WANDA BAGIŃSKA

Warsaw, 4 May 1950. Judge [no surname], acting as a member of the Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland, interviewed the person named below, who testified as follows:

Wanda Bagińska, née Kotowska

[born on] 24 February 1910 in Sochaczew
house caretaker
Warsaw, Spacerowa Street 12, flat 14

When the Warsaw Uprising broke out, I was in the house at Spacerowa Street 12. Our house was completely empty, for the Germans who had occupied it had left two weeks before the Uprising broke out. Until 28 August everything was calm in our house. The residents of other houses on Słoneczna Street, which the Germans were burning down or evacuating, moved to our uninhabited house. On 28 August, Germans arrived from aleja Szucha and ordered everyone to come out. Together with the residents of the house at no. 18 Spacerowa Street and of certain other houses on Słoneczna Street, they led us down to Łazienkowski Park, through the park to Agrykola Street and aleja Szucha, and across Unii Square to the Red Cross at Rakowiecka Street, where we spent the night. While we were in aleja Szucha, they did not separate the men from the women. On the next day we were all led to the Western Railway Station, from which we were transported to Pruszków and then deported to Germany.

I did not hear about any crimes committed in our area during the Uprising by the Germans.

I heard that the Germans led the residents of Słoneczna Street into aleja Szucha.

At this point the report was concluded and read out.