Christian. When he arrived, they let him know that he wouldn’t have any passengers. The Christian brought back the package and they put it on their own
cart. I told them I would pay them in Głowno and not in advance. We made
a [deal] that they would get 20 marks at once and 30 marks in Głowno.
We got on two carts, each drawn by two horses, and set off around
5 o’clock. After a few kilometres, a wagon carrying 8 or 10 border guards
approached us from the other direction. [12] After we passed each other, we
heard them yelling and pointing at our carts. Our driver, a Christian, pretended
not to hear and drove his horses on at full speed. In a short time we had
lost sight of them. The driver said later that they had obviously been on their
way to Brzeziny on some business and had been in a hurry. We had been lucky!
After a few more kilometres, the driver turned off to the side. We drove
through fields, sometimes to the right, sometimes to the left, and then straight
on, zigzagging to avoid unwelcome encounters. Then we went up a hill and
quickly down the other side. He drove that way for a while, then turned back
in the direction from which we had come, and rejoined the road. There were
woods on both sides and then villas, more and more the farther we went. We
entered Głowno as if we were not coming from Brzeziny but from the other
direction. There the two carts separated, going in different directions as if
there were no connection between them.
We arrived at a makeshift gate. The driver jumped down, opened the
gate and drove into a large courtyard. He closed the gate quickly behind
him and drove us all into a huge barn. He told us to get off, quickly unharnessed
the horse, hid the packages behind the hay and straw, removed a plank
from the fence and sent us one by one into the second courtyard. Then he led
us into a flat. It was already late at night and everybody was asleep. We could
not light a lamp, because ‘visitors’ might have shown up. We sat down wherever we could, thankful that we had gotten so far. In the morning, we [. . .]
milk and ate some of our provisions. Later we [. . .] out to look for a cart to
Łowicz. We found a Christian coachman who [. . .] drove up and loaded our
luggage. Meanwhile, an [acquaintance] from Brzeziny arrived and told us he
had fled from the town immediately after our departure.
ARG I 905 (Ring. I /1029)
Description: duplicate, handwritten (MS*), pencil, Yiddish, 147×208 mm, minor
damage and fragments missing, 12 sheets, 12 pages. In the margins, the letter
“P” (ink).
