Today started very slowly and painfully due to full and enthusiastic participation in vodka bottle passing tradition at the harvest …
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My Trip to Poland with Zen: Day 5 – August 30, 2015.
Today is Sunday so it was obviously a good day day to visit the church in Debowiec where Wojciech …
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Today was about two things primarily: (1) A return to the Debowiec Parish office to further explore my Lesniak …
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Today was much more low-key than the excitement that was an explosion of new knowledge regarding the Michnal side …
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My sleep timing is out of sorts and I woke up at 4am. I watched the sun rise from …
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I booked the trip through PolishOrigins.com, a company that specializes in heritage-type trips for people who are exploring their Polish heritage and are researching …
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NB: This was originally written in a series of emails to my family. On Zen’s suggestion, I have compiled …
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My father, Pawel Ryszard Kirchhoff was forced to leave Swarzedz (Poznan) after Germany invade Poland in 1939. The only …
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For Poland, the 19th century was an age of partitions. In 1795, Poland disappeared from the map of the world …
Continue readingChristmas Eve – Wigilia
“What has become a habit let it remain a habit, and this, what was, what we heard from our fathers, …
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