The name Damaris is primarily afemale nameof Greek origin that means Calf, Gentle. Where does the family name Kobus come from? Polish, Czech, Dutch, and German: from a pet form of the personal name Jakobus (Czech Jakub) (see Jacob). Polish and Jewish (from Poland): nickname from kobus...
The estimate of 3 million non-Jewish Polish victims of World War II was pulled out of thin air in 1946 by Jakub Berman, head of the Polish security apparatus, in order to establish Polish and Jewish losses on par.Footnote29 According to historian Gniazdowski, officials at the time presented...