European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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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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The lady was Jewish, she was a friend of my uncles wife.
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She was in the PMO (Polish Military Organisation) during the first war, she was baptized, was very catholic,
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but all people from Orwidów knew she was a person of Jewish origin.
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She used to come every summer to visit her friend, I mean my uncle`s wife.
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He was Aryan.
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They wanted to find out, what happened to my aunt.
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She thought that maybe my aunt was there, she did not know she was deported.
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When finally she found out about it they decided to come back to Warsaw.
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I wanted them to stay but I knew that I was exposing others.
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In this situation I invited all workers to the porch and said: Listen,
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I would like this family to stay but I do not want to make a decision alone because our life is in danger.
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