"...A person must have a great deal of fortitude not to break down. On 19 May 1941, I was taken to the Gestapo for questioning. Interrogation is a terrible thing. They put me in handcuffs, tied my legs with a thick rope, laid me on a table, and then five Gestapo officers began to beat me.
When I began to scream, they gagged me with a sweater..."
This is an excerpt from the diary of Stefania Tajchert, the organiser of education in Bolesławiec, who was born exactly one hundred years ago, on 15 July 1993, and died in Bolesławiec on 20 November 1975.
We will print the diary-chronicle in instalments after the summer holidays.