QUESTIONNAIRE
concerning mass executions and mass graves
Township: Zwoleń
Commune: Zwoleń
District: Kozienice
Voivodeship: Kielce
1. Date and place of execution:
Throughout the German occupation, behind the buildings of the Agricultural School
in Zwoleń.
2. Type of execution (shooting, burning, etc.):
Shooting.
3. Personal data of the murdered victims:
Poles, Jews, foreigners: Poles and Jews.
Number of murdered victims: Approximately one hundred (100) people.
The victims were brought in from: Zwoleń and nearby communes.
Surnames, ages, professions/occupations, addresses:
The surnames are unknown, for the arrestees were first detained in the local prisons,
which were administered by the gendarmes. The gendarmes transferred some of them
to the prison in Radom, and shot the others on the spot.
4. Is it known what the victims were accused of, whether the execution was carried out on the orders of the Gestapo, etc.?
“For purportedly belonging to an illegal organization”.
5. Who carried out the execution (gendarmes, Gestapo men, SS men, policemen, the Wehrmacht)?
Gendarmes stationed in Zwoleń.
6. Are the surnames of the perpetrators known (provide the surnames if known)?
Of five of the gendarmes – Heinrich (the commandant), Gross, Kulce, Mulce and Keiner,
who were the most active.
7. Were the corpses burnt or destroyed otherwise?
The bodies were buried intact, however all traces were erased, while the earth covering
the graves was leveled and plowed.
8. Where were the corpses buried (provide the exact location)?
Behind the Agricultural School in Zwoleń and in Glinianki, at a distance of some 300 m
from the Agricultural School.
9. Description of the place of burial (graves, dimensions, estimated number of victims buried in one grave):
There were both mass graves and single graves, however details are lacking.
10. Were the corpses exhumed, were they officially reinterred (report)? If “yes” to the latter, then where?
No official exhumation of the bodies was conducted. Some of the corpses were dug up
spontaneously by local residents, while the body of Stanisław Borzęcki – among others
– was transferred to the parish cemetery in Zwoleń; there are no data concerning the
other corpses.
11. Are there any grounds for conducting their exhumation in the future?
An exhumation of the remaining bodies is definitely recommended.
On 9 October 1945, the contents of the above questionnaire were officially confirmed by the mayor of the city of Zwoleń, Sylwester Sendecki, at the Magistrates’ Court in Zwoleń.