Gliwice, 30 September 1947
J. Wieczorka Street 14/16, flat 5
phone number: 30-29 / 25-94
Kilian Niśkiewicz
Board Member of the Gliwice department
Vice-chairman of the Verification Commission
Acting Chairman of the Enterprise Commission
To
Voivodeship executive board
of the Polish Association
of the Former Political Prisoners
in Katowice, Daszyńskiego Street 9
In connection with your announcements and photographs displayed in the window of the secretariat, I would like to inform you that I recognized three following people:
1. Hildegard Lächert – referred to as "Brigitte" by SS men,
2. Alice Orlowski – referred to as "the American" by SS men,
3. [Emilie] Macha (from Bytom) – called by everyone "Mutti".
In accordance with the law in force, I would like to testify, especially against Hildegard Lächart, who beat me up twice when I was in the Gärtnerei kommando [gardening squad] in Majdanek.
All three SS women served as Aufseherins [overseers] in the Frauenlager [camp for women] in Majdanek. They would come with female kommandos of Häftlings [prisoners] to the gardens of the Gärtnerei, where I had the opportunity to witness their behavior. As further evidence, I present the list of 40 prisoners from Majdanek – eye-witnesses to the actions of the SS Aufseherins who oversaw the female prisoners in Majdanek.
with kind regards
Kilian Niśkiewicz
Former prisoner number 4654 of the camp in Majdanek from 18 January 1943 to 8 April 1944
List of the closest colleagues from the camp in Majdanek
1. Zygmunt Krobski (MA), State Trade Central Office, Warsaw-Praga, Mińska Street 33, flat 7,
2. Prof. Jan Dudek, Education Office of the Wrocław School District, Wrocław, 8 Maja Street 38, flat 1,
3. Inspector Andrzej Janiszek, Central Liquidation Office, Łódź, 11 Listopada Street 374, flat 13,
4. Jan Durski, university student, Poznań, Wrocławska Street 33,
5. Henryk Rygier, State Institute of Meteorology, Zakopane, Kasprowy Wierch,
6. Michał Wojtowicz, inspector at the Confectionery Industry Union, Lublin, Solna Street 4, flat 3,
7. Paweł Dąbek, member of the State National Council, head of the Industry Department (no. 4) at KC PPR [Central Committee of the Polish Workers’ Party], Warsaw, Stalina Avenue 17,
8. Prof. Dr. Michałowicz, Chief Medical Doctor at University Clinic, Warsaw, Litewska Street,
9. Dr. Matera, district doctor, Radom,
10. Jan Zakrzewski, Ministry of Supply, Warsaw, Wilcza Street 71, 2nd floor,
11. Henryk Wieliczański, MD, pulmonologist, Łódź, Piotrkowska Street 152, flat 3,
12. Captain of the Polish Army Władysław Rodowicz, manager of the Polish Army’s Film Studio under the Ministry of Information and Propaganda, Warsaw, Belgijska Street 5,
13. Inspector Jan Żukowski, PCE [?], Warsaw-Praga, Łochowska Street 22, flat 13,
14. Józef Serafin (MA), Chorzów I, head of the Katowice Steelworks Consumers’ Co-operative, Dąbrowskiego Street 21,
15. Engineer Mieczysław Krygowski, head of the Coal Industry’s Central Supply Office EM [?], Gdynia, Kaszubska Street 1, flat 4,
16. Stefan Haupe (PhD), journalist, Bydgoszcz, Jagiellońska Street 99,
17. Szymon Uglanica, printer, Warsaw, Emilii Plater Street 12,
18. Director Tadeusz Znyk, hotels "Bristol" and "Polonia", Łódź, Narutowicza Street,
19. Director Kulesza Czesław, publishing co-operative "Czytelnik", Łódź,
20. Director Milewski, publishing co-operative "Czytelnik", Łódź, Kościuszki Street 99, flat 3,
21. Engineer [Stanisław] Zelent, director at the publishing co-operative "Czytelnik", Warsaw, Wiejska Street 16 (or Wiejska Street 4 room 247 – hostel),
22. Kowalski, manager at the publishing co-operative "Czytelnik", Warsaw, Wiejska Street 16,
23. Inspector Bolesław Burski-Jasieńczyk, co-operative "Społem", Katowice, Zabrska Street,
24. Maria Polkowska, Gliwice, head of the Boarding House of the Worker Co-operative, Dolnych Wałów Street 11, flat 13,
25. Maria Rosen (PhD), financial director at the Worker Co-operative of the Association of the Former Political Prisoners, Gliwice, Zwycięstwa Street 1,
26. Aniela Bartoszewska, Lublin, Solna Street 1, flat 3,
27. Janina Wróblewska, Łódź, Sanocka Street 24, flat 41,
28. Wanda Burakiewicz-Ślusarczyk, Katowice, gen. Zajączka Street 16, 1st floor, tel. 303-21,
29. Lawyer Jerzy Bargielski, notary, Maków – Łomża,
30. Director Leon Wanat, Łódź, Główna Street 67, flat 5, Silberstein’s Textile Factory [illegible],
31. [Stanisław] Konopka, MD, Colonel of the Polish Army, surgeon, head of a department at the Ministry of Health, Warsaw,
32. Targalski, watchmaker, Bytom, Krakowska Street 8/II or Jewelry Shop [?], Paderewskiego Street,
33. Tadeusz Jerzęcki, Toruń, Konopnickiej Street 19a, flat 5,
34. Józef Pawełkiewicz, tradesman, Gliwice, Skutnicza Street 46, tel. 21-38,
35. Lucjan Gola, Dąbrowa Górnicza, 3 Maja Street 6,
36. Józef Rowiński, tradesman, Łódź, Żeromskiego Street 61, flat 1,
37. Władysław Buchner, Warsaw, Marszałkowska Street, Paper Mill "Mirków-Jeziorna", 38. Engineer Orzeszko, manager of the sawmills and of the Ceramics Industry Plants, Łazy (Silesian Voivodeship),
39. Leszek Zabłocki, co-operative "Papirus", Warsaw-Żoliborz, Jerozolimskie Avenue,
40. Stanisław Sowiński, Toruń, Konopnickiej Street 19a, flat 5, the Jarzęckis’ place.
Gliwice, 13 January 1947
Klasztorna Street 14/16, flat 5