[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Germans speaking Polish

[EdelgardSt at aol.com]

My grandmother Maria Falkenhagen was born in 1893 in Swiecia, a village  near 
Konin in Russian Poland. Her family spoke German at home and  she learned the 
Russian language at school. Maria was not able to  speak Polish with the 
exception of few words and she taught her  children Russian nursery-rhymes that 
she had learned at school. After 1945, when  she and her children were expelled 
from their farm, she had to work for a Pole.  He often beat her, because he 
didn't believe that she could not understand what  he said.
 
Greetings from Germany,
 
Edelgard