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And there was a huge raid, they went through literally all houses [searching for Jews hiding from the deportations]. We had that one room, and next to it there was a passageway to the attic. We went to hide there, only had a bucket for excrements, and sat there all day, nobody betrayed us. A religious family of a Jewish shoemaker lived in our house, they were all taken away, they had a few kids. Our housekeepers took their things. But no one gave us away, a hunchbacked servant took that bucket to empty it, brought us some water to drink. And we survived that first raid.
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Maria Ziemna
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