Warsaw, 4 June 1946. Deputy Prosecutor Zofia Rudziewicz interviewed the person specified below as a witness. Having been advised of the criminal liability for making false declarations, the witness testified as follows:
| Name and surname | Tadeusz Jerzy Wojno |
| Date of birth | 20 March 1884 |
| Names of parents | Ludwik and Władysława |
| Place of residence | Warsaw, Lwowska Street 7, flat 10 |
| Place of birth | Warsaw |
| Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic |
| Occupation | professor of the Warsaw University of Technology [Politechnika Warszawska] |
| Education | doctor of philosophy at the University of Zurich |
| Criminal record | none |
When the Germans entered Warsaw, I was a professor at the Faculty of Chemistry of the Warsaw University of Technology. As a result of the 1939 military operations, buildings of the university were damaged, for example the chemistry building was ruined to a considerable degree. The Wehrmacht seized the main building of the university and some of the facilities, and in doing this they would often toss items out, not taking into account the scientific value of these. After a few months, the military troops left the university altogether. No classes were held. I don’t know whether any explicit regulation was issued prohibiting holding classes, but the Germans ignored the existence of the university as a higher education institution, as they ignored its professors; for example they did not give remuneration to them, and they did not care where our income would come from. There could be no higher education in the General Government [Generalne Gubernatorstwo] at all, and thus clandestine courses were organized. I believe that in 1940 a German named Tzschaschel from the Warsaw district became the commissioner for the University of Technology. He took all files away from the university, students’ files as well as other records, and transported them to I don’t know where. Upon the request of German authorities he issued certificates confirming that someone was a student of the university. This way only a person for whom the Germans wanted to get relevant certificates could obtain them; others had no chance to get their birth certificate, high school graduation diploma, or a university graduation diploma. Diploma examinations were to take place in the spring of 1940, but the German authorities prohibited them at the very last moment.
Some scientific facilities were transformed into research facilities (Prüfanstalten). The German authorities permitted such facilities to operate, with the stipulation that no educational or scientific activity was allowed.
In the spring of 1942 the Germans agreed to open the State School of Technology (Höhere Staatliche Technische Fachschule), which did not have the character of a university. Professor Albert Güttinger, a German, became the director, his deputy was Rector Drewnowski.
I don’t know the content of the regulation establishing this school. Tzschaschel had nothing to do with this school.
All actions undertaken by the Germans indicated that they wanted to eradicate the Polish intelligentsia, to open technical schools providing secondary vocational education, and not to educate engineers and scientists.
As for scientific institutions, the Germans took possession of these as well. The State Geological Institute [Państwowy Instytut Geologiczny] and the National Institute of Life Sciences [Instytut Naukowy Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego] were managed by German professors, and Poles had only secondary positions in them.
During the uprising I was at the University of Technology. On 19 August 1944 Germans burst into the university grounds and sent everyone to Pruszków. When I was leaving the university, everything was still undamaged. When I came back to Warsaw in May 1945, the damage that I found there was enormous. Among others, the Mineralogy Geology Institute I had headed was destroyed. Based on my personal observations, I contend that all facilities were burnt down.
There were arrests among the professors of the University of Technology. Rector Drewnowski (presently in Brussels) was arrested and sent to Majdanek and then to Dachau, the entire family of Professor Smoliński was killed. Professor Bryła was killed in a public execution. The following professors were killed during the uprising: Trechciński, Iglewicz, Bojemski.
Professor Stefan Straszewicz can provide more details as to the official matters I reported in my testimony.