- Document ID: 1631
- Document Collection: 7.8.1._Gestapo_Zichenau
Johann KULAKOWSKI, born in county Rypin (PL) on 23.11.1898, residing in Skrwilno/Rypin
„Selbstschutz“ (entry in „Sachverhalt“)
I’m not sure about his fate and identity. The sources below somehow don’t seem to go together.
According to his Arolsen documents he was a teacher.The last thing known of him is that he was interned in KZ Neuengamme/Sandbostel, prisoner number 223659.
It seems he just dissappeared, with all tracing efforts in vain.
https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/search?s=kulakowski%20jan%201898
https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/document/82492838
Could this be him? - (in this list with victims of the Selbstschutz crimes from the autumn of 1939 in the Dobrzyń Land)
Jan KUŁAKOWSKI, born around 1898, a primary school teacher in Skrwilno.
Arrested on October 22, 1939. Imprisoned in Rypin at 20 Warszawska Street.
Shot in the Skrwilno forests at the end of October 1939
https://krajewskimiroslaw.pl/images/materialy/Terra_Dobrinensis/Indeks%20nazwisk%20do%20NSBZD%20-%20popr.%202019.pdf
The atrocities in and around Rypin during autumn 1939 are described here:
House of Torment - Wikipedia.
Several hundred people were murdered. Teachers were also among the victims.