Mother and we children remained at home until 10th February 1940, but during all this period we endured frequent visits from different Ukrainian gangs who robbed us of everything we had possessed. Before our departure just one cow was left. In the very early hours of that morning we were taken from home to the school, which served as a collecting point, and from there to the railway station in Luboml. Here we were loaded onto cattle trucks and taken on a three-week journey into the unknown, literally until the rail track ran out.