European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Beginning of WWII, Soviet occupation
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When the war broke out, the second one,
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the Vilnius Region was captured by the Russian army.
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And there were different connections than in the Warsaw areas.
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Fish ponds were nationalized, forests were nationalized, only thirty hectares of land were left.
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Horses were given to the war,
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we – me and my mum were left, there were no men, my parents separated much earlier,
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we were the only ones at the farmhouse.
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During the whole autumn in 1939 I was ploughing, only I worked with the plough.
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There was one horse left and three colts which were still too small to work.
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Then the Lithuanians theoretically got power over a big part of Wileńszczyzna from the Soviet Union.
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We were quite near Vilnius.
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And the Lithuanians were very bad to the Poles,
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they were oppressing us, we worked without wages.
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Before the outbreak of war, I was an employee of the National Agricutural Bank.
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If I had agreed to become Lithuanian then I would have worked longer,
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but because I did not agree to do so, I was fired in October and came back to Orwidów,
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then I took up working at the farmstead.
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On the whole, it was a male job. There were no men. And I was the main worker then.
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Those were very, very hard times.
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