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:

• Interview za 070 »
• Video interview in English
• Interviewed on March 15, 2006 by Christoph Thonfeld; camera Almut Leh
• Interview duration:  2:30 hours
• Transcription and translation
• Subset: "Great Britain – Fernuni Hagen"