Natalie Zamczyk - January 30, 1984
1946
And that's all, that's, that's, that's all. But was another very bad experience, you know. In 19...wait a moment, in 19...in Polish uprising, wait a moment, in 1945 was the war over. I think in 1946 was a pogrom in Krakow. I don't know if you heard about it, somebody told you this?
No.
You interviewed some people from Krakow, no?
Mm-hm.
And nobody told you that?
After the war, no.
Yes, yes, after the war there was another experience, you know. After the war, you know, this was in '46...
Mm-hm.
...'46 was uh... I was working this time in office already for my cousin. He was a ??? factory and I was working in the office. From the beginning I had ??? and somebody said, telephone rings, somebody said, we better close early the, the office because there's something going on in a neighborhood, Jewish neighborhood there on your street. So I, so we, everything was saying, what is going on. I think it's something like a pogrom. What happened, the day before, the, the boy was missing. Five years old boy, Christian boy. And right away, of course, I think that this was the work of, of Russians, you know, to make, you know. That the boy was taken for a--they did that before--Easter, Pesach. That the boy was killed by Jews because they needed the blood for matza. This was in '46. Maybe '47, I don't know, but to me it seems that was '46, yeah, I think so. I, I don't know exactly, but they should know about this, because this is very, you know. And uh, I, I went home. I was very upset because our caretaker was still there. I, when I came back I thought that I will throw him out, you know. But he joined the uh, the Communist party. You understand?
Sure.
I couldn't do nothing, so he was staying there, but he kept his mouth, uh. You know, I was living, I got one room, you know, in our own big apartment, I had only one room because it was already different, you know. So, and he has bigger war than me because I was the capitalist, I was the corner of the apartment house and he was a worker, you know. He couldn't do nothing. I am telling you that. So I was afraid of this worker. My sister-in-law the children she leaves next door, not at their place and I was there. We were terrified what he's going to do, but he didn't do nothing. And next morning, so we heard next morning that a woman was killed and the boy was taken to the synagogue where my parents belong, where I was going as a young girl. And that they found the bones here in this church--in the church, I mean--in the basement.
Yeah.
They found the bone already. And one woman survivor from concentration camp was killed.
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