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Did Your Father Ever Go Back to Poland After the War?
My father left the army and joined the foreign office. He was one of the first two diplomats to go back into poland in 19 forty five to reopen the embassy. And he was also the interpreter on the first british diplomatic mission to visit auschwitz. Ah, his parents, my grandparents, who had lived and worked in poland,. actually briefly returned to the same house which survived the war, in western poland. My grandfather resumed his job at the university there, until the communists decided that they didn't really want a prominent anglo polish family living in westernPoland. So he was sacked from the university, and we definitively came back to england theid 19
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