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Our today's interviewee:
Ignacy Kurczyński (born in 1925), prisoner of KL Gross Rosen during World War II. Together with his older brother, he was sent as forced laborer to the Third Reich. Having escaped, he tried to return to Poland, but he was arrested by the Germans at the railway station in Wrocław. Detained by the Gestapo, following a short trial, he was sentenced to imprisonment at a concentration camp. The Germans sent him to KL Gross Rosen, where he received prisoner number 03491. His fellow inmates were murdered every day. Ignacy Kurczyński witnessed young prisoners being beaten senseless under the pretext of delousing. The tortured men were then taken to the Revier (camp hospital), where they had 48 hours to get better - otherwise, they received fatal injections and were transported to the crematorium.
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4 фев 2021
