European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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They were in Vilnius, living at her parents place.
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At first there was no ghetto, but then the Germans took her husband to the ghetto, I do not remember the maiden name of Helena,
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her father-doctor and her husband Abraham Wajnryb, but in general he was called Stanisław.
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Staś and her father were taken to Estonia to work in a quarry.
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There, mica was extracted, it was hard work. Plenty of people were deported there to work and extract that mica.
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Helena stayed at home alone with her mother who was ill, it was cancer.
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When the Germans reached her house,
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Helena gave her an injection,
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anaesthetized her as she knew that when Germans came they would kill her in bed,
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those were their ways of dealing with people.
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Finally she was taken to the train.
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And in the last moment she tore out the wooden board from the floor
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and lowered herself onto the railway track, she did it, she was lucky they did not shoot her
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as at the end of the train always a German was who was supposed to shoot if somebody left the train.
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Helena did it, she rolled onto the railway embankment,
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went through some fields and reached Vilnius, where the priest Kretowicz gave her papers.
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Well, everybody knew that she worked as a maid with the Kretowicz family in upper Orwidów,
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and then the Konarzewski family came, they moved there, and she moved to my place.
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Lithuanian officials help Stefania to hide people
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There were people who helped during those German-Lithuanian times.
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