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Brest
Next day we went to visit Brest. It was quite a nice town, with a lot of shops and cars, very busy with people. There again, everyone looked very nice and smartly dressed. It was hard to believe that not long ago it was a communist country. We went to the market to look around. It was very sad to see the poor people standing in corners selling their belongings -- shoes, clothes, glass, china, anything they had for a few rubles. The only meat I saw was a few chickens. There were some vegetables and bananas.
Warsaw
After that we went to Warsaw, and the nice Polish people were there to meet us and they took us to meet the mother. She was a very nice, pleasant lady. She made us very welcome and most of all I enjoyed a good English cup of tea. She wanted to know what I had seen and where I had been and what I had heard and of course, it was very hard for me to repeat the very painful stories I had been told. The lady started crying and she said that she knew how it felt because during the war they too had suffered a lot. She had been arrested by the Germans and so had her mother, so she knew how it felt.
She started telling me ahout the ghetto and how the Jews of Poland had suffered. They used to live opposite the ghetto on the fourth floor so they could see and hear everything that went on in the ghetto. She still wakes up having nightmares to see the little faces of the children, women and old people and the sick. All they kept shouting was Chleb, chleb, which means bread, bread. They tried to help them by throwing bread and other food through the windows of the ghetto, but the Germans tried to shoot them down. She said her father and brothers belonged to the Polish Resistance. At night they used to go through the sewer drains to the ghetto and take food and medicine for the Jewish people. They helped as much as was possible. Next day they took us into Warsaw. They showed us the ghetto -- which was very upsetting.
