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Olgierd Schaefer (born in 1926) lived and worked in Poznań during German occupation. As a member of the underground resistance he passed on intelligence gathered at a tailor shop, where the clientele were German dignitaries. He was arrested along with his brother, brutally interrogated by the Gestapo, and then deported to the camp in Żabikowo, where he spent 8 months, tormented by a brutal commandant who painted all over his face with oil paint, had him emerged in water and threatened him. The commandant's treatment of Schaefer and his brother even caused a German physician to protest. Schaefer was then deported to the Gross-Rosen camp, where he worked in the quarries and was part of the work detail supervised by a brutal Kapo by the name of Cyke (Schaefer is not sure if this was his real surname). He was later moved to a camp hospital, where he joined a group of prisoners subjected to pseudo-medical experiments.
The video was recorded by the Pilecki Institute in Warsaw, Poland, as part of the "Witnesses to the Age" project.
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