Warsaw, 9 January 1948. The member of the District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes, Judge Halina Wereńko, interviewed the person specified below as an unsworn witness. Having been advised of the criminal liability for making false declaration, the witness testified as follows:
| Name and surname | Władysław Kwaśniewski |
| Name of parents | Wojciech and Marianna née Wypych |
| Date of birth | 12 October 1909 in Skierniewice |
| Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic |
| Education | seminary |
| Place of residence | Tłuszcz, Szklana Street 1 |
| State and national affiliation | Polish |
| Occupation | parson in Tłuszcz parish |
During the Warsaw Uprising I was a vicar at St. James parish and stayed in the presbytery on Grójecka Street 38 in Warsaw.
Insurgents’ places of residence in this district were at Filtrowa Street 62 and 68, Mianowskiego Street, Wawelska Street 60, and Kaliska Street 1 (Tobacco Monopoly). The sanitary posts of the insurgents were located at Kaliska Street 9, Joteyki Street 4, and at Kaliska Street 1. I heard that after 10 August 1944, I don’t know the exact date, the sanitary post in Joteyki Street 4 with the severly wounded was burned down by German soldiers. Residents of the house on Sękocińska Street 3 can provide further information about that execution.
Until 3 August, I had stayed in the area of St. James church, where the population from the neighboring houses stayed sheltered. The church was under constant fire from German troops from the academic house. There was no insurgent or sanitary post in the church area, but despite that, from 2 August the church was fired on from the “tigers” from the West side. On 3 August, I moved to Słupecka Street 7.
I heard that around 15 August 1944, St. James church had been burned down.
The following priests died in the Ochota district:
Fr. Prof. Jan Salamucha, vicar of St. James parish, Home Army chaplain - died on 10 August 1944 at Wawelska Street 60, shot by German soldiers;
Fr. Tadeusz Godziński, vicar of St. James parish - died on 1 August 1944, he was shot while he was walking back from Filtrowa Street to St. James church;
visiting priests:
Fr. Jan Morzycki - died on 5 August 1944 as a Home Army chaplain of a sanitary point located on the corner of Opaczewska Street and Grójecka Street; he was shot while providing religious help to the ill at Grójecka Street 100.
Fr. Franciszek Nachajski, Home Army chaplain, he was shot on Wawelska Street; I don’t know the exact date and circumstances of his death.
I heard that around 5 August, at Grójecka Street 20b, German soldiers carried out an execution of around 300 people from the civilian population; the residents of that house can give further information.
On 10 August, around 11.00 in the morning, a unit of Germans and “Ukrainians” stormed into the house at Słupecka Street 7 where I was staying. The soldiers threw the civilians out from the house in a brutal way. The flats were being looted, people were robbed of valuables. While being led out, Marian Chomentowski, a worker of the church, was executed, because binoculars were found on him. On the way our group was inspected and robbed by groups of “Ukrainians” who approached us. I was deprived of liturgical valuables (canonical rings) and a watch. On the way, one of the “Ukrainians” took my long boots and gave me his worn-out ones in exchange. Our group was led though to Zieleniak. I stayed there for three hours. I saw at that time that the “Ukrainians” were kidnapping young women from the civilian population. These women did not return to the group while I was there. After three hours, I was in a transport that was led through to the Warsaw West station and put in the transit camp in Pruszków.
At this the report was concluded and read out.