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Page 1
Record of witness testimony No. 395
(Text, Manuscript)
Language
Polish
Persons
Puchtowa, Aniela (Pucht, Aniela)
, 1905-
(interviewee)
Nowaczyk, Józef
, 1904-
(interviewer)
Origin
Trelleborg
, 1946-07-11
Physical description
ff. 14
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.
I July 1940, the witness was arrested in Tomaszów Mazowiecki where she was interrogated by the Gestapo, accused of helping the resistance by delivering underground newspapers. After three weeks´imprisonment, the witness was among 526 Polish citizens who were loaded onto cattle wagons and transported to concentration camps. In Walmar, they were unloaded and divided up: the men stayed behind and the women were sent to Ravensbrück. During the journey the female prisoners could hardly breathe from the lack of air. When they arrived at the Fürstenberg railroad station, they were met by the camp commandant Krögel and a number of female guards with dogs who escorted them to Ravensbrück. Arriving at the camp late afternoon, the newcomers had to wait standing until next day. They were shaved, inspected, humiliated, changed into prison stripes, placed in a category and assigned to a quarantine barrack. After six weeks, the quarantine ended and the witness was assigned to a work crew that was responsible for road building. The witness was seriously wounded at work. In October 1940, one of the Polish prisoners was so badly bitten by the dog that she was placed in the infirmary. Prisoners were forced to labour inside the camp; they did twelve-hour shifts and it happened quite often that they were being beaten by the guards. On 10 January 1944, the witness was sent to Drägen where she was assigned to a work crew that was responsible for cleaning of the police school. Working at the school, she was able to listen to international broadcasters among others the BBC and Radio Warsaw. In 1944, thirteen German officers arrived at Drägen, accused of being involved in conspiracies against Adolf Hitler. Those German soldiers were interrogated by the Gestapo officer named Lange. Lange also was responsible for interrogations of an American pilot who had been captured by the Nazis and interned at Drägen. On 1 Mars 1945, the witness was sent back to Ravensbrück.
Notes
The testimony has an appendix consisting of laments by Aniela Pucht, please see Related records.
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.
Related records in Alvin
Constituent:
Laments by Aniela Pucht
External links
The Polish Research Institute collection
Document type
Interview
Subject, topics
Polish underground
Work crews
Wounds and injuries (Dogs)
Soldiers (German)
Soldiers (American)
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-103415
(nbn)
Identifiers (local)
alvin-record:103415
(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-103415
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https://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/view.jsf?pid=alvin-record:103415
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