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19-03-2023

08-12-2007

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Lublin Muzeum - "Pod Zegarem" Martyrology Divison


In July 2007, while travelling around Poland - collecting materials and making movies in preparation for the production of a documentary film about "The Wajszczuks", we visited the "Pod Zegarem" (Under the Clock) Martyrology Division of the Lublin Museum. This building has been the Gestapo Headquarters during the war. Prisoners were kept and interrogated there and in the Lublin Castle. http://eng.zamek.lublin.pl/index.php?r=375&l=pl; http://eng.zamek.lublin.pl/index.php?r=809&l=pl We knew earlier from their families that Jan Wajszczuk (0325) and Lucjan Wajszczuk (0377) were imprisoned in the Lublin Castle, then released and sent, together with their families, to the forced labor camps in Germany.

Now, during our visit in the "Pod Zegarem" Museum, we found two other Wajszczuk names - on the lists of prisoners, who were held there and then sent to various concentration camps. They were: Fr. Karol Wajszczuk (0074) - we knew already that he was sent from there initially to the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp and later trasferred to Dachau, where he perished - http://www.drelow.siedlce.opoka.org.pl/wajszczuk/meczenstwo_e.htm. (Incidentally, his final destination on this list was given as Oswiecim/Auschwitz). The other person was - Jozef Wajszczuk (0298). His final destination was listed as Oswiecim/Auschwitz.
The information regarding Jozef, along with the copies od documents shown below, were sent to the Auschwitz Muzeum and helped to elucidate the reason for the absence of his name in the official records and on the lists of former prisoners and Polish victims of this concentration camp. (see)

 
 
Records concerning Jozef Wajszczuk (0298)
 

Shortly after our visit in the Martyrology Museum "Pod Zegarem", we received from there additional information (copies of the record files - see below) about Jozef Wajszczuk. They helped in establishing officially the fact of his being incarcerated and having perished in K.L Auschwitz, as well as elucidated the reason for the absence of his name from the official registry of the prisoners and Polish victims of this Camp - it was a misspelling of his last name on the transport list of the prisoners received from Lublin (see). Also, the previously unidentified photographs of an unknown prisoner #35337 were identified by his family as those of Jozef Wajszczuk (see below). Copies of these photographs were sent to the Museum "pod Zegarem" to be added to their collection.
It is still not known and remains to be established - to which Underground Resistance Organization did he belong before his arrest - we know that his pseudonym was "Mały" - which means "small", "little", "tiny"?
 
 

Prepared by: Waldemar J Wajszczuk & Paweł Stefaniuk 2023
e-mail: drzewo.rodziny.wajszczuk@gmail.com