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Karier, Krystyna
Record of witness testimony No. 17
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Record of witness testimony No. 17
(Text, Manuscript)
Language
Polish
Persons
Walasik, Ludwik
, 1910-
(interviewee)
Karier, Krystyna
, 1913-1989
(interviewer)
Origin
Malmö
, 1945-11-30
Physical description
ff. 10
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 20 November 1942, the witness was arrested in Gdańsk, accused of being involved in the Polish underground movement. He was taken to the Gestapo HQ in Gdańsk and placed in a shared cell holding around a dozen prisoners. In February 1943, he was transported to the Stutthof concentration camp. According to the witness' testimony the most effective method of making people feel exhausted at the camp was the combination of 12-hour work shifts, small food rations, strict discipline, roll calls and lack of proper clothing. By working in the vicinity of the crematorium, the witness observed that about thirty dead bodies were being removed from the camp every day. There were special barracks where the weak and sick would be placed to finish them off. In the spring of 1944, Jews from Eastern Europe and Jewish women from the Łódź ghetto were transported to the camp. Out of 15,000 Jewish prisoners about 1,000 were saved from the gas chambers. During the evacuation of the camp, the prisoners were shipped out on barges along the infirmary patients. In the summer of 1944, several hundred people suspected for being Polish partisans were brought to the camp for extermination. In August 1944, the camp started to fill up with evacuees from other camps and with people from the Warsaw Uprising.
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
Prisons
Evacuation
Prison hulks
Executions
Guerrillas
Air raids
Water supply
Catholic interviewee
Male interviewee
Subject, geographic
Stutthof
Neuengamme
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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-100724
(nbn)
Identifiers (local)
alvin-record:100724
(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-100724
Direct link
https://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/view.jsf?pid=alvin-record:100724
Appendix
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Transcription
Transcription, 314 KB
Translation
Translation, 292 KB
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