STANISŁAWA MŁYNARCZYK

Kielce, 29 May 1948, 11.00 a.m. Stanisław Kostera from the Criminal Investigation Section of the Citizens’ Militia Station in Kielce, on the instruction of the Deputy Prosecutor from the Regional District Court Prosecutor’s Office in Kielce, dated 20 March 1948, no. 48/47, with the participation of court reporter Marian Poniewierka, interviewed the person named below as a witness. Having been advised of the criminal liability for making false declarations and of the wording of Article 140 of the Penal Code, the witness testified as follows:


Name and surname Stanisława Młynarczyk
Parents’ names Józef and Maria, née Woźniak
Age 44 years old
Date and place of birth 24 January 1904, Kielce
Religious affiliation Roman Catholic
Occupation locksmith
Place of residence Kielce, Poniatowskiego Street 62

On 29 January 1944, at about 4.00 p.m. I was on duty at the reservoir of the Water and Sewage Works at Prosta Street 22 in Kielce. During that time, the German Gestapo brought five men in a truck, with their hands tied with wire. The Germans pushed the men off the truck, led them to the fence and ordered them to kneel down. One of the Gestapo men (unknown to me) placed a machine gun opposite the kneeling men and fired a salvo of bullets, and the men fell to the ground. After the execution, another Gestapo man turned the men face-up with his foot and with his pistol finished off those who were still alive.

The bodies of the dead men were buried at the same spot where they had been executed, and after the liberation, the corpses of the executed were transferred to the cemetery.

I don’t know the surnames of these five executed men, as the execution took place some 10 meters from the Water and Sewage Works towards Wojska Polskiego Street and it happened at dusk. I know that a few days before the execution of these five men, a German had been shot or killed in the vicinity of the spot where the men were executed.

I know neither where the men were brought from nor what they were accused of.

The report was read out.