Paper was everywhere, in the main hall of the Ministry, in passages, on desks, chairs and floors, even over...
Britain and France declare war against Germany! A short, extraordinary text issued by 'Kurjer...
The uniformed Youth of Pioneers, Hitlerjugend, Falangist, Komsomols marching in step to military drums with...
Further down were two gentlemen of medium age; one, with glasses and unruly hair, occasionally looking at...
I went with Marushka to town to shop and to send a wire to her parents, advising them that we were in...
The following story appears courtesy of and with thanks to Marushka and Zygmunt Skarbek-Kruszewski and...
Grabbing the suitcase, we ran with Marushka through the restaurant kitchen into the backyard, hiding...
I found Aleksandria and noted with astonishment that it was situated on the River Horyn... Through the...
I pushed away from the bank and the boat turned lazily towards the centre of the river... We knew that our...
His wife was from Georgia, U.S.S.R. We were very hungry so Marushka offered her nice multi-coloured scarf...
We emptied the boat, I undressed and pushed the boat toward the middle of the river directly opposite the...
The teacher gave us additional information six kilometres away was a village Komarowo and, from there, a...
Ten officers from the regiment did not want to surrender and decided to fight their way through the...
The mixed crowd in the streets consisted of evacuees, Polish soldiers, Red Army soldiers, and local Jews in...
Some of them were wounded, mainly by German bombs, only a few through fighting with the Russians... Our...
I, a citizen of the Lithuanian Socialistic Soviet Republic and you, White Russian Socialistic Soviet...
I was supervising the decoration of the large marble hall for a ball that evening which was to be included...
A military policeman stopped me, forbidding me to continue as Wilno was being taken over by the German Army...
This order was concerned with Poles, previous Polish citizens and their families, as well as Russian...
The following story appears courtesy of and with thanks to Marushka and Zygmunt Skarbek-Kruszewski and...
Sore of them, in colourful armbands, had long ago greeted the advancing, victorious Germans in the streets...
On the dusty highway, occasional groups of stragglers from the German Army began appearing... If you...
However we were told that trains were still leaving Kaunas in the direction of the German frontier but only...
We concocted the following story: Marushka, who had been employed in Kaunas as an interpreter in the...
The Germans moved to special wagons reserved for them and other cars had the sign 'For Civilians'....
Warsaw asked a high price for goods which, by some detours and lanes, carried on backs of hucksters, by...