On 3 August 1948 in Poznań, a member of the District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland, Deputy Prosecutor M. Lehmann, heard as a witness the person specified below; the witness did not swear an oath. Having been advised of the criminal liability for making false declarations, the witness testified as follows:
Name and surname | Ludwik Stachowski |
Date and place of birth | 27 July 1921 in Poznań |
Names of parents | Ludwik and Wiktoria |
Place of residence | Poznań, Kossaka Street 3, flat 7 |
Occupation | medical student |
Criminal record | none |
Relationship to the parties | none |
At the outbreak of the war I was living with my parents in Poznań. On 13 February 1940 we were deported first to an evacuation camp, and then to the area of Włoszczowa. In 1942 I moved to Warsaw, where I lived at Podwale Street 20.
I took part in the Warsaw Uprising as a paramedic of the military hospital at Miodowa Street 7. The hospital was situated in the basements. It was a rather quiet place, as it was outside of the main area of interest of the German troops, [but] it was constantly under fire and under attack.
I worked in the hospital until it was closed due to flooding at the end of August 1944. We took the injured people to various posts, but the majority [were taken] to Długa Street.
On 1 September I was wounded in the right side by a grenade launcher missile which exploded four meters away from me. On the same day, the insurgents retreated from the entire Old Town, leaving me behind. Shortly afterwards the Germans arrived, or rather the Kalmyks, who wanted to shoot me right away. However, I said something in German, so they hesitated and went away. Then the regular German troops arrived, and they called a few Poles and ordered them to carry me to the railway station in Wola. Then I was deported to the Pruszków camp, and later I was placed in a hospital in Grodzisk. I stayed there until I recovered.
Since I was working in the hospital the entire time, I did not witness any Hitlerian atrocities committed during the Warsaw Uprising.
The report was closed.
Additional testimony of Ludwik Stachowski
A friend of mine, a medical student named Maria Olczak, worked with me for some time in the military hospital at Miodowa Street 7. I had known her before the outbreak of the uprising.
When I was wounded on 1 September and the insurgents retreated from the Old Town that night, I stayed in a flat on Miodowa Street under her care. When the Germans arrived in the morning of 2 September, they ordered an evacuation of all people who were not ill. Maria Olczak, however, did not want to leave me unattended and refused to go. Then one of the uniformed Germans grabbed her by the hair and, threatening her with a revolver, led her out of the flat in which I was lying. I heard her screaming as she was being led out.
When I came to Warsaw after the war, I talked to her about these events. Previously I had learned from our correspondence that she had been deported to Germany for forced labor. She was in Görsbach, Sangerhausen county.
The report was closed.