JÓZEF JAWORSKI

On 16 August 1947 in Jedlnia-Letnisko, the District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom in the person of a member of the Commission, lawyer Zygmunt Glogier, heard the person named below as an unsworn witness. Having been advised of the criminal liability for making false declarations, the witness testified as follows:


Name and surname Józef Jaworski
Date and place of birth 23 September 1882, Wierzbica, Radom district
Parents’ names Franciszek and Julianna
Place of residence Siczki, Jedlnia forest district
Occupation deputy forester with the State Forests
Criminal record none
Relationship to the parties none

In January 1941, the Gestapo from Radom carried out arrests in the area of Jedlnia-Letnisko and the vicinity. The arrests were made on charges of distribution of underground brochures. About 20 people were then arrested, including my two sons, of whom one perished in Auschwitz, and the other came back home after three weeks of incarceration in some school near Skarżysko.

My house was searched for weapons and brochures. The search was conducted by a gendarme who was a slim short blond and spoke excellent Polish and by two young Gestapo men. I heard that among those Gestapo men who were carrying out the searches and arrests were some Kepnowie [?] from Radom, one of whom was friends with my son. Apart from my son, none of the arrestees has returned to date. In the summer of 1942, in June, three drunken Germans arrived at my courtyard and gave me such a drubbing that I passed out. I didn’t manage to learn why I was beaten like that.