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.