Eugeniusz Krupski
Class 4
Wisznice, Włodawa district
19 June [1946]
My wartime experience
After the German occupation, [during which] the Germans tormented us for four years, the time came that they had to run away. Near our house, on the road we saw cars, cannons, tanks and infantry passing by. The Germans fled to the west. After a week of this sight we realised that the front line was coming, because the Germans started to dig trenches.
One day in the morning we saw Russian planes, then the Germans started to make shelters and hide. We dug up a shelter of our own and I helped carry clothes there. When we were taking our things to the shelter, a German came to us with a revolver in his hand, looked for something and threatened us.
On Sunday night we stayed with daddy in the shelter by the house, and mum with my brother were in the woods and couldn’t come because their Germans didn’t want to let them go. There was a cannon set up next to our barn. When they fired that cannon, the sand in the shelter kept falling on us. At night, there was a fire in Wisznice and there were explosions, because the Germans destroyed the bridges. When it went quiet, I fell asleep [for] a few hours until morning. In the morning it was quiet, the Germans were gone.