"The Lithuanians are here, why aren't you fighting?"

"We've fought enough in the past, which is why we're all here in the first place,"Julius Schwartzbart snapped back.

Schwartzbart's answer summed up the consensus among the Polish and Lithuanian intelligentsia; and it continued to be the basis of our mutual relations. Among the Poles we found sincere friends, men on whom we utterly relied in times of misfortune. The help our Polish friends gave us was very real; they saved me from starvation.