Regina Mularczyk
Class 5
Seroczyn, Wodynie commune
17 June 1946
An incident from the German occupation.
A roundup in Rudnik
When we woke up in the morning, there was some commotion in the village. We saw the Germans leading youth from Rudnik. [The Nazis] came when it was still dark and took young people, nobody knew why. Then they took the cattle, too. A crowd had already gathered. The youth and the livestock had to be taken to Seroczyn by carts. From there they were taken to an outpost in Stoczek. Parents of the young people walked behind the carts. At the outpost the Germans questioned the youth whether they were thieves. They said that one boy was a thief; they found it suspicious that he had been sleeping in a barn. People were begging loudly to let their children go. The Germans didn’t release anyone in Stoczek; instead they took them to a forest, but other people were denied access there. The Germans released the boys and girls one after another and ordered them to run while shooting. But they didn’t kill anybody, because they were shooting at the sky, not at the escapees. They wanted to scare the youth. Later the Germans left for Stoczek.