World War I - Lodz After the Germans occupied Lodz, leaving the Parisian freestone to Lodz. Through all these peregrinations over the war since I did not go to school.
live in Lodz, of course, in the Grandmother Zhukouskaya factories Konstantynowska 98th Street Here, the factory workers from the children learn that I am a bourgeois, and they proletariat, which even at the beginning does not give us even play together. Later, the situation has improved, and every day, with weather from my contemporaries eleven Regina meet in our backyard at home, where the slingshot to shoot a dozen sparrows odsiadujących old cherry tree. Regina shot down sparrows patroszy pocket knife, bake on the fire and eat them with gusto.
The primary symptom of savage instinct in the human species is already in the youngest ¬ few years and later, in adulthood, transitions in the form of "cultural" sport hunting. And only in old age comes the understanding that organized, facilitated the killing of harmless, not guilty ¬ animals for their own pleasure, it is not men's javelin to fight the bear, but cowardly, mindless fun sportsmenów snobbish. A true culture is not allowed, does not permit killing animals regardless of form, purpose and arguments.
And so, in Lodz during the summer became friends with a blonde and then Regina and her sister Irma, who, however, already aware of it politically harder boczyła at me from the beginning and avoid both the learning conversations with me and shared playground. I for my part did not quite understand why I'm worse than them, which again I could not even explain to Irma. Not felt the the no fault, so forgive me in the end my background and welcome friends with workers' children on Konstantynowska.
my stay in Lodz is extended by the current war and is still unable to reach Warsaw. I go to the second class I-go gymnasia Polish Scientific Society 'Academy' Ceglana 9th Street So pass three periods of school completed my promotion to fifth grade.
boat from the time of Russian occupation, the period before the First World War-is brilliantly described by Reymont "Earth. Promised. "Difficult to find a more faithful, more real, true picture of the atmosphere, relationships and life of the then Polish manczesteru.
boat with its lush life, producing the country and abroad, rich in shaken financial scandals, while wearing one of ¬ riches one - the second collapse and bankruptcy. Classifieds working, working, anxious, agitated, injustice, extreme differences in wealth, German and Jewish wealth, poverty and severe living conditions of the Polish working population.
years I lived in German-occupied Lodz, already present a slightly altered image of the city. Ceased to be the Promised Land, but it was still the Dark Earth Interests even more ruthless and that during the difficult conditions of war.
In the year 1917 years to spread a rumor that the Germans deport plant and machinery to Germany. I was curious how to deal with will give out from the large hall in one of the factories, the great grandmother of the steam engine. The machine is fueled workshops throughout a factory. I actually feel Germans came from Grandma talked and began to disassemble one of the external walls of the factory. After zwaleniu planted walls and foundations under machinery and steel rollers in the yard a little funny reel connected to the system of blocks and wire ropes from the base of the machine. The soldiers left, leaving one of them, the old landwerzystę with a pipe in his teeth, who "sat at the whirlwind and turns the crank. After two days of filming such a great machine obediently went to the factory. Extrude it on several platforms and removing the artillery tractors on special railway wagons, it was only a matter of the next few days.
In yet the same year the walls of the factories are not only seriously damaged by the war if the fires continued. It was the month that, in the middle of the night we did not arouse shrill signals of the fire brigade coming to the yard light illuminated a raging fire. The manufacturers Jewish, lessor halls and placed their energy behind the workshop and after a longer or shorter period set fire to the production of workshops to obtain over-insurance or avoid the effects of financial crises, stock market bust, or other dark, criminal manipulation. Eventually it ended up being completely switched smoking one of the two big factories, which eventually forced the grandmother to have all their property and so the factories, a house-palace and garden.
In a short time after the sale of factories in Lodz, followed by the devaluation of the German brand, value it decreases from day to day, and later the hour. Grandmother loses everything. From now resides with my mother and me in Warsaw, which in the end we come from Lodz.
Even before his departure from Lodz, Summer 1917 years to spend with my mother Kemblinach Stryków in assets under Mstislav Olszowski uncle, married to Kotkowską.
