Stefan Hellwig and his wife Nelly left the Bełchatów Manor to serve their homeland two months after their wedding. He as a volunteer to the army, she as a nurse.
After a short time, the news of the soldier's death came. His wife, father and brother identified the massacred body by the monogram on his underwear. A part of his jaw in which he had gold teeth attached was pulled out.
Nelly committed suicide in a Warsaw hospital, she was found in the morning lying next to her husband's coffin.
Bodies of the couple entered Bełchatów on the horse-drawn carts, flooded with the sound of church bells and factory sirens. They were buried in the manor park. Due to the circumstances of Nelly's death, she was denied the right to rest in the cemetery.
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