Photo: Prószynski i S-ka
Tomorrow, Saturday, a special kind of tour will take place in the former Gusen concentration camp. He is the former Polish refugee Stanisław Grzesiuk who was stationed in the Dachau, Mauthausen and Gusen camps for a total of five years. Grzesiuk died 60 years ago as a result of long-term imprisonment.
A book “5 years concentration camp” was published in German in 2020
Despite the terrible experiences that he wrote down in the impressive book “5 Years Concentration Camp”, which was also published in German three years ago, the Pole has never lost his sense of humor. He survived the camp, he wrote in the book, by “organizing food and avoiding work”.
“The Helmut Qualtinger of Poland”
“He was Poland’s Helmut Qualtinger,” says the Gmunden historian Gregor Holzinger, who researches the Mauthausen Memorial in Vienna and wrote the German translation of the foreword. Grzesiuk wrote that he was a crook with “an above-average ability to survive”.
Tour of the former Gusen concentration camp
During the tour, the numerous stations described in the book are visited and the book is read aloud there. The tour is led by Bernhard Mühleder from the Mauthausen Memorial and by Monika Szmigiel-TurlejDirector of the Polish Institute in Vienna.
Meeting point is on May 13th at 10 a.m. at the Memorial Gusen. Registration at education@mauthausen-memorial.org or 07238-226910.
Source: Nachrichten
