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Adam Aston & Orkiestra Syrena Rekord - Graj skrzypku graj (Play Fiddler, Play) tango (W.Lidauer /Zdrojewski), Syrena-Electro 1935
(In You Tube this song is also sung by Adam Aston in Hebrew! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2t8dnlDv-s )
NOTE: In the slideshow are prewar photographs of my birth town Bydgoszcz (that slightly unspronounceable Polish name translates also as Bromberg). These days were having a very special anniversary in Poland: 70 years ago, on 23 August 1939 in Moscow the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact was signed. 7 days after that the Second World War started and Poland was attacked and torn apart by two agressors: two neighbours, both violating the non-aggression agreements, that had been signed with Poland in the 1930s and extended until 1942, and with no declaration of war given. The onset of it was a massacre of the small town of Wieluń, located on the Polish-German border in the Poznań region. During the airraid and bombing of the sleeping town, over a thousand of its inhabitants were killed in their beds. This massacre of the so-called civilised nation on the helpless little town, having completely no military installations or any strategic role, is often overlooked and the attack of the German ship Schlezwik-Holstein on the Polish military base Westerplatte (part of the Port Of Gdańsk) is erroneously considered as the moment when 2nd World War started.
At night of the 17 th of September, two weeks after the German invasion from the West, the Soviet troops crossed the Eastern border of Poland. Historical Polish towns: Lwow, Wilno, Grodno, Tarnopol, Stanisławów and dozens of others were occupied and their inhabitants mostly the military and the police, intelligentsia, land owners and officials, all with their families were either immediately executed, or first imprisomned and later executed for the anti-Soviet conspiracy. Many, in the animal cars, were sent in the middle of the winter, with only a handful of things they managed to grab in the moment of their arrest by NKWD, with children, pregnant women etc. - thousands kilometers deep into the Inhuman Land of Russia. As it is estimated today, ca 200 000 300 000 of them died.
Russia still denies its responsibility for those crimes and refuses to qualify 20 000 of the Katyń massacre victims (Polish officers who were captured by the Red Army after the Soviet aggression and few months later murdered in the Katyń forest by NKWD) as the victims of the genocide. Instead of this, President Putin during the 60th anniversary of Russias victory over nazi Germany, in May 2005 expressed his views during the interview he gave to the German TV ARD-ZDF. In his opinion, Pact Ribbentrop-Molotov between Germany and Russia was a legal act of defense from the Polish aggressive attitude towards Russia and both: Stalin and Hitler were fully entitled to do what they had done, in accordance with the Pacts agreements.
After Wieluń, Bydgoszcz was the next Polish town to be massacred by Germans in September 1939. So called by the Nazis the Bloody Sunday of Bromberg when as result of the streetfights between Poles and German civilian provocators, who opened fire to the Poles from the rooftops and church towers as soon as the Wehrmachts offensive on the city started - about 500 Germans lost their lives - served as the pretext to begin a first genocide in the modern history of Europe. Every tenth inhabitant of the town was selected on the base of the lists of the Polish intelligentsia, that - as it appeared later had been carefully completed by the Germans along before 1939 - and executed in the Old Town Square of Bydgoszcz, as well as in so called Death Valley in the suburbs. [1hh_Fq-XwQ0] |