Joseph Balicki was headmaster of a primary school on the outskirts of Warsaw in Poland. During the Second World War he was taken prisoner. He escaped from the prison camp and went in search of his wife and three children, Ruth, Bronia and Edek. This is what hapened happened happendto them.

 That night there was in inch of snow on the roofs of Warsaw. Ruth and Bronia were asleep in the bedroom next to their mother's. Edek's room was on the top floor below the attick. atic. attic. He was asleep when the Nazi soldiers broke into the house, but he woke up when he heard a noise outside his door. He jumped out of bed and turned the handle. The door was locked. He shouted and banged on it with his fists, but it was no use.  Then he lay down with his ear to the floor and listened. In his mother's room the men were wrapping rappeing rappingout orders, but he could not catch a word that was said.

 In the ceiling was a small trapdoor that led into the attic. A ladder lader laddrelay between his bed and the wall. Quietly he removed it, hooked it under the trap and climbed up.

 There, hidden, hiden, hiddne,between the water tank and the felt jacket round it was his rifle. He was a member of the Boys' Rifle Brigade and had used it in the siege of Warsaw. It was loaded. He took it out and quickly climbed down to his room.

 The noise in the room below had stopt. stoppt. stopped.Looking out of the window into the street, he saw a Nazi van waiting outside the front door.

 Two storm troopers were taking his mother down the steps and she was struggerling. struggaling. struggling.

 Quietly Edek lifted the window sash till it was half open. He dared not shoat shoot shoutin case he hit his mother. He had to wait till she was in the van and the doors were being closed.

 His first shot hit a soldier in the arm. Yealling, Yealing, Yelling, he jumped in beside the driver.  Edek aimed at the tyres. One punctured the rear wheel, but the van got away, skiding skidding sciddingand roaring up the street. His other shots went wide.

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