Leaving Home

By Friday afternoon the army was already retreating. A general explained to us that the army got to the border too late and the Germans had broken through the border. The Polish army would set up the front right here in our area.
Being that our courtyard was surrounded by other houses and was somewhat hidden, the army decided to set up some kind of defense against German fighter jets, in our courtyard. Within a short amount of time the courtyard was full of rows of weapons.
They were randomly catching people and giving them weapons to patrol the streets. Our Mother a"h Hy"d was scared that my younger brother Moshe and I would be drafted into the army. She told us to run from the town until everything calms down.
Our Father a"h Hy"d realizing the possibility of fighting in our town decided that the whole family should escape. Friday night we all left our home town and headed to Wiyellishka, were our sister Dina Hy"d and husband R Yehoshua Hershtall lived.
We left our home and everything we owned, open to the public - available to anyone that would find it. With only a rucksack on our backs we left the town- where our great grand father was the head of the community- on foot.
As we left the city we went into a bar/inn, and heard that in Wiyellishka everything was calm. We hoped that there we would find peace. Motzei Shabbos our brother in law and sister came to pick us up with a horse and buggy and took us into town.