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Page 1
Record of witness testimony No. 357
(Text, Manuscript)
Language
Polish
Persons
Wodzyńska, Stefania
, 1922-
(interviewee)
Nowaczyk, Józef
, 1904-
(interviewer)
Origin
Trelleborg
, 1946-06-13
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 1 September 1944, the building where the witness had been living with her husband was surrounded by Ukrainian soldiers. The witness was ordered to turn in all valuables in her possession. The elderly and sickly were shot dead. The others were taken to the transient camp in Pruszków before being forwarded to Oranienburg. Prisoners travelled under horrible conditions; there was no access to food or water and they could hardly breathe from the lack of air. When they arrived at Oranienburg, they were unloaded and divided up: the men stayed behind and the women were sent to Ravensbrück. The newcomers were led to the baths where their hair was cut. They were told to turn in their personal belongings and change their clothes. Shortly afterwards, they went into quarantine. After two weeks, the quarantine ended. The witness was among 500 other women who were selected for a labour transport to the A.E.G. Köpenick factory, located in Berlin. Prisoners had to work 12-hour shifts. The daily life consisted of physically demanding work, lack of fresh air inside the factory, brutal treatment and inadequate food rations. In December 1944, the witness announced that she was pregnant; she was among twenty other pregnant women who were assigned to a temporary barrack. The camp authorities decided that pregnant women would be used as slave labourers inside the camp. Child mortality rates began to rise significantly as a result of unhygienic conditions, starvation and lack of proper medical care.
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
Pregnancies
Factories
Work at camp
Diseases
Children
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-103284
(nbn)
Identifiers (local)
alvin-record:103284
(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-103284
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https://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/view.jsf?pid=alvin-record:103284
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Transcription (PDF), 205 KB
Translation (PDF)
Translation (PDF), 217 KB
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