Waldemar Malinowski
Class 6b
Stanisław Staszic Elementary School in Kielce
My memories of German crimes
During the German occupation, Poland was in mourning. I was in Busko[-Zdrój] at the time and I saw from my window how a car with gendarmes drove by. The second car carried 20 people sentenced to death. When the cars stopped, the Poles were led out and told to dig graves for themselves; one Pole, who had his leg in a plaster cast, was thrown alive into a pit and buried. The ground was moving. The Germans trampled on it until the buried man died. The rest of the men were placed near the pit and shot [in their] heads. One of the Poles asked for his life to be spared, while another, his colleague, cried out: “Who are you asking? The Krauts? Our brothers will avenge our deaths!” I will never forget this incident as long as I live, and now we should try and guard the borders so that this crime is not repeated.