Wincenty Głuszek (19.9.1917 Mierzwin, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland – 27.12.1981 Sosnowiec, Śląskie Voivodeship, Poland)

Wincenty Głuszek was born in the southern Polish town of Mierzwin during the First World War on September 19, 1917. He spent most of his childhood and youth in Sosnowiec. After the outbreak of the Second World War on September 1, 1939, he fought in the Polish army against the Wehrmacht. After a brief stint at the front he was taken POW by the Germans and was most likely imprisoned in Stargard in Pomerania (Stalag II D). From there he was taken to the Reich Railway Facility (RAW) in Neuaubing, where he was registered on February 7, 1945 together with around 250 other Polish  forced laborers and their children.

Although Głuszek’s name was entered in the list of foreign employees of the RAW compiled after the war and kept at the ITS in Bad Arolsen, it does not appear on the list kept by the responsible police station 31, Aubing branch, in which individuals were assigned to specific camps. As such, it is not clear whether he was accommodated at the RAW camp or elsewhere in Neuaubing. He may have been moved together with the other forced laborers of Polish nationality into Barrack 5, which was just being completed at the time: it is at this site that a permanent exhibition is to provide information about the crime of forced labor in the future.

Together with his wife Katarzyna, Wincenty Głuszek had three sons. He initially worked in mining for two years after the war, but was later employed mainly as a grinder in private companies. He lived with his family in Sosnowiec. Wincenty Głuszek died on December 27, 1981.