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Returnees’ first impressions of the town, the market square, the main street differ depending on whether a town was destroyed during the war or remained intact. Some towns are empty and deserted, left in ruins, but others are unexpectedly lively— moreso even than before the war. For example, returning to Jędrzejów in the fall of 1945, Yitzkhok Riterband arrives at a station packed with male and female smugglers laden with their wares, waiting for a train to Zagłębie. Moreover, it seems to him that there are more inns and restaurants in the towns than there had been before the war, most of them full of goyim drinking vodka and eating sausages.

[Yitskhok Riterband, “A bazukh in mayn horever heym” in Sefer ha-zikaron le-yehudi Jedrzejow, ed. Sh. D. Yerushalmi (Tel Aviv: Former Residents of Jedrzejow in Israel, 1965), 255.]

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Źródło:

"Patterns of Return Survivors’ Postwar Journeys to Poland" - Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Waszyngton 2007.