Re: <no subject>
Jan Mokrzycki (xuegxaw@CSV.WARWICK.AC.UK)
Mon, 18 Mar 1996 15:51:03 +0000
Dear Dana,
as Tom has already said my Mother spent some 2 years in Aushwitz(Oswiecim),and
then another year in Ravensbruck concentration camp.
She was arrested by the Gestapo for working in the Polish underground together
with my father, uncle and grandfather. All the men were murdered at the Pawiak
prison, she was sentenced to death and sent to Aushwitz. Let me add that we
are not Jewish but Polish, as so many of the concentration
prisoners-victims were.
The sights and the sounds were awfull, walking skeletons, dressed in rags.The
worst thing was, she said, a total absence of any greenery and of birds.
Yes, ofcourse they hoped, it was the only way to keep alive, to hope and to
try and shut out the present untill a whip across your back brought it
back.Mother always said she was lucky, as she was a doctor, not only did
she have better accomodation and food, such as it was, but more
importantly, she was able to achieve something by helping others a little. She
maintained that the aimless work they were set by the guards was in many ways
more of a torture, than torture itself.
Hope this answers some of your questions, but if you want to know more do not
hasitate to ask.
JanM