A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - JULIA AND JÓZEF PRZYGODZKI
“The Rudnik need to be ‘buried’”, Józef recommended. “It was only by chance that we were saved”, he said to his wife, Julia. “Buried? What do you mean, what are you talking about?”, outraged Mrs Julia. “We have to dig a tunnel under the house and hide the Rudnik there”, replied Józef. Julia breathed a sigh of relief. She knew her husband, she knew he had a noble heart, but the word ‘to bury’ froze her at the first moment. He did as he said. The Rudnik and their daughter were spending nights in a tunnel adapted as a makeshift dwelling, and during the day they were living in harmony at home. And so it went on for a long three years, until the liberation of Vilnius on 13 July 1944.
