Jewish Life in Modern-Day Poland | Journal Reporters
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- čas přidán 24. 08. 2012
- Markus Reichert meets with Polish Jews in Krakow and discovers a new sense of Jewish identity. Just an hour's drive from Auschwitz, more and more young Polish Jews are keen to discover their roots.
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I am from Israel. I respect and love the Poles and Czechs for treating our people well for many centuries. Anyone who calls Poland antisemitic is a liar.
ForeverRepublic Thank you for your kind words. I hope the world continues to get better.
You mean Palestine there is no Israel
@@hueyfreeman1983 lol, schedule a flight and come see then.
@@hueyfreeman1983
Nonsense 🙄
Don't be so obtuse.
Palestine is Israel @@hueyfreeman1983
Jestem Żydem i odrzucam antypolonizm (polonofobię). Kocham Polskę. Niemcy zabili nas w Polsce, nie Polaków. Wszędzie panuje antysemityzm, a historycznie znacznie gorzej w krajach bałtyckich, Rosji, Niemczech, na Ukrainie, w Rumunii itp. Polacy są niesprawiedliwie i niesprawiedliwie obwiniani za Holokaust. Użyłem tłumacza, więc przepraszam za błędy!
Mój dziadek był Żydem z Zabłudowa koło Białystocka. Kochał Polskę i Polaków.
Don't believe anything you hear in medias. Reality is different and tenfold more complicated than they show it.
May God bless those Poles and their descendants who saved their Jewish countrymen/women! I know that they risked their family's lives as well as their own. I would (with God's help) do my utmost to save a person who was in danger of bering killed.
Yeah right, you misled fool.
www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/02/poland-holocaust-death-camps/552455/
jasonfrancisco.net/report-from-gniewczyna
Fair play to You mate as I wouldn't. I hope I would have a courage to save someone in that situation but I would only risk my own life. Never my wife s or children.
@@andy86376
Well that's your problem then.🙄
Thank you Deutsche Welle, the voice of sanity and democracy in Europe today, and Shabbat Shalom.
Sometimes you can see crossed David star on the buildings walls but you have to know that it is because of "war" between two main Krakóws football fan groups- Wisła Kraków and Cracovia (whose logo is a David star)
It's just a hooligans brainlessness not an antisemitism.
If you prepare reportage you should check the informations.
Especially when you're a german "journalist" and you are speaking about Jews and Poland
***** what a moronic comment. Paving roads with headstones would never happen in a sovereign Poland. Why don't you just admit you hate Poland
+Nir Hakimian You are an idiot, Sir, making big assumptions on the few photos.
At first do you know what hypocrisy means? You literally said, that your interlocutors are lying to you. And as a prove you show those pictures. Do you really think everyone in Poland saw that site or have been visiting deep rural areas in search of jewish gravestones?
Secondly, you don't know the history of the gravestones from this gallery. You don't know who removed them from the graveyard (as it was said before: Germans were disassembling jewish graveyards to build infrastructure), how did they brake apart (many graveyards (of each religion ) were devastated during WWII military activities , and many graveyards were abandoned after war because local population had died or had been displaced).
And thirdly, there are no ties between using gravestones as building materials by peasants and antisemitism. After the WWII Poland was totally destroyed and basic materials were lacking everywhere especially in rural areas. So people were using any materials they found ,including bricks from collapsed churches, to (re)build their houses to survive the winter.
Talking about unproven "sins of ancestors" sound bigoted to me.
*****
Of course you don't care about my vision, *that's why* you were putting your assumption about it in last comment, haha.
I think you should consider to visit your mental care specialist.
Bye
*****
I think victimising yourself towards deluded enemies gives you an excuse to justify your hatred against others. Typical mechanism for every leftist punk. You can tell that your psychiatrist to help him in work.
08:10 in the video the graffiti says "jebacz zydow". That's pretty antisemitic.
Deportation of Polish Jews in end of 60's was NOT a decision of Polish politicians. There were orders from Soviet Union. There were lawyers, doctors, actors, singers, and many others among deported. People were crying when they were leaving Poland...
I used to live in USA and believe me antisemitism is also in your country. Compare to other European countries anti-Jewish sentiment in Poland is almost undetectable now.
