Testimonies – German & Soviet Invasion

Describing how the building they lived in was bombed, and how she was so frightened that she had trouble breathing and she developed a stutter.

Describing how the Poles and Belorussians co-existed in that area, then the Russian invasion and the day of deportation.

Marian describes how he was hoping to cross the Romanian border, in order to join the Polish Army in exile, but ended up hopping on a freight train that went …

Marian describes how his scout troop was enlisted to defend Przemysl, and then Lwow.

Regina describes how the Russians came and told her mother that they were taking the house and all the belongings in it. She was left with a blanket and a …

Regina tells how they learned much later about the fact that her brother was shot trying to escape from the Russian prison.

Describes his participation in the September campaign

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

Describing how his father and some friends escaped to Romania in order to avoid being arrested by the Soviets.

Describes how his unit was assigned to defend Polish villagers against attacks from roving bands of Ukrainian Nationalist, in the area of Włodzimierz in Wołyn.

Krystyna describes the scene as all the volunteers marched off to join the Army, and how her father was wounded and nearly buried alive before he regained consciousness.

Krystyna describes what she saw as they approached Lwow at the onset of the war.

Krystyna describes what the Russian troops looked like when the entered Lwow, and how they killed a young boy who was laughing at their ragged uniforms.

A typed/condensed version of my Grandfather's original handwritten Memoir

This is the life story of Ludwik Cytera as discovered and written up by his grandson Christopher Cytera.