European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

This is the street where the poet Baczynski lived.

In the same house. He was living at the third staircase and I at the sixth.

Later the famous editor Tomaszewski lived there.

As I said, these names are famous until now. The house is still standing.

This is like the Nazareth Monastery where the Czerniakowska Monastery is.

So between Gagarina and Bartycka Street there is Holowki 1, a very big house, 100 flats.

All flats with four, five rooms. Very big flats.

And at 10 the caretaker knocks.

My mother goes to open the door.

Six SS men get into our flat.

They search through the whole flat.

Nothing is found.

But you will not believe it, there were two entries to our flat,

and above the main entry there was an alcove covered by a curtain.

Just an ordinary curtain.

There was a radio.

And they searched through the whole flat, but did not check this curtain.

Yes, it was somehow a miracle.

Yes, Szucha Avenue, Pawiak and from Pawiak to Majdanek.

From November I was a prisoner, in investigation.