Re: hi
Jan Mokrzycki (mokrzyck@RMPLC.CO.UK)
Tue, 16 Jun 1998 11:50:32 GMT
At 21:03 15/06/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Ok, could you tell me what you were doing and were you were at the time of
>WWll?
>Like 1940s? I know thats asking alot but a brief or not brief would be
>fine...I love history and would like your insite of it..Thanks Linda
>
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>OK here goes.
In 1939 at the beginning of the war I was only 6 and lived in Warsaw.
I can remember my father, a doctor being conscripted and going off to war.
My mother also a doctor stayed with me in Warsaw looking after the wounded.
I can remember German planes coming in low and machine gunning anyone in the
streets, buildings burning and a general fear which I was too young to share
or appreciate.
By 1940 Poland was defeated, there were shortages of everything fom glass to
put into the windows- they were boarded up for some month, fuel and food.
We were lucky as my father came back and with 2 doctors in the house we at
least did not starve. The rations given by the Germans were almost
starvation diet.
Both my parebts were engaged in the Polish Home Army (the underground
fighting the Germans). In 1941 mother was arrested for the first time. The
family managed to buy her out, but in 1942 both my parents, my grandfather
and uncle were all arrested by the gestapo, questioned and tortured by them.
The men were all shot some weeks later and mother sent first to Oswiecim
(Aushwitz) concentratin camp and then 18 months later moved to Ravensbruck
concentration camp. She survived this and in fact only died here in England
2 years ago.
I lived the rest of the war with my paternal grandmother.
Jan Mokrzycki
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Dr Jan Mokrzycki and
Magdalena Mokrzycki
mokrzyck@rmplc.co.uk