QUESTIONNAIRE
about mass executions and mass graves
Location: Krzyżanowice (Leszcze-Gacki)
Commune: Zagość
District: Pińczów
Voivodeship: Kielce
1. Date and place of execution:
15 August 1943 in Krzyżanowice.
2. Type of execution (shooting, hanging, etc.):
Shooting.
3. Information about those murdered:
Poles, Jews, foreigners: Poles.
Number of murdered people: 4.
Where the victims were brought from: They were locals. Names, age, occupation, addresses:
| 1) | Mieczysław Czerw, aged 22, farmer. |
| 2) | Mieczysław Rejdak, aged 18, farmer. |
| 3) | Jan Sarna, aged 20, farmer. |
| 4) | Czesław Konieczny, aged 18, farmer. Czerw and Rejdak from Leszcze, Sarna and Konieczny from Gacki-Krzyżanowice in Zagość commune, Pińczów district. |
| 4. | Do you know what the victims were accused of and whether the execution was a retaliatory order, etc.? |
No.
5. Who carried out the execution (gendarmerie, Gestapo, SS, police, Wehrmacht)?
A penal expedition from Chroberz.
6. Do you know the names of the perpetrators (give the names)?
No.
7. Were the corpses burned or destroyed in any other way?
No.
8. Where were the corpses buried (the exact place)?
They were buried in the Krzyżanowice parish cemetery.
9. Description of the grave (graves, measurements, presumable number of victims in one grave):
They were buried individually.
10. Was there an exhumation, was it official (a report), where were the bodies buried?
1) No. 2) At the cemetery in Krzyżanowice.
11. Are there grounds for ordering a later exhumation?
There are none.
On 12 October 1945 the contents of the above questionnaire were formally confirmed by the leader of Zagość commune, Leon Bech, before the Municipal Court in Pińczów.