European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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She asked if they could live at my place.
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Yes, of course, you are welcome.
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It was good for me that somebody would live there, not only Melania and me.
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They just escaped from Warsaw, were in Vilnius, as they heard about many little farms there where holidaymakers come.
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It was June, so they thought that maybe during the summer they could stay there,
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save some money and come back to Warsaw.
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They did not have any plans what to do next.
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Beginning of WWII, Soviet occupation
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When the war broke out, the second one,
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the Vilnius Region was captured by the Russian army.
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And there were different connections than in the Warsaw areas.
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Fish ponds were nationalized, forests were nationalized, only thirty hectares of land were left.
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Horses were given to the war,
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we – me and my mum were left, there were no men, my parents separated much earlier,
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we were the only ones at the farmhouse.
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During the whole autumn in 1939 I was ploughing, only I worked with the plough.
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There was one horse left and three colts which were still too small to work.
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Then the Lithuanians theoretically got power over a big part of Wileńszczyzna from the Soviet Union.
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We were quite near Vilnius.
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And the Lithuanians were very bad to the Poles,
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