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A few days after the bombardment [on 12th September 1941] three German tanks came from Siedlce. I remember that I was standing on the street corner when they stopped. An officer got out of one of them and asked out loud why everything there was so dead, and why the shops were closed. He went up to a Jewish sweet shop, wrenched the locks off, opened the door, and scattered sweets around for the children. Interestingly, they came in the morning, and in the evening they left in the direction of Biala Podlaska. They said that they wouldn't be staying, but the Russkis [Russians] would.
When they left there was an interregnum for three days, and then the Russkis came [see Annexation of Eastern Poland] [10]. They'd been advancing for about a week towards Minsk Mazowiecki, and then under the Molotov- Ribbentrop Pact [11] decided to withdraw. Losice was to be on the German side, because we were about 14 kilometers from the Bug River [west of the Bug].
When they left there was an interregnum for three days, and then the Russkis came [see Annexation of Eastern Poland] [10]. They'd been advancing for about a week towards Minsk Mazowiecki, and then under the Molotov- Ribbentrop Pact [11] decided to withdraw. Losice was to be on the German side, because we were about 14 kilometers from the Bug River [west of the Bug].
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Jankiel Kulawiec
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