Tag #106888 - Interview #89494 (Emilia Leibel)

I don’t know when exactly it was that they deported us [10] from Lwow, but it was no longer winter. It was March, April 1940. They [the Russians] came in the night and said: ‘Sobierayties’ [Russ.: pack your things – form used to more than one person]. That was it. So when they said that, I knew they weren’t taking my husband, but that we were all going. I was happier, because usually they only took the men. All together – well then, we’ll go. I don’t know how it happened, but that night they passed my in-laws’ apartment by. Among those Russians there was one Pole. He came up to me and said: ‘Take everything.’ So I took everything – bedding, Halinka had this folding camp bed, and I took that too. The only thing I didn’t take was food. With us they took my husband’s brother Heniek, who was there by chance visiting his parents – we lived in the same building as my in-laws.