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00:00Dear Mrs. Eugenia, dear Mr. Zygmunt,
00:05in a moment I will have the pleasure, on behalf of the Council of State,
00:10to give you the medals for the 50th anniversary of your marriage.
00:17I would like to take this opportunity to wish you the best of health,
00:23and I wish you all the best.
00:26I wish we could meet again in a few years in this office
00:31on the occasion of your further anniversaries and anniversaries.
00:34All the best.
00:53I am happy and I wish you all the best.
00:59All the best.
01:01I wish you all the best.
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01:54I used to live, I was born on Gołębia Street.
02:00And there were the plants of Scheibler,
02:04because he occupied huge, huge areas.
02:08He was the richest here when he began to develop here.
02:15And these family houses, because these are so-called family houses,
02:20those that are on Księży Młyn, so red, parallel, such houses that are.
02:25Scheibler built all this for his people.
02:37I remember the beginning of the war, when the Germans attacked Łódź.
02:42The whole night there was a fight.
02:46Then, somewhere the next day, somewhere around noon,
02:51the Germans entered Łódź.
02:58Father Zubar left five children in 1915.
03:03Well, I was seven years old then,
03:06the eighth year as father Zubar, because father Zubar died in February.
03:17The end of the war
03:28Father always said, well, I seem to have studied well.
03:32Ah, my genius will be a teacher.
03:35Ah, my genius will be this, and my genius will be that.
03:38Well, I was happy.
03:40But when my mother was finally fired from work,
03:44when my father was fired from work,
03:47there was no way that I could continue to study.
03:51In 1927 I went to work.
03:56I went to work when I was 15 years old.
04:00My eldest sister worked at a weaving mill.
04:03I worked as a boy at a carpentry mill.
04:07Well, the factory lasted, ma'am, two days, three days.
04:11And when such a luxurious week, one, three, two,
04:14turned out to be working all the time,
04:17it was great comfort, ma'am.
04:20There was poverty.
04:22When my mother bought bread,
04:25she shared it with everyone today.
04:28You have your own, you have your own.
04:30If you eat it today, it won't be bad tomorrow.
04:33And I often went to work, ma'am, when I worked in the morning,
04:36I went without breakfast.
04:39I didn't take anything, because I ate bread yesterday.
04:42In the end, my cousin worked there,
04:45he got into the sewage system,
04:48and he directed me to the sewage system, as they say.
04:55Well, but the work was very hard.
04:58When I came back from work, I washed my knees.
05:02I couldn't, I couldn't straighten up.
05:09When I saw her for the first time,
05:12she was about 17 years old.
05:15A blonde, blond-haired, Italian lady.
05:18She lived in the house where my family lived, ma'am.
05:21Well, I liked one of them.
05:27Well, it was nice, ma'am.
05:30It was nice.
05:33It was nice.
05:37Well, he was a nice boy, you know.
05:40Tall, slim, he had a nice slender arm.
05:43He wasn't like, oh, here, like this,
05:46he didn't have a lot of hair, as they say.
05:49He was just like that, he could be liked.
05:52In the beginning, I had some difficulties, ma'am.
05:55But I worked, I worked, ma'am, until I worked.
05:58Then we gave each other a word.
06:01I started buying furniture, ma'am.
06:04The wardrobe is still in the cell to this day, ma'am,
06:07the first one I bought.
06:10Today, you really often look at the picture,
06:13how nice we used to be, and what happened to us today.
06:16But at that moment, we were happy,
06:19not that we were dying, as they say.
06:22The well was in the courtyard,
06:25like the one we have here, in our courtyard.
06:28The neighbours would sit on the well,
06:31everyone would bring a chair or a table,
06:34whichever was more comfortable for them.
06:37And they would sit on the courtyard like that.
06:40And there was, there was, there was,
06:43ma'am, because I knew my father,
06:46there was, there was, there was,
06:49and there was, there was, there was,
06:52ma'am, because I knew my father,
06:55there was such hospitality,
06:58that the neighbours would go to each other,
07:01even on holidays, some celebrations,
07:04they would invite each other.
07:07He played the mandolin, the guitar,
07:10they would get together a bit, a bit of music.
07:13And then our son came, in 1934.
07:16Of course.
07:17He was happy.
07:19Son, wife.
07:21I wanted a daughter.
07:23She started to grumble a bit,
07:25she asked, what is it?
07:27Son, she said, she was dissatisfied.
07:30No, it's not because of that.
07:32Only because I always said
07:34that I would dress the girl nicely.
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09:08During the construction, there was a table,
09:11there were three walls,
09:13there was glass.
09:15We had everything arranged for one day.
09:18I was in charge of everything,
09:20you have to pay for it, you have to pay for it.
09:23In the evening, the chimney was already smoking.
09:26And Mościcki was hanging here,
09:29Mościcki, Piłsudski inside,
09:31the Polish eagle, right?
09:33So that they wouldn't seal us,
09:35what for?
09:36There was no floor,
09:38but I brought an old bed,
09:40a table, a chair, right?
