We leave the cemetery, and George drives the woman back into town; he has another conversation with her when he drops her off. We head out of town to the west, and George relates to me what the woman has told him (so you're getting it third-hand).

The woman says that she was a little girl during the Nazi occupation, and she doesn't remember much about it (so some of this may be what she heard, rather than what she remembers – making this fourth-hand information). She says that the Jews and the Poles of Trzcianne had always gotten along. When the Nazis wanted to kill the Jews, the Poles talked them out of it. So instead of being murdered, the Jewish population was rounded up and sent off to live in a barn in nearby Zubole (it's less than a mile west of Trzcianne). The Jews of Trzcianne spent their days performing forced labor, but at least they survived. After the war, one of the local Jews (who had emigrated to Israel) wanted to show his gratitude to the Poles of Trzcianne for saving his life, so he built a small monument near the site in Zubole where the barn had stood.

That's the woman's story, filtered through George and me (and more than 50 years).

And so, armed with the woman's directions, George and I set off to find the monument. She says it's near the road, in a yard behind a fence. What we find is this ornate fountain, a surprising discovery in this area, which does not appear to be prosperous. Could this be the monument we're seeking?