Written on the 5 of July 2019
Two ‘capos’, criminals, apolitical prisoners, have found in block 4a a priest – political prisoners marked with a red triangle. They kicked him, accused him of spreading religious lies, etc. They told him to get on a table and, while crouching, hold a heavy stool in his hands in front of him. If the stool fell down or the priest fell with it from the table, they kicked him, called him names, and he had to climb the table again with the stool.
That took place in block 4a, where the block leader was Franc Kozub, and the staff officer was Prof. Lipiński (or Lipczyński), and political prisoners Marusiak, Misiewicz, Dąbrowskie, and others, aged about 20, mostly from Warsaw. None present during that event, myself included, didn’t defend the priest, as everyone was afraid that ‘capos’ would attack them. I haven’t met other imprisoned criminals, but there weren’t many.
As an ex-prisoner of a concentration camp, marked with the number 24871, it is not appropriate for me to criticise other prisoners, but I mentioned I would write the truth, and so I am doing so.
News told me that there’s a priest and political prisoners in the block next door, and one can take confession with him in secret. I went there on Sunday after evening’s roll call and took confession, and I remember it well.
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