Josef Hamrozi

“Some Kurek guy, no armes, no legs, he was a bell ringer for forty years, maybe more, he would always ring the bell at noon and in the evening.”

“I was also supposed to enter the military but it was already… the 3rd of January [1945] so I said that the front is near and I didn’t enter, while my uncle here had two sons in the military service so it was safe to hide there because they weren’t searching there since they were in the military, none of them came back. So I hid there and survived but it was risky, twice the SS were here, asking where I was. And mama says: “What? He fell? He already fell?” They were saying that I’d been drafted and I’d already fallen when the soldiers came. So they asked whether we had any eggs to spare… so they gave them eggs and they left. Ten days later they were back…”