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Page 1
Record of witness testimony No. 334
(Text, Manuscript)
Language
Polish
Persons
Drew, Ernest
, 1918-
(interviewee)
Nowaczyk, Józef
, 1904-
(interviewer)
Origin
Trelleborg
, 1946-06-03
Physical description
ff. 5
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 Mars 1939, the Polish citizens, living in Gdańsk were ordered by the authorities to change their citizenship, sign the Volksdeutsche list or to leave the city. The witness refused to accept those conditions and lost his job in the Gdańsk shipyard. On 24 August 1939, the witness was arrested by the SS and forced to labour. On 30 September 1939, he was among a number of other Polish citizens who were sent to the concentration camp in Stutthof. The newcomers were assigned to a work crew that was responsible for digging out tree trunks which was dangerous. The Russian prisoners received adequate food rations and they were treated well by the camp authorities. Those inmates who left their barrack at night without asking for permission risked to be shot by the guards. The Polish priests were being punished by flogging. Executions were carried out outside the barracks. Only seriously ill inmates received medical care in the infirmary. On 20 April 1940, the witness was transferred to Sachsenhausen.
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
Agricultural labour
Soldiers (Russian)
Priests
Flogging
Sanitary conditions
Executions
Catholic interviewee
Male interviewee
Volksdeutsche
Subject, geographic
Stutthof
Sachsenhausen
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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-103205
(nbn)
Identifiers (local)
alvin-record:103205
(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-103205
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https://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/view.jsf?pid=alvin-record:103205
Appendix
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Transcription (PDF)
Transcription (PDF), 173 KB
Translation (PDF)
Translation (PDF), 179 KB
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