European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

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.

Hiding a Jewish-Polish couple; financial situation

After the Zambrowicz family, the next people came.

The lady was Jewish, she was a friend of my uncles wife.

but all people from Orwidów knew she was a person of Jewish origin.

She used to come every summer to visit her friend, I mean my uncle`s wife.

He was Aryan.

They wanted to find out, what happened to my aunt.

She thought that maybe my aunt was there, she did not know she was deported.

When finally she found out about it they decided to come back to Warsaw.