Warsaw, 18 December 1945. Investigating Judge Alicja Germasz heard the person named below as a witness. Having been advised of the criminal liability for making false declarations and of the significance of the oath, the witness was sworn and testified as follows:
Maria Iwanicka, born on 27 January 1913, daughter of Piotr and Helena, residing in Warsaw, Szustra Street 18, flat 1, Roman Catholic, Polish Red Cross reporter, no criminal record.
In September 1945, the Municipal Funeral Service carried out an exhumation in Mirowski Square, at the corner with Ptasia Street. I was acting as reporter. Approximately 10 corpses were recovered from a crater situated in the roadway. These were rather detached remains with remnants of clothing, legs and arms apart, etc., and some corpses were charred. Only one person was identified.
The exhumation was carried out on a motion of the Polish Red Cross, which was notified about this matter by many people (I don’t know any surnames).
I heard from chance witnesses of the exhumation (I don’t know their surnames) that during the Uprising, about 300 people were executed at the corner of Ptasia Street and Mirowski Square. The bodies were then burnt.
I would like to add that no doctor was present during the exhumation.
The exhumation reports are filed with the Polish Red Cross.
The report was read out.