Let's go shopping.

On the 1st of August '44 Ryszard’s father didn’t go to work. That was very strange for the other members of the family, which apart from Zielińscy was also Mr and Mrs Berek. He didn’t say why, he only went shopping with his boy. They were returning home when they went into a grocery store. While buying some herrings someone started to shoot. They couldn’t return home because the Germans were shooting everyone who moved. When the morning came they decided to go back to their house. They watched the entrance all night, but it was under German control. Every building was joined and had a special underpass. They moved to some tenement-house and its courtyard. Suddenly Mr Ryszard realised that he was alone. He turned around. His father was lying on the floor. As he told us after all these years:

“My father got shot really bad in the liver and kidney.”

They found a doctor who took out the bullet so Mr Zbigniew was fortunately rescued but he could only lie. On the 10th of August they heard the words: “Raus, raus, raus!” - surprisingly not German but a Ukrainian division. The Ukrainians helped Hitler after he promised them an independent country.