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Page 1
Record of witness testimony No. 445
(Text, Manuscript)
Language
Polish
Persons
Rajzman, Szyfra
, 1923-
(interviewee)
Strzelecka, Halina
, 1907-1968
(interviewer)
Origin
Trelleborg
, 1946-08-26
Physical description
ff. 8
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.
In January 1942, the witness received a summons from the Sosnowiec labour bureau, which there was called a Sonderamt within twenty-four hours, she was to present herself to the Dulag, from which transports of Jews were being sent to labour camps. Should the witness fails to turn up, it was threatened, the Germans would confiscate her family’s ration cards and evict them. Shortly afterwards, the witness was sent to Dulag where she went through a medical examination. After eight days, she was selected for a labour transport to the Neusalz camp. She was assigned to work in a German factory where many accidents occurred. Prisoners who were unfit to work were sent back to Dulag before being forwarded to Auschwitz for extermination. The living conditions in the camp were adequate; every woman got to sleep in her own bed. In 1944, the decision had been taken that the SS would be in charge of daily functioning of the camp. Relations between civilian workers and women prisoners were rather chummy in the factory. In January 1945, the camp was evacuated and the prisoners set out on a march to Flossenbürg. After a week, they were transported by train to Bergen-Belsen. During the journey they could hardly breathe from the lack of air. The combination of inadequate food rations, limited access to water and a large number of corpses lying outside the barracks made the prisoners feel miserable.
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
Factories
Supervisors
Medical care
Civilian employees
Evacuation
Hunger
Accidents
Corpses
Jewish interviewee
Female interviewee
Subject, geographic
Neusalz
Bergen-Belsen
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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-103676
(nbn)
Identifiers (local)
alvin-record:103676
(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-103676
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https://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/view.jsf?pid=alvin-record:103676
Appendix
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Transcription (PDF)
Transcription (PDF), 118 KB
Translation (PDF)
Translation (PDF), 85 KB
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