BOLESŁAW TROJANOWSKI

Nowa Wieś, 27 November 1948

Interviewed as a witness:


Name and surname Bolesław Trojanowski
Parents’ names Paweł and Franciszka, née Krzyszkowska
Date and place of birth 10 October 1895, Emilin, Dobiecin commune
Citizenship and nationality Polish
Religious affiliation Roman Catholic
Marital status married
Occupation forester
Place of residence Nowa Wieś, Kamyk commune

With regard to the hanging of 10 hostages in Nowa Wieś, I know that one day – I don’t remember the exact date, but it was in May 1943 before noon – a truck arrived in Nowa Wieś, packed with emaciated people surrounded by gendarmes and with some beams and boards. Having entered the premises of the forester’s lodge, they all got off and began to erect a gallows, and the Germans were herding people from the vicinity to the site so they would be present during the execution. When the gendarmes read out the sentences, 10 people were hanged. Then a German doctor ascertained that they were dead, and the Germans took the murdered people and the other ten whom they had brought with them, and they all left in the direction of Kamyk.

I don’t remember the surnames that were read out by the torturers or the surnames of the witnesses to the execution, because the surnames were read out in a hushed voice, and besides no decent Pole could bear to watch it or listen to it. I remember that people were being herded by Germans from Czarny Las who were wearing plain clothes, and some other Germans who had clothes like the gendarmes and were armed; since some people who didn’t want to go to the execution site were being beaten, eventually everyone – although unwillingly – had to go there under compulsion.