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The amnesty brought hope for a better future. The news reached us late in the year and people didn't know where to go. It was January 1942 when we left the posiolek. We travelled for around a month hungry and in rags, but free with hope in our hearts. There was less and less food but in a regular pattern, we were promised some more would be available at the next station. People had to live somehow, so they just simply stole whatever they could lay their hands on. In the stations as soon as it became dark, groups, mainly of women and children, slipped out of almost every wagon. Their objective being to break the seals from goods wagons and bring back whatever they could find. Sometimes it was a sack of flour or sugar, sometimes meat or indeed anything.
False Freedom
MARIA JURALEWICZ (SZTELA)
Osada Karlowicze, District Drohiczyn