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Page 1
Record of witness testimony No. 273
(Text, Manuscript)
Language
Polish
Persons
Berezowski, Tadeusz
, 1914-
(interviewee)
Strzelecka, Halina
, 1907-1968
(interviewer)
Origin
Lund
, 1946-04-16
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 25 April 1941, the witness was among 600 other prisoners who were taken to the punishment block at Auschwitz. After three months´imprisonment, only 52 inmates were still alive. It was strictly forbidden and punishable offense for prisoners to converse with their fellows in the punishment block. The accommodation conditions were horrible; prisoners slept on the floor and they were not able to change their sleep position at night. Limited access to water made cleanliness harder to maintain. Prisoners who served in the camp kitchen tried to support their inmate fellows in the punishment block by delivering soup with extra vegetables. The witness was assigned to outside work. He was used as slave labour, working for private companies. After three months, the witness was assigned to a new crew, carrying out regulation works on the river Soła. According to the Nazi guards all the Jewish prisoners, interned at the punishment block would be killed. The combination of physically demanding work, corporal punishment and reduced food rations made the inmates feel exhausted.
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
Punishment blocks
Executions
Barracks (Interior)
Rivers (Construction)
Supervisors
Protection
Catholic interviewee
Male interviewee
Subject, geographic
Auschwitz
Neuengamme
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-102984
(nbn)
Identifiers (local)
alvin-record:102984
(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-102984
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https://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/view.jsf?pid=alvin-record:102984
Appendix
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Transcription (PDF)
Transcription (PDF) , 110 KB
Translation (PDF)
Translation (PDF) , 69 KB
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