QUESTIONNAIRE
on mass executions and mass graves
Township: [no data]
Commune: Kuczki
District: Radom
Voivodeship: Kielce
1. Date and place of execution:
November 1943, the village of Podgórze, Kuczki Commune.
2. Type of execution (by shooting, by hanging, etc.):
[no data]
3. Personal data of the murdered victims:
Poles, Jews, foreigners: Poles.
Number of murdered victims: Ten men.
The victims were brought in from: Brought in from the Radom prison.
Surname, age, occupation, address:
| 1) | Władysław Wdowski from Jedlnia-Letnisko, |
| 2) | Dzidzio or Dziedzic from Sokoły, Jedlnia Commune, |
| 3) | Baranowski from Kozienice, |
| 4) | Baranowski from Kozienice, |
| 5) | Tyczyński from Pionki, |
| 6) | Grzędala from Radom, |
| 7) | Salek from Pionki, |
| 8) | Kaczkowski from Ponikwa, |
| 9) | The residents forgot the name, |
10) The residents forgot the name.
4. Is it known what the victims were accused of, whether the execution was carried out in retaliation, etc.?
For belonging to an illicit conspiratorial organization and for illegal possession
of weapons.
5. Who carried out the execution (gendarmerie, Gestapo, SS, police, Wehrmacht)?
The Gestapo together with gendarmes from Zwoleń – a total of 50 people.
6. Are the surnames of the perpetrators known (please provide the surnames)?
Unknown.
7. Were the corpses burned or destroyed in any other way?
The corpses were buried in four graves, but they were not destroyed.
8. Where were the corpses buried (exact location)?
The village of Podgórze, Kuczki Commune, behind the barn of Cebula, the graves were
leveled with ground.
9. Description of the grave(s) (size, estimated number of victims buried in one grave):
Four graves; three graves – three men in each, one man in the fourth grave – he was
called “Commandant.” Size of the graves: two meters by one meter.
10. Was there an official exhumation? Were the corpses buried officially, and if so, where?
The bodies were exhumed by the families of the victims – [the corpses were
transferred] to Pionki.
11. Are there any grounds for exhumation in the future?
No.
On 11 October 1945, the contents of the above questionnaire were officially certified by Władysław Mroczek, the head of the Kuczki Commune, with the Municipal Court in Radom.