Others offered equally direct testimonies from the Pomiechówek transit camp, exposing Nazi brutality with stark clarity. Their words capture immense suffering, meticulous records of deportations, and wrenching descriptions of daily torment. Interwoven in these accounts, however, is an undercurrent of resilience — not just a determination to bear witness from within the darkest confines, ensuring their experiences would survive beyond the walls of the camp, but even resistance inside the camp walls.
















After 16 August 1941.
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On Sunday [...] a German's voice saying: “Get up in a hurry.” ... Several minutes later all of us were on the market square. Scared, they ask ... women and the weeping of the children. They escorted families in to the suburbs.





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