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Page 1
Record of witness testimony No. 60
(Text, Manuscript)
Language
Polish
Persons
Owsiana, Marja Helena (Owsiana, Maria Helena)
, 1908-
(interviewee)
Dziedzicka, Helena
, 1903-1975
(interviewer)
Origin
Malmö
, 1945-12-14
Physical description
ff. 5
Format:
Non digital + Digital, reformatted digital
Abstract
This document is part of a series of interviews with former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps. The interviews were conducted in 1945-1946 by the Polish Research Institute in Lund.
On 8 April 1940, the witness was arrested in Jastrzębia Góra as a displaced person. She was with her mother. They were taken to Wejherowo, where they spent one night before being loaded onto a train. After travelling a full day and night, they arrived in Ravensbrück. It was the first Polish transport to the camp and consisted of fifty-nine people. The newcomers were led into the baths where they were ordered to turn in all items in their possession, take a bath and change their clothes. After bathing, they went into quarantine. During quarantine, there were two women who had nervous breakdowns. They were taken to the bunker, where one of them was finished off three days later. The other one went from the bunker to the Strafblock where she was savaged by dogs, beaten, and kicked. After six weeks, the quarantine ended and the prisoners were assigned to a regular barrack and to a regular job. Some of the female guards used to walk off with the higher-value furs that had been manufactured in the camp. One of the SS men used to help them steal and channel the furs to Gdańsk, where their gang was based.
Notes
About the collection: At the end of World War II approximately 20,000 Nazi concentration camp prisoners were evacuated to Sweden. Many of them were Polish citizens. In order to document their experiences, Zygmunt Łakociński founded the Polish Research Institute in Lund. The collection contains 512 in-depth interviews with survivors, materials that they brought with them to Sweden, and also other material that the institute collected, compiled, and created.
External links
The Polish Research Institute collection
Document type
Interview
Subject, topics
Work at camp
Psychological abuse
Atrocities
Swindlers and swindling
Manufactory work (Leather)
Catholic interviewee
Female interviewee
Subject, geographic
Ravensbrück
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Location
Lund University Library
Helgonabacken
Box 3
221 00 Lund
The Polish Research Institute in Lund (PIZ)
Identifiers (general)
urn:nbn:se:alvin:portal:record-101010
(nbn)
Identifiers (local)
alvin-record:101010
(alvin)
Licensing of the work
Public Domain Mark (No Known Copyright)
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http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:alvin:portal:record-101010
Direct link
https://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/view.jsf?pid=alvin-record:101010
Appendix
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Transcription
Transcription, 246 KB
Translation
Translation, 233 KB
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