European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

They were living on the balcony, were scared.

They had some papers, I do not even know how it was with those papers.

Their last name was real, the good type.

Hana was a blue-eyed blonde, nobody could really say she was a Jew.

Arnold also did not look like a Jew.

And they were definitely willing to leave Vilnius.

I went to Orwidów and said to this married couple

they had to be very careful as the more shady people lived in here, the bigger danger of betrayal was.

I told them that there is a situation like that and if they or rather we can decide to help.

I brought the Minkowski family.

There was a huge problem with them as they were very scared.

In Niemenczyn – that was a little town with a ghetto.

So the Minkowski´s were really scared to know that seven kilometers from us was a ghetto, thinking this a big risk.

And the Minkowski family was really scared.

After the ghetto in Niemenczyn was closed down

they wanted to go to the home farm to those people where they had been hidden in Vilnius.

It was Belarus then as the province was divided into the Lithuanian and the Belarus part.

The Belarus part was in the south,

it seemed to be safer. Lithuanians were said to be unpredictable.

But I have to say, in Vilnius there were areas with almost no Lithuanians.