In Kielce on this day, 28 April 1948, at 3.00 p.m., I, Witold Banaś from the Citizens’ Militia Station in Kielce, acting under Article 20 of the provisions introducing the Code of Criminal Procedure, have heard the person named below as a witness. Having been advised of the right to refuse to testify for the reasons set out in Article 104 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and of the criminal liability for making false declarations, pursuant to Article 140 of the Criminal Code, the witness testified as follows:
| Name and surname | Maria Dygnarowicz |
| Parents’ names | Stanisław and Katarzyna, née Zając |
| Age | 35 years old |
| Date and place of birth | 13 August 1913 in Niewachlów |
| Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic |
| Occupation | dressmaker |
| Place of residence | Kielce, Podwalna Street 8, flat 2 |
| Relationship to the parties | wife |
With regard to the matter at hand I can provide the following information: In October 1943 four Gestapo men came to my flat. However, nobody was home, as I had gone out and my husband was at work in Huta Ludwików [a foundry]. As both our workplaces were written on a scrap of paper fastened to the door, the Gestapo men noted something down on their list and went straight to Huta Ludwików, where they arrested my husband. He was immediately incarcerated in the political ward of the prison at Zamkowa Street. He remained there until 18 November 1943.
On 18 November 1943, my husband and nine other people whose surnames I don’t know were taken to Urzędnicza Street in Kielce and executed by shooting. The execution was carried out by the Gestapo men themselves. My husband was arrested and executed because he was a member of the organization (the Home Army), but I don’t know whether the others were executed for political reasons as well. I don’t know the surnames of the Gestapo men. The bodies of my husband and the others were not burned, but buried in the above named street, where they remained until April 1945. Then they were transferred to the partisans’ cemetery in Kielce.
I have nothing more to add.
At this point the report was concluded, read out and signed.