"also"?
I'm a regular Pole and i have nothing against Jews. Once again- speak for youself.
And I Love Polish people Shalom from Israel.
@@beagleonvodka ♥️
Jews are always welcome in Poland! Cheers from Gdansk!!
Gdansk has the best Baltic beach looking forward!
Speak for yourself only
It is very gratifying to see that Jews--and those who didn't know they were Jews--are returning to their roots and taking pride in their heritage. .
Germany is trying so hard to put the blame for holocaust on their victims….
And many poles like you or Politicians like Duda or Kaczynski are still Stuck in 1945 und blame the Germans und Russians for their political Problems. No wonder, why many Poles are leaving the Country and moving to the West.
example?
@@TheKks143 you are very confused,….
My grandparents on Dad's side was Polish they lived in Pennsylvania. My grandma married a man that came from England. My grandma used to always make sure that I learned not to be ashamed of my family background.
I think tjb has a point. There is a clear difference between the mentality of the younger and older generations as well as between city and countryside. But this has more to do with the last 150 years of Polands extremely complex and difficult history rather than textbook anti-Semitism. However, calling a 1000 year old country a "slow child" is just insulting.
Deutsche Welle or DW is Germany's public international broadcaster. ---- Now, everything becomes clear.
The Deutsche part of the name didn't give it away?
As a Slavic Pole this makes me very happy. Jews are our fellow countrymen and brothers. They have made great contributions to Western civilisation and I hope you continue to thrive.
Thank you my friend I want to visit your beautiful country one day, I Love the Polish people!
@@beagleonvodka Thank you. God bless you
Very crappy document. It's true that between young and mainly uneducated football fans, the word 'Jew' is used as an insult, but as far as I know, that is used without a conscious antisemitic meaning. It's like a british word 'Gypo' or something like that. Should we say that britsh people are anti-gypsies just based on one word, or symbol that sometimes is found on particular wall? As far as I can see, Jews nowadays can practice their religion, faith, traditions in Poland without any fear. If there is fear, that is planted in their heads, rather than something that is real.
There are plenty of jews in Poland.
We had plenty of them for centuries.
Many of them changed surnames for polish surnames.
mp3hipnozy they probably married people with polish names too
sadly.
@@xafahxafah1476 what's so sad about it?
You don't undestand nothing about graffiti in Kraków! "KCS" and "Jude gang" are proudly names of "Cracovia" (one of the best football club) fanatics. Also star of David in the circle is proud symbol of Cracovia's fanatics! They are NOT fasists symbols!!! Remember that and stop telling nonsenses again nad again!!!
I've recently watched a documentary "Defamation" (2009), a very interesting thing, it shows those Jews I am talking about along with some normal Jews, the documentary was actually made by an Israeli Jew, I really recommend that film to everyone interested in the subject
Will watch. Thanks !
This is such a propaganda ... Graffiti everywhere Hahahahah lol o'm sure it took them like a week to find like 5 pieces of graffiti to show in this short documentary ! I lived in Krakow it's a lovelly clean town recentlly announced Europe's best travel city 2014 !
Thanks from an American of Polish descent
mrajczyk. Get out of U.S. Illegal Pollock. You lower IQ
Achemed Qureshi You’re right he should get out before his children or grandchildren are becoming Le 56% like you.
There is anti-semitic graffiti on every street corner.
@@MultiRingtail Prove it
I was born raised in christian lebanon (an orphan) up to the age of 12 yrs. Came to USA afterwards. Thankyou to whoever does this show. You are a courageous positive individual. Lov prayer respect democracy I support Israel Go netanyahu @MitchKazaka
By the way is that fotographer maybe Belarusian,Ruthenian or even Ukrainian because i did not heard exacly his name than why he did not took intersts in eastern Europeaan perspectives towards eastern and polish Jews.Maybe he did also took part in comenting the Ukrainian-Belarusian-Ruthenian-Jewish-Gypsie relations...
DW is for deutsche welle if i remember correctly. German's getting involved in Polish Jewish relation's.... :D yeah they'll tel you the truth ;D
Demokracja !!! my mamy prawo mowic o nich ,oni maja prawo mowic o nas .To co widzisz obecnie w Polsce nie zobaczysz w Niemczech
@@miriamzajfman4305 Polską rządzą Żydzi. Warto poczytać Mariana Miszalskiego, Henryka Pająka albo nawet redaktora Michalkiewicza.
