Bernadetta (Gorzelanczyk) Kazmierow - Polish man drowned by Germans

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

Bernadetta (Gorzelanczyk) Kazmierow - Polish girls during German occupation

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

Wanda (Gorzelanczyk) Noble - Trouble with the SS

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

Aniela (Kosakowska) Janicka - Forced Labour

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

Aniela (Kosakowska) Janicka - Taken by Germans

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

Aniela (Kosakowska) Janicka - Ukranian Threat

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 (Kosakowska) Janicka - Helping Jews

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 (Kosakowska) Janicka - German Guns

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