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But they were scared about the child and Mrs. Julia Zeromska and asked to let them live at my place.

So it was an additional couple sitting at my place, very unpredictable especially due to the Germans.

Stefanias fear to be betrayed

People stopped thinking about the origin of this child and where she came from, a child who could not speak Polish.

This child learnt Polish very fast,

Natka took care of her and there were many funny jokes with Maryśka.

But it was very dangerous.

I remember one day, there was one of our workers, she was a cook, drinking a lot,

and she used to run drunk and scream: there is a big Jew who feeds cows and that child must be Jewish, too.

Of course, only a fool is not scared in a situation like this.

Well, it is a human being if you take a risk you need to be consistent.

It was 1941.

The German-Soviet war broke out in June 1941 and it was still this year.

So I tried hard to rent a wagon, which could take us to Belarus.

Hana had some clothes, Arnold did not have any, but she had some stuff,

maybe she got something from her father. But we had something which could be sold.

I had little money, but enough to buy food.

There was one man, who bought some small land from Orwidów.

He was called Dzanuk as he was always dreaming about going to America,