Len's cousin

Refugees Cannot Go Home

M: This is a short little tape

L: Yes. So, tell me a short story. You were saying about going back to your home town. You couldn’t do it because of the partisans, as you called them.

M: Yes. After the war, when we came back from Russia, we were told not to go back to our home town, because there were too many, what they called them akostes [phonetic]. That was AK. In Polish, it means the National Army. But really, that was a bunch of really murderous, you know. All they were interested [in] was killing Jews. After the war. So, we never went back home. As a matter of fact, we left it for good.

L: What was the name of the town that you were from?

M: Myszyniec [pronounced “Mishinietz”]

L: But what was the town Rosa you were telling me about?

M: Rosogi [prounounced “Rosuk”), that was on the German side. It was called Rosogi. And also, the river that was coming from there was also called Rosogi.

Rosogi is now in Poland

L: I’ll send you a map.