Mieczysław Gromiuk
Class 7
Elementary School no. 2
Parczew, 11 June 1946
My wartime experiences
In February 1944, cars with people came to the market square. Those people were very sad. There were two gallows in the market square. When I came to town and saw it, and I felt sad, too.
In a few minutes, the Gestapo men led the people out of the cars and brought them to the gallows. When the executioner was putting nooses around their necks, I cried. In a few hours, the cars departed and the people were left on the gallows for the whole night.
I couldn’t sleep at all because I was afraid that the Gestapo men would come for my daddy and do the same to him. The night passed somehow. Two carts arrived at 2 p.m., and the bodies of the hanged were piled up and taken to the cemetery. They were all buried together. In this way [missing].