Jesse Eisenberg has applied for Polish citizenship

[just444]

Jesse Eisenberg Applies for Polish Citizenship: 'I Would Love to Create Better Relationships Between Jews and Polish People' https://t.co/irbSVBVOtN
- Variety (@Variety) May 26, 2024

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He has polish ancestry and is in the process of obtaining citizenship

“My family is from the southeast, from Krasnystaw, my wife’s [Anna Strout] family

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[lolzerz]

I went to Poland in april and I did not like it. I have in my camera roll a dozen photos of swastika graffiti. They also use the star of david as an insult in graffiti. My grandma was from Lodz and i went there to see my great grandmothers grave, which is in Europe's largest jewish cemetery. The cemetery is in ruins with zero maintenance.

Even in my tour to Auschwitz the polish guide kept separating nazis from the poles, saying they had no idea what was happening and if they did they would've stopped it. Which directly contradicts the stories from my polish grandparents who survived the holocaust. They said their neighbors and classmates would tell them if hitler didnt kill them, they would. Even once they were liberated they experienced violence and anti semitism from polish people, which is why they came to USA.

[ferelden]

Antisemitism in eastern/central Europe is still alive and well sadly. My family is from Ukraine and they left in the early 1900s because it was so bad. I don’t think any of my great grandparents ever went back because it was so terrible.

[dustbunnylife]

I have Ukrainian Jewish ancestry and thats when that part if my family left for America, and for the same reasons. They faced so much antisemitism even in the US that they stopped practicing the religion all together and didnt raise their kids in it.

[ferelden]

I am culturally Jewish, but wasn’t raised religious. Honestly that had way more to do with the fact that my mom is Catholic and neither parent wanted much to do with religion outside of the gift giving holidays lmao. But it always made me a little sad I never knew more about Judaism until I got a degree in religion. I’ve always loved Judaism, but religion isn’t for me at all.

[fernandocolunga]

Oh fck this shit - central and Eastern Europe? Fck this you forgot what’s been going on in the uk for instance? But yeah

[ferelden]

I genuinely have no idea what is happening in the UK in regards to antisemitism lately. I know more about Eastern Europe and Central Europe because I have a lot of Ukrainian and Polish gaming friends and we talk about it.

[fernandocolunga]

anti semitism is pretty rampant all over Europe feels kinda weird to single out eastern and Central Europe

[evilgerbil]

On my dad's side, half of the family are Polish Jews and half are Ukranian Jews. It's a little hard to tell by current boundaries. I'm pretty sure every city that they lived in was destroyed.

[nichtsmuss]

Galicia or Lodomeria? My Oma was an Austrian/German who's always said "It was Poland when I was born, and Ukraine when I left." Everyone she knew growing up died by the end of the war.

The 'town' she grew up in still exists, but really, it's a Cemetery on the side of the road full of people we're loosely related to.

[evilgerbil]

Galicia. Which was very confusing during my research because I only knew of that in terms of Spain. It was also confusing seeing the birthplace of various relatives change on the Census through the early 1900s due to wars in Europe. Poland, Lithuania, Russia... And of course names of cities changed, too. Some relatives listed their homes as Kyiv (Kiev) or Kovno (Kaunas) or Łódź but were actually from little shtetls near those cities. Everyone lived along the western edges of the Pale of Settlement. But no one talked about it once they got to the US and Canada.

[nichtsmuss]

Galicia as well for us, and you have to mention Austro-Hungary to get any useful information. They area she was from was named after her father or grandfather (her family... was not imaginative with names much), but the Ukrainian name is just a translation of the German place=name, so for us it's still... there, but not really a place anybody want to visit.

[goshipgurl]

The "we didn't know anything about it" excuse when it comes to concentration camps is widely used. I grew up near a city with a camp and so many elderly people claim that they didn't know anything about it back then. Which is obviously a lie because they all saw when Jews from their neighborhood were deported and never came back. People were employed there. It's just a way for them to cope with what happened, to avoid taking responsibility. There's a great German documentary called "the lie of the clueless Germans" that explores this topic.

[archersangel]

I read this book called Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film by Glenn Kurtz about a man trying to find the small, mostly Jewish town in Poland his Grandparents visited (one was from there) just before WW2, based on a few minutes of home movie footage. And after the Jewish people were moved out by the Nazis non-Jewish people took over their houses & businesses.
They kept telling each other, passing it to the later generations, that the Jewish people will come back to reclaim their homes and businesses. Even in the early 2000s when the author was writing the book, they fear this happening.

[steffi_333]

That all sucks so much :(

I went to Poland for a wedding (near Gdańsk) and I thought it was a visually gorgeous country and the people I met were lovely (admittedly I’m a white woman and passed as Polish - people even spoke at me in Polish assuming I was). So I didn’t see any of the racism you mention but I don’t doubt it exists, that’s horrible

Also I think their abortion laws are absolutely horrendous so it’s obviously got some insane issues going on as a country