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O Ś W i Ę c i M ISSN 1899-4407 PEOPLE CULTURE ciM HISTORY THiRD inTERnaTiOnaL biEnniaL Of SOciO-POLiTicaL POSTER in OŚWiĘ no. 22 October 2010 oś—oświęcim, People, history, culture magazine, no. 22, october 2010 EDITORIAL BOARD: oś—oświęcim, People, history, culture magazine EDITORIAL “Confrontation and Refl ection” is the It is accompanied by a brief conversa- meeting was the tenth anniversary of title of the winning poster in the Third tion with Zofi a Posmysz, whose novel this institution. The last page includes Biennial of Socio-Political Poster in was the inspiration for the composer. a series of photos from the anniversary Oświęcim, which adorns the cover. Its In this month’s issue you will fi nd celebrations. author Bangqian Zheng is from China. two interviews. For four years Dr. We also invite you to read the text of The 74 best posters of the contest can Piotr M.A. Cywiński has led the work an extraordinary collection of decorat- editor: be viewed at the International Youth of the Auschwitz Memorial Site. He ed greeting cards made by Auschwitz Paweł Sawicki Meeting Center until the end of the talks about, among other things, why prisoners. Helena Datoń-Szpak has editorial secretary: year. In this month’s Oś you will fi nd he agreed to accept a job offer at that made a precious donation to the Mu- Agnieszka Juskowiak-Sawicka a review of the exhibit and a report point and if he regrets that decision, seum. During the war, while working editorial board: about the awards ceremony. the most important challenges as a young girl in the canteen she as- Bartosz Bartyzel This is not the only cultural element currently facing the Museum, as sisted prisoners—this included the Wiktor Boberek in the October issue. On the cultural well as the contemporary European smuggling of illegal correspondence. Jarek Mensfelt side, you can read the review of the meaning of the history of the camp. Olga Onyszkiewicz Jadwiga Pinderska-Lech opera The Passenger by Mieczysław Our second interviewee was Tomasz Paweł Sawicki Artur Szyndler Weinberg that premiered on October 8 Kuncewicz, director of the Jewish Editor-in-chief columnist: at the Grand Theatre -National Opera. Center in Oświęcim. The reason for the [email protected] Mirosław Ganobis design and layout: Agnieszka Matuła, Grafi kon translations: David R. Kennedy A GALLERY OF THE 20TH CENTURY Proofreading: Beata Kłos Everyone—perhaps almost Galicia and later, and his few pieces of unimportant doctor’s wife’s ballroom cover: Paweł Sawicki everyone—has his own his- wife Maria, from their villa furniture. To decorate the dresses—that gave every- tory, historic, commemora- on Jagiełły Street that is still home and live more com- thing a scent of lavender Photographer: Paweł Sawicki tive... cabinet! And if it is not warmly and affectionately fortably and “humanly,” we and withered fl owers from a a cabinet, then it is a dresser, called the small palace! needed to have everything: nearby garden. bookcase, desk, or a bed, a cabinets, chairs, beds, tables, trunk or suitcase! And how did we acquire etc. The large and beautiful This piece of furniture served PuBlIsher: it? When we made our way wardrobe with delicately us, as valuable and useful I have a suitcase from the here—it was indeed a long, carved Art Nouveau orna- gift for over fi ve decades. Auschwitz-Birkenau 1880s in which I store pho- cumbersome and winding, ments, perhaps made in Vi- We parted with it out of ne- State Museum tos from those years, but but also at times an exciting enna, inlaid in some places, cessity, because of its excess let’s not get into this now, journey—from beyond the with a drawer handle styl- size when moving to a hous- www.auschwitz.org.pl maybe some other time... Bug River, the so-called Kre- ized like a twisted branch, ing block; upon leaving the Mirosław Ganobis has Hab- sy [Borderlands], though not was given to us by the own- apartment and townhouse, erfeld’s priceless wardrobe, the most remote, because it er of the building where we its ownership passed to the Partners: full of history and memo- was from around Lvov that lived as well as the adjacent city. We put the wardrobe ries. I had—but no longer we were repatriated by train villa, Maria Ślosarczyk, who in good hands, to someone Jewish do—the wardrobe of the to Oświęcim. Our personal I will soon write about soon, outside of Oświęcim. What Center Ślosarczyk family: Dr. An- and household property was in a… literary context! The do these “hands” have done toni Ślosarczyk, renown modest and poor, well actu- wardrobe was a sizeable, with it and whether it still www.ajcf.pl Oświęcim doctor, social ally, there wasn’t any! It con- once fi lled with clothes of exists—I do not know! worker and independence sisted of a few