ZOFIA BARTOSIAK

Official memo

On 5 January 1948in Warsaw, Citizen Zofia Bartosiak, resident at Pokorna Street 12 (allotments) in Warsaw, appeared on summons in the offices of the District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes, and declared as follows:

On 13 August 1944 German units displaced the civilian residents of the house at Pokorna Street 12.

In the spring of 1947 I was present at the exhumation of the bodies of seven men from a grave on the site of the allotments, and that of a woman buried in another grave. Some of the male bodies were recognized as those of residents of our house, who had been taken by German units on 13 August 1944.

I heard an unverified rumor that these men had been ordered to collect German bodies in this area, and had been subsequently executed. The execution was witnessed by two women whose surnames I do not know, but will try to determine them and notify the Commission within a period of 7 days.