On 29 August 1947 in Oświęcim, Appellate Investigating Judge Jan Sehn, a member of the Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland, on the written motion of the first prosecutor of the Supreme National Tribunal, dated 25 April 1947 (file no. NTN 719/47), interviewed as a witness, in accordance with the provisions of and procedure provided for under the Decree of 10 November 1945 (Journal of Laws of the Republic of Poland No. 51, item 293), in relation to art. 254, 107, and 115 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the person specified below, a former concentration camp prisoner, who testified as follows:
Name and surname Józef Plaskura (previously interviewed)
I described the events surrounding my time at the Auschwitz concentration camp during previous interviews concerning the Auschwitz case. As I stated back then, I was interned at the camp from 20 June 1940 until September 1944. From 1942 until the end of my internment, I worked at the so-called Baubetriebsdirektion (BBD). It was part of the camp’s administrative management; the latter was initially called Zentralverwaltung and then Standortverwaltung der Waffen-SS Auschwitz. The BBD accepted finished buildings from the central construction management (Zentralbauleitung) and carried out their maintenance. The BBD also accepted operative, fully equipped crematoria and handled their maintenance and management. This was a full administration of buildings, covering management, repairs and supply of materials necessary for maintenance and operations. Consequently, it was the BBD which had to supply a crematorium with electricity and coke for burning. The head of the administration was initially Buerger, and then, I think until the end of 1943, SS-Obersturmbannführer Möckel.
The report was read out.