In Warsaw, you also remember that you are in a Communist-controlled country, though by all accounts the control is now humane and lenient, judged by what it was and what it is in other satellite...

a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.

It wasn’t my choice to write this story…it was my responsibility.

That was the fourth time he’s beat Poland this year and sometimes it’s hard to get up for that kind of a match.

Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.

I served the Poland that existed.

Komunizm był szary – truizm, który zatruł umysły. Więc gdy się bohatersko wyzwolilyśmy, pierwszym odruchem była wizyta w sklepie z farbami. I tak teraz wygląda moja ojczyzna: jakby małpa bawiła się pędzlem. Mnie jednak to...

I’ve often wondered why the Protestant Reformation took place in Germany, rather than in Poland. Then I realize that Luther had to nail his 95 theses to the church door, and the Poles didn’t know...

In the German tongue, in the Polish townScraped flat by the rollerOf wars, wars, wars …

Ah, my dear friend, cheer up… After all, we have peace! And because there is peace, the occupiers can’t behave so abominably anymore. All right, we’re not free. But we are used to that, Mr....

* *Do remember that dishonesty and cowardice always have to be paid for.*Don’t imagine that for years on end you can make yourself the boot-licking propagandist of the Soviet régime, or any other régime, and...

We belong to a nation, whose fate is to shoot at the enemy with diamonds.

I went to interview some of these early Jewish colonial zealots—written off in those days as mere ‘fringe’ elements—and found that they called themselves Gush Emunim or—it sounded just as bad in English—’The Bloc of...

A miracle occurred, two hundred pure souls, condemned to death, did not weep. Not one of them ran away. None tried to hide. Like stricken swallows they clung to their teacher and mentor, to their...

What people still do not like to admit is that there were two crimes in the form of one. Just as the destruction of Jewry was the necessary condition for the rise and expansion of...

There is one thing I like about the Poles—their language. Polish, when it is spoken by intelligent people, puts me in ecstasy. The sound of the language evokes strange images in which there is always...

And thus to my final and most melancholy point: a great number of Stalin’s enforcers and henchmen in Eastern Europe were Jews. And not just a great number, but a great proportion. The proportion was...

It was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films.

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest—fractionally more brave, one might say—about that ‘other’ cleansing of the regions and peoples that were ground to...

Mocniej przywarł do jej kolan – czuła przy sobie jego pierś,która opadała i wznosiła się w rytm przyspieszonego oddechu. A później jeszcze bardziej przybliżył się do jej twarzy. Jego oddech i usta spoczęły na mokrym...

An effort was made to spread this new materialist atheism with its Communist consequence “by the sword” (as the metaphor goes), that is, by the invasion of neighboring countries with consequent further massacres and the...

Ja nie mogę nic pani ofiarować. Nie mogę pani dać nic, prócz siebie. Nie zapewnię żadnych ziemskich dóbr, życia dostatniego, stabilnego czy bezpiecznego. Wiem, że nie jest to wymarzony moment na miłość. Jestem tylko biednym...

Everyone was always hungry. The poorer you were, the hungrier you were, and with the hunger came weakness and irritability. It became difficult to think clearly and you needed to think clearly to work out...

Nie, nie ludzie w naszym kraju nie mają umiejętności zrzeszania się i tworzenia wspólnoty, nawet pod sztandarem prawdziwka. To kraj neurotycznych indywidualistów, z których każdy, gdy tylko znajdzie się wśród innych, zaczyna ich pouczać, krytykować,...

The Jews are a peculiar people: Things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews.Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people, and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it. Poland and...