Stanisław Zalewski – memoirs from German concentration camps
On Polish Radio 24 German crimes during the World War II were referred by Stanisław Zalewski, a former prisoner of Auschwitz camp and Gusen camp, currently, the president of the Polish Association of Former Political Prisoners of Nazi Prisons and Concentration Camps
2018-02-02, 18:30
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As Stanisław Zalewski has emphasized, it is hard to tell about Auschwitz. – Before 1939 the Jewish community constituted almost 11 percent of the overall population. That was more than three million people. But in the records there was no Jew-Pole, but a Republic of Poland citizen of the Jewish descent. These were Polish citizens who fit in Polish nation’s tragedy during the World War II – says the former prisoner.
According to the guest of Polish Radio 24, at the time of passing the gate every person was deprived of dignity. – During the initial period called quarantine, prisoners were working and then a selection was made: weaker were out and stronger stayed alive. Those who fell down did not stand up. I was in Auschwitz since 6th October 1943. It was the time when Auschwitz became a death camp. Later, I was sent to Gusen – said Zalewski.
As the former prisoner stressed, these were German concentration camps. – The camp was created in the area of Oświęcim, but it was entered on the UNESCO list as Auschwitz-Birkenau, German Nazi Concentration and Death Camp. This is the correct name – pointed Stanisław Zalewski.
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