大象传媒

I was a school girl in Warsaw when the war broke out. First there were bombs when all we could do was lie on the floor. The windows were shattered so we stuffed them with old newspapers. The Germans wandered in, they used to close two ends of the street. All within were deported to an unknown destination and fate (I ran fast so I escaped) Then they gave some families the choice "we take one of you, you decide who". We were still hopeful so we watched the sky, no planes came.
There was a pact between Poland, France and England. Whichever was attacked first the others would come to its aid.
We waited and waited...
Then we moved out of Warsaw, but to our surprise the Russians marched in. Speedy exhicutions?
The Russians scraped out throats with a serrated knife, whilst demanding to be told where our secret agents were hiding.
Outside in open space horses were running bleeding so they were different ethnic origin.
One of the Russians wanted to give me the old clothes he confiscated. i declined, all the time I was worried about my little dog whome I loved.
Young girls acted as secret agents, real Heroines of war. They asked if I had a message to send to England. I don't know how they found my father was a high ranking officer in the Polish forces who came to England to fight the war among other allies.
Polish mathematicians decoded the German inigma code, which shortened the war for all of us.
Some of the Germans, not members of the Nazi party disagreed with the cruelties. They were betrayed and shot.
War experiences made me interested in displaced persons. I chose them as my subject for my PHD thesis at the University of Paris.
I interviewed them in Polish, Russian and German. As they waited to be transfered to other countries, officially to Isreal, but most in fact chose USA.

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