Toda Fornalska
Class 6
What the mass graves remind us of
Before the war, admittedly, I still did not understand much, but I had never heard about “mass graves”. It seems that people die en masse only during the war. They are very often buried together, a few dozen, or even, as in this war, a few hundred in one common hole, sometimes in a place not at all appropriate for this purpose.
It happens during every war, so [the mass graves] remind us that war greatly oppresses people, and misery during wartime brings people together and [affects them regardless of] age, marital status, education or military rank. There, everyone is treated equally after death. In this war mass graves remind us of something more, because they were built [illegible] not due to the uprisings but due to mass exterminations of different nationalities that Germans took on because of their hatred towards other nations, especially Poles, Russians, and Jews.
Mass graves are [spread] all over Poland and went down in history, so that future generations are aware of the things we went through − unbelievable things, but they did happen, because the Germans’ cruelty went above and beyond anyone’s imagination.