WIKTORIA MATELSKA

26 November 1947.

District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom, represented by a member of the Commission, E. Marczewski.

The case was called and the witness took the stand.


Name and surname Wiktoria Matelska
Age 57
Parents’ names Józef and Anna née Zięciak
Place of residence Skarżysko-Kamienna, Factory Workers’ Colony no 9, flat 8
Occupation office worker for the State Factory of Ammunition
Religious affiliation Roman Catholic
Criminal record none

Having been advised of the criminal liability for making false declarations, the witness was duly sworn and testified as follows:

Throughout the whole occupation, I worked for the former company Hasag [Hugo Schneider AG]. Until 1941, I worked in the tenancy office where I saw how the factory Security Service imprisoned factory employees in the basement of the office; the prisoners were beaten.

The German factory crew treated the Polish workers badly; they beat them on a regular basis for trivial reasons. Once I saw Bartenschlager, the Deputy Head of the Security Service, beating and kicking [...] Augustyniak, one of the factory workers.

During the occupation, I lived in the village of Brzask by Skarżysko, and then in the summer of 1940, I [saw] how the occupants drove prisoners in cars to the forest near the site of my residence and shot them dead. I heard gunshots from machine guns. Today, there is a tomb 50 meters long at the site of these executions.

The report was read out.