“The Bolsheviks came (...) »My God, they had their fill of us. Young girls, old women, all of us, they tormented us all«. The girls were black and blue, their eyes bulging, their clothes torn. We understood. Entire groups of them were coming back, lamenting and sobbing. Then news about the raping and pillaging reached our ears. (...) Many of the women and girls we knew had been raped. (...) They were young girls. (...) The wives of military men, many young girls whom we knew - they had been raped by 10 or 20 Bolsheviks at a time. The awful news spread throughout the city. Old, grey women had also been the victims of this outrage. We shall never know what happened that night. Who would want to reveal the truth ? [...] Mrs Kalinowska was robbed, and a young girl we knew, who was staying at her place, was raped. She was screaming so hard that Mrs Kalinowska fainted”.

Nurse Maria Macieszyna in a letter to her husband, describing the experiences from Płock, which had been attacked by the Soviets.