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Post by Jaga on Jan 11, 2006 20:36:13 GMT -7
Now, the question is for everybody - Polish and non-Polish people.
The current president of which country was born in Skierbieszowin Poland?
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Pawian
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Post by Pawian on Jan 12, 2006 1:08:06 GMT -7
Now, the question is for everybody - Polish and non-Polish people. The current president of which country was born in Skierbieszowin Poland? A lot of Israel politicians used to be born in pre-war Poland, e.g., Begin. I suppose it must be the current president of Israel who was born in Poland too. |
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Post by kaima on Jan 12, 2006 7:34:41 GMT -7
Does Poland have a president who was born in Poland?
Must not be or someone would have said so ...
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Post by forza on Jan 12, 2006 7:43:57 GMT -7
Polish president, Kaczynski was born in Poland I think. Where else? I'm guessing that it was the German president who was born in Poland. My bet is German, anyway.
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Post by Jaga on Jan 12, 2006 10:50:44 GMT -7
Guys,
I should specify of course that I mean not-Polish president. Forza is right it is a current German president Horst Koehler. His family was on the way from Transylvania, therefore the thread about Transylvania reminded me about him. Many German families were living there, in TRansylvania before the WW II. Somehow they stopped for a couple of years in Poland and lived there .... before moving to Germany.
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Post by gardenmoma on Jan 12, 2006 10:53:54 GMT -7
Horst Koehler, 61, was born into a German peasant family in Skierbieszów, Nazi-occupied Poland, on February 22, 1943. A German national. from: The German Embassy in the U.S. site July, 2004 Germany's new President, Horst Koehler, visited Warsaw on Thursday in his first official trip abroad since assuming his mainly ceremonial office earlier this month.
Warsaw-bound: Horst Koehler travelled to Poland in his first planned trip abroad. Koehler broke with tradition by travelling to Poland, the land of his birth, on his inaugural planned trip instead of France — the usual destination for newly-elected German heads of state.
"It was important to me to demonstrate with this first visit that we are looking toward the future in German-Polish relations," Koehler told reporters.
The move delighted Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski and inspired glowing editorials in the country's most important papers.Very interesting! GM |
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Post by pieter on Jan 12, 2006 14:02:08 GMT -7
Now, the question is for everybody - Polish and non-Polish people. The current president of which country was born in Skierbieszowin Poland? A lot of Israel politicians used to be born in pre-war Poland, e.g., Begin. I suppose it must be the current president of Israel who was born in Poland too. The current president of Israel is a persian, born in Iran. Moshe Katsav Eighth President of the State of Israel Moshe Katsav was born on the 1st of Tevet 5705 (December 5, 1945) in the city of Yazd, in central Iran. Yazd was called Little Jerusalem because of the abundance of Jewish schools for Torah study, religious sages, and synagogues. The manuscripts of the last prophets were also found in Yazd. Moshe's parents were Goher and Shmuel; Moshe is the eighth descendent of the renowned Kabbalist Mullor Shraga. The Katsav family was part of the Babylonian exile -- Jews who were exiled from the Land of Israel in the year 586 BCE, after the destruction of the first temple. www.president.gov.il/defaults/default_en.asp |
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Post by Jaga on Jan 12, 2006 19:45:59 GMT -7
Pieter,
this is a very interesting news about the president of Israel. Just today - they were talking here in American TV about Iran and its president and anti-Jewish remarks. The general view is that Iran was actually a good country for Jews. They had a huge Jewish minority, it was the second biggest Jewish minority in the middle East. So - the president of Iran sounds even for Iranians - too extreme!
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