Audio Collection
Halina Ogrodzińska - The Landau couple
Transkrypcja
At that time I was living with Maryna in these blocks of the Weigl Institute, there were these blocks […] surrounded by a wall, a little bit outside of the town, anyway at the end […] of that wall it was possible to get through and […] there was this field. It was March, we didn’t know about anything, it was only at the last moment that someone […] knocked and said that […] Mr and Ms Landau needed a shelter. Across from my place – after all I had left the Weigl Institute, so I couldn’t go back there […] – lived an old man, an assistant from the Weigl Institute and there were many […] employees there as well, they were renting apartments, and I had three rooms. Only one of them… only one had a bed on which I slept and there was a kitchen, so one night we were staying late with Maryna, reading some [clandestine] newspapers, when someone started banging on the door in the middle of the night. It turned out later that the person who brought the Landaus to us informed someone […] and […] they were some kind of blackmailers and they were connected with the Germans because they took them finally. They started banging on the door, so me and Maryna, very quickly, I know we didn’t open, because we had to burn these newspapers we had been reading. And finally they battered the door down and came inside, they clearly knew all the details because they went straight to the room where she was, where they were, and we heard they started beating them, because […] they were screaming. And Maryna was clear-headed enough to say: “Halina, let’s take our coats and run away!”, because they left the door open. So we ran outside, to that spot where we could go down. It was in March, there was snow, it was cold and we stayed there until the morning, at dawn we went […] to Kurkowa Street, where Maryna’s father lived and that’s how we found out, we couldn’t do anything, we couldn’t defend them, because they died at that time.
