en: stefania-dambrowska: chapter-3: c: 3 title: "Beginning of the German-Soviet war, hiding refugees" subtitles: sequence-1: s: 1 from: "00:00:00,16" to: "00:00:04,20" text: "I was walking many kilometrers along the river Neris, which flowed a few kilometers from us." sequence-2: s: 2 from: "00:00:04,20" to: "00:00:25,02" text: "I went to one household, where a worker was – Mr. Joseph – he had a home farm as he got married with a rich lady Lachowiczówna." sequence-3: s: 3 from: "00:00:25,02" to: "00:00:32,04" text: "They took care of me and again I had a place to live." sequence-4: s: 4 from: "00:00:32,04" to: "00:00:38,10" text: "I helped Mrs. Lechowiczówna in the garden." sequence-5: s: 5 from: "00:00:38,10" to: "00:00:50,02" text: "After three, maybe four days we heard bombarding as if from Vilnius." sequence-6: s: 6 from: "00:00:50,02" to: "00:01:04,17" text: "Nobody wanted to leave this farm house as everyone was scared and did not know what the Soviets would do." sequence-7: s: 7 from: "00:01:04,17" to: "00:01:16,14" text: "First, we could see explosions, there were lights so that they could see at night where to bomb" sequence-8: s: 8 from: "00:01:16,14" to: "00:01:23,06" text: "and we could hear boom, boom, boom, the noise from tanks and armoured vehicles." sequence-9: s: 9 from: "00:01:23,06" to: "00:01:35,20" text: "This farm house was situated between two main routes - one leading to the east, and the Batory`s route." sequence-10: s: 10 from: "00:01:35,20" to: "00:01:40,02" text: "We could see that both routes were filled by the army." sequence-11: s: 11 from: "00:01:40,02" to: "00:01:42,26" text: "What? The war broke out? We had no clue what happened." sequence-12: s: 12 from: "00:01:42,26" to: "00:01:48,00" text: "At some moment we heard shots and everything froze." sequence-13: s: 13 from: "00:01:48,00" to: "00:01:53,11" text: "All tanks stopped," sequence-14: s: 14 from: "00:01:53,11" to: "00:02:01,04" text: "I guess it was a kind of signal that when the Germans were coming, the Russians were supposed to stop." sequence-15: s: 15 from: "00:02:01,04" to: "00:02:08,13" text: "It took two, maybe three days, it is hard to say." sequence-16: s: 16 from: "00:02:08,13" to: "00:02:14,21" text: "One beautiful day I was by the river Neris," sequence-17: s: 17 from: "00:02:14,21" to: "00:02:19,16" text: "I was coming back and I saw that at the Josephs in front of their house," sequence-18: s: 18 from: "00:02:19,16" to: "00:02:29,18" text: "there was a horse, harnessed, and an open carriage, and the brother of Mrs. Lachowiczówna." sequence-19: s: 19 from: "00:02:29,18" to: "00:02:45,19" text: "I heard: take a horse and your carriage and go – and this carriage and a horse were left at the Josephs so that something could be saved." sequence-20: s: 20 from: "00:02:45,19" to: "00:02:46,14" text: ~ sequence-21: s: 21 from: "00:02:46,14" to: "00:02:50,01" text: "So I took the carriage and left the place." sequence-22: s: 22 from: "00:02:50,01" to: "00:02:57,09" text: "In the new place I reached I found only a girl. She was my age." sequence-23: s: 23 from: "00:02:57,09" to: "00:03:08,23" text: "She was doing whatever, was not paid for her job but could live there for free." sequence-24: s: 24 from: "00:03:08,23" to: "00:03:12,12" text: "It was a daughter of our herdsman." sequence-25: s: 25 from: "00:03:12,12" to: "00:03:21,03" text: "Melania said: I sit here by myself, it is very good you came." sequence-26: s: 26 from: "00:03:21,03" to: "00:03:31,22" text: "Agriculture buildings, where the workers lived, were far away." sequence-27: s: 27 from: "00:03:31,22" to: "00:03:37,03" text: "The house was in an orchard, the orchard was around," sequence-28: s: 28 from: "00:03:37,03" to: "00:03:45,15" text: "far away, and the two of us, Melania and me, were left in this twelve-room house." sequence-29: s: 29 from: "00:03:45,15" to: "00:03:53,02" text: "It was not too nice." sequence-30: s: 30 from: "00:03:53,02" to: "00:04:00,04" text: "There were no dogs so nobody could warn us even if somebody came creeping." sequence-31: s: 31 from: "00:04:00,04" to: "00:04:06,14" text: "After two or three days people came." sequence-32: s: 32 from: "00:04:06,14" to: "00:04:14,00" text: "They appeared first, the Zambrowicz family," sequence-33: s: 33 from: "00:04:14,00" to: "00:04:24,05" text: "Mrs. Maja Zambrowicz, the mother of Joanna, with her husband and a goat." sequence-34: s: 34 from: "00:04:24,05" to: "00:04:28,00" text: "She asked if they could live at my place." sequence-35: s: 35 from: "00:04:28,00" to: "00:04:33,11" text: "Yes, of course, you are welcome." sequence-36: s: 36 from: "00:04:33,11" to: "00:04:37,14" text: "It was good for me that somebody would live there, not only Melania and me." sequence-37: s: 37 from: "00:04:37,14" to: "00:04:38,00" text: ~ sequence-38: s: 38 from: "00:04:38,00" to: "00:04:54,15" text: "They just escaped from Warsaw, were in Vilnius, as they heard about many little farms there where holidaymakers come." sequence-39: s: 39 from: "00:04:54,15" to: "00:05:01,17" text: "It was June, so they thought that maybe during the summer they could stay there," sequence-40: s: 40 from: "00:05:01,17" to: "00:05:05,06" text: "save some money and come back to Warsaw." sequence-41: s: 41 from: "00:05:05,06" to: "00:05:07,09" text: "They did not have any plans what to do next."