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Originally posted by Iron_Ranger:
It has a pretty cool language, and I hear there are losts of castles in Poland. And you have to admire the Warsaw Ghetto story.
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My girlfriend's grandfather was in the Warsaw Uprising which took place a few months after the Ghetto Uprising. Think about it: 200,000 dead in 2 months. The Russians camped on the west side of the river Vistula and waited and waited for the Nazis to use up their ammo before moving in to "liberate" the place.
Her grandfather was taken early on and sent to Auschwitz where he stayed for 9 months. He was young and not Jewish, though, so they didn't try and work him to death. I never met the man but Monika says he didn't talk much about it. No surprise, huh?
But just reading about Polish history makes me respect how much crap they've gone through.