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 …
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 …