MARIA CHABERA

On 18 October 1947, in Końskie, a member of the District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Końskie, Teodor Tomaszewski, interviewed the person named below as an unsworn witness. Having been advised of the criminal liability for making false declarations and of the wording of Article 107 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the witness testified as follows:


Name and surname Maria Chabera
Age 64
Parents’ names Jan and Dorota
Place of residence Village of Kornica, Końskie commune
Occupation housewife and farmer
Religious affiliation Roman Catholic
Criminal record none

On 10 September 1939, the Germans killed my husband Jakub and my son Stanisław. They killed my husband on the railway tracks, where he was walking around looking for a little child who had escaped into the fields, frightened, somewhere near the village of Kornica. I don’t know what they killed him for; perhaps they thought he was tampering with the railway tracks in some way. They killed my son on 23 November 1942, as a partisan in the forest near the village of Sielpia, Końskie commune. I saw his dead body among others.