European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

I came from a landowning family.

My father, despite being a mechanical engineer and having studied in Germany, decided to stay and to live off the land.

The country was always his top interest.

I was on holiday at my grandma Wanda Rozwadowska’s landed estate in the Płock county. The name of the estate was Kobylniki.

And this is where the outbreak of war found me.

And it was still the first day when the German aircraft came dropping bombs on the neighbouring villages.

They aimed one of the bombs at the most beautiful farm which existed there.

Right after the outbreak of the war some German motorcycles appeared, which probably were supposed to look for any Polish troops staying there.

Soon, a passenger car followed with some officers.

One of the officers got out, he climbed the porch stairs and my aunt came to talk to him, because she spoke some German and French.

The German wanted to shake hands, but she withdrew her hand.

After war life of people Stefania saved

What happened with our people?

Helena, Staś came back, the husband came back, the father died,

the husband of Helena Snarska called Lusia Wajnryb, he also was taken to the army

but they moved to France later on, and then to Australia.

They used to write from Australia but Stefan lost their address.

I wrote to some Polish magazine, I wanted to find out how they were doing,

and I got a very nice letter, I remember Helena wrote in a very funny way –

with me it is like that – when only a man looks at me, I am having a baby, I have three sons.