Yesterday, Mike and John from Insider Tour, were invited to participate
in a discussion with a former inmate and survivor of the Sachsenhausen
concentration camp. Jerzy Zawadzki is one of five living witnesses to
the horrors of this site. His family were involved in the Warsaw
Uprising, and for that they spent two weeks cramed into a cattle wagon
en route to Sachsenhausen. Jerzy was nine years old at the time. His
father was murdered in the camp system. His mother gave birth to his
sister in the system and they were reunited at the end of the war.
Jerzy
told many anecdotes of the brutality and some acts of kindness he
experienced during camp life. There was no hint of bitterness in his
retelling of the facts. He is a great lover of folk songs from all
countries and appealed to everyone in the room to reach out to their
neighbours to undertsand them better.
