I was born there as a Taniewski. I felt robbed of my heritage, so I decided to change my name back to Tencer, as did my sister. Coincidentally, both of us moved to Warsaw for different reasons. On days like this is hard not to reminisce about all of the perseverance that enables me to be here.

It was suggested to my grandparents that they should leave Poland. Fortunately for my existence, my grandfather was both extremely stubborn and 100% Polish; he refused. They had to move to a small town in Central Pomerania. After Gomułka, things got better and they ended up in Gdańsk during the 80s.

It didn't help in 1968, when the antisemitic campaigns of Gomułka and Moczar swept through Poland. My grandfather, a card-carrying party member, was once again persecuted for his ethnicity. He lost his job and his academic career in medicine, exactly at the same time as my father was born.

Somehow, all of them survived the war and moved to Łódź and then to Szczecin. The family changed their name from Tencer to Taniewski, as many families of Polish Jews did at the time. There was no Jewish culture or practices maintained in the family. They were fully assimilated.

The uprising was a military disaster, with hundreds of thousands death and most of the city annihilated. But for him, it was the first time in years, a 13-year-old, when he could go to the streets of his city without an armband and persecution, something that he emphasised for the rest of his life.

My grandfather was a communist his whole life, he was definitely against many aspects of pre-war Poland politics and parts of the resistance movement that came from that, but in contrast to the PZPR official position, he was never critical about the decision to stage Warsaw Uprising.

The next thing that I was told about it is that, with the help of a Polish family friend who had contacts in the Home Army, all four of them managed to escape the Ghetto just weeks before the Ghetto Uprising started. Later, they hid in the city until the Warsaw Uprising started.

My family's story was always about five people - my grandfather, his sister, parents, and one of my great great grandmothers that died in the Ghetto of typhus. There have probably been more, and maybe I can find out about them, but I'm afraid of the sadness that might be the result of that inquiry.

My grandfather was 9 when the walls of the Ghetto were built around his home district of Wola. Later, my great-grandfather worked in the ghetto's hospital; I assume that it helped the family's survival quite a bit.

They most likely had a secular household, with Polish as a primary or only language (but my grandfather was in a private Jewish school, where Yiddish was taught before the war started). The only other thing I know is that my gradnfather loved to go to Saxon Gardens in Śródmieście with the family.

I know that this part of my family was quite well-off. Both of my great grandparents came from families having some stakes in Polish tanning industry. They were part of Warsaw inteligentsia, my great grandfather being a physician and my great grandmother a teacher.

I know only small bits and pieces about everything that happened up to the end of the war. My grandfather never liked to talk about it, and everyone respected his right not to relive all of the things that happened.

Today at noon, Warsaw's city sirens reminded everyone of the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. It's always hard to think about the horror of so many and, at the same time, feel extremely relieved that your family managed to survive.

I watched a bit and was astonished how authoritarian it felt. What do you mean I shouldn't be that bothered with killing of employees, who simply wanted to leave employment, because it's fine according to some internal rules? It's like Breaking Bad for people who want to root for Walter White

Yup, bardziej ciekawe jest pytanie o jego zaplecze. Voting record Tiszy w PE jest mocno na prawo w stosunku do innych partii w EPL, ale teraz zobaczymy czy coś się zmieni jak będą próbowali utrzymać bardzooo szeroki namiot wyborczy, przy potencjalnie innej sytuacji instytucjonalno-medialnej.

That's a major Kwaśniewski erasure:

- brought back the left in 1991;
- won the parliamentary election in 1993;
- was a crucial figure in the enactment of the Constitution;
- won the presidency twice;
- was extremely popular when he left office despite what happened to the SLD;

If they bought out a 2-bedroom apartment in a collective farming village, it might be worth around 200k; if they bought out a similar apartment in the central part of Warsaw, it might be worth up to 2 million.

It's amusing to see the approval for housing stock privatisation being cheered from the left, when your family's current wealth is very much influenced by the whole process.

Ach, ten czas przejazdu - 100% zgody. Teraz jedyna opcja nie-Pendolino jaką mógłbym mieć z czasem poniżej 2h30m to jeżeli Koleje Mazowieckie nagle by sobie wymyśliły, że jedna z ich wakacyjnych linii będzie przyśpieszona.

Leo ma już jakieś 15 lat doświadczenia w walce z praktykami PKP w kwestii dostępu do polskiego rynku, więc na szczęście powinni mieć lepszą perspektywę na przetrwanie.

Ech, tylko raz jechałem, ale to był jeden z najprzyjemniejszych przejazdów, jakie miałem na trasie Warszawa–Gdańsk. Można było zobaczyć fajne alternatywy do PKP w zakresie różnych rozwiązań obsługi klienta czy komfortu przejazdu.

Też znika mi przez to opcja na wygodniejszy przewóz kotek

The 2025 presidential election didn't help - probably one of the main reasons Nawrocki managed to consolidate the support from the right was his anti-Ukrainian refugee stance.

We want Russia to lose, but we're polarised on whether we want to help Ukrainians in most ways that are available to us.

The current government, firstly, tried to avoid the issue altogether (they focused on being seen as 'tough on immigration' on the Belarusian border and by reintroducing border controls with Germany) and then started to cave in by gradually passing legislation to cut aid for Ukrainian refugees.

Suddenly, all of it was attacked - the access to social services and healthcare, the right to work and establish a business, the easy access to child benefits. So, they shifted as well on much of what they actually accomplished in this area and moved they position closer to Konfederacja.

A bit like the Tories, PiS went into opposition and suddenly found itself fighting for survival against Konfederacja (and later, even more radical Braun's KPP). One of the main issues was the 2022-2023 legislation when they were governing, which provided substantial help for Ukrainians.

t started just couple of months of the full scale invasion, but then it was mostly condemned by most of the elites and media, but there was a gradual shift with the biggest change happening after 2023 election.

It's probably mostly the anti-immigration and anti-refugees sentiment just moving onto the general Ukraine sentiment.

It's quite underreported internationally, but the 'Ukrainian refugees are privileged', 'they are treated better in hospitals', 'they aren't thankful enough' got a lot of traction.

Najlepsze, że chodzi o 14 pociągów dziennie czyli mniej więcej tyle co przejeżdża przez ok. 3h na pobliskiej linii nr 9 (Gdańsk-Warszawa).

A co do odcięcia od miejscowości, to na maps'ach widać wieś z licznymi odnogami pełnymi luźno ułożonych gospodarstw, które ciągną się aż do następnych wsi

Byłaby szansa, że pierwszy raz w historii stenogramu obrad pojawi się okrzyk z balkonu: "jazda z wetami"

Ten statement byłby sporym zaskoczeniem w Finlandii i na Islandii (odpowiednio 4 i 3 premierki)