European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

It means, starvation or something like that… Initially, there was no help.

For cards people could buy only paraffin oil or household detergents. There was nothing there.

We helped those people. And I started my job there with Wanda Jaskólska.

She was the French teacher at Jadwiga Queen (School).

She was teaching French there.

She was the manager of this SKO group, she was organizing everything.

Later on, after a while, it turned into RGO.

But it started later on, when the printing house started working in Przemysłowa Street.

Those were cards for Germans. Food ration coupons were there, too.

Germans had their own stores. There were two kinds of shops in Warsaw.

Wolfart`s stores were with meat and Meinl`s stores were with food.

And we were using those false coupons and going to those shops.

It is hard to say from there the board of RGO took money for this help.

But the help was impressive.

I was just a typical, ordinary soldier, somehow a volunteer.

It is better to say I was a worker. All was done on your own initiative.

And we began …

At some moment Wanda, as it was her name,

said: we have to take care of this Ujazdowski Hospital.