- Description
- Contains testimonies of Polish victims of II Reich. These accounts constitute mostly the answers to a questionnaire sent by the Association of Polish Victims of the Third Reich (SPP) and edited by the Foundation of Polish-German Reconciliation (FPNP) in 1989. Many of accounts contain photographs, poems and personal documents. The contest declared by SPP was entitled: “We commemorate the evidence of the suffering of the Polish people-slaves of the 20th century” („Utrwalamy świadectwa cierpień Polaków-niewolników XX wieku”). 195 accounts were sent, unfortunately not all of them survived.
- Alternate Title
- Testimonies collected by the Association of the Polish Victims of III Reich
- Date
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creation:
1989-1989
- Credit Line
- Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Collection Creator
- Stowarzyszenie Polaków Poszkodowanych przez III Rzesz?
- Biography
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Stowarzyszenie Polaków Poszkodowanych przez III Rzeszę (SPP, Polish Association of Victims of III Third Reich) was founded in 1989 r. as an organization of victims of slave labor from the period of World War II. The aim of the organization is to document the historical truth about the fate of Polish victims of the Third Reich and the Nazi authorities, as well as social assistance to all victims of Germany, and to demand compensation from this country. The Association actively take on the national and international action to obtain redress and compensation for the Polish victims of the Third Reich.
- Reference
- Zachować Pamięć. Warszawa: Główna Komisja Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Polsce, Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, 1984.
Muszyński, Mariusz. Erinnerung Bewahren: Sklaven Und Zwangsarbeiter Des Dritten Reiches Aus Polen 1939-1945 =Zachować Pamięć : Praca Przymusowa i Niewolnicza Obywateli Polskich Na Rzecz Trzeciej Rzeszy w Latach 1939-1945. Warschau: Stiftung Polnisch-Deutsche Aussöhnung=Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie, 2007.
Degiel, Rafał. Ostpreussen: Wspomnienia Polaków Wywiezionych Na Roboty Przymusowe Do Prus Wschodnich w Latach 1939-1945. Warszawa: Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie, 2010.
Berlin. Wspomnienia Polaków z robót przymusowych w stolicy III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945.
Gmitruk, Janusz. Ostmark: Wspomnienia Polaków z Robót Przymusowych w Austrii w Latach 1939-1945. Warszawa: Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie, 2011.
