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Page 1
Record of witness testimony No. 163
(Text, Manuscript)
Language
Polish
Persons
Pecyńska, Jadwiga
, 1921-
(interviewee)
Karier, Krystyna
, 1913-1989
(interviewer)
Origin
Fagered
, 1946-01-23
Physical description
ff. 10
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.
At the beginning of September 1944, the Nazis seized the witness´ home and sent her family to the St Wojciech´s Church where many other Warsaw evacuees had been gathered up. While they were being herded to that church, Ukrainians in Wehrmacht uniforms would kidnap pretty young girls, dragging them away. Some who came back spoke of acts of rape. The inmates were transported by train to Oranienburg where they were divided up; the men stayed behind in Oranienburg and the women were sent to Ravensbrück. After arriving at Ravensbrück, they were met by SS men who accompanied them on the trip to the camp. Outside the bathhouse the prisoners were made to turn in all items in their possession, they were led into a giant tent where they would spend the night. Everyone was subjected to a gynecological search. At that moment, the witness was pregnant. Barrack 32 had been set up for mothers with infants and pregnant women.
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
Guards (Ukrainian)
Sexual abuse
Roll calls (Appell)
Children
Pregnancies
Infirmary
Female interviewee
Catholic 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-101613
(nbn)
Identifiers (local)
alvin-record:101613
(alvin)
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Public Domain Mark (No Known Copyright)
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http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:alvin:portal:record-101613
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https://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/view.jsf?pid=alvin-record:101613
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Transcription, 288 KB
Translation
Translation, 304 KB
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