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Page 1
Record of witness testimony No. 378
(Text, Manuscript)
Language
Polish
Persons
Augustynowicz, Janina
, 1907-
(interviewee)
Miklaszewska, Helena
, 1906-2000
(interviewer)
Origin
Trelleborg
, 1946-06-26
Physical description
ff. 11
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 25 July 1944, the witness was arrested because of her husband who had been sentenced to death. Shortly afterwards, the whole family was sent to the Pustków camp where many executions were carried out. One of the female inmates was tortured during interrogations which caused nervous breakdowns. After the camp had been evacuated, about 2700 prisoners were transported to Auschwitz. The camp supervisors were totally unprepared for their arrival. The transport was sent to Sachsenhausen where the prisoners were unloaded and divided up: the men stayed behind and the women were separated and sent to Ravensbrück. After arriving at Fürstenberg, the witness was ordered to march to the camp carrying her children. The newcomers were herded over to the baths where they were told to turn in all items in their possession, take a shower among a number of naked women - which was a traumatic experience especially for children – and change their clothes. Women were forced to the gynecological exam which was a search for hidden valuables. The witness´ children were treated well. In October 1944, one of the witness´ sons was separated and transferred to the male camp at Sachsenhausen where his father had been interned. The infant mortality rate in the camp was very high, as a result of, unhygienic conditions, lack of proper medical care and limited access to food. A number of women with children were transferred to Bergen-Belsen. Women who were unfit to work were selected for transports to Jugendlager.
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
Executions
Psychological abuse
Children
Roll calls (Appell)
Pregnancies
Barracks (Interior)
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-103350
(nbn)
Identifiers (local)
alvin-record:103350
(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-103350
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https://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/view.jsf?pid=alvin-record:103350
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Transcription (PDF), 139 KB
Translation (PDF)
Translation (PDF) , 100 KB
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