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Page 1
Record of witness testimony No. 69
(Text, Manuscript)
Language
Polish
Persons
Czajkowska, Zofia
, 1910-
(interviewee)
Miklaszewska, Helena
, 1906-2000
(interviewer)
Origin
Frostavallen
, 1945-12-29
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.
In August 1940, the witness was among many other Polish women who were sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. When they arrived at the Fürstenberg railroad station, they were met by SS men and female guards. From the station, they were taken onward to Ravensbrück in trucks. The new prisoners were loaded hurriedly and arrived at the camp at 6 p.m. They stood in ranks of five in front of the bathhouse and waited their turn to go inside and bathe. The women in the camp at that time were German communists and asocials, Gypsies, Czechs, Jews, and Poles. The bulk of these were Poles, almost all of whom were political prisoners and members of the intelligentsia. The new prisoners were assigned to a quarantine barrack. After six weeks the quarantine ended but the inmates were not allowed to leave their barrack. The period of quarantine was used by the camp administration to acquaint the newcomers with the rules and regulations of the camp. The prisoners were divided into work crews operated inside and outside the camp. At work, the prisoners would be allowed to go to the toilets only at specific times. Work in the winter was extremely hard, because the inmates were lightly dressed. The combination of physically demanding work, lack of proper clothes, limited access to water during working days, collective punishment, medical experiments and brutal treatment made the inmates feel exhausted. In 1941, a number of Polish inmates were selected by the German authorities to serve as prisoner functionaries.
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
Quarantine
Living conditions
Work crews
Prisoner functionaries
Prostitutes
Punishment
Diseases
Pregnancies
Children
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-101097
(nbn)
Identifiers (local)
alvin-record:101097
(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-101097
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https://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/view.jsf?pid=alvin-record:101097
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Translation
Translation, 270 KB
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