CECYLIA JAWORSKA

Cecylia Jaworska
Class 7
Elementary School in Wzdół Rządowy

My most memorable moment from the occupation

The last war was memorable. The German occupier fought mercilessly against the Poles. My most memorable moment from the occupation was the sight of the neighboring village in flames. This martyr village is Michniów. A traitor informed the Germans that the village of Michniów was harboring partisans, so the Germans cruelly took revenge on the residents of Michniów.

I will never forget that terrible moment when new pillars of fire rose up, new houses were set ablaze. Everything burned to the ground. Only the brick of the gamekeeper’s barn remained.

All the residents of Michniów were packed into barns and burned alive. What a terrible ordeal it was! To torture people so cruelly today, in the twentieth century, the century of progress and culture! People are still so [cruel]! Instead of a heart, they have a piece of ice inside them that is cold, indifferent to human suffering. Poor, martyr Michniów! [Their] suffering and many, many Poles were that voice calling for vengeance to God on the cruel occupier. Every crime must be punished. And the Germans were punished. They shamefully had to flee our land.