| KORESPONDENCJA Z PERTH. FRAGMENT WOJENNEJ OPOWIEŚCI SPISANEJ PRZEZ ANNĘ LILPOP.
The partisans defended themselves to the last bullet, showing huge heroism during the defence of the
power plant, which was regularly bombarded by the Germans. They only surrendered after orders were
issued by the Home Army on the 7 th of September 1944. They went out to the square, and handed over
their remaining weapons. The Germans ordered them to go in the direction of train station.
He was put in a transitional camp in Pruszków, from where Germans loaded the whole group from Powiśle
into freight wagons. They were told that they were going to Vienna. A couple days later they got out in
Dachau concentration camp.
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After surrender, the Home Army soldiers should have been treated as prisoners of war. Instead, they were
treated like bandits.
Zbigniew, along with other soldiers from Powiśle, was taken to the camp’s so-called quarantine area. On
the 12 th of September 1944 he was given the number 104884. There he met for the first time a priest
Gajkowski, who distributed to newcomers ‘Stripe clothing’, the infamous stripped uniform worn by
concentration camp inmates.
On the 27 th of September about 400 of prisoners were transported from Dachau to the concentration camp
in Sandhofen in Mannheim. This camp was a sub-camp of the Natzweiler concentration camp. There they
were forced into slave labour at the Daimler Benz car factory, manufacturing gearboxes. The prisoners
were initially guarded inside and outside the factory hall and, in the camp, by armed SS men from the SS
Commando. Then troops from the Luftwaffe took over.
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One day the commander of the camp announced at the roll call that the prisoners had been registered as
prisoners of war in Geneva and, that they would receive food packages from the Red Cross.
The prisoners were delighted, but they received nothing. They lived in a school, in classrooms which were
filled with bunks. Zbigniew slept at the top. On the lower bunk slept a prisoner, Strasburger (he had a wife
and children in Poland), who said he had someone in the family in the Government in Exile in London
government.
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As an inmate of the Natzweiler concentration camp, Zbigniew had the number 30082. One Sunday,
Zbigniew did not go to work because he did not hear or recognize his number being called out. For a few
hours, he was made to squat, with his hands held out front, in the square in front of the school. They
threatened him that they would kill him for sabotage. At one point, he and his guard were approached by
an officer of the camp (a Luftwaffe captain) who asked the sentry why Zbigniew was squatting. The sentry
did not know. The captain went to guardhouse and ordered them to let him go. Polish chefs called him to
the kitchen, where they gave him something to eat. He was lucky.
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Zbigniew wierzy, że nad jego życiem czuwa Św. Jozafat Kuncewicz, jego przodek urodzony we
Włodzimierzu Wołyńskim, zamordowany w 1623 roku na tle religijnym. Beatyfikowany w 1643
przez Papieża Urbana VIII, a kanonizowany w 1867 przez Papieża Piusa IX. Od 1949 jego relikwie
spoczywają w Bazylice Św. Piotra w Watykanie obok Św. Jana. Jako pięciolatek Zbigniew wyśnił
sobie wizerunek swojego przodka. W 1949, kiedy relikwie Świętego przenoszono do Watykanu, a
odnaleziona przez Czerwony Krzyż rodzina przesłała mu fotografię św. Jozafata, Zbigniew
rozpoznał go jako tego ‘Jezusa, który przyszedł do niego we śnie’, gdy miał 5 lat i gdy opowiedział
ten sen matce w tamtym czasie.
Od Redakcji:
Właśnie natrafilismy na informacje o św. Jozafacie Kuncewiczu, którego ciało nie uległo rozkładowi.
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