European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Later on, after a while, it turned into RGO.
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But it started later on, when the printing house started working in Przemysłowa Street.
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There was a big slip-up, exactly in 1942 in this printing house, they were printing meinlowski and wolfartowski cards.
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Those were cards for Germans. Food ration coupons were there, too.
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Germans had their own stores. There were two kinds of shops in Warsaw.
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Wolfart`s stores were with meat and Meinl`s stores were with food.
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And we were using those false coupons and going to those shops.
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It is hard to say from there the board of RGO took money for this help.
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But the help was impressive.
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I was just a typical, ordinary soldier, somehow a volunteer.
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It is better to say I was a worker. All was done on your own initiative.
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And we began …
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At some moment Wanda, as it was her name,
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said: we have to take care of this Ujazdowski Hospital.
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Most officers taken to captivity came to this hospital.
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And she cooperated there with the Welfare Board and we started there.
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We helped there, finding food, clothes and started organizing escapes of our officers from this hospital.
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Germans were guarding them, because they were treated as prisoners of war.
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That is how we can call those officers – prisoners of war.
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And as I knew this land because I came from this area. I used to live in Czerniakowska Street and then in Hołówki Street,
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