Warsaw, 23 September 1949. A member of the Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland, Norbert Szuman (MA), heard the person named below as an unsworn witness. Having been advised of the criminal liability for making false declarations, the witness testified as follows:
Name and surname | Aleksandra Miedziejewska, née Paciorkowska |
Date and place of birth | 8 October 1900, Gruszczyce, Sieradz county |
Names of parents | Bogumił and Aleksandra, née Rolerman-Naugebauer |
Occupation of the father | medical doctor, landowner |
State affiliation and nationality | Polish |
Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic |
Education | secondary |
Occupation | pensioner |
Place of residence | Warsaw, Czarnieckiego Street 7, flat 2 |
Criminal record | none |
During the Warsaw Uprising in Żoliborz, up until the morning of 30 September 1944, I was in my first-floor flat at Pogonowskiego Street 12. My husband Zdzisław and daughter Monika were taking part in the insurgent action and therefore they were rarely present at home.
On 29 September both of them were home, and after a short stay, at about 4.00–4.30 p.m., they left in order to get to the center of Żoliborz. Since that time I did not heard from them until 13 January 1945, when I learned in Częstochowa that my husband and my daughter, together with four other people, that is: Dr Dorożyński, his daughter Dr Owsiana, Anna Krokowska and her tenant Dąbrowski, had been killed on the premises of a corner house at Mierosławskiego Street 13, adjacent to our house. These people (except for Dąbrowski) had been buried on the spot on 8 January, thanks to the efforts of Violetta Krokowska-Komorowska.
According to my sources, the circumstances of the event were as follows: there were some German units in the immediate neighborhood, and some time earlier the Germans had carried out an attack with heavy fire on the as-yet-uncaptured area. As a result of this attack many buildings were hit, including the house of Krokowska, situated at Mierosławskiego Street 13. My husband and daughter were crossing the premises of that property, but they stayed in order to take part in saving the burning house. During this operation they were shot at by the Germans, as I was told, from the direction of the house at Mickiewicza Street 25, from the windows looking out onto the courtyard. Those six people died as a result of that shooting.
In April 1945 I returned to Warsaw and, together with the wife of Dr Dorożyński, I carried out an exhumation of the bodies buried in the garden at Mierosławskiego Street 13. In the presence of my sister (now deceased), acting as an authorized medical officer, the bodies of my husband, daughter, Dr Dorożyński and Dr Owsiana were uncovered. The bodies of Dąbrowski and Krokowska had been exhumed earlier.
At this the report was concluded and read out.