Tadeusz Sowiński was born on June 26, 1922, in Tarnów as the son of Janina and Tadeusz.After the war broke out, he worked in Tarnów as a locksmith and then a warehouseman.The situation of the inhabitants of the eastern territories of the Republic of Poland got complicated in 1941 following Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union.
Tadeusz Sowiński
Tadeusz Sowiński was born on June 26, 1922, in Tarnów as the son of Janina and Tadeusz.After the war broke out, he worked in Tarnów as a locksmith and then a warehouseman.The situation of the inhabitants of the eastern territories of the Republic of Poland got complicated in 1941 following Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union.Tadeusz Sowiński, displaced with his family from Kamionka Strumiłowa, initially stayed in Tarnów, where he ran a shop with kitchen appliances.Then he worked as a manager in a similar shop of G. L. Geiser Hamburg in his hometown of Kamionka Strumiłowa.This is confirmed by the Arbeitsausweis of September 1, 1942. In 1943, Sowiński went to Lublin and then to Biłgoraj.
His arrest could be connected with his travels in the autumn of 1944. The Sonderausweis for Tadeusz Sowiński’s travel from Kraków to Nowy Sącz is dated October 6, 1944.Over the following weeks, he must have reached the Wartheland, where he was apprehended by Germans.On November 28, 1944, Sowiński was brought to the prison in Radogoszcz from another Łódź prison – inKilińskiego Street.
Tadeusz Sowiński was one of the victims of the prison liquidation on the night of January 17, 1945. Although a few documents belonging to him were found at the site of the fire, there is no information about identification of his body or his place of burial.This may result from the fact that Sowiński came from an area away from Łódź, where probably his whole family lived.
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A booklet (Arbeitsausweis) with Tadeusz Sowiński’s personal data and photograph. Issued by the GL Gaiser Hamburg company with its seat in Kamionka Strumiłowa, protecting its owner against deportation to forced labour.
Museum of Independence Traditions, ref. no. A-3964/11/6
A permission for a train travel from Trzebnica to Kraków on April 29, 1944, issued to Tadeusz Sowiński, found in the grounds of the burnt Radogoszcz prison in January 1945.
Museum of Independence Traditions, ref. no. A-3964/11/4
A fragment of a list of Radogoszcz prisoners who were washed and deloused, with data of Tadeusz Sowiński, brought to the Radogoszcz prison on November 28, 1944.
Museum of Independence Traditions, ref. no. A-4565, p. 151
