Aliens In The Lands Of The Piasts: The Polonization Of Lower Silesia And Its Jewish Community In The Years 1945–1950

Abstract

competing with the Soviet melodies all through the day and most of the night. I also encountered new phenomena, prosperous Jewish farms and farmers, farm schools with Jewish workers and farmhands plowing the fields. Jewish maidens were milking fat German cows, and Jewish farm boys chasing German pigs. and of We arrive here from “alienated” Warsaw, which is alienated externally, because there’s fewer Jews here, and internally (in the offices of the Central Jewish Committee one can hardly hear any Yiddish). And here, in Lower Silesia, one finds a kind of consolation […] Against all odds, Jewish culture still lives and is being built […] And so, this last remnant of Jewish survivors, who gave so much blood of their closest relatives in the fight with the Hitlerite occupiers, and this Jewish survivor, who carried the flame of the fight against the fascist oppressors, had won his place and right to live in a free anti-fascist Poland. 35