Kielce, 8 December 1948, 4.00 p.m. Jan Zielono from the Criminal Investigation Section of the Citizens’ Militia Station in Kielce, on the instruction of the Deputy Prosecutor from the Regional District Court Prosecutor’s Office in Radom, with the participation of court reporter Marian Poniewierka, interviewed the person named below as a witness. Having been advised of the criminal liability for making false declarations and of the wording of Article 140 of the Penal Code, the witness testified as follows:
Name and surname | Józef Kamiński |
Parents’ names | Andrzej and Katarzyna |
Age | 43 years old |
Place of birth | Kielce |
Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic |
Occupation | carpenter |
Place of residence | Kielce, Okólnik Street 29 |
This is what I know: during the German occupation, when the camp in the "Hasag" factory was operational, I saw how the werkschutze shot seven Jews, who were driven away after the execution in a cart towards Kierków.
I don’t know the surnames of the executed Jews and I also don’t know the surnames of the werkschutze who carried out the execution by shooting. I heard that Stanisław Buski and Tomaszewski were executed behind the fence of the Hasag factory by the following Volksdeutscher: Marcinkowski, whose forename I cannot recall, and Knap, whose forename I also don’t know.
I would like to add that the Germans deported Poles from the Hasag factory to Germany and to the camps. First Sobczyk and then Stanisław Podolski, who was shortly afterwards executed by the Germans in Słowik in the vicinity of Kielce. As for the above-mentioned, Skowron, who was later sentenced to death by the District Court in Kielce, had a hand in his death.
At this point the report was concluded, read out and signed.