On 11 January 1946, in Radom, the 2nd judge for the District Court in Radom, based in Radom, Judge Kazimierz Borys, heard the person named below as a witness. After being informed about the criminal liability for giving false testimony, the witness testified as follows:
| Name and surname | Michał Stańczykowski |
| Age | 66 |
| Parents’ names | Walenty and Helena |
| Place of residence | Firlej, Wielogóra county |
| Occupation | shop owner |
| Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic |
| Criminal record | none |
| Relationship to the parties | none |
My shop is located just off the Warsaw road. So I had the opportunity to observe what was happening on the road during the German occupation. Beginning in the spring of 1940, the Germans drove the condemned from Radom in covered trucks towards the Firlej sands. Sometimes people could be seen in these cars. Behind the trucks rode taxis with Germans armed with machine guns. After the cars turned off towards the sands, the sounds of gunfire could be heard.
I wasn’t present at any such execution and I don’t know how they were carried out.
Cars with the condemned rode to Firlej several times a week, and sometimes even several times a day, with executions taking place at different times of the day, from dawn to late at night.
The Germans usually buried the murdered people themselves. Sometimes, however, they took some local residents to bury the corpses. Such an incident took place in 1943. Those who carried the scattered corpses to the place where they were to be buried said that about 30 people had been shot then.
In October 1943, the Germans deported the inhabitants of Firlej and Wincentow who lived closer to the sands, and started incinerating the corpses.
How this incineration proceeded, I don’t know. I only know that the Germans would transport some wood to Firlej, and the place where the burning took place was screened with mats. Later, fire was visible from afar and burnt bodies could be smelled.
This incineration of corpses lasted from October 1943 until April 1944. After that time, the executions continued. In April 1944, the deported people were allowed to return to their homes.
After the period of incinerating corpses, the executions carried on until the Germans escaped. No more corpses were burned, so some of the people murdered at Firlej were buried there.
The report was read out.