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Story 13 September 2022

How an American girl became Polish

A former WWII resettlement railway ramp became a cultural centre and workplace for a cheerful American-turned-Polish woman.
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Authors
Przemysław Joppek
Andrzej Krause

This is the story of how an old railway ramp where the Germans and Poles were forcibly resettled after the World War II became a cultural center and a workplace for an eternally smiling American, or perhaps now a Polish woman?

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