In Koprzywnica on this day, 17 September 1948, at 6.00 p.m., I, Corporal Jan Maj from the Citizens’ Militia Station in Koprzywnica, acting on the instruction of citizen Deputy Prosecutor from the Region of the Prosecutor’s Office of the District Court, issued on the basis of Article 20 of the provisions introducing the Code of Criminal Procedure and Article 257 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, due to the unavailability of a judge in the township, in consequence whereof any delay could result in the disappearance of traces or evidence of a crime, which traces or evidence would cease to exist before the arrival of a judge, observing the formal requirements set forward in Articles 235–240, 258 and 259 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, in the presence of witness Czesław Zieliński, whom I informed of his obligation to attest to the conformity of the report with the actual course of the procedure by his own signature, have heard the person named below as a witness. Having been advised of the significance of the oath, the right to refuse to testify for 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 Penal Code, the witness was sworn and testified as follows:
| Name and surname | Matylda Siwecka |
| Parents’ names | Michał and Agnieszka |
| Age | 34 years old |
| Date and place of birth | 1914, Dzięki, Osiek commune |
| Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic |
| Occupation | farmer |
| Place of residence | Koprzywnica, Koprzywnica commune |
| Relationship to the parties | none |
With regard to the matter at hand I can provide the following information: I don’t remember the exact date, but it was sometime around 24 November 1943. I heard shooting at night, and on the following day, when I got up, Feliks Bzduch came to our house and told us that Maria Finiarz had been killed by the Germans who had a grain warehouse next to her house and were quartered in a school located by that warehouse. Both the school and the warehouse were situated some 50 meters from Finiarz’s buildings. The Germans fired at his flat from the school, killing Maria Finiarz.
This is all I know in the present case. At this the report was concluded, read out and signed.