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Page 1
Record of witness testimony No. 380
(Text, Manuscript)
Language
Polish
Persons
Augustynowicz, Henryk
, 1898-
(interviewee)
Miklaszewska, Helena
, 1906-2000
(interviewer)
Origin
Trelleborg
, 1946-06-27
Physical description
ff. 4
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 July 1944, the witness was arrested and sentenced to death, accused of hiding prisoners who had escaped from the Pustków camp. Shortly afterwards, the witness´family was punished by sending to the Pustków camp. The witness was being tortured during interrogations. After the camp had been evacuated, the prisoners were loaded onto cattle wagons and transported to Auschwitz. The camp authorities were totally unprepared for their arrival. The transport was sent to Sachsenhausen. The newcomers were unloaded and divided up: the men stayed behind and the women were sent away to an unknown destination. The witness was assigned to a work crew that was responsible for clearing rubble after the bombing of the Henkel factory. Three weeks later, he was sent back to Sachsenhausen before being forwarded to Ravensbrück. The witness found his wife and children in Ravensbrück but he was not allowed to converse with them. In October 1944, one of the witness´ sons was sent to the male camp. On 1 Mars 1945, the witness was sent back to Sachsenhausen where he was forced to hard labour. Thanks to the prisoner physicians the witness was laid up in the infirmary where he was able to have some rest. Rumors had gone round that those inmates who were unfit to work would be executed. The witness decided to escape from the infirmary. When Sachsenhausen was evacuated, the witness was among many other prisoners who were forced to leave the camp.
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
Interrogations
Work at camp
Evacuation
Catholic interviewee
Male interviewee
Subject, geographic
Sachsenhausen
Ravensbrück
Schwerin
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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-103352
(nbn)
Identifiers (local)
alvin-record:103352
(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-103352
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https://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/view.jsf?pid=alvin-record:103352
Appendix
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Transcription (PDF)
Transcription (PDF), 115 KB
Translation (PDF)
Translation (PDF), 85 KB
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