Jan Pawłowski
Class 4b
Stanislaw Staszic Elementary School in Kielce
My memories of German crimes
During the German occupation, the Germans did a lot of harm to my family. First, in 1943, they murdered my uncle near St. Adalbert’s Church in Kielce, where they shot 10 Poles. In the same year, they took my aunt’s son to Auschwitz, and in 1944, my uncle was arrested and deported to Germany.
On the second [illegible] they took my dad to dig trenches and murdered him there. Mom had to work alone to feed us; there were five of us, because my older brother was also taken to Germany.
I remember my uncle’s execution site. There was a lot of blood and brain splattered on the wall. When they unearthed my uncle in 1945, [he] had his hands tied with barbed wire and half his head ripped off. I will never forget these German crimes – and neither will the entire Poland – because ten people were murdered together with my uncle, and there are plenty of such graves all over Poland.