Zofia Jasińska
Class 4b
My memories of German crimes
Now we can do what we want, say what we think, go where we want, and do what we believe is good for us and for our country. And previously? We went to bed, but we were not sure whether the Germans would not surround the village and take all the men and women to prisons and camps simply for being good Poles. I still remember how they took our people and put them in prisons and camps, starving them in a terrible manner. These people were hanged from gallows or died of hunger and cold in the prisons. I remember how one day the German gendarmes brought 33 handcuffed Poles in their cars. They took them outside of the Suchedniów train station. There they lined them up against the fence and shot them all with one round of shots.
The Germans destroyed the largest city in Poland, Warsaw. They killed most people there. Now the Poles are clearing the rubble.
[Another] example: there is a village of Michniów in our commune. One night the Germans surrounded this village, took all the men, women, and children to the barns, and burned them all. The families would later find their bones there. After Poland was liberated, the Poles [illegible] the bones of the innocent victims. They buried them in a common grave.