Joanna Chochar
Class 7A
Public Primary School in Iłża
Iłża, 21 November 1946
What do the mass graves tell us?
We, Poles know what the Nazi horde is and what these people without God or faith did in our Poland. I, a little Polish girl who loves her beautiful country, couldn’t look at all of it. Each village, each city was affected by the Nazi’s hand. And there, in the forest, an independent Poland was being built! There were horrible things happening. The best sons of Poland would fight for the freedom of the nation and man. How many of these graves are there in our Poland, [the graves] of these people, who wanted to fight for a better tomorrow [for] independent, democratic Poland. They are for sure happy, that Polish land took them to its womb and covered them with light yellow sand imbrued with the blood of the heroes. The rustling forests are singing them sad melody about new Poland. And they dreamed of that Poland, which they had given their young lives for. Do all of these parents know that their son or daughter is dead? Not all of them know, only our loving Polish forests, which hums a sorrowful dumka [traditional folk melody] about the faithful sons of the motherland, know [about it]. Brave Polish children, who have given their soul to God, and their body to the ground, have left a lot of memorabilia. We will forever remember tortures of those people, who wanted to fight for better tomorrow in Poland. In a short period of time Poland was freed from the great Nazi yoke. Finally, the tortures of Polish nation ended. The longed-for freedom has come.