BRONISŁAWA LISOWSKA

On 31 May 1947 in Zwoleń, the District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes with its seat in Radom, this in the person of lawyer Marian Marszałek, acting pursuant to Article 20 of the provisions introducing the Code of Criminal Procedure, interviewed the person mentioned hereunder as a witness, without taking an oath. Having advised the witness of the criminal liability for making false declarations, of the provisions of Article 106 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, and of the significance of the oath, lawyer Marian Marszałek took an oath therefrom pursuant to the provisions of Article 245.1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, following which the witness testified as follows:


Name and surn ame Bronisława Lisowska
Age 53 years old
Parents’ names Paweł and Władysława
Place of residence Zwoleń, Puławska Street
Occupation housewife
Religion Roman Catholic
Criminal record none

I have been living in Zwoleń since the day I was born. This is where I resided throughout the last war. I saw how the Germans set up the ghetto, and I witnessed them taking the people gathered there – more than 10,000 – to Garbatka. I do not know what happened with them. I myself was afflicted by the War [...], for the Germans – Gestapo men – arrested my husband and brother. Both perished, executed in Zwoleń on 19 June 1943. The Germans forced people to gather and observe the shooting. My husband was an independence activist, and this is why he was arrested. The same goes for my brother. I witnessed and directly experienced mass round-ups of people who were later deported to the Reich. My son was also detained.

My husband and brother were turned in by a German, one Kula, who lived at Ms Flak’s house. He was a Gestapo informer. I don’t know what happened with him. I think he fled with the Germans. My husband was one of 43 people executed at the time; the majority were residents of Zwoleń. Quite a few were from Janowiec. I was evicted only once, for a single day, while the Germans were busy killing and and exterminating (burning) Jews on the grounds of the Jewish cemetery. I saw Jews being led for execution, and a Jewess among them. They were executed by gendarmes. When the front drew near, I fled from Zwoleń, returning only after the city’s liberation.