European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

That’s how I became a soldier of the 3rd regiment of the Polish Legions under the command of 'Szary'.

And when time comes and the weather is dark enough, then we’ll do a job under the Poniatowski bridge.’

And he: ‘It won’t matter to you anyway, as soon as you bite it you die.’ It was cyanide.

It worked out fine. We were able to see if we had succeeded only the following day.

our troop to be part of the Szare Szeregi [Gray Ranks - the underground paramilitary Polish Scouting Association].

People were put in a row, gunshot in the back of the neck", the bodies were brown.

and the priest Kretowicz sent her to his brother's wife to help at the farm house

They survived, and after the Soviet army came they could leave the forest.

Minkowski’s death, hiding a Jewish child

Hiding a Jewish couple: Hannah & Arnold Minkowski

She was a daughter of the best dentist of Vilnius, who was a Jew.

who escaped from the Germans, came to Vilnius, met Hana and married her.

She was in the PMO (Polish Military Organisation) during the first war, she was baptized, was very catholic,

I was walking many kilometrers along the river Neris, which flowed a few kilometers from us.

First, we could see explosions, there were lights so that they could see at night where to bomb

One beautiful day I was by the river Neris,

Agriculture buildings, where the workers lived, were far away.

She asked if they could live at my place.

the Vilnius Region was captured by the Russian army.

I came to Vilnius and the Soviets started deporting Poles from the city on a large scale.