trunks and the Ślosarczyk family: coats, activist from the days of crates, bundles, as well as a winter jackets, furs, and the Andrzej Winogrodzki Center for Dialogue and Prayer Foundation www.centrum-dialogu.oswiecim.pl International Youth Meeting Center www.mdsm.pl In cooPeratIon WITH: Kasztelania www.kasztelania.pl State Higher Vocational School in Oświęcim www.pwsz-oswiecim.pl editorial address: „Oś – Oświęcim, Ludzie, Historia, Kultura” Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20 32-603 Oświęcim e-mail: [email protected] Dr. Antoni Ślosarczyk prewar villa, now Civil Registry Offi ce 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 oś—oświęcim, People, history, culture magazine, no. 22, october 2010 Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum MEMORY RESTORED lmost 60 years ago, in October and November 1941, and in February 1942 Soviet prisoners of war were deported to Auschwitz in transports from the POW camps in Lamsdorf (Łambinowice), Neuhammer A(Świętoszów), and Jarosław. As part of the preserved records of prisoners that are stored in the Ausch- witz-Birkenau State Museum archives, we can learn basic personal information of most of these individuals. While thanks to research ers of war in Auschwitz. conducted by Borys Shmy- Nonetheless, earlier this rov, a Russian historian liv- year, a completed version FeodosIY GrIGorYeVIch ing in Uzbekistan, we learn of the chapter was printed dzurInskIY more information about regularly in the journal their family life and the Zolotaya Dolina, published Feodosiy Grigoryevich Dzurinskiy was born on Novem- course of their military serv- in Zarafshan. A series of ice. Some of this research articles was entitled Miesto ber 20, 1920 in the village Obzyloye, in the area of Odessa, was already reported on gibyeli Konclagier Auschwitz Ukraine. Feodosiy’s father was Grigory Yemyelianovich in Oś (Number 6, 2008 and (Extermination Center, the Dzurinskiy. The boy was the second child in the family Number 17, 2009); as well Auschwitz Concentration and was named in honor of his mother, Feodosiya Hari- as, in his articles that were Camp); more informa- tonovna. After graduation he worked in a kolkhoz (farm); printed in the bulletin Pro tion about the prisoners he was interested in horses and was assigned to care for Memoria (Number 28, 2008 brought to Auschwitz in them in the kolkhoz. In 1939, the young man was called and Number 29, 2009). those transports, including into the ranks of the Red Army. In the section of the ques- Last year, Borys Shmyrov their photographs, are pub- tionnaire about “civil status,” he indicated that he was published a book Stran- lished in this way. They are a “bachelor.” In the course of the fighting on the Soviet- itsy istorii, in which one very valuable, because the German front, Feodosiy Grigoryevich was captured. It of the chapters deals with Archive of the Auschwitz- is known that in the last place of imprisonment before the fate of Soviet prison- Birkenau State Museum Auschwitz, he was given the number 2525. In captivity the young man turned down the offer to collaborate with the enemy; he did not hide his beliefs and faith in the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany. Along with the other Vano/IVan YasonoVIch Soviet prisoners who shared the same beliefs, November GonGadze 15, 1941, he was shipped to Auschwitz, where, during registration, he was given the number R-9965, and on his registration card [a record of prisoners] there is a symbol, Vano/Ivan Yasonow- “59.” The Red Army soldier Feodosiy Grigoryevich died ich Gongadze was born in Auschwitz before February 8, 1942. On the same day, a March 13, 1917 in the transport of Soviet POWs from Stalag No. 327 [Jarosław] village of Kortaniety, in was transported to Auschwitz. Camp number R-9965, the Borzomski region of previously given to the Red Army soldier Feodosiy Georgia. Vano’s parents Dzurinskiy is given to Hasan Mamyed. were Yason Dimitryevich Gongadze and Marta Gongadze, nee Koba- did not have photos of the of one, also provided by families with whom the hidze. The family of Ya- prisoners of war, from their B. Shmyrov). Detailed bio- Russian historian corre- son Gongadze had five period of service in the Red graphical information and sponded. sons, Nikolai, Partyena, Army (with the exception photographs come from Edit. JL Vano, Dimitri, Grigory. When he finished school, he worked as a metal worker. He failed to start naskIda kYerashVIlI a family and he remained daVIdoVIch a bachelor. In 1939, Ivan Yasonovich was drafted Naskida Kyerashvili Davidovich was born on June 5,1920 into the Red Army. The in the village of Tiba in the Signagski district of Geor- last letter Vano sent his gia. Naskida and his brother Josif’s parents were David parents was from Sev- astopol in July 1941.