WERONIKA WALCZYNO

Warsaw, 10 February 1950. Trainee Judge Irena Skonieczna, acting as a member of the Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland, interviewed the person named below, who testified as follows:


Name and surname Weronika Walczyno, née Nader
Date and place of birth 24 October 1890 in Warsaw
Parents’ names Jan and Kunegunda, née Chmielewska
Father’s occupation farmer
Citizenship and nationality Polish
Religion Roman Catholic
Education 3 classes of elementary school
Occupation housewife
Place of residence Warsaw, Lwowska Street 3, flat 1
Criminal record none

When the Warsaw Uprising broke out, I was in my house at Lwowska Street 3. Our street – along with Noakowskiego and Śniadeckich streets – was occupied by the insurgents during the entire Uprising. There was complete calm in Lwowska Street throughout this time, for due to the proximity of their own positions (in the Technical University) the Germans did not shell our area. Only one house in our street, no. 1, burned down, this after being hit by a shell on the day of the assault on the Technical University, 19 August 1944. The Germans took control of our street only in the days following the capitulation of Warsaw on 2 October. In the evening of 5 October they entered our house and ordered everyone to leave. Not everyone, however, left our street. I went away on the morning of the next day. It took the populace of the area that was occupied following the capitulation of the insurgents a few days to evacuate their homes; streams of people headed for the Western Railway Station, from where the Germans transported them outside the city, to the camp in Pruszków.

I did not see any German crimes during the Uprising.

At this point the report was brought to a close and read out.