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and lowered herself onto the railway track, she did it, she was lucky they did not shoot her
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as at the end of the train always a German was who was supposed to shoot if somebody left the train.
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Helena did it, she rolled onto the railway embankment,
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went through some fields and reached Vilnius, where the priest Kretowicz gave her papers.
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Well, everybody knew that she worked as a maid with the Kretowicz family in upper Orwidów,
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and then the Konarzewski family came, they moved there, and she moved to my place.
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Lithuanian officials help Stefania to hide people
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There were people who helped during those German-Lithuanian times.
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If I am saying bad things about Lithuanians, because they were very cruel to the Poles,
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but there were two very good people in Niemenczyn.
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It was the village leader Mr. Baučius who was sent from Lithuania,
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I guess he could speak Polish, even though it was not good.
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The second one was Mr. Žemaitis
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who had nothing to do with the next minister in here, who was by the way a person of Jewish descent, not a Jew or a Lithuanian.
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Žemaitis had a big farm house
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and he was the vice-village leader.
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Mr. Jankowski, Henryk as I well remember – the district secretary, was also helping.
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But there were some people who were against Jankowski in spite of the fact he had never done any dirty things.
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At Jankowski´s place lived an organist,
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he was the musician and later professor at our Music Academy - Witold Rudziński.
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