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Friday, March 5, 2010

FAMILY HISTORY: Pilsudski



Meet Jozef Pilsudski, the father of modern Poland. He's the other great figure of post-World War I Europe who played a role in bringing my grandparents to the USA. But unlike Leon Trotsky, whom I described in my last post as starting the war that caused them to flee, Pilsudski tried to give them a reason to stay.