Ing. Danuta Pošustová
* 1937 †︎ 2026
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"The Germans led us in the direction of Pruszków, which is about thirty kilometres from Warsaw, where they made a detention camp. From that camp, trains went to Dachau and Mauthausen. The column was slow, people were tired and hungry. We were told that we only needed to take food for three days. So people didn't take any things. My mother had a fever of forty degrees when we left Warsaw, tonsilitis, but she had to go. My grandmother went with us and the aunts who stayed behind, in short, the family that came to us from the northern part of Warsaw. We went and we all reached the edge of Warsaw in the evening, at night, I know it was dark. We walked on the right side of the road, the Germans led us that way, because on the left side there were fields where there were tomatoes and other fruits. And some people tried to steal something from it, and the Germans didn't allow that - they were shooting."
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"They also lived in a house with a yard in the middle. And they had a dog. One of the aunts, the youngest of them, came out with a dog. And a phosphorus bomb dropped. It killed the dog, and the aunt burst into the falt in flames. They put her out with some blankets, but she was burned all over. They sent her to the uprising hospital. A makeshift hospital was set up in the cellars of some houses, and she lay there for ten days, and after ten days she died. At night she was glowing because of the phosphorus."
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"My mother's brother, my uncle, was a sailor and a freighter captain. He was torpedoed and lay at sea for over two days. Then the Americans found him and he made it to the United States. He made postal contact with my mother. That is, there were letters coming to Poland that the Germans were checking. They caught one letter that Mummy wrote, saying that Mummy was getting worse and worse. It meant my grandmother, because she was sick. The Germans thought it was some kind of secret code and that it meant that the Germans were getting worse and worse. That's why they shouted at my mother what it meant, why she wrote it. My mother had documents that her mother died in February 1942 and that she was sick. They finally left us alone."
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Celé nahrávky
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Praha, 08.08.2023
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délka: 01:40:10
Celé nahrávky jsou k dispozici pouze pro přihlášené uživatele.
During the Warsaw Uprising, the fallen were buried in the gardens of their homes, my mother was interrogated by the Gestapo
Danuta Pošustová was born on 9 September 1937 in Warsaw. Her father, Edvard Krieger, was involved in the defence of Warsaw at the beginning of the World War II and later was forced to work in Nazi Germany until 1944. Danuta Pošustová has memories of the Jewish ghetto uprising in 1943 and the Warsaw Uprising a year later. She and her family spent the end of the war in the countryside, returning to Warsaw after its liberation. After graduating from secondary school, she studied at the Warsaw Polytechnic, graduating in 1960. She then worked partly for the university and partly for the Institute of Industrial Chemistry in Warsaw. After 1980 she joined the Polish Solidarity movement, but was not an active member. In 1985 she married a mechanic, Josef Pošusta, and moved to Czechoslovakia. In 2023 she lived in Prague in the Palata home. She died on January 5, 2026.