On 5 May 1947, at the site of the exhumation of victims of German crimes from mass graves in the Jabłonna Forest by the village of Suków-Papiernia, Dyminy commune, Kielce district, the Radom District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes, Branch Office in Kielce, in the person of a member of the Commission, assistant public prosecutor of the District Court, Edward Laskowski, and under Article 20 of the provisions introducing the Code of Criminal Procedure, heard the person named below as an unsworn witness. Having been advised of the criminal liability for making false declarations, pursuant to Article 140 of the Criminal Code, the witness testified as follows:
Name and surname | Franciszka Gil, née Kumor [?] |
Date of birth | 1904 |
Occupation | widow of a farmer |
Place of residence | Niewachlów II, Kielce district |
Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic |
Criminal record | none |
On 28 July 1943 at about 3.00 a.m., Niewachlów village was surrounded by the gendarmerie. The Germans burned down one house, and when day broke, they arrested 31 people, including four girls employed at the commune office and my husband, Józef Gil; all of the detainees were transported to Kielce. Only three days later did we get word from Kielce that 17 detainees had been incarcerated at the camp in Bliżyn, 3 people (two women and one man) were deported to the concentration camp in Auschwitz, and that in the afternoon of the same day 11 people had been taken to the woods near Suków, where they were executed by shooting. These included Detka, my husband, Józef Sarnecki, two [...] (a father and a son), two by the surname of Szurmień [?], Śledź, [...], Klaczyński, Krzywicki. All were taken from a list. Today, Maria Sarnecka recognized one of the exhumed bodies as her son, Józef Sarnecki. I also recognized him by the crop of blond hair and a steel front tooth. A daughter of the above-mentioned tailor, who was arrested and deported to Brzezinka, had been working in a warehouse in Kielce before her arrest. Among the segregated clothes, she recognized the clothing of her father and the blouse of Józek Sarnecki.
The report was read out and signed.