QUESTIONNAIRE
on camps
Township: Kielce
Commune: Kielce
District: Kielce
Voivodeship: Kielce
1. Name of the camp:
Municipal Jail.
2. Location of the camp:
Kielce, Zamkowa Street 7.
3. Size of the camp:
6 cells, 2x4 meters each.
4. Date of establishment of the camp:
1940.
5. Date of closure of the camp:
November 1944.
6. Were the prisoners only Poles, only Jews from Poland, or Poles and Jews from Poland?
Poles and Jews, but the majority were Poles.
7. Were there any foreigners in the camp (nationality, number)?
No.
8. Average number of prisoners in the camp:
50 people.
9. Total number of prisoners who passed through the camp during its period of operation:
Approx. 8,000 people.
10. What happened with the prisoners upon liquidation of the camp?
They were deported after an assault in November 1944; some were released.
11. Did the prisoners work in the camp? (types of work performed, types of workshops)
No; they were imprisoned in the camp for a few hours up to a few weeks.
12. Did the prisoners work outside the camp? (types of work performed, locations)
No
13. How were the prisoners fed?
Coffee with sugar and bread with marmalade once a day.
14. Was there an infirmary or a hospital in the camp?
No.
15. Where there any epidemics in the camp? (If yes, what kind)
There was a typhus epidemic for one month.
16. Are data on the death rate in the camp available?
3 deaths.
17. Were executions held at or outside the camp?
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18. Were the corpses destroyed?
No.
19. Was there a crematorium in the camp?
No.
20. Was the burial site of the murdered victims determined?
They were buried in the local cemetery.
21. Current condition of the camp – what was destroyed? What is located on the site of the camp?
Municipal Jail.
22. Has any material evidence survived from the camp? (Type, place of storage, has it been secured?)
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23. Are the surnames and, possibly, addresses of the people who had been imprisoned in the camp known?
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24. Are the surnames of the Germans, the camp commander and other functionaries known?
Cpt. Gaier, a gendarme – a German.
On 6 October 1945, the contents of the above questionnaire were officially certified by Ludwika Bazylewska, acting on the authorization of the president of the city of Kielce, with the Municipal Court in Kielce.