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Page 1
Record of witness testimony No. 101
(Text, Manuscript)
Language
Polish
Persons
Jura, Józef
, 1911-
(interviewee)
Kurowski, Bożysław
, 1911-2006
(interviewer)
Origin
Dädesjö-Ramnåsa
, 1946-01-12
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.
The witness was imprisoned in Mysłowice from 10 April 1940 until January 1941, having been arrested on charges of sabotage. He was among a large number of prisoners who were interrogated. Some of the inmates returned from interrogations with visible injuries all over their bodies as a result of being beaten. Every day at that prison, people would be taken away to be shot dead. The executions took place outside the city. The accommodation conditions were dreadful; prisoners were put into overcrowded cells where they slept directly on the concrete floor. Old, worn-out blankets were used as covers. Cells measuring around two and a half by four metres – designed to hold a single prisoner – held eight to twelve people on average. At this level of occupancy, not everyone could lie down to sleep at the same time. In January 1941, the witness was selected for transport to Magdeburg. The newcomers were put in windowless basements, where they could only sit on benches. There was no way to lie down in order to sleep. Every day, several people would be taken away for questioning. Many of them never came back to the prison. The daily life consisted of unhygienic conditions, inadequate food rations and brutal treatment.
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
Prisons
Sabotage
Torture
Executions
Physical exercises (Punishment)
Male interviewee
Catholic interviewee
Subject, geographic
Mysłowice
Lübeck
Magdeburg
Contact
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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-101208
(nbn)
Identifiers (local)
alvin-record:101208
(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-101208
Direct link
https://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/view.jsf?pid=alvin-record:101208
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Transcription
Transcription, 238 KB
Translation
Translation, 216 KB
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