Next days... visiting family and friends... I was left alone for a couple of hours with a mother of a wife of a cousin of my mother... She is about 80 years old and she told me a shocking story of her life... She was 12 when the second world war started and 16 when it finished. She witnessed killing by Germans and rapes by Russians. She told me how they had to dig deep holes in the ground and hide meat. Otherwise Germans and their dogs would find out the meat and take it for the German army, well, not only meat but everything what was to eat. And the family was starving. Then, when Russians came to Poland to fight with Germans their behaviour was unacceptable she said, worse than Germans. First of all, they were raping women. She was always hiding in the attic and went out if she saw it was a family member or a Polish soldier.
She told me more stories. Then all the family came inside the house for a dinner. My father and I had dinner 2 hours earlier so we didn't want to eat anything. It was a big problem for my aunt, the fact that I came to visit them and didn't want to eat her dinner. I had to fight hard for about 15 minutes and I won of course but I was wondering if this behaviour is an after-war behaviour when food was the most important and precious thing and sharing it was the highest sign of hospitality??...
In the picture: with a 2-months old Stasiu, son of my another best friend Asia.