October-November. Actions to raise funds, collect medicines and donate blood needed by the Hungarians are organized throughout Poland.

“Życie Warszawy”, October 30, 1956:

   [...]  On October 29 the capital’s university students mounted a guard of honour in front of the Polish-Hungarian Institute in Warsaw. The Hungarian flag placed on the building has an inscription saying: “In tribute to the Hungarian nation.”

   On the pavement under the flag numerous candles were lit and an improvised receptacle was placed, with an inscription saying: “For money to buy medicaments for the Hungarian people.”

Edmund Taszer (chairman of the Factory Council at ZiSPO):

   In Poznań a slogan was formulated: let’s help our Hungarian brothers! What help could we offer them? Blood! Let’s donate our blood! We appealed to the workers of the city’s enterprises to come to the blood-donation centres. We donated 50 litres of blood. We decided to send a delegation to Hungary. [...]

   There were people waiting for our delegation at the railway station in Budapest. We were taken to the Health Ministry where we handed over the blood that we had brought.