21 June 1946
Krystyna Pozorek
Class 5b
Wisznice, Włodawa district
My wartime experience
The Soviets drove the Germans away from Poland in 1944, with great help from Poles and Englishmen. While retreating, the Germans destroyed everything they could. They did not do much harm in Wisznice, they only burned down the barracks and a bell tower. At that time, I was in a shelter with my family. When I came back, the Germans were nowhere to be found, and the Soviets were coming in, in a line of cars. The Germans stopped in Warsaw, which is why Warsaw is completely destroyed. They had some time there, so they bombed the churches and brick buildings. When they ran out of steam and they had no ruler – because Hitler ran away in 1945 – the Germans surrendered. And Poland rejoiced, because the enemy no longer ruled over it.