DW is owned by the British
I would like to meet you, but I dont know if Im going to be where you live. I been in london in winter in the past, so I know that europe is a lot colder than Israel in the winter. by the way, how old are you? and where in poland do you live? do you have facebook or mail? I think that it will be a lot more comfortable to communicate there.not everyone has to read our messeges.
I'm sorry for germans. Greetings from Poland.
It's so sad when one is so afraid to affirm his/ her faith & identity 😭
Because of what happened...
But they did their best
Much appreciation ❤
Happy Remembrance Day
#270121
Edit: Thank You For This Amazing Video
Be proud of your heritage. It’s extremely ancient. Germans cannot be proud after what they did to the People of the Book. Too shameful. Poles suffered the most. Arise & be proud.
Markus Reichert, what were your grandfathers doing during WWII?
What were yours?
"Warsaw 1938 in Color Kolorowa Warszawa 1938 unikalny film!" and "Museum of the History of Polish Jews" my brother :) Greeting from Poland
Very interesting and informative video !
Jewish ! your are the part of Poland ! you are history of Poland ! your are welcome ;)
i'm polish catholic ;) Brother forever
Mapswez
Times r changing currently, Jesus Christ( in fact he just became a human in order to show the way to Godfather) was of the holy seed of David of the house of Juda BUT the problem is jews nowdays have nothing in common with ancient israelis, whether genetically nor by thier behaviour so stop pretending to be a good guy here, zionist jewish r not welcome, especially askhenazi.
Mapswez
Jews(religion group) first started to persecute Christians so your statement is fake.Jews don't believe in the same God as u don't take Jesus Christ as a promised Messiah. It would be better if all jews would stay in zionsit state Israel,also your asumption about our country being under communist and facist rule, well , we r not facists, communist or racist, we just want to save and secure and perserve our people in the shape it is now. Seems like your lovely leaders like Netanjahu have a lot of innocent lifes on his conscience.I saw many pics in which palestinian children were massared by having their heads crushed.U r hypocrites and whenever u go ,troubles appear. I have no desire to lead this conversation anymore.Bye.
Lech X j
Lech X I
amen
That kid Slawek (sp?) gives me so much hope. Heartwarming.
Hope?what hope you are talking about?
Wonderful video and subject; thank you for sharing!!
The kid's name seems to be: "Słąwek", a diminutive of "Sławomir". The name is old Slavic in origin and means: "peace loving" or "peace praisong" (slava/sława is a very generic root for a word). Not saying he's not Jewish, just that it's an odd name for z Jew.
Why odd? Countless Jews assumed Polish names, especially traditional Slavic ones. My jewish grandfather was Mieczyslaw, for example.
Btw Slavic names are the BEST :)
Don't forget Wladislaw Szpilman.
@@Meirstein Thats actually mix of Polish first name and German second name (i mean, hehe, it probably used to be "Spielmann").
Widząc taką koszerną PROPAGANDĘ to nie wiem, śmiać się, czy płakać?
bravo polish jews from america your polish and jews .dont forget that.
I am not against Europeans of Jewish ancestry. The problems these people have and why they seem to be despised in many countries by a large minority of their fellow countrymen is because they present themselves as being foreigners living in a foreign land rather than part of the mainstream populations of their birth countries and therefore alienate themselves from the majority of their own nationals. In other words if Jews are the water and the rest of the population are the oil, as we all know, oil and water does not mix. I believe that Jews who consider Israel as their homeland and prefer to be segregated from their Christian neighbours would be better off living in Israel, whereas they can be among people of their own culture without suspicion and without prejudice. It`s a simple as that.
You did enough to watch.
All right, I hope you're going to have a pleasant stay in Poland, good job you're traveling in the summer, summers are usually hot and sunny, you can even let me know when you've arrived, so we can meet and talk in person
Yeah but it's not that hot and sunny just a little bit in Poland
Widząc taką PROPAGANDĘ, to nie wiem, mam się śmiać, czy płakać?
