European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

I went to Vilnius, I had a contact spot because I had to get documents for one person

who was supposed to come to me in Orwidów, take those documents and go, I guess to Warsaw.

I went to a lady that I saw once in my life.

It was my contact spot.

She said to me: you can save a child.

Additionally, I did not like children, they were horrible.

So there is a story that her friend from Warsaw, not exactly from Warsaw, she was more from Vilnius.

Before the Second World War they took part in some first-aid course.

So she had parents in Vilnius and her child, it was a girl who was 3 years old was left at her parents.

She was living in Grodno as her husband was chemistry engineer

and worked in Grodno in a chemical factory for the Soviet Union

and when the war broke out, Mr. Józef was deported into the Soviet Union to set up some factories there,

and his wife with the second child, was sent somewhere into Russia.

The child had very good papers as my college was Aryan

and decided to give her last name and exactly the last name of her husband.

And the priest, in Vilnius there were 2 priests, so the priest Kretowicz, Chlebowicz,

priest Chlebowicz gave this child a birth certificate saying that she is a child of Irena and Jan Nowicki.

And again the same story happens.

I go to Orwidów and say – this story, are we taking it or not?

All take responsibility for that.