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Our today’s interviewee:
Apolonia Dolińska née Zawadzka (born 1919), a nurse and participant of the Warsaw Uprising. During the fighting in Warsaw she was arrested by the Germans at Nowogrodzka Street and deported to KL Auschwitz. Women who took part in the Warsaw Uprising were not tattooed and their heads were not shaved - they were only marked with black paint in the back of their prison uniforms. Apolonia Dolińska was about to be sent to work at a weapons factory, when on of the elderly female prisoners picked her as a nurse to work in her block. It turned out that the woman was the mother of Apolonia’s close friend Zosia. Apolonia’s new task was to look after older women in the camp. This was a very fortunate turn of events for Apolonia Dolińska, as all of the people working at the weapons factory died when the factory was bombed. The block for elderly women was not equipped with any medications or medical instruments, but a good word and support provided by the nurses were sometimes enough. They managed to save the lives of many women, despite frequent selections carried out by the dreaded Dr Mengele. Whenever a Polish woman from the block died, the nurses passed on her documents to a Jewish woman, increasing her chances of survival. When the front advanced and representatives of the Red Cross appeared in the camp, it seemed like the torment would finally end. Unfortunately, the Germans organized a death march…
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3 окт 2024
