What was life like in the Dachau concentration camp?
Archbishop Majdanski: At the entrance of the camp there was a sign: “Arbeit macht frei” [Work liberates]. But in reality, inhuman work in the cold of winter and the heat of summer, with insufficient rations of food, with blows and humiliations, served to destroy man. In the end, when a person was no longer able to work, he was taken, in the so-called transport of invalids, to the gas chambers. Q: You were one of the prisoners who were subjected to medical experiments. Archbishop Majdanski: Yes. At Dachau, a certain Professor Schilling carried out pseudo-medical experiments. In fact, they experimented with prisoners, observing the reactions of man to different substances that were injected into us. Before being subjected to the experiments I asked my seminary professor to inform my parents of my death and I left him my “treasure”: two slices of stale bread. It’s a real miracle that I survived. Unfortunately, Father Jozef Kocot, my roommate, who taught philosophy in the seminary, died in
