MAGDA SZUBANSKI - RECKONING

ISBN: 9781925355413
Text Publishing Company - 2015

I found this book while rummaging through second hand books at a clothing mart in Papua New Guinea. Please click:

Magda Szubanski's Reckoning: A Memoir - The Conversation

theconversation.com/magda-szubanskis-reckoning-a-memoir-48309

Oct 7, 2015 - Magda Szubanski's engaging debut memoir, Reckoning, is an exercise 

in precisely that: reconciling the past. It is also a celebration of the life ...

As an Australian, I have known Magda Szubanski for years as a cultural icon made famous through a myriad of TV programs and the movie "Babe". 

She played the funny, quaint, fairy tale, larger than life old biddy. She was a farmer's wife who tended a horde of speaking farm animals including small pig "Babe" that herded sheep and won the local sheep dog trials with the farmer. The sheep cooperated because Babe said "please".

I have always known snippets of her life. Her father was a Polish assassin in World War 2 when Poland was fighting for its life against the invading nazis. He shot German soldiers, took their weapons and killed Polish collaborators.

Her father struggled with his sense of guilt all his life. But he killed in war to protect Poland and the Jews who were being murdered in the hundreds of thousands by the Nazis. He agonised all his life with the guilt of his role as a killer in wartime Poland.

There has been a controversy in Poland in recent times over the Government banning the writing of reports blaming the Polish people. The Polish people were the victims struggling to survive.

Poland became hell on earth and a massive killing ground for Jews and anyone who supported them. The Nazis sited the extermination camps in Poland. Many Jews were saved by Polish families at the risk of their lives and the lives of neighbours. Some were betrayed.

We read chilling reports in the book Living outside the Gates of Mauthausen that reported on Poles intimidated even to look at the long lines of struggling Jews on the roads of the country. Please click:

In the Shadow of Death: Living Outside the Gates of Mauthausen ...

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/470506/pdf

by L Baron - ‎1991

In the Shadow of Death: Living Outside the Gates of. Mauthausen (review).

Lawrence Baron. Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Volume 10,

I have always known that Magda was not straight. She did not like the words lesbian or gay. She came out towards the end of her book. She told her parents who loved her still and supported her. No stigma and discrimination in this family.

If I were her big brother, I would do the same. Her sexuality was a mere sideline to her massive personal dignity, humanity and kindness.

I can not help compare her to the foreign predator paedophile lesbians who have infested this country in support of gay, lesbian and paedophile rights. They were anti-family and anti-faith.

Her father told of Poles in German prison camps. At the end of the war they were marched out on to the roads to avoid the Russians from the east and Allies from the coast of Normandy.

He told of how elderly guards were so weak that the prisoners carried their rifles. My Australian father -in -law was an Australian  bomber navigator shot down in Germany. 

He told the same story of carrying the rifle of an elderly guard as they tramped along roads to avoid the advancing armies. When they met the advancing allies, he threw the rifle away.

Magda's family was a role model for families in Papua New Guinea with LGBT children. There was no stigma, discrimination or violence. In recent weeks the nation read of the death of Moses Tau who was gay and loved by his family.

Family is the place of peace for LGBT young people as long as they have not been groomed into promiscuous homosexuality by the foreign paedophiles. 

I have protected families in this countries though with less danger than that which faced the Polish people protecting Jews.