Jadwiga Kaczmarczyk
Class 7b
My most memorable moment from the occupation
What I remember most is a general round-up in which dad was taken to Germany. On the morning of 28 September 1944, German troops surrounded the entire town and started rounding up the men. Only those who hid avoided this fate. At our place, three Gestapo men stormed in and, having searched the flat, took dad away. Then they took the neighbors one by one and led the whole group to Bukówka. From Bukówka they led all the men to the station. From the station they took them all by train to Germany.
It pained us to read that dad was getting 20 decagrams of bread per day. Mom tried to send parcels, but they were never delivered. Dad often wrote to us and we also wrote to dad, but our letters didn’t reach him. In his letters dad described the air raids and wrote that he missed his family very much. We also waited for dad to [illegible].
[Illegible] returned to his family. He had barely walked through the door when we clung to his neck.
What a joy it was to be reunited!