Poland and Polish Discussion Group and Forum

Welcome to the original English language Poland and Polish discussion group board. This message forum is a place where English-speaking Poles, foreigners (expats) living in Poland, and anyone with a genuine interest in Poland can discuss and read the views of others concerning Poland. Subjects include: Polish news and current affairs; Life in Poland; politics; genealogy research; Polish culture and history; advice and tips on visiting Poland; Polish property and investment issues. The aim of our group is to increase awareness of wonderful Poland using the English language and allow and foster the honest debate and exchange of opinions on anything vaguely related to Poland and Polish - positive, negative and/or neutral! This discussion group is not an open-to-all public message board. Membership is by invitation only and therefore given that a fairly limited number of people have full access, it is more of a community blog than a straightforward forum. This application system was brought in to lessen the amount of spam and nonsensical and commercial posts made by casual visitors and off-topic and offensive posts left by a disruptive minority. To ask a one-off question about Poland or respond to comments made on this board without a password just email us and provided it is at least halfway sensible, we'll post it on the board for all to see and current members will try to respond! All opinions and views expressed on this site are solely those of their respective authors and are not necessarily those of anyone else!

Links: Polish Language and Translation Forum; Factbook Poland; Photographs of Poland; Polish Translation; A Town in Poland; Map; Apply for the Poland and Polish Forum Password

Author	Comment
lena May 10, 05 - 3:28 PM	Canadian is looking for directions I plan to travel to Poland with my 81 year old grandmother. My grandfather died in Poland in 1945. The place is called Novomisze (or Novymisze, not sure). The old german name is Noedorf. It should be somewhere near Glubezyce in Opolskie. We couldn't find it on the map and hope somebody helps us with the directions.
Jed May 11th, 2005 - 12:03 AM	Re: Canadian is looking for directions Correction. I looked on a 1 300 000 map and there's a tiny place called Nowa Wies just south of Gluczyce. Nothing else looks anything like your spelling. In Polish v would be w.
lena May 11th, 2005 - 10:40 AM	Re: Canadian is looking for directions Thank you, Jed, a lot. I think this is the place. I am just very afraid to make a mistake and bring my grandmother to the wrong spot. Is there any way to check old german names in mordern Poland?
Marek May 11th, 2005 - 11:31 PM	Re: Canadian is looking for directions A lot of the Polish names for originally german places are online. But yours doesn't seem to be. Probably it's very small. Try and get hold of an old German map of the area and then you can compare locations with a modern Polish map.
Simon May 11th, 2005 - 11:42 PM	Re: German names German / Polish names: Glubczyce = Leobschuetz Neudorf = Nowa Wies Oppeln = Opole
lena May 13th, 2005 - 10:33 AM	Re: Canadian is looking for directions Thank you everybody. I am sure about the place now. And I also found the old German map too.

	Poland and Polish Discussion Group and Forum Welcome to the original English language Poland and Polish discussion group board. This message forum is a place where English-speaking Poles, foreigners (expats) living in Poland, and anyone with a genuine interest in Poland can discuss and read the views of others concerning Poland. Subjects include: Polish news and current affairs; Life in Poland; politics; genealogy research; Polish culture and history; advice and tips on visiting Poland; Polish property and investment issues. The aim of our group is to increase awareness of wonderful Poland using the English language and allow and foster the honest debate and exchange of opinions on anything vaguely related to Poland and Polish - positive, negative and/or neutral! This discussion group is not an open-to-all public message board. Membership is by invitation only and therefore given that a fairly limited number of people have full access, it is more of a community blog than a straightforward forum. This application system was brought in to lessen the amount of spam and nonsensical and commercial posts made by casual visitors and off-topic and offensive posts left by a disruptive minority. To ask a one-off question about Poland or respond to comments made on this board without a password just email us and provided it is at least halfway sensible, we'll post it on the board for all to see and current members will try to respond! All opinions and views expressed on this site are solely those of their respective authors and are not necessarily those of anyone else! Links: Polish Language and Translation Forum; Factbook Poland; Photographs of Poland; Polish Translation; A Town in Poland; Map; Apply for the Poland and Polish Forum Password
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