Zygmunt Chodkowski
Class 5a
Wisznice, 19 June 1946
My most important wartime experience
When the Germans fled Poland, they destroyed people’s belongings and slaughtered pigs. Farmers and all the other people ran to the woods with their pigs and cows. One farmer, who lost his pigs, was very worried that he would not find [them], but I saw some pigs when I was grazing cows with my friends. Sadly, a wolf came, attacked the pigs and killed one of them. We started screaming and the wolf ran away.
On the second day, German and Russian planes started fighting each other. Two Russian and four German planes fell from the sky, and the pilots from one German plane ran into the forest. The partisans caught them and they shot them in front of us. The Russian airmen were killed, while others burned alive.
This is the end of my wartime experience.