Kielce, 5 January 1948, 3:00 PM. I, Zygmunt Jan from the Criminal Investigation Section
of the Citizens’ Militia station in Kielce, acting pursuant to Article 20 of the provisions introducing the Code of Criminal Procedure, with the participation of reporter Józef Łukasik, interviewed the person named below as a witness. Having been advised of the importance of the oath, of the right to refuse testimony for reasons set forward in Article 104 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, and of the criminal liability for making false declarations, this pursuant to the provisions of Article 140 of the Penal Code, the witness was sworn and testified as follows:
| Name and surname | Józef Dudek |
| Parents’ names | Jan and Katarzyna |
| Age | 45 years old |
| Place of birth | Skrzelczyce, Kielce district |
| Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic |
| Occupation | cobbler |
| Place of residence | Wojska Polskiego Street 258, Kielce |
Regarding the present case, I am aware of the following facts. The Germans brought the first Russian prisoners to the camp in Fijałkowski’s barracks in the autumn of 1942. They put them to work in the forest – cutting trees for fuel and construction. In this camp they fed them mainly rutabaga. Every day I saw several carts hauling corpses from the camp to the Bukówka forest, and there the prisoners dug large pits and buried those corpses. They put corpses on top of each other and sprinkled them with lime.
They starved the prisoners, but did not shoot them. I saw the prisoners going to work, escorted by Germans – they often fell on the ground and died. There were many incidents when a prisoner fell from exhaustion and the Germans went over to him to finish him off with a rifle butt or shoot him dead. Such incidents happened almost every day. I knew only one German from this camp, Schuster, the sergeant, but I cannot say what his function in the camp was because I don’t know. Schuster was the one who most often accompanied the prisoners to the forest, where they cut trees. I don’t know more about this case because I was deported to Auschwitz on 7 January 1942.
The report was concluded, read out, and signed.