Word: bukowsko
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...from Brooklyn to Bukowsko? They seemed remarkably close last week as an old woman stood in Bukowsko's ashes and said, "Everything's boined." She, like a lot of other people in Polish Galicia, had lived for years in the U.S., had come home before the war not because Galicia was better or richer, but because she was born there...
...Colonel"; he is said to be a former German SS officer. As Poles, evicted from land in the north taken over by Russia, came into Galicia, the Ukrainian bands raided villages, tossing flaming brands on straw-thatched roofs. The Ukrainians aped the nations by demanding impossible reparations; from little Bukowsko they demanded one million zlotys. When the 3,000 villagers raised only 300,000 zlotys, the raiders burned all but eleven of Bukowsko's 400 cottages, John Kinglarski, who used to mine coal near Kingston, Pa., said the Ukrainians had burned his plow and stolen two horses...
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