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Enraged, Zieliński saw Jerzy lying wounded or dead and ran downstairs, shooting at this mate.

That brought him to death, because the third man was standing in the gateway,

he was the smartest of them, this Andrzejczak.

I met him beforehand, because a couple of months before I had the pleasure to work with him on one sabotage job.

He waited, drew the pistol.

So with the gun in his hand he waited until the two appeared.

One was his friend, running away with a wounded hand; shouting:

‘I’m hit and ‘Ralf’ is dead I guess!’

So Andrzejczak yelled: ‘Fetch the horse cab!’ and waited for the other one.

Zieliński, with a gun still smoking, was chasing the first one.

Andrzejczak aimed and Zieliński aimed at Andrzejczak too,

shots were fired almost simultaneously and Andrzejczak hit him.

Zieliński did not hit him.

The first one brought a horse cab – there were no taxis then,

these were only for Germans.

They got in the horse cab and escaped.

I was told this story by one of my brother’s friends, but, unfortunately,

he told this to me not until July, and it all happened on 19 March 1943.

My brother was taken by a German ambulance to the Szucha street Gestapo headquarters.

Zieliński was also taken by the same ambulance and both men, so they say, died in it.