Word: sokolowskis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alfred Sokolowski has served Austria well. In Vienna, city of shadowy relationships and shifting allegiances, no one worried too much about his past. It was known that he was born in Poland, that his father had been an officer of the old Austrian Empire's army and a comrade-in-arms to Austria's President Theodor Korner. A cultivated man, Dr. Sokolowski speaks excellent Russian, German, Polish, French and English, a valuable asset in a city quartered between four languages. For his services to Austria, he got Austrian citizenship in 1945, became chief interpreter for the Vienna city...
...weeks ago, a Russian official telephoned him, asking him as a favor to bring over some tickets to an ice revue. Sokolowski, who knew many Russians in the course of the city's dealings with the occupation authorities, obligingly took them over to the Soviet High Commission building. There he was ushered into the office of High Commissioner Ivan Ilyichev, and abruptly arrested as a "deserter and traitor...
Steaming with indignation, Austria's Chancellor Julius Raab himself stalked into Ilyichev's office to protest. Blandly, Ilyichev produced the dossier, which included a picture of Sokolowski in a German uniform and a 1944 Austrian police record listing him as a deserter from the Russian army. The Russians had thoughtfully stolen both from Vienna police headquarters in 1945, tucked them away for use in their own time...
...Sokolowski Hut. The 46,000 live in 104 camps scattered through Germany-104 Ellis Islands, with no entrances into the mainland of normal life. One of the camps is Augustdorf, in Westphalia. Nearly a quarter of the 1,800 people there have tuberculosis; 180 of the children are illegitimate. A spot on a lung in Augustdorf, as in the other camps, is a standard blackball against emigration; there is a black market in X-ray plates of healthy lungs...
...camp's huts lives the Sokolowski family. They left their native Poland as the Red army moved in in 1944. The father, Jan, held a railroad job briefly, but now is unemployed. For seven years he has lived from camp to camp with his wife and four children: Olga, now 19; Roman, 18; Irena, 16; and Eugenia, 15. Recently he got an offer to move to the U.S. to work on a tobacco farm near Buffalo. The family packed and got set to go. Then pale Olga pressed her flat chest against the X-ray plate: a spot...