Western Poland has way less of that anti-Semitic graffiti. For example in my birth town I honestly never notice it. As someone said, it is more about hooligans and has less to do with Jewish people and more with mindless football followers. I bet that 30-40% of polish people have some Jewish blood admixture. All continental Europe is like that and we even don't know it. But then again, Jews in Europe are not Semitic so much, they ethnicity comes from religion and tradition.
Also, I do NOT see any identity crisis! His roots are Jewish and he is simply trying to reconnect--because he is now "able to"--somewhat!
Those wraps are called Tefillin.
GOOD! Hopefully the stereotypes will be gone with time! :)
I am polish and I love Jewish culture and people!
And We Love You Poles too, Shalom from Israel.
I wonder if any of them speak Yiddish
Propably no
Only in self-defense. It was not meant as a threat. If, Heaven forbid, someone tried to attack you, I hope you'd fend him off. Try Krav Maga. It is a great self-defense martial art.
The stereotype is in YOUR head only! Nowhere is this stated! It's an attempt at revival is all! And, he is NOT pretending; he just IS! It's amazing how much is read into this--built maybe?
Oh, jak miło - zostawił Pan/i akurat te "najkoszerniejsze" zdania. Płaczę ze wzruszenia.
"when polish politicians stood up to hatered against Judes" this part is misleading.a bit. they were all communist.
Niemiecki nadawca....i wszystko jasne! )))))
i dont want to argue, just to talk. perhaps i can explain to you few things as a jew. by the way, im going to visit in poland this summer!
I think the problems you refer to "over the last few years" is a tendency not limited to Poland but all throughout the world. The re-emergence of nationalism. WW2's end only ended the war, not the reasons for it.
I'm so proud on my grand parents :) the were sure know polska. love from Israel..
exactly
As a Jew I could not live in Poland or Eastern Europe in general too many sad memories of my family who perished their.
where do you live ?
oh well.
Why so many dislikes
AM YISROEL CHAI!
A lot of Poles, today's Catholics, have Jewish roots. The War brought so much fear to people's lives, that they wouldn't reveal their Jewish roots even to their own children. Nowadays the Poles have less fears, they are more relaxed to talk about it.
No not me
I'm a Pole and I don't hate Jews, so there goes your theory. Anyways, I know some Americans who hate Jews, does that mean that America hates Jews? Please stop generalizing and write something intelligible.
I wish
So if they trade off their own security then they made bad business.
It's always easier to have one enemy to blame for everything, but it's also called: "lazy thinking"
One sane person!
No one said it was.
Why is he pretending, trying to play a role of a stereotypic "jew". WHY!? Nobody asked that of him!!!
On tu nie mowi nic nowego - jak cie widza tak cie pisza . W Niemczech nie zobaczysz zadnych graffiti
No Aryeh, I don't hate Jews, I just don't like ignorant and nasty people, and it just so happens some Jews, especially in the US fall in this category
I really understand that people that they were hiding there Jewish roots. About 2 years ago my Father told me that we have German ancestory , before that he was saying that we don't have any German roots even thought my Dad is Silesian. Since I was 15 years old I thought that I may have some German or Germamic Ancestory because I always look different than kids in my school and my mother side Family. I had issue because of that. In Poland still some people have nagative attitude when somebody say I have Jewish roots or German roots. I that's why many Jews or Germans don't speak loud about their ancestory.
Maciej Krypczyk You Name and surname is Polish
Unknown Girl
"Czyk" końcówka, oznacza syn.
Bednarczyk, Tomczyk itd.
Maciej Krypczyk What do you expect when the one was claiming territories and the other was pushing communism.
0:22
And one more thing. Do you know who saved those Jews-Holocaust survivors? Do you know what they were risking? Could you do that the same for your black or Latino friend?
The fact that this is 2012 and the fear is still so strong is both disturbing and frustrating.
Iwish Germans paid more attention to anti-Semitism in their own country 1st.Statistics show in Poland around1000such incidents per year.Germany that has roughly twice the population of Poland reported15000 simmilar incidents.so we can see the scale of such problem there.
consciousness
Mazel Tov
OK, I really don't have issues with most of the video, only at 9:10 "afro-americans" WTF? it says 'black' and this is not a slur, pretty much everyone agrees it's ok to say 'black' and if you want to be hyper-correct then say 'african' or idk 'afro-polish', afro-european' or whatever, fucking americanocentrism ...
