The Poles History Forgot – Literature In this article, I’ll go over some of the most well-known writers in the world that have some kind of genealogy that can be traced back to Poland. Want to see the first post in this series? Check it out here. First up … ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER At least…
Once in a while a very interesting phenomenon occurs in Poland. Let’s call it the Rob Gronkowski Effect. Someone with a last name ending in ‘ski’ will pop up on the world stage and the Polish media will go into a twitter. The genealogical libraries will be busted open, the parish books dusted off and…
A little over 10 years ago, 52,254 Australian residents declared they were born in Poland. Yup. 0.26% of the Australian population was born in the land of white and red. As of 2011, an extra 170,500 Australians say that they have a Polish parent and speak Polish at home. That’s just under a quarter of…
A lot of people seem to think that Europe ends at the Eastern border of Germany. Australians think Europe is the UK, Spain, France and Germany, the 3 countries up North, Pizza-land, Greece and then Russia. Even before knowing my girlfriend, I knew where Poland was. Granted, I had not much of an idea of its…