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Antoni Boroński 1908 - 1942 Edit

Born 10.6.1908 in Pogorzela
Died 11.6.1942 in Gusen

Biography

My grandfather was 34 years old when he died in concentration camp in Mauthausen/Gusen on 11 June 1942. He had left a wife Cecylia and five children.

My mother Jadwiga was the youngest of the siblings. She was born exactly one week after they had arrested her father Antoni Boroński.

My grandfather was arrested by Gestapo on 6 January 1940 in Pogorzela where he had been living. He had been in arrest in the city of Leszno (Poland) and then in concentration camp in Dachau located in Germany. He was transported from Dachau to Mauthausen on 17 August 1941 and then to Gusen between 12 October 1941 and 23 November 1941. He had written letters to his wife and children from Mauthausen in October and from Gusen in November 1941. The last letter was from May 1942.

Before they arrested him he had been working in City Hall in Pogorzela as an accountant. He was arrested like many Polish intellectual people same as in other countries in Europe during the Second World War. It was that Nazi program to destroy intellectual people. Adolf Hitler announced the rest of people would become slaves soon.
My grandfather had an opportunity to escape from arrest in Leszno but he did not want to. He was sure it was a mistake, and was looking forward to come back home soon. He knew he was innocent.

In camps they had been treated him very badly. He was punished and tortured so often by hanging him by his arms. I know those stories from the man who came back to Pogorzela after the war and knew my grandfather. It was very hard for my mother and the family to listen to it.

My grandfather was murdered in 1942. His wife died one year later.

For me as their grandchild this story is very important. Always has been and always will. I love you grandpa...

 

Alina Szulczewska, granddaughter

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