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- 1996 Jan 9 (Creation)
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Typescript transcript of interview with Monika Taubitz, German civilian expelled from Prussia when the territory transferred to Poland, 1946, relating to her early childhood in Breslau, Prussia, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland, since 1946), [1931-1943]; Taubitz's experiences at the end of World War Two in Eisersdorf, near Glatz, Prussia (Klodzko, Poland, since 1946), May 1945; the arrival of the Red Army in Eisersdorf, May 1945; the expulsion of German nationals from the area around Glatz and the arrival of Polish settlers, Feb 1946; Taubitz's journey in a refugee train from Glatz to Nordenham, near Bremerhaven on the German North Sea coast, Feb-Mar 1946; the hardship and difficulties suffered by the refugees in Nordenham, 1946-1951; Taubitz's move to Baden-Wurttemberg, 1951. 18pp
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