European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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In Warsaw we needed to rent a flat,
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since our house where we used to live was destroyed during the wartime military operations.
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We rented a flat in Ujazdowskie Alleys.
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The landlady was a Mrs Kijewska.
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Our life in occupied Warsaw began.
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In Warsaw, naturally, we did not bow to the Germans.
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This was in the so-called General-Gouvernement.
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There were no great liberties, but we could go to primary schools.
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My sisters used to attend to the school run by the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth.
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My brother had already graduated secondary school, so he didn’t go to school.
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My eldest sister very soon enrolled for some classes at the illegal university,
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because the academies began the term quite efficiently.
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On the other hand my brother soon got in touch
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with an illegal organization of the leftist type.
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A lot of young people at the time had grudges to our former political system, the period of Piłsudski’s rule,
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with many wrongs and a lot of poverty.
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Young people very often did not accept the situation
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in new Poland and wanted to introduce a more democratic system.
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That is why my brother joined the PPS (Polish Socialist Party).
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But not the one under the aegis of the Soviet Union which was called RPPS, the so-called Workers’ Socialist Party,
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