many long years after zamosc-born jewish polish rosa luxemburg was gone from the city in then not-quite-poland where she stayed briefly the city ruling entity in the later quite-poland city by law installed a plaque where she resided while she worked for socialist values and policies in the still not-quite-poland city
the plaque on the building strasse Szamarzewiskiego Kaiser Wilhelm ulica commemorated a woman political scientist who in the context of the era was dynamic and self-determined and the first woman with a law doctorate in her time yet had controversial ideas which went against the grain of lenin and poles and germans who all had their own axes to grind
but roza was murdered, executed, martyred for the causes she believed in by germans in berlin who threw her body into the landwher canal where I myself often wondered how many faces floated of ghosts of various heres and nows
many many years later in the now quite-poland-city where the plaque had been affixed to the wall of a building that was in an earlier quite-poland city then under the dominion of the soviet martyriolatry that had fallen into demise and the building facade in ruins there came a moment when the plaque I recall with roza's profile was removed and then then later replaced by a textual plaque that was subsequently during the first year of the PiS party rise to dominance in quite-quite-poland vandalized and scandalized and then eventually removed to never be replaced
poznan does not want to embrace it's own heritage apparently. and it is the same case regarding zygmunt baumann. both jews and both poles (but commies) but when it comes to protesting the genocide in gaza there is no one on the streets because they are now in quite-poland quite philo-semitic.
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