Paula Burzyn, born Krymalowska, ?-?-1909 24-march-2004
By glazou on Wednesday 24 March 2004, 18:52 - General - Permalink
I remember your cakes, I remember Amélie-les-Bains, I remember Nice, I remember the Square du Temple, I remember my grand-father Mendel, I remember your sewing machine, I remember Shagall, I remember the Buttes-Chaumont, I remember that almost 70 years after you left Poland your remarkable polish was still better than your french, I remember how strong and courageous you were, I remember the Nazis and the Poles killed most of our family, I remember how many times you escaped the Nazis, I remember how happy you were during my wedding's fiesta, I remember how hard has been your life, I remember the photo cameras, I remember the wednesdays and saturdays.
Mamie, je me souviens.

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Sincères condoléances Daniel.
or maybe simply "Do widzenia babcia"...
[Note de Daniel] her mother tongue was not polish but yiddish[/Note de Daniel]
condolence Daniel.
Your words touches me since I'm Pole. I hope that never more such things will happen again.
P.S. But when I heard from my girlfriend's mother "after watching The Passion I hate Jews more than ever" I wasn't able to say the word... :(((((((
Toutes mes condoléances, Daniel.
my sincere condoléances.
Mes sincères condoléances.
Sincères condoléances. Je ne peux pas ne pas penser à mon grand père qui a le même âge et que j'ai encore la chance d'avoir pour trop peu de temps encore ; et que je ne peux pas voir aussi souvent que je le voudrais :'(
Gandalf: your comment left me a very bad taste, to tell the truth. So some people there learnt *nothing* at all after all these years ? After WWII, after the pogroms in Poland that occured *after* WWII, after fifty years of communism saying that all people are brothers, they are still there ? And these people want to join the European Union ?!? Take your girlfriend's mother for a tour to Treblinka, Sobibor or Oświęcim.
A large part of my family was killed by the Poles, not by the Germans. The village was 50% polish, 50% yiddish. After german invasion of the country, the village's Poles, armed with weapons and pitchforks, surrounded the synagogue and burned it. Killed all the people trying to escape. Ol'timers, women, children, babies. A few survivors only who were finally given to the Nazis and deported to death camps.
I am not saying that Poles were the only ones like that. Estonians, Lithuanians and more than others Ukrainians did their part too. But seeing that this still exists *exactly as it was 65 years ago* is totally shocking.
Mi sentido pesame.
Jerome.