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Page 1
Record of witness testimony No. 501
(Text, Manuscript)
Language
Polish
Persons
Stroiński, Mieczysław
, 1914-
(interviewee)
Melchior, Luba
, 1912-2000
(interviewer)
Origin
Trelleborg
, 1946-11-28
Physical description
ff. 9
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 16 April 1940, the witness was arrested in Poznań and sent to the Fortess VII camp. The newcomers were ordered to take off their clothes and they were being beaten by the guards until they passed out. After being tortured for three hours, the new prisoners were assigned to a prison cell where the accommodation conditions were dreadful; prisoners slept on the floor. The witness was beaten during interrogation, accused of being active in the underground. For five days, he was held in solitary confinement. After he had signed the interrogation transcript, he was transferred to the Wronki prison where he would be incarcerated for ten months. Inmates were forced to work inside the jail. Those prisoners who did not meet the quotas in addition to rations being withheld were punished by the prison authorities. The witness was transferred to Poznań where a trail was conducted by a court-martial; nine prisoners were sentenced to death. Then he was transferred to the Rawicz prison where he was isolated from the rest of the prison population. On 29 September 1943, the witness was among eight other prisoners who were transported to Breslau. In Breslau they were loaded onto trains that took them to Auschwitz. When they arrived at their destination, they were taken to the baths where they would spend the night. The next day, the new prisoners went out into the main camp street where they were made to parade naked before being registered. They were ordered to take a shower in cold water and change into prison stripes. After bathing, they went into quarantine. Prisoners were forced to do physical exercises as a punishment. Those who were unable to do the exercises properly were beaten by the guards. After finishing quarantine, the witness was assigned to a work crew that was responsible for unloading bricks. In January 1944, the witness was among 120 other prisoners who were selected for a labour transport to Buchenwald in order to be used as slave laborers in an airplane factory. On 6 April 1945, the camp was evacuated and the prisoners set out on a trek, covering between 30-40 kilometers a day. The witness was among 730 other prisoners who survived the death march. On 4 May 1945, the survivors were liberated by the English.
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
Prisons
Solitary confinement
Interrogations
Corporal punishment
Quarantine
Work crews
Prisoner functionaries (German)
Factories
Barracks (Interior)
Protection
Wages
Evacuation
Catholic interviewee
Male interviewee
Subject, geographic
Auschwitz
Buchenwald
Schwerin
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-104052
(nbn)
Identifiers (local)
alvin-record:104052
(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-104052
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https://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/view.jsf?pid=alvin-record:104052
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Transcription (PDF)
Transcription (PDF), 254 KB
Translation (PDF)
Translation (PDF), 270 KB
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