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I really respected my father-in-law. He was twice offered the position of the director of a factory and he refused both times. He said, ‘I am a carpenter. I can be a foreman, a workshop manager, but nothing else. I don't have the education.' Many would take a directorial function, even if illiterate or semi-literate. But not my father-in-law. He was a modest man. He never wanted anything for himself. He had two rooms with a kitchen. Kazimierz Utrata was a very decent man. Others have plates at the cemetery saying, ‘In sacred memory of...' My father-in-law's sign is terse: ‘Committed Activists of the Workers' Movement: Kazimierz Utrata, Maria Utrata.
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Leopold Sokolowski