STANISŁAW KUSAK

In Kazimierza Wielka, on 28 September 1948 at 10.30 a.m. I, Marian Radlica from the Citizens’ Militia Station in Kazimierza Wielka, acting on the instruction of the Deputy Prosecutor pursuant to Article 20 of the provisions introducing the Code of Criminal Procedure (KPK), Article 257 of the KPK, due to the absence of the Judge, taking into account that any delay could lead to a loss of traces or evidence of the crime, which would have been obliterated before the arrival of the Judge, following the procedures set out in Articles 235–240, 258 and 259 of the KPK, interviewed the person named below as a witness. Having been advised of the significance of the oath, the right to refuse to testify due to the reasons provided in Article 104 of the KPK, and the criminal liability for making false declarations as stated in Article 140 of the Penal Code, the witness took the oath and testified as follows:


Name and surname Stanisław Kusak
Parents’ names Wojciech and Maria
Age 28
Date and place of birth 4 May 1920, Kazimierza Wielka
Religious affiliation Roman Catholic
Occupation factory worker
Place of residence Kazimierza Wielka, Piłsudskiego Street 42
Relationship to the parties none

With regard to the present matter, I know the following: that a penal camp was established in Kazimierza Wielka in 1940. It was housed in a public elementary school in Kazimierza Wielka. The penal camp was a place for people who did not deliver the complete quota of grains or milk, or those who did not give up their cows for the state, as well as those who did not report for duty to the junacy [young men] on time. People were kept in the camp for up to three weeks. Having served their punishment for three weeks, they were released, except for those who belonged to the junacy – those were sent to labor at the points indicated by the Germans. I would like to mention that, as a watchman at the camp, I never saw anybody from that camp being shot dead. Furthermore, not everybody stayed in the camp for three weeks. The majority were released after serving one week of their punishment, and sometimes even after two days.

At that I conclude my testimony and sign after it has been read out.