1972 lublin
A wonderful story! There is a hope for the better, peaceful and non-racist world!
LOL! Yeah sure, race war is here dummy.
1:28 wait a minute, "murdered by the Nazis"? by GERMAN Nazis! but for deustche welle (German broadcaster) it`s an insignificant detail...
you represent typical example of siege mentality. What's that? Some time ago I watched interesting documentary about Israeli children upbringing.They are thought the whole world hate them and enemies are everywhere around. They have to be always prepared and ready to fight etc.I think you visited Poland with similar attitude/mentality and despite it doesn't necessarily fit Poland's picture imprinted in your brain you still trying to bring it up. btw. "Painted bird" isn't based on factual events.
thanks for the video
JUST wondering- why would god choose and FAVOR one race of people over another? doesn't god love everyone?
what makes jews the CHOSEN people?
sweet blessings
+Catherine H. Hello. your saying -Jewish people are the only people who are serious god worshippers?
I am jewish and i have one thing to say god loves everyone . When we reach to this point then won’t be a jew hate. I guess
let's respect all the religions, they're all assumptions for good
Better be drama!
Polish accents remind me of brüno
Cześć! Jak się maaaaasz? Hehe
Your entire answer shows that you just don't have too much upstairs! Sorry.
your wish
Tiens on parle pas de la communauté chrétienne en Israël.
You seem like a normal person, not somebody who is blinded by hate, and I am glad to learn that. As it's a refreshing thought, I suggest that maybe we leave it at that and not go into trading arguments. Regards
Afro-Americans? In Europe? -_- Is every African suddenly afro-american?
I HOPE NOT LOL!Not that African Americans are good or bad I dont know any, but as a Jew I know real Polish people and they are very warm and cheerful.I quiet like them.
are YOU grateful for the fact that you do not have polio because of Jewish doctors Like Salk and Sabin?
Anyone who devotes themselves to a religion based on mysticism is doing so believing that their faith is the one and 'true faith'. There simply is is no religion above truth, and objective truth can only be found through scientific methods.
Ta żałosna KOSZER propaganda, nie wiem, śmiać się, czy płakać?...
Ja tak mogę długo, panie adminie.
Poland will be the fist European country to revive its Jewish culture.
i was in poland :D
This seems very artificial. There's hardly any Jews in Poland.
its not a matter of quantity but rather "quality".
except the ruling class
20 thousand
@@FAILoZOFF and what "quality" exactly you are talking about????
@@janjay913 see #FranciszekDudnar 's reply ;]
Długo.... ha! rzecz względna, więc poprawiam: tak długo, dopóki PANA koledzy z bezpieki, czyli żydzi, do mnie nie zapukają o 4 rano.
Wszystkich nie wsadza wiec uszy do gory
Then just stay away from anyone who's religious.
Of course, that's going to eliminate over three-fourths of the world's population for you, but I'm sure you'll be fine.
ᴡᴏᴡ 375 ᴜɴʟɪᴋᴇ ᴀғᴛᴇʀ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴏʟᴏᴄᴏsᴛ ɪ ᴛʜɪɴᴋ ᴛʜᴇʏ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ᴜs . Jᴇᴡɪsʜ ᴄᴀɴᴛ ʟᴀᴇᴠᴇ ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ ᴛᴀʟᴜ ᴛᴏ ɪsʀᴀᴇʟ (:
Im a jew. first of all you look like a good guy to me and i apologize by the name of the entire jewish people about your bad feeling. i know that a lot of poles saved jews, but a lot of poles handed over jews to the germans as well. what lies for example jews tell about you?
I find it so silly people in civilised Europe are so small minded talkingvof religiös Division Of humsns. Für me AS a Hindu people Of other faiths religiös are not SN issue at all. All are the same for me and for Hindus like me. If some try To exploit my liberal attitude yes then i am enttäuscht . disappointed.
And for me, its high time for us to give up on the festival
Masz racje nie wiem co ci Zydzi robia w Polsce ❓🙄
lol...well done.