"On Auschwitz" (49): Deportations of Polish people from the uprising Warsaw to Auschwitz

In August and September 1944 -  after the outbreak of the
Warsaw Uprising -  almost 13,000 inhabitants of the occupied
capital city and surrounding towns: men, women, the elderly,
children, even infants, were deported to Auschwitz by the German
authorities. Dr. Wanda Witek-Malicka of the Auschwitz Museum
Research Centre talks about their fate in the camp.





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We wish to thank Kate Weinrieb for her help in the production of
the English version of the podcast.





In the picture: Jadwiga and Aleksander Bogdaszewski with their
children, photograph taken in 1944, in Warsaw. Apart from
two-year-old Basia, who was in hospital when the Uprising broke
out, the rest of the family were expelled from Warsaw and then,
on 12 August, deported to Auschwitz. Aleksander was next
transferred to Flossenbürg, where he died in 1944, whereas
Jadwiga was transferred in a women’s transport to another camp in
Germany. Their children, Zdzisława, aged 10, and Stanisław, aged
6, were liberated in Auschwitz.