JÓZEFA DANKOWSKA

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 Józefa Dankowska
Age 50 years old
Parents’ names Jan and Maria
Place of residence Narutowicza Street 25, Radom
Profession teacher
Criminal record none
Relationship to the parties none

I was arrested by the Radom Gestapo in the middle of November 1942. They placed me in the local prison, from where I was twice taken to Kościuszki Street to be interrogated. At the first examination I was questioned by a blond man who spoke Polish with a Silesian accent, and a red-haired man who spoke only German. During the next, which took place on the second floor, my interrogator was a stout dark-haired man with a mustache; he spoke Polish. I was not beaten, but they threatened me constantly, waving a whip right under my nose. They asked whether I was a member of “the organization” and who visited us. In June 1943, I was sent to a camp with a group of some 40 women. I spent five months in Majdanek, whereafter they transferred me to Ravensbrück. I was freed by the Russians just as the camp was about to be evacuated.

The above is concordant with my oral testimony.