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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.

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.