Hall of Testimonies

Jerzy Wiktor Bockenhein

Describes how he, his mother and his grandmother were all in hospital with typhoid. He was lying in the bed with his mother, and she was in a worse state than he. When his mother came out of the fog of fever, she asked after her mother, and he remembered he had vaguely been aware of a body being removed from that bed. Only his sister was well and so, at the age of 10, it was left to her to arrange the funeral. (Note: Jerzy has had a stutter since the start of the war, when a bomb landed on their house and frightened him so much that he did not speak at all for some days).

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