Irena Kundera
Class 5
Public Elementary School in Dąbrowa near Kielce
My most memorable moment from the German occupation
In the summer of 1943, a great round-up took place in our village (Dąbrowa near Kielce). The Germans surrounded the entire village, and four gendarmes and one civilian German went from house to house to arrest people. When the person they wanted to arrest was not at home, they beat other residents of the house. They approached one farmer and asked where his son was. This farmer did not have a son, so he told them that he did not have a son and that he lived alone. Then one of the Germans came closer to him and asked him again where his son was. The farmer repeated that he did not have a son. Then the gendarme hit him three times with a leather whip over the head. The man was elderly. He covered his head with his hand, sat down on a bench in front of the house and wept. This moment is the most memorable for me from the times of the German occupation.