Kashubians

It's one of the first Polish settlements in Canada.

They maintained, they were Kashubian.

which is like a subsect of like an indigenous people from Poland.

So they speak an entirely different language.

They speak Kashubian Polish that's 200 years old, but has also evolved to be slang from the local area.

So when Polish people come here, they don't understand the local Polish people.

because they're 200 years apart in language and culture, which is really cool to witness.

And she's very religious.

They live near a Kashubian region in Poland and the Kashubia, Kashebie is like ethnographic part of Poland, of my country, of my origin.

And it's quite close to me because my mother originated from that region of Poland.

And yeah, Drina, like De Palma's Carrie, lives with her possessive mother.

Yeah.

So that supernatural impact was very, I don't know how to call it, cinematic.

Because some, maybe I would start with knowledge about Kashubian Polish folklore.

stories I heard or overheard somehow, you know, thanks to the scholar book written during pandemic times by a guy I was lucky to meet just yesterday.

One of the most horrific atrocities linked to Forster was the mass execution of civilians in the forests near the village of Piasznice.

There, between 12,000 and 16,000 people, including Poles, Jews, Czechs, Kashubians, and even German dissidents, were massacred during the winter of 1939 to 1940.

During a rally at the Pruszczynski Hotel in Weherowo, a town near the massacre site, Forster incited violence by saying, We have to eliminate the lice-ridden Poles, starting with those in the cradle.

In your hands I give the fate of the Poles.