Victor and his brother, Leszek, had working papers that said that they were an auto mechanic for the German SS and a toolmaker. The Gestapo in charge of deportation ripped up the papers and beat them with his club. They were told to go to Plac Zgody.
At Plac Zody, the Germans told the prisoners not to move an inch, and they proved their point by anyone who got up or moved around.
He tried to escape while the group passed Wieliczka Street by running into a house, but his plan failed. He was lucky the SS officer who caught him did not kill him right then.
To escape the death train, Victor pulled out a hacksaw blade he hid in his boot and began to cut the two steel bars barricading the small window.
One the train reached the forest in Niepolomice,
At Plac Zody, the Germans told the prisoners not to move an inch, and they proved their point by anyone who got up or moved around.
He tried to escape while the group passed Wieliczka Street by running into a house, but his plan failed. He was lucky the SS officer who caught him did not kill him right then.
To escape the death train, Victor pulled out a hacksaw blade he hid in his boot and began to cut the two steel bars barricading the small window.
One the train reached the forest in Niepolomice,