LL-L: "Gdansk/Danzig" [E] LOWLANDS-L, 16.JUL.1999 (02)

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From: Piotr Suchomski [piotrjs at friko6.onet.pl]
Subject: Help needed

Hello!

I live in a town which has a very complex history.There are still events which
are not fully documented and it seems as if there were no witnesses to them. I
wonder if anyone, especially from Germany, knows where answers to some questions
might be found. Perhaps there are some sources which can lead to solving some of
the mysteries?

Recently there was a programme on TV showing one of the mysteries. The authors
of the programme presented some facts from the fiery year 1945, when Gdansk was
being bombed.
Then, during the bombing, people were hiding in the shelter below the
Dominikanerplatz. Unfortunately, all of them died as the shelter turned into a
trap. It was flooded with water and they drowned.  In 1946 the bodies were
removed from the shelter but they were in a state of such an advanced
decomposition that they were not recognized even by their relatives.  It's all
that is known about the tragedy. The unsolved problems remain:

(1) the number of people which died there (it is said that there were some
hundred to two thousand people)

(2) why  the water flooded the shelter (a bomb destroyed the pipe?)

(3) where they were buried (one theory is that they found peace in a mass grave
on the outskirts of Gdansk).

I would be very grateful if someone suggested where to seek the answers.

Czes'c'

Joanna Suchomska
Gdansk, Poland

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