Kłodzko, 27 November 1947
Tadeusz Sadowski
Ptasia Street 1, flat 7, Kłodzko
To the President
of the Supreme National Tribunal,
Kraków
With regard to the initiation of the trial against 40 Auschwitz criminals, I kindly inform [the Tribunal] that Dr. Münch and Dr. Weber, with whom I worked for two years in the Hygiene Institute in Rajsko, are among the defendants. Dr. Weber was the head of the Institute, and Dr. Münch was his deputy.
As a former Auschwitz prisoner (from 5 April 1941 to 13 November 1944) I declare the following: when I was arrested in Lublin on 12 February 1941, I had two diamond rings on me, which I managed to smuggle into the camp – but only those diamonds and two gold five- guilder coins. In Auschwitz at the left side of block 26, where we were standing in a queue still in civilian clothes, I buried those two coins and diamonds in the ground. They stayed there until 1944. Then, I dug them out and hid them in my place of work, that is the Hygiene Institute, in one of the basements. While tidying up that basement, one of the inmates, a Soviet named Wołodia, found those items and handed them over to Dr. Münch, who took them with him when going home on leave, and he has them there for sure. The diamonds are my private property and a keepsake; each of them was about a carat. Dr. Weber and other inmates working there also knew about this. Of course there was no way I could admit at that time that they were mine, but now when those former leaders are in Poland, I kindly ask the President to inform me whether it is possible to recover those items. I know for sure that they openly admit that they have them.
To conclude, I would be very grateful if the President could inform me if those items are recovered. I cannot come to Kraków in person due to my very difficult financial situation, although I would love to see those former overlords who forced me to clean their shoes, who beat and tortured us, who considered a Häftling [prisoner] the most despicable creature in the world. I would like to see their faces today.
I would also like to add that Dr. Weber, Unterscharführer Fugger and Rottenführer Vestweber shot three or four prisoners who attempted to escape, for which they were awarded with six days of leave. I do not remember the exact date.