European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

Helping soldiers, poor people and POW

Just right after the war, after the capitulation in Warsaw, there was chaos, starvation.

Committees called SKO were established. The Committee of Welfare.

We started our job there, our team of scouts.

The reason for that was helping people, who found themselves in a very difficult situation.

It means, starvation or something like that… Initially, there was no help.

For cards people could buy only paraffin oil or household detergents. There was nothing there.

We helped those people. And I started my job there with Wanda Jaskólska.

She was the French teacher at Jadwiga Queen (School).

She was teaching French there.

She was the manager of this SKO group, she was organizing everything.

Later on, after a while, it turned into RGO.

But it started later on, when the printing house started working in Przemysłowa Street.

Those were cards for Germans. Food ration coupons were there, too.

Germans had their own stores. There were two kinds of shops in Warsaw.

Wolfart`s stores were with meat and Meinl`s stores were with food.

And we were using those false coupons and going to those shops.

It is hard to say from there the board of RGO took money for this help.

But the help was impressive.

I was just a typical, ordinary soldier, somehow a volunteer.