09:43On the first Sunday,
09:45when we moved in,
09:47we got such a sunburn,
09:49like today,
09:51you can imagine,
09:53from a dark hole,
09:55a man in such an apartment,
09:57everyone was so happy.
10:04And then, like a son,
10:06we took our own.
10:08There were various things in the garden,
10:10tomatoes, flowers,
10:12there were sunflowers,
10:14and the son, because he was already walking,
10:16he flew in with his handfuls,
10:18plucked a sunflower and fell.
10:30And it was good for us.
10:32It was in 1936,
10:34in 1937,
10:36that we moved here happily,
10:381938,
10:40March 1939,
10:42there was already
10:44mobilization.
10:46On the first of September...
11:10From Narodowice towards Południowy,
11:12somewhere here,
11:14on all the streets,
11:16there was no street
11:18where I didn't work.
11:20Today, when I still go there,
11:22here is my job,
11:24here is my job,
11:26here is my job.
11:28You get used to it,
11:30you don't even know
11:32what you're doing.
11:34You don't even know
11:36what you're doing.
11:38You don't know anything.
11:40Even my friends were surprised.
11:42It was Lidia from Spain.
11:44I said, it's hard.
11:46In 1947,
11:48an installation unit
11:50was organized
11:52at PW Kole.
11:54And I stayed there
11:56under Malisz.
11:58It was also hard work,
12:00because, you know, people were...
12:02Everyone was mad.
12:04He didn't do anything
12:06He forgot that before the war
12:08he was looking for this place,
12:10so he forgot about it later,
12:12because it wasn't allowed to leave.
12:14I worked until the war,
12:16on the 8th of March.
12:18And after the war,
12:20I went to work for Kiliński.
12:22It was ZMP.
12:24There were meetings,
12:26there were lectures.
12:28I also had a few diplomas
12:30for that cooperation.
12:32Because, you know,
12:34everyone had a need.
12:36But those 5 years of occupation
12:38destroyed people.
12:40It was such a hard work,
12:42that, you know,
12:44you couldn't even sit down for 5 minutes.
12:46Even for 5 minutes.
12:48And the food was on the plane.
12:50A jar of coffee
12:52was brought,
12:54and a roll of bread.
12:56And you bit into it,
12:58and you put the jar down,
13:00and you walked around the machine,
13:02I liked to make
13:04measurements,
13:06to describe it
13:08in detail,
13:10just as a worker
13:12had to do a certain thing
13:14that was his duty.
13:16I made sure
13:18that he had to do it in detail,
13:20especially when it came
13:22to safety,
13:24whether it was for the building
13:26or for the life of the person
13:28who was doing it.
13:30So it had to be
13:32secured in detail.
13:34If he didn't put the clamp in the right way,
13:36he had to take it out and put it in the right way.
13:38Because you did it wrong.
13:40And in the future, so that you would know,
13:42this thing is wrong, and this one is good.
13:44And you came home,
13:46and you had to wash it,
13:48and you had to boil it,
13:50and you had to make sure
13:52that the baby was clean,
13:54and you had to...
13:56You had to do a lot of things,
13:58from the very beginning.
14:00And that's how it was,
14:02and that's how you lived.
14:08It was until the year,
14:10I think, about 1950.
14:12The water was dying.
14:14So we thought,
14:16what to do,
14:18there was poverty here,
14:20to make a drilling well.
14:22So we did it.
14:24It took a few years,
14:26and then we moved on,
14:28to 1968.
14:30And this water
14:32disappeared again,
14:34and we still don't have water.
14:56After the wedding,
14:58he immediately went to his wife,
15:00because she had her own room.
15:02As soon as I sat down to eat,
15:04I cried.
15:06It was empty, the apartment.
15:08And I cried,
15:10and I cried,
15:12and I cried,
15:14and I cried,
15:16and I cried,
15:18and I cried,
15:20and I cried,
15:22and I cried,
15:24empty apartment
15:26No, because I was always
15:28lacking, I was always preparing
15:30for somebody and now only for both of us.
15:32We have kids, have grandchildren,
15:34great grandchildren,
15:36from this we have fun again.
15:38And it all comes from time to time,
15:40one past, there's now another.
15:42And always a person who is happy
15:44from all this is satisfied.
15:46We are always living for someone,
15:48and we are happy
15:50We are just happy
15:52to have a break, to enjoy this time.
15:56You were only a maid.
15:59My name is gone.
16:01You don't have a son, you only have a daughter.
16:05You don't have a successor.
16:07But I love you, maid, but I love you.
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16:50I don't know.
16:52Maybe...
16:54Maybe it seems to older people.
16:57But even though the living conditions were worse,
17:03I think we were happier.
17:07That's what I think.
17:09It was fun, young people, right?
17:15I went on trips with singing, with music.
17:20Today it's not like that.
17:22Today it's just a CD or a tape recorder.
17:27Everything is different.
17:29But the old times, like for us, are so nice.
17:33It's traditional.
17:35It went from generation to generation.
17:38And today, young people forget about these things.
17:45♪
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