Witness to martyrdom

"Everyone else was very unhappy, but she was peaceful....Naturally, [the German guards] led out a number of Jewish children and placed them in the first row; after them, Polish women and then the men; the last was Sister Alice....

"I watched then and saw that when they gave the sign to move toward the trucks, Sister Superior from her last place ran with a quick step to the first lines where the Jewish children stood, took the first child near the end and walked bravely to the waiting truck. She sat in there and they all rode off.

"My daughter saw how she rode in the first truck with the Jewish children. They drove all of them to Piasnicy and in the forests they shot them." (Piasnicy is a few miles outside of Wejherowo.)

The final resting place of Sister Alice is unknown because the Germans removed and burned the bodies years later to hide their cruelty. A piece of a black rosary worn by the sisters was found among the ashes in a grave; it is assumed this was where Sister Alice's body was left. (PQ)

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