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Page 1
Record of witness testimony No. 167
(Text, Manuscript)
Language
Polish
Persons
Trzepacz, Władysław
, 1912-
(interviewee)
Nowaczyk, Józef
, 1904-
(interviewer)
Origin
Jönköping
, 1946-01-26
Physical description
ff. 13
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 22 April 1940, the witness was arrested by the German police. He was being tortured during interrogations, accused of helping the resistance by delivering underground newspapers. Shortly afterwards he was sent to the prison in Katowice where a new round of interrogations would take place. For days he listened to the screams of the prisoners being interrogated. In July 1940, the witness was among a number of inmates who were transferred to Sachsenhausen. Their arrival at the camp followed the standard procedure; the newcomers had to bathe, hand over all their things, and change their clothes. In Sachsenhausen he was forced to hard work in a brick factory. The living conditions were dreadful. Many prisoners were exhausted which led to suicide attempts and self-mutilation. A most effective method of finishing people off was the combination of inadequate food rations, brutal treatment and physically demanding work.
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
Polish underground
Interrogations
Prisons
Factories
Prisoner functionaries (German)
Water-torture
Physician exercises (Punishment)
Malingering
Suicide
Infirmary
Punishment blocks
Theft
Soldiers (German)
Soldiers (American)
Male interviewee
Catholic interviewee
Subject, geographic
Alexanderplatz
Schwerin
Sachsenhausen
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-101647
(nbn)
Identifiers (local)
alvin-record:101647
(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-101647
Direct link
https://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/view.jsf?pid=alvin-record:101647
Appendix
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Transcription (PDF)
Transcription (PDF), 223 KB
Translation (PDF)
Translation (PDF), 246 KB
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