Liberation

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“Finally one day, two in the afternoon, this was late in 1944 and the Germans were bombing the Poles during the uprising. A bomb fell on the house we were staying in and leveled most of the courtyard. We ran from the debris, and all decided at this point to head into the bomb cellar of a Polish office building.”

“We would sit there in the bomb cellar all night and hear the sirens going off, unable to sleep. Whether the Russians or the other allies, we just said they couldn’t come soon enough. Many families wanted to be liberated.”

“I hadn’t even realized the war was over. I was just working you know day to day and the man I was working for just said the Jews were liberated.”