MAŁGORZATA LUBRAŃSKA

Warsaw, 31 January 1948. The member of the District Commission of 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 declarations, the witness testified as follows:


Name and surname Małgorzata Lubrańska née Głowacka
Names of parents Czesław and Paulina née Pawłowska
Date of birth 27 October 1897, Barłóżno, Starogard district
Religious affiliation Roman Catholic
Education elementary school
Place of residence Warsaw, Grójecka Street 20b, flat 53
State and national affiliation Polish
Occupation lives with husband

The outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising caught me in the house at Grójecka Street 20b. I stayed in the basement with my family and I don’t know the course of the insurgent or German action. The shelter was public, the population from neighboring houses was gathered there.

On 4 August 1944, around 6.00 - 7.00 a.m., German troops entered the area of the house, we were ordered to come outside from the basement. An order was given to separate women and children from men. Next, the women and children were led out on the other side of Grójecka Street, to number 19. Staying there, I heard volleys coming from the gate of the house at 20b.

I did not see the execution. Apart from others, Józef Górski and Bolesław Hoffman survived the execution, I don’t know other surnames.

I heard that the execution had taken place in the shelter. Kazimierz Sucharzewski, currently an employee of the Motor Transport Company (residing in Warsaw on Trembowelska Street, behind Szembeka Square) told me that in the middle of October 1944 he was employed by the Germans in a group of civilians to burn the corpses in the basements of our house. I also heard that ashes and corpses from our basement were buried by Polish soldiers in the garden of the residence at Grójecka Street 20b in 1945, and then exhumed by the Polish Red Cross.

At this the report was concluded and read out.