Re: How Could Szpielman Stay in Poland?

[Alex Lubet <lubet001...>]

At 06:52 AM 3/4/2003 -0800, you wrote:

>Shirona wrote:
>
>"I couldn't help wondering though - how could he stay in Poland =
>after the entire Jewish population was wiped out, and the Poles proved =
>themselves to be just as savage and eager to get rid of the Jews as the =
>Germans... Was he such a musical celebrity in Poland that being Jewish, =
>in his case, didn't matter?"
>
>Could it be that your idea of Poland and the Poles is in error?


I lived in Poland for a while and it was a complex place, just like 
anywhere else:  the good, the bad, the ugly.  Swastika graffiti but also 
some of my best friends in the world.  Under the communists, my friends 
described their lives as something like slavery and destitution.








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