European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

I do not like my name, I am Stenia Dąmbrowska, formally Stefania, my nick name is Stenia.

I was born on 12th October 1916 in Petersburg.

My father was a military man, Bohdan.

At that time in Russia, he was a cavalry captain I guess.

My mother, her maiden name was Kościałkowska,

was just next to her husband.

At that time already it was already custom that some women worked.

And my mum worked in some office called `Prodamed`.

Being sent to Majdanek Concentration Camp

I just came back. We were near Radom.

I came back home at 8 in the evening.

And while coming to the action we were given different 'Kennkarte'.

And at the railway station I was supposed to get to the Central Station and in the last minute,

in Radom I guess, they changed their mind, and told us to get off to the West Station

to give back those 'Kennkarte' and take our 'Kennkarte'.

My ID, how to say nowadays.

I came back home. I had a cold, was ill. I went to bed.

Doctor Chojecki lived above us as then we lived in 3 Hołówki Street.

This is the street where the poet Baczynski lived.

In the same house. He was living at the third staircase and I at the sixth.