Warsaw, 26 November 1945. Examining Judge Alicja Germasz interviewed the person named below as a witness. Having been advised of the criminal liability for making false declarations and of the significance of the oath, the witness was sworn and testified as follows:
Name and surname | Stefan Łukawski |
Age | 58 years old |
Parents’ names | Feliks and Bronisława |
Place of residence | Mokotowska Street 13 |
Occupation | secretary at the office of the Parish of the Savior |
Religion | Roman Catholic |
Criminal record | none |
Throughout the Uprising I remained in the same house in which I currently live and where I am the administrator – at Mokotowska Street 13. In the first days of August 1944 I heard from many people who came to our bunker from the city – and also from the insurgents – that in Oleandrów and Marszałkowska streets the Germans were carrying out mass executions of men taken from neighboring houses, and throwing their bodies into the nearby Anc Pharmacy, which was ablaze. Irrespective of the above I would like to state that a great many men were thrown into the burning pharmacy alive. I heard the same reports from the priests of our Parish who had been abducted from the presbytery at Marszałkowska Street 37 and led through Marszałkowska Street to Litewska Street, and from there to the Gestapo building, from where they were released after a few days. The surnames of these priests are as follows: 1) Father Aleksander Cegłowski, currently the parish priest of the Parish of Strzelce near Kutno; 2) Father Franciszek Włodarczyk, the parish priest of the Parish of Pelcowizna near Warsaw; 3) Father Witold Fultyn, head of the elementary schools in Pruszków.
I heard the same information, in particular as regards the burning of people alive in Anc Pharmacy, after returning to Warsaw in January, this from people who had business with the office of the Parish.
I myself, while passing along Marszałkowska Street in January, saw human bodies with burn marks lying in front of the pharmacy. In the basement beneath the pharmacy, where the ceiling had been destroyed, I saw – looking in from the street – human remains jutting out from under the debris.
I would like to add that more detailed information concerning this matter could be provided by the dental surgeon Zofia Ciombor (residing in Warsaw at Marszałkowska Street 66), who at the time had been taken by the Germans from the house at Marszałkowska Street 31 and led to Litewska Street and to the Gestapo building.
The report was read out.