Word: sokolowskis
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...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...
...fable, but equally flexible, was the story foreign correspondents got from Food Vice Minister Sokolowski. Some of the correspondents had cabled home a statement by President Bierut and articles from the Polish press, saying that Poland is now able to feed herself without foreign relief. That was not correct. "Articles in the Polish press," explained Sokolowski, "are destined strictly for home consumption. Naturally, we put the situation in a better light than it is, in order to calm our people, who are nervous...