STEFANIA STEFAŃSKA

On 12 December 1945, in Radom, Kazimierz Borys, Investigating Judge from the Second District of the District Court in Radom, based in Radom, interviewed the person named below as an unsworn witness. Having been advised of the criminal liability for making false declarations, the witness testified as follows:


Name and surname Stefania Stefańska
Age 24 years old
Names of parents Antoni and Zofia
Place of residence Radom, 1 maja Street 22
Occupation clerk
Religious affiliation Roman Catholic
Criminal record none
Relationship to the parties none

My brother, Czesław Stefański, born on 14 June 1914 in Radom, a locksmith at the Arms Factory in Radom, was arrested at his workplace on 24 or 25 September 1942. On 14 October 1942, he was executed by the Germans on the gallows near the Arms Factory in Radom.

Although I was working at that time at the Arms Factory I wasn’t at the execution site because my co-workers prevented me from going there. I saw the bodies hanging from the gallows as I looked from afar through the window. My younger sister, Antonina Stefańska, who lives in Radom at 1 maja Street 22, went to the execution site just after the convicts had been killed. She recognized our brother among the executed.

I don’t know where the bodies, including my brother’s, were buried. I didn’t see the board set up next to the gallows because I didn’t come up there.

I don’t know why my brother was arrested.

In November 1942, a German gendarme notified me of my brother’s death. I didn’t receive any notification in writing.

Having been shown a photograph of the people executed near the Arms Factory in Radom, the witness testified as follows:

I can’t recognize my brother among the people hanged by the Germans.

The report was read out.