German occupation
"The Germans came, and what? We worked on our land and that’s it. The Germans would not take us. Some were taken to the police here and there were also Byelorussian battalions. I was still a little boy then. They wanted to take me away to Germany, but I ran away. (...) from Braslaw. In Braslaw we had to get on a train, and there was a long queue. From that queue they took people to Dūkštas in Lithuania. And we ran away. Nobody looked for us later on. And we stayed, as if we were in Germany. (...) we were already driven to the train. And in Braslaw, if you were in Braslaw, where there is a cemetery. There was a secondary school there. And they gathered us all at that school and led us to the train from that school. And there were buildings nearby, some pigsties or something. And we ran away. So, we stayed there and waited a little bit and in the evening it was already dark. And we came home and nobody was looking for us and, thus, we stayed. And they were already taking us away."
- born 28 January 1926 in Łunie near Słobódka
- before World War II he completed six forms of a Polish school
- in 1944 he was called up and deported to Russia
- he got to the Polish Second Army
- the end of the war found him in Prague
- after he completed his military service in 1947 he came back to his homeland
- in 1948, he was sent to work at clearing the forest in Karelia
- from 1949 on he worked in a kolkhoz first as a foreman and then as a bookkeeper
- he was also a mechanic at a potato drying house and a driver
- for ten years he worked at the school in Słobódka as a work teacher
- then, as a disinfector at a psychiatric hospital
- he married in 1952
- now, he lives in Słobódka