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Our today’s interviewee:
Zbigniew Jan Pakuła (born in 1923), before World War II he lived in Tuchola, his father was a Polish policeman. In September 1939, the Germans took over these territories and arrested the representatives of the Polish intelligentsia, officials and social activists. They also took away Zbigniew’s father - it later turned out that he was murdered on 27 October 1939 (massacre in Rudzki Most).
Several years after the war in Tuchola Forests, a German was arrested. Photographic negatives of these executions were found on his person. In one of the photographs Zbigniew Jan Pakuła recognized Father Romanowski, his catechist…
After Zbigniew’s father was arrested, his mother sent Zbigniew to Warsaw to protect him from getting arrested by the Germans. Zbigniew Jan Pakuła worked in Warsaw as a car mechanic at a car repair shop on Towarowa Street, Wola district. Shortly before the Warsaw Uprising he was forced to go into hiding, as the Germans discovered the underground organization he was part of. After the uprising he was detained in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He managed to survive his stay there, but his younger brother wasn’t as lucky - arrested in 1942 for membership on the “Rota” organization, he was supposed to be released at the beginning of 1945, but after his sentence was over, the Gestapo sent him to the prison in Celle near KL Bergen-Belsen. His fate remains unknown.
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10 дек 2020
