European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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And the Soviet power came.
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Somebody informed me that I can make money in forests as a cart man.
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There were one, two horses.
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As winter came, there was plenty of snow, so one of our workers drove one sleigh, I drove the next one.
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During the whole winter I worked as a cart man.
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When it was still dark outside we used to go to the forest by sleigh, load the timber, firewood.
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We took it to the station called Bezdany, there we had to unload the firewood and come back to the forest.
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We had to do this twice a day.
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The next spring came in 1941.
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In June 1941 I went to Vilnius.
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I guess I had to meet with somebody, to find out about somebody, I do not remember exactly.
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There was very little contact then with the city.
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I found out that the doctor died two days earlier,
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that his wife and daughter did not have money to pay for the funeral,
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and they asked me if me and my mum could help them.
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I came back home, my mum said: your money, you made it, take it.
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I went to Vilnius and after that I did not see my mum for a couple of years.
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I came to Vilnius and the Soviets started deporting Poles from the city on a large scale.
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That day I could evade arrest, this family had a phone– the Zebrowski family,
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and somebody from their relations knew I was in Vilnius
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