Tag #109748 - Interview #78228 (Leon Glazer)

After all, it's common knowledge that after the war all those various gangs were murdering Jews. There were the so-called NSZ-ers - the National Armed Forces [46]. On their chests they had these shields hanging with the Virgin Mary and the inscription National Armed Forces. There was that famous commander of theirs, Zubryd. [Major Antoni Zubryd, pseudonym 'Orlowski,' 'Zuch.' He led a detachment a few dozen strong that operated in the Sanok district. The division was called the Independent Operational Battalion NSZ 'Zuch.'] At first he worked in secret security, then he formed that gang and prowled the Nowy Sacz, Nowy Targ and Sanok regions. And what happened? Zubryd was posthumously rehabilitated - I read that in the paper a few years ago. There was even a protest by the Australian Jews against it, but it did no good. That was rehabilitation in an unjust sense, but historians will assess that one day.

In Luban we had this unit to fight the UPA gangs and the so-called underground army [NSZ]. And they would send that unit out to wherever the NSZ was operating. I know that they attacked them, of course - not the soldiers, but the officers. And if they found out that he was a Jew or a PPR party man, they would murder him. They often sent someone to that unit of ours on inspections or - I don't know - these military 'visits,' and Jewish officers didn't want to go. They were afraid. They would even attack them on trains. I didn't want to go either, but luckily they didn't ask me.