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Then the Warsaw uprising began. Before the uprising the school principal handed us the key to her apartment on Gornoslaska Street, so that we would look after it. And she left, just like all the German civilians. There were food reserves in the kitchen we worked in. We gave it to our boys – Marta also belonged to the AL then. Marta was summoned to the Old Town and I stayed with Tekla. Several months before the uprising Plotnicka sent Uncle Karol east, near Chelm, to her brother’s property. Because my uncle had gotten caught once on a street, by a szmalcownik [36].
During the first days of the uprising, cows were hitting. [Editor’s note: high-explosive shells which made sounds resembling the ‘mooing’ of a cow, and were, therefore, called ‘cows.’] A cow hit our attic and flew out the window. The attic caught fire, and I picked up a sack with sand, [so heavy] that I normally wouldn’t be able to lift it, and carried it upstairs to the attic, and we put the fire out together, because that cow only went through and flew farther. I could tell you about thousands of incidents like that from the entire war period, when I was close to death, but apparently I wasn’t meant to die.
During the first days of the uprising, cows were hitting. [Editor’s note: high-explosive shells which made sounds resembling the ‘mooing’ of a cow, and were, therefore, called ‘cows.’] A cow hit our attic and flew out the window. The attic caught fire, and I picked up a sack with sand, [so heavy] that I normally wouldn’t be able to lift it, and carried it upstairs to the attic, and we put the fire out together, because that cow only went through and flew farther. I could tell you about thousands of incidents like that from the entire war period, when I was close to death, but apparently I wasn’t meant to die.
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1944
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Maria Ziemna
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