QUESTIONNAIRE
about mass executions and mass graves
Location: Złota
Commune: Złota
District: Pińczów
Voivodeship: Kielce
1. Date and place of execution:
7 September 1944.
2. Type of execution (shooting, hanging, etc.):
1 tortured to death, 5 shot.
3. Information about those murdered:
Poles, Jews, foreigners: Poles.
Number of murdered people: 6.
Where were the victims brought from: They were locals.
Names, age, occupation, addresses:
Daniel Krawczyk, aged 29, farmer, Niegosławice
Stefan Szumial, aged 29, farmer, Złota
Krzepisz, aged 21, farmer, Złota
Stanisław Kedra, aged 18, farmer, Złota
Bronisław Wielgo, aged 17, farmer, Złota
Jan Kobuz, aged 20, farmer, Złota
4. Do you know what the victims were accused of and whether the execution was a retaliatory order, etc.?
They were accused of being members of the resistance.
5. Who carried out the execution (gendarmerie, Gestapo, SS, police, Wehrmacht)?
Gestapo.
6. Do you know the names of the perpetrators (give the names)?
King, Paluch, Gorecki.
7. Were the corpses burned or destroyed in any other way?
No.
8. Where were the corpses buried (the exact place)?
In the forest in Złota.
9. Description of the grave (graves, measurements, presumable number of victims in one grave):
6 people.
10. Was there an exhumation, was it official (a report), where were the bodies buried?
At the Puczyska cemetery.
11. Are there grounds for ordering a later exhumation?
No.
On 9 October [19]45 the contents of the above questionnaire were formally confirmed by the leader of Złota Commune, Eugeniusz Stawiarski, in front of the Municipal Court in Pińczów.