ABSTRACT

On 16 June 1945, a group of people are travelling on foot along a road from the Lower Silesian town of Glatz, which had taken on the name of Klodzko a short time before, on to a small village in the mountains. Reportedly, there, in Heinzendorf, stand-alone farmsteads await while the marching Poles are seeking out a new place to live. To a limited degree, attention was devoted to regional differences among people, namely the habits, languages, customs and traditions of the new settlers. The Polish settlers feel odd on the farms abandoned by their former owners. Therefore, the most difficult language in the world for Worcell turned out to be that in which one may, in a simple way, discuss unfathomed problems hidden in the darkest corners of the human soul.