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Page 1
Record of witness testimony No. 247
(Text, Manuscript)
Language
Polish
Persons
Kupferminc, Hersz
, 1927-
(interviewee)
Karier, Krystyna
, 1913-1989
(interviewer)
Origin
Lund
, 1946-03-31
Physical description
ff. 8
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 9 September 1939, the German armed forces entered the city of Łódz and immediately thereafter seized all the Polish and Jewish properties. At that time, the German citizens called Volksdeutsche - who lived in Poland and made willing collaborators – were cooperating with the Nazis. The civilian factories were switched to war production. The Polish and Jewish workers were used as slave labourers. In November 1939, the German authorities announced that a selected group of population especially Jews would be deported from Łódz. Many Jewish intellectuals committed suicide as a result of the brutal treatment they were subjected to by the Nazis. The witness and her father left Łódz for Kielce but they could not afford to live there. On 2 February 1940, the witness returned to Łódz. On 8 February 1940, the Łódz ghetto was established. The ghetto was fenced in with barbed wire and surrounded by German police. All contact with the outside world was cut off.
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
Male interviewee
Jewish interviewee
Volksdeutsche
Gestapo
Factories
Deportations
Jews
Intellectuals (Social class)
Suicide
Food
Children
Infirmary
Gas chambers
Epidemics
Subject, geographic
Auschwitz
Braunschweig
Watenstedt
Ravensbrück
Webelin
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-102880
(nbn)
Identifiers (local)
alvin-record:102880
(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-102880
Direct link
https://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/view.jsf?pid=alvin-record:102880
Appendix
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Transcription (PDF)
Transcription (PDF), 174 KB
Translation (PDF)
Translation (PDF), 171 KB
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