Regina Jurevičienė

Jerzy Jurewicz/Jurgis Jurevičius:

During World War II German occupation of Lithuania, she was forcefully sent to Germany to work on the farm near Stralsund, east Germany at Baltic sea. She was subjected to the German’s forced labour policy; it was to provide slave labour for Germans. After the war she never returned to Lithuania. After the war, when on route to Lithuania, her train stopped in the city of Szczecin where the group of Polish soldiers coming back home from Germany advised her not to go back to Lithuania since her home country was occupied by Russians and where anyone coming back from the West was either arrested or sent to Siberia. She changed the train and travelled with the soldiers to Warszawa, City already occupied and fully controlled by Russians. Since she did not have any documents to proof her identity and nationality, Polish soldiers lying confirmed to Russian authorities her Polish citizenship. She spoke Polish to proof her nationality. Eventually she settled in Wrocław where soon after she met her high school boyfriend from Kaunas, Wacław Jurewicz.