European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Before the outbreak of war, I was an employee of the National Agricutural Bank.
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If I had agreed to become Lithuanian then I would have worked longer,
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but because I did not agree to do so, I was fired in October and came back to Orwidów,
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then I took up working at the farmstead.
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On the whole, it was a male job. There were no men. And I was the main worker then.
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Those were very, very hard times.
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In spring 1940 the Lithuanians asked, quote unquote,
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to include this part of Wileńszczyzna into the Soviet Union as a further republic.
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So the Soviet power came.
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The Soviet power wanted to show off that they were better,
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better for us than the Lithuanians were.
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And the Soviet power came.
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Somebody informed me that I can make money in forests as a cart man.
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There were one, two horses.
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As winter came, there was plenty of snow, so one of our workers drove one sleigh, I drove the next one.
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During the whole winter I worked as a cart man.
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When it was still dark outside we used to go to the forest by sleigh, load the timber, firewood.
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We took it to the station called Bezdany, there we had to unload the firewood and come back to the forest.
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We had to do this twice a day.
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The next spring came in 1941.
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