KAZIMIERA HYTRA

On 28 August 1947 in Szamotuły, the Municipal Court in Szamotuły, in the person of Municipal Judge Matysiak, with the participation of a reporter, trainee judge [illegible], interviewed the person specified below as a witness. Having been advised of the criminal liability for making false declarations and of the wording of Article 107 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, pursuant to Articles 111 and 113 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the witness testified as follows:


Name and surname Kazimiera Hytra
Age 36
Parents’ names Tomasz and Marianna, née Lembicz
Place of residence Szamotuły, Generała Świerczewskiego Street 10
Occupation local government official
Religious affiliation Roman Catholic

On 23 May 1940, I was arrested by the Gestapo in Szamotuły and sent to the concentration camp in Ravensbrück. At the time I arrived there, Mandl oversaw the camp prison. If I recall correctly, in April 1942 she became head (Lagerführer) of the Ravensbrück camp for women. Mandl had a terrible reputation among us, and she treated the Poles in a particularly horrible manner. She beat prisoners – I got hit by her once. Mandl ordered that I be detained for three weeks in a dark cell and for half a year in the penal block, as punishment for helping my friends. In the dark cell I was given food only once every five days. This was in May 1942.

The following people were sent to the penal block with me: a captain’s wife, Aniela Radyk from Bydgoszcz (I don’t know the exact address), Halina Smolińska (teacher in Michorzewo, either Grodzisk or Nowy Tomyśl district), Urszula Linowiecka (Toruń). In addition, I name as witnesses Stefania Jakubowska (Mosina, Poznań district), Janina Wiśniewska (Poznań, Nad Wierzbakiem Street 31), Aleksandra Dobielinska (Poznań, Wrocławska Street 3, flat 4), Leokadia Kowalska (Zakrzewo, Rawicz district), Wanda Urbańska (Leszno, Rektyfikacja [distillery]), Renata Matuszewska (Leszno, Nowy Rynek Street 1).

The report was read out and concluded.