QUESTIONNAIRE
about the camps
Location: Żurawniki
Commune: Złota
District: Pińczów
Voivodeship: Kielce
1. Name of the camp:
Labor camp.
2. Location of the camp:
Żurawniki.
3. Camp dimensions:
A manorial building.
4. Date camp established:
15 October 1944.
5. Date camp shut down:
12 January 1945.
6. Were the people in the camp only Poles, only Polish Jews, or Poles and Jews from Poland?
Poles.
7. Were there any foreigners in the camp? If so, who were they? Were there Jews from abroad? How many?
No.
8. What was the average population of the camp?
150 people.
9. How many people passed through the camp during its existence?
600 people.
10. What happened to the prisoners when the camp was shut down?
Some of them returned to their homes. The majority of the camp inmates were
deported, everyone probably escaped on the way.
11. Did the prisoners work in the camp? What sort of work was it? What workshops were there?
No.
12. Did the prisoners work outside of the camp? What sort of work was it and where?
Digging anti-tank ditches, trenches and bunkers.
13. How were the prisoners fed?
They were fed very poorly.
14. Was there an infirmary or a hospital in the camp?
No.
15. Were there any epidemics at the camp? What were they?
No.
16. Is there any data regarding mortality in the camp?
No.
17. Were there executions in the camp or outside of the camp? How were they carried out?
No.
18. Were the corpses destroyed? How and where?
No.
19. Was there a crematorium in the camp?
No.
20. Has it been established where the corpses of the murdered and the deceased were buried (name the places)?
Nobody died.
21. What is the current state of the camp? What was destroyed? What is currently to be found on the site of the camp?
A burned-down building.
22. Has any material evidence been preserved (documents, former belongings of the people who were murdered, etc.)? What and where is it? Has it been secured?
No.
23. Do you know the names and, if applicable, the addresses of the people who were kept in the camp (state them below)?
No.
24. Do you know the names of the Germans, the chief of the camp, and other functionaries (give the names, ranks)?
No.
On 9 October 1945 the contents of the above questionnaire were formally confirmed by the leader of the Złota Commune, Eugeniusz Stawiarski, in front of the Municipal Court in Pińczów.