JERZY KUBIN

Warsaw, 24 June 1949. A member of the Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland, mgr. Norbert Szuman, heard the person named below as an unsworn witness. Having been advised of the criminal liability for making false declarations, the witness testified as follows:


Name and surname Jerzy Kubin
Date and place of birth 9 May 1924 in Katowice
Parents’ names Adam and Zofia née Dobrowolska
Occupation of the father officer
State affiliation and nationality Polish
Religious affiliation Roman Catholic
Education higher
Occupation reviewer, columnist
Place of residence Włochy, Słowackiego Street 24

During the Warsaw Uprising, I was a press reporter for the 8th Division of the Home Army in Żoliborz. At the beginning of September, the line troops notified the staff command about the “Ukrainian” invasion of the houses at Gdańska Street 2 and 4 and about the rapes and murders the “Ukrainians” inflicted on the civilian inhabitants of those houses. I was delegated by the division command, along with a photojournalist, Olgierd Dizner, to go there to investigate and photograph these crimes.

We got through to the basements to the house at Gdańska Street 4 and we found in the basements the corpses of men and women. The bodies were lying scattered, some were charred and lying together. We found about ten corpses. Then we went upstairs and again we found bodies of men and women, both on the staircases and in the flats. There were about 15 corpses on the upper floors. Then, from the windows on the ground floor and on the upper floors, we saw the corpses of men and women lying in the courtyards of both houses, that is Gdańska Street 2 and 4. The bodies were scattered and looked as if the people had been executed on the run. The Home Army troops that stationed in the house at Gdańska Street 2 had heard screams and shooting. The crime was probably committed during the night and on the following morning. If I remember correctly, there were eight corpses in the yard. The Home Army troops were stationed in one part of the house at Gdańska Street 2, and the Ukrainians abandoned the rest of that house as well as the house at Gdańska Street 4 after the crimes were committed. The “Ukrainian” troops were stationed in other houses further down the street.

At that the report was concluded and read out.