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Our today’s interviewee:
Stefania Anuszczyk (born in 1928), was living in Łódź, Poland, when World War II broke out. Due to the severe bombings of the town, her mother decided to leave Łódź and seek shelter in the countryside. At the time, Stefania's father was a soldier fighting in the Łódź Army during the September Campaign. Captured by the Germans after the capitulation of Warsaw, he managed to escape from the transport. Forced to hide from the Germans, he obtained forged documents and volunteered to be sent to work in the Third Reich. In accordance with the occupation policies, Stefania Anuszczyk applied to the German labor office in November 1942, and was a work order for a job at a spinning mill in the Widzew district of Łódź. In October 1943 she was unexpectedly arrested at work together with a group of other women and later sent to Brandenburg for forced labor. The first week of detention she spent in very harsh conditions in the Łódź prison at Kopernika Street. She was eventually sent to a weapons factory in Strausberg. She was only a teenager, when she was forced to work 12-hour shift. On top of that, she suffered from a severe wound in the leg, which was finally healed by a kind German nurse named Urszula. In April 1945 the Allies entered Strausberg and Stefania was able to return to her hometown of Łódź.
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