This reminds me of my primary school years when the nun teaching me told my mother that I should not be praying in Polish at home. My mother told her off in...
Hello, There is, of course, a precedent to this. The migrant (actually immigrant) Ukranians who came to England after the last war, not only set up their own ...
The Polish Catholic Mission to England and Wales was established after the Second World War and in areas where we have already got Polish priests and Polish...
Hello, I can see no difference save for one. The UK is now almost completely "foreign" to almost everyone; including the English. Language is perhaps the ONLY...
All that stated, there are a few Polish catholic churches around, but until now, they have tended to cater for the increasingly small number of elderly Poles...
Well I can only say I really don't think any English people care - I don't see any real integration issues with Poles in the UK, barring speaking English as a...
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/3012_homeless.shtml There's also a similarly provocative article on the volumes of Poles taking up NHS resources with a picture...
It's almost laughable - if this were true, then there would be a lot of enormously fat Polish vagrants wandering the streets! Worrying to think that some...
Hello, Free speech will always be a blessing and a curse, as we all know, but at least, when things are aired, they can be debated. I've not actually come...
Mysterious death of Polish student in Yorkshire, UK http://www.polskieradio.pl/thenews/human-interest/?id=72116 The body of Tomasz M., a 23-year old Pole who...
A new home http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/home/chi- mxa1223homejoycoverdec23,1,6042264.story?ctrack=1&cset=true Darek and Ela Ilba and their friends,...
Bridging Polish language divide http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/7153526.stm A woman who cannot understand her water bill, parents with a...
Trio's Polish delis taste success http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/7162691.stm Three Poles who were inspired by fellow migrants to open a delicatessen are...
Poles should not establish Polish church in UK, says Archbishop http://www.polskieradio.pl/zagranica/news/artykul72670.html Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal...
National Portrait Gallery Marks Birth of Joseph Conrad http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=22822 To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of...
Dear Group, I have been unable to find an e-mail address to complain about this insult. Emma Johnson (0151 472 2438) is the features editor and therefore I...
((Thanks to Andrzej Tutkaj for phoning to alert me to this one. Remember it was only last September the Daily Mirror used Polish Concentration Camp in an...
I am trying to translate my grandfather's war records to find out more about my family history. It is proving very difficult as I speak no Polish and am only...
Hello, Such is my ignorance, I wouldn't know whether this article, or the other one to which our attention was drawn, constitutes crap or not. Could you...
... The issue here is that this article is calling the death camp Polish. In fact, such camps were conceived, designed, built and run under the control of...
For your information: Hate-Crimes against Poles in UK in 2007 Although police forces and community leaders are referring to an increase in hate crimes in the...
Colin, I applaud your honesty here. Clearly you are not alone in missing this critical point as there have been several jounalistic inaccuracies that have been...
Right on ! I will be sending my email as usual. ... From: edzietarski <edzietarski@...> To: polesingreatbritain@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January...
Hello, Aha! Now I understand. I can obviously see the point being made, but I suspect that a distinction is being made which perhaps does not carry quite the...
Hello, Thanks Marek! I may be a bit dim, but I'm not quite that dim. ... Please refer to my reply to Jan's post, which I think explains the different...
Colin, A number of points to consider. Unfortunately I do not think everyone is aware what happened in WW2, maybe in particular the younger generation(s)....
Hello, I'm sure you are right in detail, but perhaps the overall nature of the holocaust exhibition will set that right in context. My main concern was the use...
