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Our today’s interviewee:
Halina Rogozińska (born 1926), prisoner of the German Soldau camp in Działdowo. The Germans were tormenting the Poles in the territories incorporated into the Third Reich from the very beginning of the war. They would hang a farmer who killed a pig to feed his family for doing so without their permission. They sent people to concentration camps on a mass scale. Halina Rogozińska’s father, her older brother and sister managed to escape to the territory of the General Government at the last minute. After seeing they had fled, a German beat Halina’s mother. Halina, her two younger sisters and their mother were sent to the Soldau camp in Działdowo. The camp was divided into three parts – one for Catholic priests, one for Poles and one for Jews. Halina Rogozińska witnessed horrific scenes, such as the time when the Germans drowned a 10-year-old boy in a toilet ditch and buried one of the Jewish prisoners alive. Luckily, the Rogoziński family was deported from Soldau after two weeks and sent to the General Government. For many years after the war, Halina Rogozińska tried to repress these traumatic experiences from her memory.

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