European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

Yes, it was somehow a miracle.

Yes, Szucha Avenue, Pawiak and from Pawiak to Majdanek.

From November I was a prisoner, in investigation.

Investigation finished, I will not tell you how it looked like, as everybody knows about it.

When you were going to take part in investigation, when you could’nt walk anymore, you were taken to the cell.

The best proof is that I am deaf on my right ear, some other little injuries.

And on 17th January there was a transport from Pawiak to Majdanek. In 1943.

After coming at night to Majdanek, it was 17th January 1943.

It was winter, when the frost comes to twenty, thirty degrees. Enormous frosts.

They took us to the field, put us in front of a bath house.

First, we were taken in those cattle vans from Warsaw to Lublin,

then were unloaded, we walked from the railway station to the camp.

There, at night, all of us had to strip naked.

Searched, we were standing in the snow.

They searched our clothes.

After the search, we got dressed.

It is good some of them had some warm clothes, as some others, prisoners from Pawiak,

were arrested earlier, in summer, so they had only light clothes on.

Fortunately, I wore good cloth, when I was arrested my mother gave me warm clothes.

And additionally, she sent some to Pawiak. It helped me a bit.