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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.

Introduction; the Scout organization

My name is Stanisław Baranowski.

I was born on 16th November 1924 in Warsaw.

If the war had not broken out, I would have gone to aircraft and mechanical school to become a pilot.

It was my dream.

In 1939 I was at the scout camp.

In August we were coming back from the scout camp.

We did not reach the Main Station in Warsaw but we were disembarked at the East Station.