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Our today’s interviewee:
Ewa Żelechowska-Stolzman (born 1929). After the Warsaw Uprising she was deported to the transit camp in Pruszków along with her family. Her parents tried to get them all out, but they were unsuccessful. They were eventually transported to the Third Reich. 70 people were herded into a single wagon and the exhausting journey took nearly 10 days. The Germans finally ordered everyone to leave the wagons and separated men from women and children. Ewa Żelechowska-Stolzman felt a sudden need to run towards her father and hug him, but seeing the terrified look on her mother’s face, she didn’t. It was the last time she saw her father. Her sister Hania had a chance to exchange a few words with him and give him a pack of cigarettes. The men from the transport stayed behind, the women and children were transported to the concentration camp in Ravensbrück.
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14 апр 2022
