ANTONI ĆWIEK

On 21 February 1948 in Radom, the District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes with its seat in Radom, this in the person of a member of the Commission, lawyer Zygmunt Glogier, interviewed the person mentioned hereunder as a witness, without taking an oath. Having been advised of the criminal liability for making false declarations, the witness testified as follows:


Name and surname Antoni Ćwiek
Age 48 years
Parents’ names Wojciech and Ludwika
Place of residence Mireckiego Street 24, Radom
Occupation head of a department at the Public Building Enterprise in Radom
Criminal record none
Relationship to the parties none

I was arrested by the Gestapo on 10 November 1940 and incarcerated at Radom prison. At the time, the Germans detained a great many people from Radom and the vicinity. I was interrogated at Kościuszki Street in March 1940. On the second floor, in the stairwell to the right, in the room immediately opposite the entrance. I don’t know the surnames of the men who interrogated me. I was grilled for four hours and asked what I had occupied myself with in prewar Poland, however they didn’t use any “physical means of persuasion”. A report was written down on a piece of paper and undersigned by myself. In 1940, while I was in prison, I met engineer Gajdziński, a renowned weapons specialist from Starachowice. He was isolated and interrogated frequently. The Germans would beat him mercilessly because he refused to cooperate with them on the administration of the plant in Starachowice. On 28 March 1940, I was transferred to the prison in Łódź, and from there to prisons in Poznań, Wrocław, Grogier and Berlin, while on 3 May 1940 they incarcerated me at KL Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg. In the course of the camp’s evacuation, I was liberated by the Americans in the vicinity of Schwerin on 2 May 1945. My camp number was 19 530 P.