Stories categorised in 'Poland'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
On some signs were visible between cracked dirt: 'Town administration -Vienna', a red one parked...
One POW was getting out at night and was seeing the wife of a German soldier who was on the Russian front....
Franz Irving was already a prisoner at Auschwitz, but in very different circumstances to our group. Some...
I was seventeen years old when the Germans came, for a while they treated us well, my mother spoke German...
At the beginning of 1939 cousins of my mothers arrived in our town from Permazenc, Germany, and told us...
Leslie Hardman, a chaplain in the British Army spoke to us for about an hour in Yiddish and gave us...
They connected the radio station and listened in to the news from Warsaw: they knew where the Germans and...
Civilians lined the road giving them bread and fruit, and the Germans allowed it as they had no means...
In May Douglas was part of a bombing expedition to Maastricht to halt the German advance there and they...
Him and his freind then rejoined his group and were told to move East for the defence of Warsaw. The Poznan...
David died later during a compulsory march into the depth of Germany at the time when the Germans started...
A few days later, when the German advance was in full, "blitzkrieg" flow I left Warsaw and...
It was at this time, I believe, that many Polish officers were executed in a camp called Katyn. General...
Eva Clarke's mother, Anka Bergman, survived Auschwitz Concentration Camp and gave birth to her daughter...
As for myself I rejoined the Polish army in France and went through until the end of the war, after 25...
The same thing happened some 4-5 months before, to most of the men of this town, my father and my uncle...
Eventually he ended up fighting for the German Army on the front lines in France on the anti-aircraft guns....
This story is set in Poland, where my granddad was brought up and at 19 years old decided to join the army...
The men in this camp were sorted into working parties and my father found himself being sent to camp E586,...
Alerted to the German invasion of France, the parents made a dash for England, leaving Mark behind in the...
We have later learnt that at the same time Schulz, whose Polish girlfriend was executed by the resistance...
We have later learnt that at the same time Schulz, whose Polish girlfriend was executed by the resistance...
The town was divided into Jewish and Polish section and we were forbidden by Nazis to have any contact with...
She remembers vividly - and recounts eloquently - tales of everyday life in Warsaw under the Germans; for...
In 1941 the living condition in ghetto deteriorated as Nazis brought thousands of Jews from Hungary,...
They got chatting and Roy asked Jean to write to him when he returned to his regiment. Roy and Jean married...
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