European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Their last name was real, the good type.
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Hana was a blue-eyed blonde, nobody could really say she was a Jew.
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Arnold also did not look like a Jew.
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And they were definitely willing to leave Vilnius.
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I went to Orwidów and said to this married couple
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they had to be very careful as the more shady people lived in here, the bigger danger of betrayal was.
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I told them that there is a situation like that and if they or rather we can decide to help.
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I brought the Minkowski family.
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There was a huge problem with them as they were very scared.
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In Niemenczyn – that was a little town with a ghetto.
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So the Minkowski´s were really scared to know that seven kilometers from us was a ghetto, thinking this a big risk.
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And the Minkowski family was really scared.
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After the ghetto in Niemenczyn was closed down
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they wanted to go to the home farm to those people where they had been hidden in Vilnius.
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It was Belarus then as the province was divided into the Lithuanian and the Belarus part.
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The Belarus part was in the south,
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it seemed to be safer. Lithuanians were said to be unpredictable.
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But I have to say, in Vilnius there were areas with almost no Lithuanians.
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Hiding a Jewish-Polish couple; financial situation
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After the Zambrowicz family, the next people came.
 
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