MARIANNA KAŁA

In Krasice on this day, 24 November 1948, at 12.30 p.m., I, Corporal Bronisław Szyja from the Citizens’ Militia Station in Mstów, acting on the instructions of citizen Deputy Prosecutor, issued on the basis of Article 20 of the provisions introducing the Code of Criminal Procedure, Article 257 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, due to the unavailability of a judge in the township, in consequence whereof any delay could result in the disappearance of traces or evidence of a crime, which traces or evidence might cease to exist before the arrival of a judge, observing the formal requirements set forward in Articles 235–240, 258 and 259 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, with the participation of reporter Mieczysław Kasprzyk from the Citizens’ Militia Station in Mstów, whom I have informed of his obligation to attest to the conformity of the report with the actual course of the procedure by his own signature, have heard the person named below as a witness. Having been advised of the significance of the oath, the right to refuse to testify for the reasons set forward in Article 104 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, and of the criminal liability for making false declarations, this pursuant to the provisions of Article 140 of the Penal Code, the witness testified as follows:


Name and surname Marianna Kała
Parents’ names Michał and Barbara, née Kubąsz
Age 46 years old
Place of birth Krasice, Wancerzów commune
Religion Roman Catholic
Occupation farmer
Place of residence Krasice, Wancerzów commune, Częstochowa district

With regard to the matter at hand I can provide the following information: on 28 October 1943 before noon, some gendarmes arrived in a bus, and this group was headed by Rachwał.

When they entered my flat, they asked why we hadn’t delivered the quota. My husband Andrzej told them that he had the rye ready for delivery, but no cart to transport it. Soon a cart was sent to collect the rye, and they took my husband along with it. At the same time they also took Zofia Tyras, Ignacy Ślęzak, Antoni Dudek, Maria Tyras, Eleonora Jurczyk, Wincenty Psonka, Władysław Pabijasz, Lucjan Żyzny, and Maciej Boral; all of them resided in Krasice, except for Pabijasz, who lived in Kłobukowice. 10 people were taken that day and transported away in a bus. On the same day I learned that all of the people taken that day had been killed in Aniołów in the district of Częstochowa.

I have nothing more to add.