Hall of Testimonies

Danuta Pniewska - Danuta Pniewska - Part II

Speaking of war … my mother had 4 young brothers, my father had 3. They started taking all these young men into the army. Everyone was so upset by it

Danuta Pniewska - Danuta Pniewska - 1

Father came home from work early, from the county Office. They had given him a three-month salary and said that something strange was happening on the border, so all works

Danuta Pniewska - Danuta Pniewska - Part II

Speaking of war … my mother had 4 young brothers, my father had 3. They started taking all these young men into the army. Everyone was so upset by it

Jerzy Hoffman - Jerzy Hoffman

This is true, that we used all these methods for healing. And then we would remove it along with the skin. I learned how to place “banki”, how to yank

Jerzy Hoffman - Jerzy Hoffman

Everyone believed that there, in the eastern territories, the German army would be stopped. On the 17th, the Soviets invaded Tarnopol. The Soviet Worker’s Army. And I remember two things

Apolonia Lewicka - Apolonia Lewicka

Danuta Borzemska - Danuta Borzemska

They loaded us into a lorry, and they took us to the train station. And then we saw that many people are being transported this way – it is not

Danuta Borzemska - Danuta Borzemska

They loaded us into a lorry, and they took us to the train station. And then we saw that many people are being transported this way – it is not

Danuta Borzemska - Danuta Borzemska

And returning to how our journey began … my mother’s family lived in the West. At the onset of war, they were all escaping from the Germans. So my mother’s

Teresa Glazer - Teresa Glazer

They had a house In Kowru also, so we moved there. And Father, when Warsaw fell, he ended up as a POW. But at that time there were no camps

Teresa Glazer - Teresa Glazer

They had a house In Kowru also, so we moved there. And Father, when Warsaw fell, he ended up as a POW. But at that time there were no camps

Teresa Glazer - Teresa Glazer

They had a house In Kowru also, so we moved there. And Father, when Warsaw fell, he ended up as a POW. But at that time there were no camps

Stefania Jancewicz - Stefania Jancewicz

I do not remember when the Russian took Father away. I remember that he was sentenced to death and he was in jail in Stanislawow, and Mother travelled to the

Józef Matrecki - Józef Matrecki

Józef Matrecki - Józef Matrecki

Kazimiera Skorupińska - Kazimiera Skorupińska

Father was a policeman. As a young man, he had been part of the Polish Military organization “PAW” and was in the reserves when the war broke out. He was

Kazimiera Skorupińska - Kazimiera Skorupińska

Father was a policeman. As a young man, he had been part of the Polish Military organization “PAW” and was in the reserves when the war broke out. He was

Kazimiera Skorupińska - Kazimiera Skorupińska

Father was a policeman. As a young man, he had been part of the Polish Military organization “PAW” and was in the reserves when the war broke out. He was

Kazimiera Skorupińska - Kazimiera Skorupińska

Father was a policeman. As a young man, he had been part of the Polish Military organization “PAW” and was in the reserves when the war broke out. He was

Matylda Kłębek - Matylda Kłębek

I remember that in 1939 / 1940, it was a very frigid winter. Our grandparents from Kielc came to visit us. Mother’s parents came. Also two Aunties. But because winter

Jan Zawiadowicz - Jan Zawiadowicz

Janina Łucja Melania (Tabaczyńska) Radatus - Janina Łucja Melania (Tabaczyńska) Radatus

The scary part is that we did not know what they were going to do with us. We were in a cattle wagon with wooden bunks that would sleep about

Władysława Kalinowska - Władysława Kalinowska

February 10th 1940. At midnight they came and took father away, and at 2 a.m. they came back and took us. We were not allowed to take anything with us.

Maria Juralewicz - Maria Juralewicz

We have to say that we were in cattle cars on the train – there were wooden bunks on two sides, you could fit 8 people on the top and