European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

I did not understand them at that time.

When I got to Majdanek, I understood what it was about.

This group of people, those who were managing the ghetto, wanted to survive at all costs.

It was not the Germans who were preparing the long lines of Jews who were sent to Umschlagplatz.

Jews were doing that, those Jewish policemen.

They were told to deliver four hundred Jews,

so they were taking four hundred Jews to the loading ramp, to the transport.

Getting involved in the armed resistance

And the cooperation started, they said charity part.

And at that time additionally, the news magazine came out.

The deliverer of this for our group was Mietek Wiącek.

Then our groups divided.

I was left in that group which was in contact

with the captain of the pre-war military intelligence, Tadeusz Wasilewski.

And from this stage our group started working for him.

And he, Mietek, it was 1941 or the end of 1940, disappeared. I do not know what happened with him.

We found out he had been arrested.

And then he appeared to be a traitor, because of him many people were arrested.

Our organizations were built up from the bottom.

When we joined the scout team, our group, which included ten or twelve people, was growing and got bigger.