Civilian life in Poland (Krakow) during the WW2.

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GrzegorzKoziol

Apr 30, 11, 23:21 #32

My grandmother is over 90 years old she was born in Krakow and has lived there all her her life. She has some crazy stories. Typically the germans would come by surprise and suprise poles and do like round ups, so they would go on a saturday or sunday when Poles were out playing soccer or out doing shopping, and they would come with huge trucks and surround the area and round up all the people in the area and process them which meant a number of things, if you were jewish you were put in concentration camp. I can find out more details if you would like. In general Polish people tried to keep their traditions alive but german armies prevented them from living normal life, they had to be cautious of where they went and waht they did, there were curfews and round ups. My grand mother even told me one story where she was being chased by german soldiers when she went shopping for food in downtown krakow and she ran up an apartment building, germans chased her up the building she hid inside bathroom and left her documents and groceries in the bathroom, so she had to go back down and get it or they would know who she was and then she had to jump across one apartment building through a window into other apartment, keep in mind these are several stories high, if she fell it would be hundred feet or more drop, she jumped across and ran down stairs to other apartment which led away from the area where germans were rounding people up and she went back home.

GrzegorzKoziol

Apr 30, 11, 23:26 #33

A lot of Polish people would also hide Jews, my grand parents on my Dads side lived in a very small farm town about 1 hour drive away from Krakow and they hid several Jews in thier farm which was passed down of several generations since pre World WAR I, the area they lived was secluded so germans would not come there. When germans came they were more focused on large population centers and cities so they did not have regular patrols in smaller towns and countryside of Poland as they did in main polish cities like Warsaw and Krakow.

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