26 November 1947.
District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom, represented by a member of the Commission, E. Marczewski.
The case was called and the witness took the stand.
Name and surname | Wiktoria Matelska |
Age | 57 |
Parents’ names | Józef and Anna née Zięciak |
Place of residence | Skarżysko-Kamienna, Factory Workers’ Colony no 9, flat 8 |
Occupation | office worker for the State Factory of Ammunition |
Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic |
Criminal record | none |
Having been advised of the criminal liability for making false declarations, the witness was duly sworn and testified as follows:
Throughout the whole occupation, I worked for the former company Hasag [Hugo Schneider AG]. Until 1941, I worked in the tenancy office where I saw how the factory Security Service imprisoned factory employees in the basement of the office; the prisoners were beaten.
The German factory crew treated the Polish workers badly; they beat them on a regular basis for trivial reasons. Once I saw Bartenschlager, the Deputy Head of the Security Service, beating and kicking [...] Augustyniak, one of the factory workers.
During the occupation, I lived in the village of Brzask by Skarżysko, and then in the summer of 1940, I [saw] how the occupants drove prisoners in cars to the forest near the site of my residence and shot them dead. I heard gunshots from machine guns. Today, there is a tomb 50 meters long at the site of these executions.
The report was read out.