Holocaust world war 2 Survivor August Kowalczyk testimony coupled with real time historical testimony from Gaza holocaust world war 3

August Kowalczyk, holocaust survivor of Krakow, Poland. My family are a long line of teachers, my father was school principle of a small village. I was 18 years old I wanted to fight the Nazi. We heard partisans units were being formed in the forest with the remnants of the Polish army, so I set off to join them alongside a group 3 of whom were officers. Because of a mishap with the chain of guides along the way we fell into the hands of the Slovak gendarmerie who were collaborating with the Nazi and turned custody of us to the Gestapo. The 3 officers of my group were shot, I was transported to Auschwitz. I met a secret underground there between the women, Salesians and the Seraphite nuns. Months later myself and other men in the Auschwitz underground were caught and transferred to a sub-camp named Buna. We learned we were sentenced to death and we organized to escape, with the coordination of the underground, with help from outside organized by the Bielski brothers who led the Jewish partisans. During the working hours when we were digging two dikes, 6 SS men with rifles stood guard over each trench. There were 3 and a half hundred of us, there were 12 SS guards with rifles and 1 machine gun. When we hear the whistle we have to hit the guard with shovels and everyone scatters running in different directions. I was the only one who grabbed a shovel, no one else helped me overpower the guards and I nearly lost my life but he stopped paying attention to me to chase the others. I threw the shovel to the ground and ran, tossing my shoes and clothes to stop any dogs from taking a scent trail. The other half of the prisoners, the dike number two were supposed to do the same as we had done when they hear the second whistle, they hit the guard and scatter running into the woods. Not very far distance away in a grain field I came to a group of young women working for a farmer who gave me shelter to hide, fed, clothed me, contacted my mother and organized my escape back to Krakow. With false documents I returned by train to my mother who within 24 hours sent me to stay at an estate which was secretly part of the Polish underground army. The captain gave me a room to stay which was his radio room, he said in the evenings he will be listening to messages from the front lines on the foreign radio. I was tasked to write messages and deliver them around the village every morning. I was involved with publishing and distributing newspapers. I quickly became a commander of a sabotage group at a Home Army outpost in Jastrzab, then I had an arsenal under my care. We built a bunker for a library of our publications. The Home Army commissioned me to write a report of the escape from Auschwitz because I was one of few who knows what happened at Auschwitz and who survived it, it was written in 1942, full of euphoria of regaining freedom and the weapons to make the fight. After liberation I wrote many books, made many television reports and visited with many people from the wartime effort. My dreams have haunted me for 50 years, I always dream of suffocating during my fight to escape, that the tunnels are narrowing narrowing, and I’ve used the last of my strength to get free.

https://theadornmentoflight.blogspot.com/2026/04/holocaust-world-war-2-survivor-august.html The words of August coupled with testimony from Gaza.

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn507906 See August speaking and hear his own voice tell the story of survival of holocaust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Kowalczyk