On 15 February 1946 in Warsaw, Associate Judge Antoni Krzętowski, delegated to the Warszawa Miasto branch of the Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes, interviewed the person named below as an unsworn witness. The witness was advised of the obligation to speak the truth and of the criminal liability for making false declarations, and testified as follows:
| Name and surname | Zofia Czyżewska |
| Parents’ names | Paweł and Marianna |
| Date of birth | 19 September 1904 |
| Place of residence | Warsaw, Rakowiecka Street 9 |
| Occupation | caretaker at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences |
| Education | one class of elementary school |
| Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic |
| Criminal record | none |
I was the caretaker of the house at Rakowiecka Street 15. During the Uprising, the Germans first came to our house on 4 August 1944. There were a whole bunch of them and they barged in, shouting, going from flat to flat and evicting the residents, ordering them to gather in the street in front of the house. They shot railway pensioner Kochański (who, being sick, could not leave his bed) on the spot, in his flat; the same fate befell his wife, who did not want to leave his side. Furthermore, they executed six other people with light machine guns in the courtyard of our house, near the wall. All this happened right before my eyes. The following were shot at the time: 1) Feliks Czyżewski, my husband, 46 years old; 2) Kazimierz Sokol, a laborer, some 30 years of age; 3) Józef Jackowski, a laborer, thirty-something years old; 4) Stanisław Szlenkier, a master painter, some 30 years of age, 5) Józef Anioł, 13 years old, and 6) a young physician whose surname I don’t know, aged less than 30, who was a lodger at Gorzejowski’s flat.
The Germans set fire to the house right before my eyes, by throwing hand grenades into flats.
I don’t know whether they first poured any flammable liquid in them. I didn’t witness this. In any case, the house was immediately engulfed in flames.
The Germans put us in the barracks at Rakowiecka Street, where we were kept for three days and freed afterwards. During those three days spent in the barracks, the Germans did not give us any food, while the children received a watery soup, about a quarter liter, only once a day.
In the neighboring house, located on Sandomierska Street – number 21, I think – the Germans killed one Lipke, the proprietor of a shop, and his two daughters. This occurred on the same day, 4 August. The Germans killed more people in that house, not only Lipke and his daughters, but I don’t know their surnames, nor can I provide the number of victims.
The report was read out.