back had been killed.
My aunt's former fiance, he was from Lodz, and his mother survived the ghetto and then Aushwitz. It's so very odd, because I think it was Rumkowski who headed the ghetto, and as horrible as what he did was, it did mean the ghetto was liquidated so late that a lot more people from Lodz survived.
About the cold. I went to McGill and when my mom visisted me in January, stupidly, she was like, 'I have not experienced cold like this since Poland." But she did have a good jacket this time.
I wanted to add, my mom grew up in Poland after the war, and peope were openly antisemtiic, and I remember she was surprised at how people were acting like it was no big deal that we were Jewish, and some excitement too, when we visited in 2006, which was the first time my mom and her sister had been back since they'd made aliyah in the 60s. But my mom went back a few years ago with a friend who was also from Poland. And now that there are a lot more Jews actually living in Poland, it's not as "oh, Jews, yay!"