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Page 1
Record of witness testimony No. 410
(Text, Manuscript)
Language
Polish
Persons
Katz, Hanna
, 1919-
(interviewee)
Melchior, Luba
, 1912-2000
(interviewer)
Origin
Lund
, 1946-07-16
Physical description
ff. 7
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 5 August 1942, a deportation operation was conducted in the small ghetto in Radom. Rumours went round that there would be mass deportations. Anyone who had been employed at the German companies would be allowed to stay behind. The witness applied for a job at a weapons factory where the young and healthy women would be recruited. A selection was carried out: all the women were put into ranks of five. They were led away to the factory where they would be met by the German supervisors. The supervisors were directed the final selection determining which employee candidates were able to work and which were not. The young and strong women were employed at the factory. The others were sent back to the Ghetto. Women did twelve-hour shifts and they were forced to hard labour. The female inmates were subjected to sexual harassment and they were unable to defend themselves. Relations between Polish workers and Jewish women prisoners were rather chummy in the factory. The daily life consisted of unhygienic conditions, hard work, brutal treatment, inadequate food rations and limited access to fresh air.
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
Ghetto
Deportations
Weapons industry
Sexual abuse
Jewish interviewee
Female interviewee
Subject, geographic
Auschwitz
Ravensbrück
Genshagen
Sachsenhausen
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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-103460
(nbn)
Identifiers (local)
alvin-record:103460
(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-103460
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https://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/view.jsf?pid=alvin-record:103460
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Trascription (PDF)
Trascription (PDF) , 107 KB
Translation (PDF)
Translation (PDF), 58 KB
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