On 4 June 1947 in Pińczów at the Samopomoc Chłopska [Peasants’ Mutual Aid] Office in Pińczów, Investigative Judge Michał Gallewicz interviewed the person named below as an unsworn witness. Having been advised of the criminal liability for making false declarations, the witness testified as follows:
Name and surname Piotr Gil
| Age | 50 |
| Parents’ names | Franciszek and Helena |
| Place of residence | Chroberz |
| Occupation | farmer and leader of Chroberz commune |
There was only one labor camp within the territory of Chroberz commune, established in the fall of 1944. It consisted of Poles only, and the level of rotation was high, due to which up to thirty thousand people (30,000) passed through this labor camp. There were both women and men, mostly from the neighboring communes of Chroberz, Złota, and Góry. They were accommodated in empty schools. They had no hospital or medical assistance. They were fed very poorly, they worked at the trenches and logged trees, and their work was very hard. All of them went free when the camp was shut down as the front drew closer in January 1945. Michał Zadara, resident of Czarnocin commune, Pińczów district, was shot dead by a guard while fleeing the camp. He was taken by his family and buried in the parish cemetery in Stradów, Chroberz commune. I don’t remember the name of the German from the SS who was the camp commandant. There were also SS Germans who treated both the people in the camp and the locals really badly. The camp was established in Młodzawy Duże.
One hundred and six Jews were executed in Chroberz commune. They were men, women and children, and were shot to death by the Germans from the Gestapo and by Ukrainians.
Four graves can still be found there. In May 1943 two Poles and two Soviets were executed – […] they died as guerillas. It was not the Wehrmacht that carried out the execution, but the Gestapo. They were buried in pits but then they were taken somewhere else at night, to a cemetery, and were buried there. In the summer of 1944, eight (8) young men from Kazubów alone were shot dead by the Germans. They selected those eight from the people of Kazubów, transported them in the direction of Zamość and shot them in the field, and left after killing them. The families took the bodies. It was done by the SS-men together with the Ukrainians, for no reason. In the fall of 1943, the Germans took three young men from […] village. Two of them were shot dead on the spot in […] – their bodies were collected later by their families – and the third one, brought to Chroberz, was shot dead by the Germans in Chroberz, and buried there. He was buried in the cemetery by his family.
Forty-three people were sent to penal camps; of them, nineteen (19) were murdered in the camps. Information about the deaths of those 19 was received during the German occupation. Seventy-seven (77) people were arrested at the time. They were kept in prison, but all of them came back. There were a dozen or so roundups for labor; two hundred and sixty-two (262) people were then transported for labor in Germany. Some of them, about twenty people, never returned. No one knows what happened to them. The Germans also levied a quota on us – a protection payment for Chroberz commune in the winter of 1943 [?] [...]. A lot of that was collected, those who resisted got deported […] and some of them were taken for labor in Germany. The Germans deliberately burned down four residential buildings in Chroberz. I don’t know why. At the time of the front they demolished […] a dozen or so buildings, they burned down ten buildings in Chroberz and other buildings in the Zagaje village, from an aircraft. These losses, counted at today’s […] – they captured fifteen localities.