European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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First, we could see explosions, there were lights so that they could see at night where to bomb
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and we could hear boom, boom, boom, the noise from tanks and armoured vehicles.
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This farm house was situated between two main routes - one leading to the east, and the Batory`s route.
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We could see that both routes were filled by the army.
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What? The war broke out? We had no clue what happened.
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At some moment we heard shots and everything froze.
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All tanks stopped,
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I guess it was a kind of signal that when the Germans were coming, the Russians were supposed to stop.
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It took two, maybe three days, it is hard to say.
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One beautiful day I was by the river Neris,
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I was coming back and I saw that at the Josephs in front of their house,
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there was a horse, harnessed, and an open carriage, and the brother of Mrs. Lachowiczówna.
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I heard: take a horse and your carriage and go – and this carriage and a horse were left at the Josephs so that something could be saved.
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So I took the carriage and left the place.
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In the new place I reached I found only a girl. She was my age.
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She was doing whatever, was not paid for her job but could live there for free.
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It was a daughter of our herdsman.
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Melania said: I sit here by myself, it is very good you came.
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Agriculture buildings, where the workers lived, were far away.
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The house was in an orchard, the orchard was around,
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