MARIA STUDZIŃSKA

Kielce, 7 September 1948 at 12.00 p.m. Stefan Młodawski from the Investigative Office of the Citizens’ Militia in Kielce, with the participation of court reporter Zygmunt Winter, 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 Maria Studzińska
Parents’ names Adam and Konstancja
Age 39 years old
Place of birth Kaszczynka in Volhynia
Religious affiliation Roman Catholic
Occupation office worker
Place of residence Kielce [...]
Relationship to the parties collateral relative

Władysław Macek was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in Kielce on 14 October 1943. The Gestapo men first took Macek’s wife because when they arrived at his place he was away from home. The Germans said she would be released the moment her husband turned himself in. In order to save his wife, Macek reported to the Gestapo. However, the Germans detained both him and his wife. He was arrested as a hostage, after having been denounced by [...], a Gestapo informer. After his arrest the married couple’s flat was sealed and three days later Gestapo men arrived in cars and removed things from their flat to the Gestapo station.

On 24 October 1943, my brother-in law was shot along with others in Słowik and his wife was taken to Auschwitz from where she hasn’t returned. I don’t know who carried out the execution. I know that it was the Gestapo but I don’t know the names of the perpetrators.

In 1945 my brother-in-law’s body was transferred to the Partisans’ Cemetery in Kielce.

The report was read out.