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We had the car for the time being. My husband earned a living with the car, he used it as a taxi, though he didn’t have the sign.
Once, he picked up a passenger, from somewhere in town, I don’t know, and they got talking and found they were both from Cracow, and my husband told him that he was driving without a license. He was an actor from the Slowacki Theater in Cracow [founded 1893, building designed by Jan Zawiejski]. I don’t remember what that actor’s name was, all I remember is that his wife’s surname was Potocka. And he employed him, on the basis that it was his car and my husband was just his driver. And in that way there was no danger that his car would be taken. Nobody suspected that the Russians would get dug in so comfortably in Lwow.
Once, he picked up a passenger, from somewhere in town, I don’t know, and they got talking and found they were both from Cracow, and my husband told him that he was driving without a license. He was an actor from the Slowacki Theater in Cracow [founded 1893, building designed by Jan Zawiejski]. I don’t remember what that actor’s name was, all I remember is that his wife’s surname was Potocka. And he employed him, on the basis that it was his car and my husband was just his driver. And in that way there was no danger that his car would be taken. Nobody suspected that the Russians would get dug in so comfortably in Lwow.
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Emilia Leibel