European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

The house was furnished, so I sold duvets, linen, place settings, covers.

I sold that as we had to live somehow.

The Zambrowicz family was there but they lived by themselves.

Well, I had known Natka for a long time, since our childhood.

Stefan worked a little bit, but he had no idea how to work in the countryside.

He was a city person, a journalist,

so he had no clue, but obviously he was trying to do something, tried to help.

The wages were not as good as during the Soviets times,

we had to do anything, load the wood for the Germans, offer help by lending the horse, carriage and a worker.

So we did not make any money.

We had to steal wood from our own forest,

some dry trees we used to cut down and take to Vilnius where we sold it to make some money.