STEFANIA JANIAK

On 17 January 1946, in Łódź, M. Domagała, Investigating Judge from the District Court in Łódź, with the participation of court reporter and in the presence of the parties, interviewed the person named below as an unsworn witness. Having been advised of the criminal liability for making false declarations and of the provisions of Article 106 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the witness testified as follows:


Name and surname Stefania Janiak
Age 40 years old
Names of parents Antoni and Katarzyna
Place of residence Łódź
Occupation clerk
Religious affiliation Roman Catholic
Criminal record none
Relationship to the parties none

On 12 October 1942, the Germans hanged my husband on the publicly displayed gallows in Rożki near Radom. I didn’t see the execution. Nor did I see any boards set up next to the gallows, because I never went to the execution site. I know that the bodies were left hanging for one day and that they were then removed from the gallows and buried nearby. There is a birch spinney there. I know that, as well as my husband, there were fifteen other people hanged that day.

Although it took place a dozen or so meters away from my home, I didn’t see the execution in Radom.

My children, Ryszard Janiak and Wiesława Janiak, saw the bodies of the murdered hanging from the gallows.