European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

Most officers taken to captivity came to this hospital.

And she cooperated there with the Welfare Board and we started there.

We helped there, finding food, clothes and started organizing escapes of our officers from this hospital.

Germans were guarding them, because they were treated as prisoners of war.

That is how we can call those officers – prisoners of war.

And as I knew this land because I came from this area. I used to live in Czerniakowska Street and then in Hołówki Street,

and this park, Agrykola, that is how we call it nowadays, I knew it as well as my own pocket.

And barracks were connected with this park Agrykola.

Then we started organizing, apart from financial assistance, also clothes, food, escapes.

But after the first escape we helped with, the Germans realized that somebody was missing, from then on strong repressions started.

We then decided to bring dead bodies from hospitals.

And we took them… on the carriage we took dead bodies.

At the same time, this hospital, it had to be repaired and my father managed to help with that and he delivered the building material.

Bricks, cements, sand.

And we took it, we took the dead body and then the amount of people was correct.

It was important that the actual number of prisoners was correct.

This one who was to escape had a number, prisoners did not have any photographs, were not catalogued,

so we were putting those numbers to a different person and helping them escape.

They were escaping by carriage, sometimes they had to go through barbed wire or shrubs.

And it took quite long till the time of hospital liquidation.