Cracow, 21 October 1946. Jan Rybka, a detective from the investigation section of the Citizen’s Militia Headquarters in Cracow, heard as a witness the person specified below. Having been advised of the criminal liability for making false declarations andof the importance of the oath, the witness was sworn and testified as follows:
Name and surname | Zakrzewska Jadwiga |
Parents’ names | Adolf and Maria |
Age | 42 years old |
Place of birth | Lwów |
Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic |
Occupation | works in “Czytelnik” [publishing house] |
Place of residence | Cracow, Siemiradzkiego Street 6, flat 2 |
Relationship to the parties | wife of professor Zakrzewski |
I know the following facts with regard to this case:
Professor Kazimierz Zakrzewski was arrested by the Germans on 12 January 1941 in his own flat at Brzozowa Street 10, flat 2 in Warsaw. He was incarcerated in Pawiak and stayed there until 11 March 1941. On that day he was executed in Palmiry, and I was notified about this by our underground organisation.
My husband was the founder of an independence syndicalist organisation “Wolność i Lud” [Freedom and People], formed in November 1939. He was also working in Związek Walki Zbrojnej [Union for Armed Struggle] as the head of the national minorities section.
An exhumation in Palmiry in November 1945 revealed that my husband’s body had been buried there. I received documents and information at the Polish Red Cross in Warsaw.
At this the report was closed and read out, then signed.