Wieslaw keilar biography of alberta
Wies&#;aw Kielar was born on 12 August in Przeworsk, Poland. His birthplace is in the eastern part of the country, roughly halfway between the cities of Kraków and Lviv. He spent most of his youth in nearby Jaroslaw. After the German occupation of Poland, Kielar planned to escape to Hungary with an armed resistance group.
However, this failed and the Gestapo arrested him.
Prisoner number
After a stay in Tarnow prison, he was taken to O&#;wi&#;cim in June to the newly opened Auschwitz concentration camp. Kielar was part of the first transport to the camp.
The first 30 German prisoners had been taken there from Sachsenhausen concentration camp shortly before. Together with Kielar, other Polish political prisoners arrived at the camp; Kielar was given prisoner number , which he kept for the next four years. In addition to the main camp, Kielar was also imprisoned in Monowitz and the Birkenau extermination camp.
He was deployed everywhere in various labour detachments, had to work as a nurse and corpse bearer and was given the position of Blockältester at the end of his time in Auschwitz.
"Electrician"
In , Kielar was transferred to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. When the camp administration, together with industrial representatives, looked for prisoners with previous knowledge of specialised work in the arriving transports, Kielar initially registered as a "well driller" and shortly afterwards as an "electrician".
Based on this report, he was transferred to the "Hammer Works" men's detachment at Neuengamme concentration camp at the end of November and transported to the subcamp in Barkhausen.
Prisoner in the "Hammer Works" commando
The purpose of this commando was to prepare, transport and install the machines for the relocation of Philips and Valvo tube production to the upper tunnels of the Jakobsberg.
Although the "Hammer Works" commando was still run as a separate satellite commando of Neuengamme concentration camp in March , Kielar and his comrades were imprisoned together with the other prisoners of the Porta satellite camp in the hall of the Kaiserhof Hotel.
Kielar left Porta Westfalica on 1 April with the evacuation transport of the three satellite camps.
He arrived in Wöbbelin via the Schandelah satellite camp and a day-long odyssey on the train, where he was liberated by American troops on 2 May When he was liberated, Kielar still weighed 39 kilograms. He was only able to return to Poland after a year of medical treatment.
Work as a cameraman and author of "Anus Mundi"
After his return in , he graduated from the National Film School and subsequently worked as a cameraman, mainly for Polish television.
From the mids, he worked on a manuscript about his time in Auschwitz.
Wieslaw keilar biography of alberta king We realized all at once that if we dared raise a hand against them, that hand might kill; they were mortal, too. A story about a man who found himself to be one of the first to enter, and one of the last and few to leave Auschwitz. My book arrived in a timely fashion and it was excellent reading. The narrative voice is a factual account of an eye-witness rather than how this affected him personally, emotionally and psychologically - which is quite a different approach to some of the more recently published fact based, but essentially fictitious novels.the report was published in under the title "Anus Mundi" by Wydawnictwo Literacki. In the years that followed, he received several awards for his book, which was published in German for the first time in March to this day, "Anus Mundi" is considered one of the most impressive descriptions of the reality of Auschwitz and is still available in bookshops.
Kielar later supplemented his work with the books Nasze m&#;ode lata (Our Young Years) and &#;ycie toczy si&#; dalej (Life Goes On) on the pre- and post-war period, although these were never published in German.
Wies&#;aw Kielar lived with his wife in Wroc&#;aw after the war, where he died on 1 June at the age of He was buried in the Rakowicki cemetery in Krakow.
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