I was born in that DP camp in 1949, my parents were survivors who were stuck in the camp for 4 years until we were able to come to the US.
Fascinating book, among other things, Heymont mentions in an October 1945 letter (9 months prior to the Kielce pogrom) that most of the people entering the camp at the time were Polish Jews who had tried to return "home" to Poland.
Not only did the police not help them, the police helped the Poles who had stolen the Jewish property drive the rightful owners away. Who knows how many Jews were murdered for trying to "go back to Poland" as the anti-Semite Helen Thomas said the Jews should do.
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- Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2015
