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But they didn’t let us go just then. We left only the following year, 1946. They said if you couldn’t prove you were Polish, you couldn’t go. And they had taken whatever IDs we had. Only I had hidden the medical insurance ID.
When I showed it to them, I though they’d kill me [out of wrath]. The NKVD [19], I mean. But they couldn’t do anything. And so we returned home. They sent us to Lower Silesia [20], to Rychbach…
Originally the town had a different name, then it was called Rychbach, and eventually it was renamed to Dzierzoniow. To honor Dzerzhinsky. [Editor’s note: contrary to what Mrs. Mass believes, it was called so to honor Jan Dzierzon (1811-1906), the parish priest of the church of Karlowice, Europe’s most outstanding apiculturist of the time].
When I showed it to them, I though they’d kill me [out of wrath]. The NKVD [19], I mean. But they couldn’t do anything. And so we returned home. They sent us to Lower Silesia [20], to Rychbach…
Originally the town had a different name, then it was called Rychbach, and eventually it was renamed to Dzierzoniow. To honor Dzerzhinsky. [Editor’s note: contrary to what Mrs. Mass believes, it was called so to honor Jan Dzierzon (1811-1906), the parish priest of the church of Karlowice, Europe’s most outstanding apiculturist of the time].
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