On 16 November 1948 the Magistrates’ Court in Zwoleń, with Judge M. Łowicki presiding and with the participation of a reporter, P. Mikulski, interviewed the person mentioned hereunder as a witness, having first taken an oath therefrom. After advising the witness of the criminal liability for making false declarations and of the significance of the oath, the judge took an oath therefrom, following which the witness testified as follows:
Name and surname | Kazimiera Woźniczka |
Age | 40 years old |
Parents’ names | Andrzej and Marianna |
Place of residence | Kulczyn, commune of Grabów nad Wisłą |
Occupation | farming |
Criminal record | none |
Relationship to the parties | daughter-in-law and sister-in-law of the murdered victims |
I would like to testify as follows: in January 1943 four German gendarmes from the station in Zwoleń, accompanied by one Stankiewicz, a Blue Policeman from Zwoleń, arrived in the village of Kulczyn, commune of Grabów nad Wisłą, and proceeded to the house of Katarzyna Woźniczka. I don’t know the surnames of these men. One of the gendarmes was a “lieutenant”. The gendarmes detained Katarzyna Woźniczka and Marianna Woźniczka (mother and daughter-in-law), whom they then shot dead just behind the farmyard, in the field, and ordered that they be buried there; this instruction was complied with.
In the spring of 1943, Katarzyna Woźniczka’s sons recovered the bodies, placed them in coffins, and reinterred them at the same location, putting up a fence around the spot. The bodies are buried there to date. Katarzyna Woźniczka’s sons and the husband of Marianna Woźniczka, that is: Stanisław, Władysław and Jan Woźniczka, were members of partisan units. It was they whom the gendarmes wanted to arrest, but finding them absent, they killed the women instead.
Gendarmes came for me, too; they ordered me to dress, and I did so. They kept on asking about my husband, for he was not there at the time. They inquired what my husband did for a living, and I told them that he was a farmer, but that he was in Kozienice, for he held some position at the bank and had gone to Kozienice on official bank business. Constable Stankiewicz told me to remain in the house, and one of the gendarmes confirmed his words, and so I stayed put, while they ordered my mother-in-law and sister-in-law out and shot them both.