Maciej Domański
Class 4a
Stanisław Staszic Elementary School in Kielce
My most memorable moment from the occupation
My most memorable experience from the German occupation was the uprising that broke out in Warsaw. I was wounded. We were hiding in the basements. I remember terrible air raids and shooting, and fires all around; it was impossible to go out into the street. We had nothing to eat; there was no water for a few days. Mom had some sugar pieces and that’s how we lived. One day the Germans surrounded the entire house, burst into the basement and took us all to a camp. After a few days they separated us from dad. Dad was taken away by the Germans and mom [fragment missing].
When we came home from the camp, we saw that our apartment was destroyed and we lost everything. We lived in a basement for a very long time. I will never forget that joyful moment when the troops came into our basement – and they were Poles. We started to cry with joy and kiss the soldiers. Our torment was over at last!