Testimonies – Borderlands under German tyranny

Aniela remembers that when the Germans invaded Kresy, they gave the Ukrainians guns who then shot the local Jews into dug out graves.

Aniela describes how the Jews would come to their house at night to ask for food – helping them risked Aniela’s family being shot by the Germans.

Aniela talks about how the family fled to Dubno. Her mother returned to their home to fetch food & belongings but everything had been taken and a Ukrainian man threatened …

Aniela describes when the family were taken by force by the Germans for forced labour and brother Czesław disappeared forever.

Aniela describes being taken to Germany and as a 14 year old she had to do hard physical labour laying the railway tracks.

Wanda describes getting into trouble with the SS during the German occupation and being lucky enough to be released.

Bernadette describes how the Polish girls had to step onto the road when passing German girls during the German occupation of Poland.

Bernadette retells how a Polish man from the town was taken by the Germans and drowned during the German occupation.

Barbara describes how her father was part of the Home Army, along with 5 of her mother’s brothers. Her 5 uncles were all shot on the same day by the …

Describing how her brother was killed in Warsaw.

Ewa describes how she met her husband in France, and how she learned of her uncle’s death from released POWs who were in the same camp with him.

Describing the consecutive repressions by the Soviets, the Nazis, then the Soviets again, as well as the Ukrainians.