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Page 1
Record of witness testimony No. 490
(Text, Manuscript)
Language
Polish
Persons
Dawidziuk, Wanda
, 1915-
(interviewee)
Melchior, Luba
, 1912-2000
(interviewer)
Origin
Trelleborg
, 1946-10-17
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.
On 14 April 1944, the witness and her sister were arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Warsaw’s Pawiak jail. Shortly afterwards, the witness was separated from her sister and assigned to an overcrowded cell. On 18 April 1944, the witness was taken to Gestapo’s HQ at Aleja Szucha for interrogation. At Pawiak jail, the witness underwent a two-week quarantine. After finishing quarantine, she was assigned to work inside the prison. She was allowed to receive food parcels. On 24 May 1944, the witness´ sister was released from the prison. A few days later, the witness was selected for transport; she was among 60 other women who were loaded onto freight wagons and sent to Ravensbrück. When they arrived at their destination, they were herded to the baths where they were ordered to turn in all items in their possession, change their clothes and take a shower. After bathing, they went into quarantine. After four weeks, the quarantine ended and the new prisoners were assigned to a regular barrack and to a regular job. Women were made to parade naked before the camp doctor who was directed the selections determining which prisoners were able to work and which were not. On 24 June 1944, the witness´ sister was selected for a labour transport. The witness was assigned to a work crew that was responsible for unlading coal. Prisoners who worked too slowly would be punished by the female guards; those who were unfit to work would be sent to Jugendlager for extermination. The daily life consisted of physically demanding work, inadequate food rations and brutal treatment.
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
Search warrants
Prisons
Work at camp
Prisoner functionaries (German)
Prisoner functionaries (Polish)
Trade
Selections
Catholic interviewee
Female interviewee
Subject, geographic
Aleja Szucha
Pawiak
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-103875
(nbn)
Identifiers (local)
alvin-record:103875
(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-103875
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https://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/view.jsf?pid=alvin-record:103875
Appendix
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Transcription (PDF)
Transcription (PDF) , 127 KB
Translation (PDF)
Translation (PDF), 108 KB
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