JADWIGA MINASIEWICZ

Kielce, 18 September 1948 at 1.00 p.m. Zygmunt Winter from the Citizens’ Militia Station in Kielce, with the participation of court reporter Stefan Młodawski, 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 Jadwiga Minasiewicz
Parents’ names Marian and Klara, née Spiess
Age 43 years old
Place of birth Warsaw
Religious affiliation Roman Catholic
Occupation office worker
Place of residence Kielce [...]
Relationship to the parties none

On 24 October 1943, Gestapo men came to Władysław Macek’s place at Okrzei Street 17 in Kielce. As Macek wasn’t at home, they arrested his wife, making her release dependent on her husband’s appearance at the Gestapo station. Citizen Macek reported to the Gestapo, but his wife wasn’t released. She was taken to the concentration camp in Auschwitz and he was shot on 24 October 1943 in Słowik (Kielce).

Macek and his wife were arrested for being part of an underground organization and for distributing the [clandestine] press. I heard that a man called [...] had given him away. [...] was later killed by the Polish Underground. The victims were brought from the Kielce prison, indicted for the affiliation with underground organizations. I don’t remember whether the execution was of a retaliatory nature. I do know that it was carried out by the Gestapo, but I can’t give the surnames of the perpetrators.

Buried initially in Słowik, in 1945 their bodies were brought to the Partisans’ Cemetery.

The report was read out.