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After the happy meeting of Mr and Mrs Berek and their daughter Jasia it became apparent that the rest of their family was not so lucky. As we mentioned before, they started to look for a safe place to survive the Uprising. Unfortunately, the Germans found the hideout and burned the building along with all its inhabitants. When the Zielinski family returned to Warsaw in 1945 they found their old home on Narutowicz square plundered. There were no windows, but some plates remained which survive to this day on the wall in one of Mr Richard's apartment rooms. After the war the Bereks' first moved to Lodz, but failed to live in the harsh, postwar reality. So they left for Paris, and finally landed in Melbourne, Australia. From this moment any contact with Mr Ryszard were severed. The Polish communist government forbade any relation with the generally understood “West". Years passed, Mr Ryszard's parents died, he set up home. It was in 1998 when he received a letter from the Polish Red Cross. After the visit to the PRC headquarters, they said that a certain Paulina Berek was looking for him.