QUESTIONNAIRE
about the camps
Location: Wiślica
Commune: Chotel
District: Pińczów
Voivodeship: Kielce
1. Name of the camp:
Labor camp.
2. Location of the camp:
Wiślica, plac Królowej Jadwigi.
3. Camp dimensions:
20m x 40m.
4. Date camp established:
November 1944.
5. Date camp shut down:
12 January 1945.
6. Were the people in the camp only Poles, or only Polish Jews, or Poles and Jews from Poland?
Poles.
7. Were there any foreigners in the camp? If so, who were they? Were there Jews from abroad? How many?
No.
8. What was the average population of the camp?
140 people.
9. How many people passed through the camp during its existence?
390 people.
10. What happened to the prisoners when the camp was shut down?
Some of them fled to their permanent places of residence, and some of them were
transported to the West before the invasion.
11. Did the prisoners work in the camp? What sort of work was it? What workshops were there?
No.
12. Did the prisoners work outside of the camp? What sort of work was it and where?
Yes. They dug trenches in Gorysławice, Chotel commune.
13. How were the prisoners fed?
Insufficiently.
14. Was there an infirmary or a hospital in the camp?
No.
15. Were there any epidemics in the camp? What were they?
No.
16. Is there any data regarding mortality in the camp?
No.
17. Were there executions in the camp or outside of the camp? How were they carried out?
No.
18. Were the corpses destroyed? How and where?
No data.
19. Was there a crematorium in the camp?
No.
20. Has it been established where the corpses of the murdered and the deceased were buried (name the places)?
No.
21. What is the current state of the camp? What was destroyed? What is currently to be found at the site of the camp?
The building previously occupied by the camp is currently used by the local people.
There were no facilities.
22. Has any material evidence been preserved (documents, former belongings of the people who were murdered, etc.)? What and where is it? Has it been secured?
No.
23. Do you know the names and if applicable the addresses of the people who were kept in the camp (state them below)?
No. People from the front were kept in the camp.
24. Do you know the names of the Germans, the chief of the camp, and other functionaries (give the names, ranks)?
No.
On 19 October 1945 the contents of the above questionnaire were formally confirmed by the leader of the Chotel Commune, Józef Madej, in front of the Municipal Court in Pińczów.