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Jerzy Cz., Polish concentration camp prisoner in Flossenbürg and Dresden
Jerzy Cz. was deported from Warsaw to the Flossenbürg concentration camp in 1944 and was forced to perform forced labor in a subcamp near Dresden. After 1945 he stayed in Germany as a displaced person before immigrating to England in 1947.
Jerzy Cz., London 2006
Letter to Jerzy Cz. in the concentration camp subcamp in Dresden, 1945
- Born in 1927 in a suburb of Warsaw
- Works as an inland sailor after the German occupation of Poland
- Arrested in the course of the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944
- Deportation via transit camp in Pruszków to the Flossenbürg concentration camp where he first labored in a stone quarry
- Thereafter he is assigned to constructing underground fortifications in Freital near Dresden
- February 1945: Escape to American occupied territory
- Functionary in Polish displaced persons camps in Mannheim and Murnau
- Immigrates via Italy to England in 1947
- Attends navigation school and works as a mariner, later in the administration of a factory
- Since his retirement in 1992, exhibition guide for the Polish Institute & Sikorski Museum, London
Interview Data:
- Video interview in English
- Interviewed on March 15th, 2006 by Christoph Thonfeld; camera Almut Leh
- Interview duration: 2:30 hours
- Transcription and translation
- Subset: "Great Britain – Fernuni Hagen"
