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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.

Ok, but how to explain the presence of this child

so I created the story because Irena was a white-pink blonde,

the child had also fair hair and blue eyes so we could say it was Irena`s daughter,

but the child could not say even a word in Polish,

she could speak only Russian

because the grandma`s husband

was not the real grandfather of this child.

Mrs. Melezyniuk became a widow and then for the second time got married with a Jew,

they both escaped from the Soviet Union

and they spoke Russian, especially at home in Vilnius.

The next thing was the child talked about her grandma and grandpa