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RN EuroQuest (#11): Polish History Revisited Repeat Program

Series: RN EuroQuest: Public Radio's Weekly European Journal
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Length: 00:29:59

Polish History Revisited Repeat program in EuroQuest Read the full description.

Rnlogoenglish_small Segment 1 - 60 Year Anniversary of Liberation Rings Hollow in Poland After WW2, Poles spent another 4 decades under totalitarian rule. Helene Michaud looks at how this years commemorations are looked t with great skepticism in Poland. Segment 2 - Wolfstein's List Polish journalist Bronislaw Wildstein recently published a secret list of 240,000 people who had contact with the Polish secret police during communism. Jonathan Groubert asked him why he did it. Segment 3 - Polish Institute Wants to Release Secret Police Files What does the Polish Institute for National Remembrance, the IPN, think about their list being leaked? Jonathan Groubert put this question to Jan Stanislaw Ciechanowski and got some astonishing answers. Segment 4 - Jonathan's Polish Jewish Roots A small industry has developed to help Jews find their Polish roots. Jonathan Groubert visits the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation's Genealogy Project to find his own family. Segment 5 - The Nobility is Back and They Want Their Stuff Polish authorities have partially given into restitution claims by former aristocrats. The only problem is, in one case, this land is currently occupied by the American Embassy and is no longer Polish. Rafal Kiepuszewski reports.

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Segment 1 - 60 Year Anniversary of Liberation Rings Hollow in Poland After WW2, Poles spent another 4 decades under totalitarian rule. Helene Michaud looks at how this years commemorations are looked t with great skepticism in Poland. Segment 2 - Wolfstein's List Polish journalist Bronislaw Wildstein recently published a secret list of 240,000 people who had contact with the Polish secret police during communism. Jonathan Groubert asked him why he did it. Segment 3 - Polish Institute Wants to Release Secret Police Files What does the Polish Institute for National Remembrance, the IPN, think about their list being leaked? Jonathan Groubert put this question to Jan Stanislaw Ciechanowski and got some astonishing answers. Segment 4 - Jonathan's Polish Jewish Roots A small industry has developed to help Jews find their Polish roots. Jonathan Groubert visits the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation's Genealogy Project to find his own family. Segment 5 - The Nobility is Back and They Want Their Stuff Polish authorities have partially given into restitution claims by former aristocrats. The only problem is, in one case, this land is currently occupied by the American Embassy and is no longer Polish. Rafal Kiepuszewski reports.

Timing and Cues

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Segment 1 - 60 Year Anniversary of Liberation Rings Hollow in Poland
After WW2, Poles spent another 4 decades under totalitarian rule. Helene Michaud looks at how this years commemorations are looked t with great skepticism in Poland.

- Outro Item 1/Music/Intro Item 2

Segment 2 - Wolfstein's List
Polish journalist Bronislaw Wildstein recently published a secret list of 240,000 people who had contact with the Polish secret police during communism. Jonathan Groubert asked him why he did it.

- Outro Item 2/Intro Item 3

Segment 3 - Polish Institute Wants to Release Secret Police Files
What does the Polish Institute for National Remembrance, the IPN, think about their list being leaked? Jonathan Groubert put this question to Jan Stanislaw Ciechanowski and got some astonishing answers.

- Outro Item 3/Music/Intro Item 4

Segment 4 - Jonathan's Polish Jewish Roots
A small industry has developed to help Jews find their Polish roots. Jonathan Groubert visits the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation's Genealogy Project to find his own family.

- Outro Item 4/Address Jingle/Intro item 5

Segment 5 - The Nobility is Back and They Want Their Stuff
Polish authorities have partially given into restitution claims by former aristocrats. The only problem is, in one case, this land is currently occupied by the American Embassy and is no longer Polish. Rafal Kiepuszewski reports.

- Music/Closing Remarks

Musical Works

Title Artist Album Label Year Length
Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds Micheal Nyman Band Argo 01:30
Polish Yid'll Leo Fuld Columbia 01:00
King Wladyslaw Jagiello The Feliks Dzierzanowki Polish Folk Band Sonoton 01:00

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