Late October –early November. A Polish relief convoy (carrying blood, medicines and food) arrives in Hungary.

Anna Retmaniak (radio journalist who travelled with the first relief convoy from Poland to Hungary as the Polish Radio’s special correspondent):

   We carried boxes with dressing materials, milk and cans. The Hungarians greeted us cordially saying:

- Long live Poland, long live Polish-Hungarian friendship. We shall be free. Do not worry that this a difficult period. We will succeed, everything will be all right.

Wherever I went I was received with great friendliness and cordiality.

Wiktor Woroszylski (writer):

Thursday, November 8:

[...]

We get to the hospital by accident. A nurse whom we have met near the Fisherman’s Tower  takes us there.  

The hospital is unusual: hidden under the ground and tightly wrapped with layers of  reinforced concrete. It was built as a military hospital a dozen or so years ago, but it was not used after 1945. [...] In one of the rooms we see how life-giving blood flows through the glass tubes into the veins of a fatally exhausted man.

• This is Polish blood — a woman doctor says.