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Page 1
Record of witness testimony No. 18
(Text, Manuscript)
Language
Polish
Persons
Borger, Ewa
, 1924-
(interviewee)
Melchior, Luba
, 1912-2000
(interviewer)
Origin
Lund
, Sweden, 1945-12-03
Physical description
ff. 6
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 30 January 1942, the witness was among 158 young Jewish women, between the age of 18 to 20, who were taken to the Neusalz camp outside of Breslau where they were force to work. The newcomers were allowed to keep their own clothes in the camp. They were assigned to new-build but poorly insulated barracks. The prisoners were freezing in the wintertime. The camp was small and served local industries. According to the witness' testimony the food rations in the camp were inadequate. In the neighborhood there were other labour camps were a number of Polish and Ukrainian civilian workers were held. Jewish inmates were not allowed to converse with civilian workers. The Polish workers were not only friendly to the Jewish prisoners but they also gave them food, which was against the camp regulations. On 6 June 1944, the labour camp at Neusalz was made into a concentration camp. The SS authorities were then in charge of disciplining and punishing prisoners. Some of the camp's regulations had been changed; inmates were ordered to attend short roll calls. On 31 January 1945, the camp was evacuated and all the prisoners were set out on a trek.
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
Sanitary conditions
Factories
Civilian employees
Food
Water supply
Diseases
Jewish interviewee
Female interviewee
Subject, geographic
Neusalz
Flossenbürg
Bergen-Belsen
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-100725
(nbn)
Identifiers (local)
alvin-record:100725
(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-100725
Direct link
https://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/view.jsf?pid=alvin-record:100725
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Transcription (PDF), 243 KB
Translation (PDF)
Translation (PDF), 239 KB
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