I wrote an earlier post about a noir I'm writing set in NYC in 1947. Today I'm looking for specific information for two of my characters, a brother and sister from Poland who flee to the US during WW II. While I've been able to find out a lot about the Polish communities in New York at the time, it's all been about immigration in the 1800/1900s, ( Read more... )

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Setting: Poland and Prague, circa 1938 ( Read more... )

Where/when: Warsaw, the late 2020s or early 2030s ( Read more... )

Place: Prague and eastern Poland
Time: 1937-38

Two characters are about to travel to a town that one of them chooses at random, by shutting his eyes and setting the point of his pen down on a map. I had hoped to make the town's name significant in a peculiar way: when written out in Hebrew, it reads Nun Gimel Hei Shin, NGHS. Because it's the ( Read more... )

Setting: Modern Poland ( Read more... )

Fairly simple question here, provided you either live in Poland, or know much about what's popular in Poland. I have a Polish family (middle-aged parents and two kids in their 20's) celebrating Christmas and basically I'm looking for some popular, modern Christmas music they'd listen to. For example, my Canadian family always puts on those great ( Read more... )

Hi, I have three questions that are not really related at all. Thanks ( Read more... )

This is a rather specific question that I'm not sure can be answered unless I'm extremely lucky. My question is: How long would it take to travel by train from Kovel', Ukrain to Lublin, Poland?
And along those lines, what do the interiors of trains look like?

EDIT: Thanks for the quick info.