European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

We rented a flat in Ujazdowskie Alleys.

The landlady was a Mrs Kijewska.

Our life in occupied Warsaw began.

In Warsaw, naturally, we did not bow to the Germans.

This was in the so-called General-Gouvernement.

There were no great liberties, but we could go to primary schools.

My sisters used to attend to the school run by the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth.

My brother had already graduated secondary school, so he didn’t go to school.

My eldest sister very soon enrolled for some classes at the illegal university,

because the academies began the term quite efficiently.

On the other hand my brother soon got in touch

with an illegal organization of the leftist type.

A lot of young people at the time had grudges to our former political system, the period of Piłsudski’s rule,

with many wrongs and a lot of poverty.

Young people very often did not accept the situation

in new Poland and wanted to introduce a more democratic system.

That is why my brother joined the PPS (Polish Socialist Party).

But not the one under the aegis of the Soviet Union which was called RPPS, the so-called Workers’ Socialist Party,

German administrator: Erik Erdbrüger

As early as October the Germans sent in the so-called Treuhänder, (a trustee) on behalf of the Germans.