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Our today’s interviewee:
Józef Stępień (born 1932), witness to the bombing of Wieluń on 1 September 1939. On the first day of the war at 4.40 a.m., the Germans dropped bombs on Wieluń. Many buildings caught on fire, people were frightened and they didn’t know what to do. The owner of the building in which Józef Stępień’s family lived fled with his wife by car. Józef’s father took a cart on two wheels, loaded their belongings onto it and the family left the town. On the way, they passed a tenement building at Ewangelicka Street, where they had been living earlier. A part of the building had collapsed and the people in the cellar were buried alive. The family travelled further. Józef Stępień saw a severely wounded woman, who was desperately screaming for help. After an exhausting, day-long march, they reached a village near Łask. They spent the night in a barn. In the morning, it turned out the Germans had reached to that area. The occupiers told Józef’s family to go back to Wieluń. The town was severely damaged, still burning in some places. A month later the Stępień family were told to leave their flat, because the buildings near the evangelical church that remained intact were supposed to house Germans.
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