Sala Świadectw

I remember that there were wooden bunks, loaded up like sardines – children, the elderly. There was only a hole that was hacked out of the floor, to be used …

Explaining how they tried to distinguish the sounds of the tanks in order to avoid shooting on an Ally

Describing how they waited for the ship to take them from France to England, how they boarded, and then were bombed by a German plane moments after pulling away from …

Escaping Poland and traveling across Europe to join the Polish Army in France

Genowefa sings a wartime song that her father used to sing.

The situation was so bad that she nearly committed suicide

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

Describing how her family was attacked by Ukrainian neighbours

Explaining how the children were carefree and unconcerned with the worries of the adults, and how they would eat what they found growing wild in the jungle.

Explaining what her parents did in Uzbekistan, and how they sent her and her sister to an Orphanage so that they could have more food.

Describing the life-long effects that the constant hunger of her youth had on her life.

Answering whether the family spoke of these experiences when they got together socially.

Describing his first job in London England

Describing how the cadets reacted to the fact that the war was over.

Describing how the Polish Army and civilians were evacuated to Persia.

Describing how each member of the family had a function in the Army

Describing his participation at the battle of Monte Cassino

Describing how they would put on plays in Tengeru. Also how they would attend the screening of a film every two weeks. And how the children were always hungry.

Describing how there were different days for boys and for girls to swim, so that they were never in the lake together.

Describing how her uncle found her mother in Teheran – she was very ill – and he told her that her eldest son had joined the Polish Army, and the …

Describing how he kept bees, a rabbit and other critters while living in Masindi.

Describing how they would get food whenever there was an Uzbek wedding

Describing how painful it is to hold back tears and cry on the inside.