Marian Protaś
My wartime experiences
It all happened during the German occupation. One time I went out in the evening to listen to what people were saying. We stayed together for about half an hour. Suddenly a German plane arrived, its lights illuminated us and it dropped a few bombs. We all ran to a trench and spent the night there. When we came home in the morning, we saw a few destroyed buildings and several dead people. A car with German soldiers came to the village around lunchtime. We all thought that they would start shooting at us, but they only set up a watch and ordered people to come to a specified place to check our IDs.