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Record of witness testimony No. 447
(Text, Manuscript)
Language
Polish
Persons
Natkańska, Jadwiga
, 1902-
(interviewee)
Plater, Ludwika Broel
, 1885-1972
(interviewer)
Dziedzicka, Helena
, 1903-1975
(interviewer)
Origin
Malmö
, 1946-08-14
Physical description
ff. 27
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.
After the German occupation of Radom had begun, the Polish school-teachers would be arrested. A weapon factory was converted into the Gestapo station. On 24 November 1941, the witness along with her family were arrested and taken to the Gestapo for interrogation, accused of being active in the underground. The witness´s husband and her son were transferred to a prison in Radom, but she stayed behind at the Gestapo station, being tortured during interrogations. A man she knew was tortured into talking and betrayed her. For six months, the witness was isolated from the rest of the prison population. After spending eight months in prison, she was among 100 other women who were put into passenger carriages and sent to Ravensbrück. When they arrived at their destination, they were met by female guards with dogs and SS men who accompanied them on the trip to the camp. The newcomers were taken to the baths where they were told to turn in all items in their possession, take a shower and change their clothes. After bathing, they underwent medical examination. When the whole procedure was completed, the new prisoners went into quarantine for two months. After finishing quarantine, they were assigned to a regular barrack and to a regular job. By accident, the witness learned that she had been sentenced to death. She was among a number of political prisoners who were not allowed to receive food parcels, letters or newspapers.
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
Torture
Polish underground
Interrogations
Gestapo
Pregnancies
Children
Infirmary
Catholic interviewee
Female interviewee
Subject, geographic
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-103679
(nbn)
Identifiers (local)
alvin-record:103679
(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-103679
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https://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/view.jsf?pid=alvin-record:103679
Appendix
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Transcription (PDF)
Transcription (PDF) , 215 KB
Translation (PDF)
Translation (PDF) , 196 KB
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