Former Foreign Minister Adam Rotfeld, a Polish Jew, stood in at the White House celebration.

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His mother was a 15-year-old Jewish Hungarian, his father a 23-year-old Polish Jew.

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So the author has his father, a Polish Jew turned British Anglican, posthumously converted to Hinduism, and burned by the local Indian community.

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Jozef was a Polish Jew who was captured by the Soviets in 1939 and sent to a Siberian camp before becoming an officer in a Polish division of the Red Army.

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He was born Kazimierz Jerzy Goldfarb, a Polish Jew, who was sent to a summer school in England in 1939, leaving behind his mother and a sister who died in Treblinka, and a father he never saw again.

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Aubrac was a Jew of Polish origin whose real name was Raymond Samuel.

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