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At some point my father came back. After the war ended Father left the Bergen-Belsen camp and went to the town of Helmstadt [in Germany]. He went to a Polish mission there, and as a lawyer, became a defendant of Poles in German courts. The bank he used to work in before the war had its head office first in Vienna, then in Paris. Father got in touch with the head office in Paris and received an offer of work in a branch in Belgium. He wanted to get us over there, but I told him I didn’t want to be a proletarian in a foreign country, I was that stupid. But I never wanted to leave Poland, and maybe I don’t regret it, I’m not suited for emigration… And Father returned to us.
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Maria Ziemna