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Our today's interviewee:
Aniela Petz (born in 1934), as a child from the Zamość region she was a victim of a brutal pacification of Skierbieszów carried out by the Germans on 27 November 1942. In the morning, her father left home at dawn to take care of his farm and saw that the village had been surrounded. Soon the Germans arrived in carts near the houses and ordered the residents to quickly get on the carts. Aniela's mother grabbed some bedding and a painting from the wall. The journey to an internment camp in Zamość took an entire day. One of the Polish women pushed her daughter out of the cart, hoping that she would manage to reach her uncle who lived nearby. Indeed, the girl survived, but at the time her escape was followed by a shot fired by one of the Germans, and the mother arrived in the camp thinking that her daughter had been killed. In the camp, children were taken away from their parents by force. Families were separated, with some people being sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp and others – to Germany, where they performed forced labor. Aniela Petz stayed along with her mother and siblings at the camp in Zamość, commanded by Artur Schutz, nicknamed "Ne", greatly feared among the prisoners. He would beat prisoners to death. Aniela's mother was brutally beaten by him as well.

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