But do names have a nationality in the first place ... In the cultural and geographic expanse of Eastern Europe, the name serves as a good indicator of a possible Polish family background amongst ...

Many family names, such as Mickiewicz, Mackiewicz, Sienkiewicz, Iwaszkiewicz or Wańkowicz – to name only a few, and only those of well-known Polish writers – originate in the Eastern parts of the ...

who had also lost his whole family. They married and left Poland, moving to Israel and later the United States. The Kuźmiuk Bakery’s bestseller today is known in Polish as cebularz, once called ...