[lbo-talk] Auschwitz/Oswiecim

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 11 08:58:36 PST 2005



> >
> > Some years ago we useds a Polish baby-shitting
> > service on the North Shore of
> > Chicago. One of the sitters, a lovely young woman
> > named Magda, introduced
> > herself, we asked where she was from. Poland, she
> > said. Yes, we asked, but
> > where in Poland. She stammered, blushed, looked
> > away, said, . . . Auschwitz.
> > Oh well, we said, can't help where you are from.
> She
> > was a wonderful sitter.
> > But she said Auschwitz, not Oswiecim. jks

Speaking of A/O, Viktor Yushchenko's father was in Auschwitz (the camp, I mean). He survived. This was downplayed during Yu's election campaign because he didn't want to alienate the Ukrainian nationalist/UNO vote.

Nu, zayats, pogodi!

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