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 * We lost everything and we didn’t know what was going to happen… **

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 * Those events I won’t forget to the end of my life… **



** It was a miracle that my father wasn’t caught and killed… **

**- How old were you when the World War II broke out? -** When the War World II broke out I was 8 years old. - **Where did you live then?** **-** I lived in a village Cudzeniszki near Wilno (Vilnius), in those days it was Belarus. Behind our neighbours’ barn there was a Lithuanian- Belorussian border. - When the Red Army entered our country, my father was a non-commissioned officer in Polish Army. He was caught by Russians and sent to a camp in Ostaszków. In that camp Polish officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers were kept prisoners. The prisoners were divided: officers were murdered and the others were sent to Siberia. My father managed to escape from this camp. We all thought he died. And we were very surprised when he returned home a day before Christmas. He walked for three months wearing a Polish Army uniform. It was very dangerous. If Russian civilians hadn’t given him food and shelter he wouldn’t have survived. He walked through the woods and fields as he knew Russian soldiers were looking for him. They searched every inch of the houses, barns and cowsheds to find the escapees. It was a miracle that my father wasn’t caught and killed. When the Russians came to our farm, my father and my uncle were in the barn. In the morning I went there to give them something to eat and drink and coming back I forgot to close the barn gate. On our neighbours’ farm soldiers shot into the straw and bayoneted it, so everyone who was hiding there was killed. We (I, my mother and younger sisters) saw the opened gate, we were frightened and started to pray and… the soldiers only looked at the barn and passed it by. Now I think that when they saw the open gate they must have thought there was nobody inside. We were very happy, but my father had to leave us. He went to Lithuania. - Yes, I went to a Russian school where we had to learn Russian and Belorussian. We couldn’t speak Polish at school. - We celebrated our festivals as usual, nobody interfered with it either Germans or Russians. - Yes, we had enough food, we didn’t starve. There were forests nearby with guerrilla fighters. We gave them food and drink too. - My uncle died in Westerplatte in September1939. - After the war our village was in USSR and Polish people had to go to the west to Poland. One of our uncles sent us an invitation – he lived in Lower Silesia in Ostroszowice. We went to Wrocław for three weeks by a freight train. And then to our uncle. The repatriation officers settled the repatriates in the farms and houses abandoned by German refugees. My father was given a farm, where my family has been living till today. I met your great-grandfather, married him and moved to Dzierżoniów. Alicja Pabian, class 4c, Primary School nr 9, Dzierżoniów, Poland
 * - Which events from WW2 do you remember most?**
 * - Did you go to school during the war?**
 * - How did you celebrate festivals during the ww2? **
 * - Did you have enough food? **
 * - Did all of your family survive the war? **
 * - Why did you settle permanently in Lower Silesia? How it happened? **
 * - Thank you for the interview.**


 * Interview with ww2 participant**


 * Scarlat John ** - At the age of 20 years I left the military. They made me a new suit of uniform for free, gave me a salary.
 * Reporter: ** **//In what year did you leave the military?//**
 * S. J. ** - 1940. Then I went to Brasov where we do training in Poiana Brasov. We went to the Sun gravel where we were cantoned. Here we were trained to fight. We were got on the train cars and went to the front.
 * Reporter: ** **//On which front?//**
 * S. J ** . - In Iasi. There I went to Bacau. Here we disembarked from the train. I then went digging trenches of Forest Three Para, from Iasi. We entered the trenches made by others. We were doing barbed wire. On August 20, Friday evening, we got a flock of planes and missiles left us, as if flowing like was fall the stars from the sky. Officers say//: „We are ready boys//!” We mention the Russian army on Saturday evening with us and we broke the front. I missed ... I got a brand of 120 and an 80 ... I was brandist. Then I left the woods and I got home. From there I went back to Brasov. There has been an inventory of those kinds. He stripped the old. We got to drive 30 Campulung. We were put in barracks, slept in barracks on some fur. //“Let’s go to the front, boys!”// We reached the valley of the Tisa and I got in touch with the Germans, we reached the middle Tisza, but the Germans we returned, I went on the offensive again and I managed to get the Tisza. Then we were moving the candle at both ends, the snow before. We went through mountains so high as if they came from heaven. That was great. When I remember this if I shook. I had trouble. We have stayed many soldiers on the front. By spring I went just over the mountains. We arrived in Prague.... on May 3. I remained under some trees. I went to scroll in Prague.
 * Reporter ** : **//In what year was it?//**
 * S. J. ** - It was 1944, towards the end of the war. From there we went before the town chairman. We gave nine a piece of bread. Then I waited to see what order we receive.... That brings us to train ... that we go with the car ... then told us that walk.


 * // Interview made by students from School Butoiu de Jos, Romania //**

Radu Luminiţa – 7th grade Anghel Diana – 7th grade

P. S. Because our grandparents are no longer alive we are taking this interview with a neighbor.

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