My name is Jan Mokrzycki, I was 6 yrs. old when the war
Jan Mokrzycki (xuegxaw@CSV.WARWICK.AC.UK)
Mon, 20 May 1996 19:27:34 +0100
started and I spent all of it in Warsaw Poland.
<if someone said holocaust was made up or exaggerated
what would you say>
Rubbish. Believe me it happened. My mother spent 2
years in Aushwitz and a year in Ravensbruck conc.
camp.To her grave she carried a tatto on her arm.She
survived, because she was tough and she was a doctor
and therefore priviledged,but when I saw her after a 3
year gap I did not recognise her.She was still grossly
underweight and her black hair turned completly white.I
have also been with her round Aushwitz, once you've
been there, you will never doubt the existence of
concentration camps. To this day, it is an area where
there are no birds at all!
<How do you feel about the neo natzis etc>
On the whole it is enough to look at them to realise
that the one thing they lack is intelligence.Let's just
hope we will not get some ruthless politician who will
exploit them for his own ends.
<what emotions did you experience at liberation>
I was not liberated, the German terror was replaced in
Poland by the Communist terror which lasted untill the
Polish Solidarity movement under Lech Walesa led to the
break up of the Soviet Empire. Personally I was lucky,
I was able to escape from Poland shortly after the War
and to settle in England.
<experiences of the World War 2>
You have a good Polish surname Christopher.My
experiences are mixed, one or two horrific moments,
like my parents arrest by the Gestapo. Otherwise,
children tend to accept what happens to them as normal,
becayse they know no other, so the fact that we were
hungry sometimes, shot at sometimes, bombed sometimes,
frightened sometimes and able to play and laugh and be
happy sometimes we all accepted as normal.