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Our today’s interviewee:
Ewa Żelechowska-Stolzman (born 1929) lived in Wieliczka before the war. Her father worked as a chemist at a salt mine. When World War II broke out, her father learned that experts in various fields such as himself were to be evacuated along with their families towards the east. A truck was to take them and their belongings to the Main Railway Station in Kraków, but since it was too crowded, Ewa’s father and older sister rode bicycles, following the truck. On the Piłsudski Bridge, where the road was filled with vehicles, they learned that the railways station had been bombed. The trucks turned back, but Ewa’s father and sister couldn’t follow them, so the family was separated. Ewa and her mother travelled towards the east and at some point were placed on horse-drawn carts. In Janów they miraculously escaped death during the bombing of the town. They finally reached the territory of today’s Ukraine, where the danger was even greater, due to the attacks on Poles organized by Ukrainian nationalists. Following a long journey, they returned to Wieliczka, but Ewa’s father and sister were not there. They reunited two years later. Ewa’s sister fell ill with typhoid. During one of her many walks to Kraków, Ewa witnesses German soldiers drive into a cart carrying Polish workers, which resulted in one of the men getting his legs cut off. Ewa remembers the sight of the torn off leg in a boot to this day. Following the family reunion, they had to find a way to manage under the German occupation. Thanks to Ewa’s maternal aunt, Ewa’s father found a job in Warsaw and the whole family moved to the capital. A new chapter of the Żelechowski family’s life began.
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