dramatic story. She married an American boy, and he rescued her, and so on and so forth. They came over and lived in Dallas. His name was Skotnicki, and then they divorced. I think he was Polish. He was a nice fellow, but he was too anxious to make too much money, so the marriage broke up.

Mr. Jenner.

There were at this time in Dallas some people of Russian derivation. Some had come directly from Russia--that is, in the sense that they were caught up in the vortex of the Second World War.
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

The Germans invaded Russia. They were prisoners, civil prisoners.
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Her story is something like that.

Mr. Jenner.

Taken by the Germans and brought to Germany, and when the war ended, they met American boys, and married them.
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; but that is the only one I know. I don't know of anybody else.

Mr. Jenner.

Then others had escaped Russia or Poland?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes. For instance, one of them--she was never even in Russia--that type of Russian colony. She was married to an American man.

Mr. Jenner.

Well, this is a group that had common interests--interested in each other?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Of course, they all criticize each other. Some people were closer, some people were further apart. They were not exactly all friends--I will put it that way.

Mr. Jenner.

Let's see you had been there well, you were off and on commencing in 1953, and then relatively permanently commencing in 1957.
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. 1956, 1957.

Mr. Jenner.

Now, as people came to Dallas, that is persons with this history, did you people and I don't mean just you alone, but I am talking about the whole group--become interested in them, seek to meet them, become acquainted?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, if anybody heard that there was all of a sudden a new Russian somewhere, there was, naturally, interest in people to know who they are, where they are from, what kind of people they are. And, of course, if they were destitute or something--and none of them were really--only Marina was--then we helped them.
But there were no organizations, no particular organizations to help or wait for them to come in, because there was no necessity.

Mr. Jenner.

Now, were you generally--were you advised normally in advance that somebody new was coming?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No. In fact, they were talking about Marina for months to us. I said, after all, we should really meet that young girl. They were talking for a couple of months.

Mr. Jenner.

Who?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, we found out about her actually through, I believe, George Bouhe. I think George probably told you the name.

Mr. Jenner.

What about Max Clark?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Max Clark, too, because they lived in Fort Worth. Max Clark and Gali Clark. And actually George Bouhe was very active. He is an old busybody, and he loves to do things, charity things. He is the one that organizes things like that. So he said he even had a fund for them--the people would give money--because he gave money to pay for her teeth, you know, everything that was necessary.

Mr. Jenner.

Mr. Bouhe did give you money----
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. To pay for her dentist.

Mr. Jenner.

And do you remember how much that was?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Oh, it wasn't very much--maybe $20; something like that.

Mr. Jenner.

Did you receive, also, some money from George Bouhe for anything else with respect to the Oswalds?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I don't believe so.

Mr. Jenner.

Now, I take it from what you have said, that you were wholly unadvised, you and your husband, that Marina and Lee were coming to the Fort Worth-Dallas area before they came. You knew nothing about it?

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