Township: Koprzywnica
Commune: Koprzywnica
District: Sandomierz
Voivodeship: Kielce
QUESTIONNAIRE
on mass executions and mass graves
1. Date and place of execution:
July 1943. The executions were carried out in Koprzywnica by the church wall.
2. Type of execution (by shooting, by hanging, etc.):
By shooting.
3. Personal data of the murdered victims:
Poles, Jews, foreigners: Only Poles.
Number of murdered victims: 8.
The victims were brought in from: From Opatów.
Surname, age, occupation, address: See overleaf.
4. Is it known what the victims were accused of, whether the execution was carried out in retaliation, etc.?
The executions were carried out on charges of belonging to clandestine
patriotic organizations.
5. Who carried out the execution (gendarmerie, Gestapo, SS, police, Wehrmacht)?
The Gestapo with the gendarmerie.
6. Are the surnames of the perpetrators known (please provide the surnames)?
No.
7. Were the corpses burned or destroyed in any other way?
No.
8. Where were the corpses buried (exact location)?
The families buried the corpses at the local cemetery in separate graves.
9. Description of the grave(s) (size, estimated number of victims buried in one grave):
Normal graves.
10. Was there an official exhumation? Were the corpses buried officially, and if so, where?
No, because the corpses were taken away by the families from the church wall, where
the execution took place, directly after the execution.
11. Are there any grounds for exhumation in the future?
No.
On 19 September 1945, the contents of the above questionnaire were officially certified by Stanisław Wójcikowski, the head of the Koprzywnica Commune, with the Municipal Court in Sandomierz.
Point 3.
| 1) | Marian Staszak, the village of Ciszyca, Koprzywnica Commune, |
| 2) | Marian Luston, |
| 3) | Tadeusz Luston – both from Dmosice, Koprzywnica Commune, |
| 4) | Jan Pyszczek, the village of Trzykosy, |
| 5) | Feliks Starzyński, the settlement of Koprzywnica, |
| 6) | Antoni Marczerwski from the settlement of Koprzywnica, |
| 7) | Władysław Chmielowiec, the village of Trzykosy, |
| 8) | Marian Staszczak, the village of Łukawiec, Koprzywnica Commune. |
| 9) | The age of the victims has not been determined. They were mostly young boys, aged from 20 to twenty-something. One of them, Feliks Starzyński, was 38 years old. |