Tag #106893 - Interview #89494 (Emilia Leibel)

Halinka and I stayed. We moved from the cottage into a little room in a Russian woman’s apartment. I surrendered my driving license, as the only document proving that I was a Polish citizen, so that I could return to Poland. In spring 1946 we traveled in goods wagons to Poland. We could only leave when they put on an ‘eshelon’ [a military transport unit, in this case a train]. They gave us 24 hours to get to the railroad station, too. People went in horses and carts. Not everybody had to, but everybody left.