Wladyslaw Ostrowski
Władysław Ostrowski (* 27. June 1914 in Łódź , † unknown) was a prisoner in the Gross-Rosen concentration camp , the Mittelbau and the KZ Bergen-Belsen .
Life
Ostrowski, a painter by trade, was married and had one child. He was drafted into the Polish Army in 1939 and fought against the Red Army in eastern Poland . Even before the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland was over, Ostrowski was wounded in combat operations. In April 1940 he was arrested and interned by the Gestapo in Łódź. He was then transferred to the Radogoszcz transit camp for seven months and then to the Sieradz Prison . At the end of 1942 Ostrowski fled from custody to Berlin , where he was picked up and arrested again by the Gestapo on October 20, 1944 in Moabit . A few days later he was sent to the Groß-Rosen concentration camp. In Gross-Rosen he was initially assigned to a field command and after an accident did room duty. On February 6, 1945, he was transferred from there to the Mittelbau concentration camp.
Ostrowski and other prisoners left the Mittelbau concentration camp on April 2, 1945 by rail and the prisoner group arrived at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on April 10, 1945 . There he was transferred to the prisoner infirmary due to illness with typhus . From there he was released sick in June 1945 and then accused by former Russian prisoners of having been a Kapo . He was then detained until the Bergen-Belsen trial began . Ostrowski denied being a prison officer and severely ill-treating fellow inmates, but several prosecution witnesses accused him of this. Ostrowski was sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment on November 17, 1945, but released on June 24, 1955. His fate after his release from prison is unknown.
literature
- United Nations War Crimes Commission (Ed.): Law reports of trials of war criminals, selected and prepared by the United Nations War Crimes Commission. - Volume II, The Belsen Trial. London 1947
- Nowacka Maria. Radogoszcz. Łódź 1949.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nowacka Maria. Radogoszcz. Łódź 1949. From July 1, 1940 - Extended police prison, Radegast near Lodz Radogoszcz (więzienie) (Polish WP)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ostrowski, Wladyslaw |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish Kapo in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 27, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Łódź |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century or 21st century |