On this day, 14 February 1949, Municipal Court in the town of Skarżysko-Kamienna, represented by Magistrate Władysław [?] Gaździński, with the participation of reporter A. Wójcik, 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 | Józef Kuszewski |
| Age | 50 |
| Parents’ names | Antoni and Weronika |
| Place of residence | Bliżyn, Bliżyn commune, Kielce district |
| Occupation | co-owner of a sawmill in Bliżyn |
| Education | secondary education |
| Criminal record | none |
| Relationship to the parties | none |
I think it was in 1944, in Bliżyn, when I was caught by the Ukrainian camp guards during the transportation of fat (butter). I was detained by them and sent to the penal camp in Bliżyn. I was there for three or four days, and from there, [I] was taken to the German gendarmerie station in the town of Skarżysko-Kamienna. From there I was released – I think – on the second day. I did not stay anymore in the camp.
I do not know General SS Bettchen [Böttcher]; I did not know the commandant of the camp in Bliżyn, and I do not even know what his name was. I do not know who sentenced the Polish prisoners staying in the camp either. I know neither the name of the penal camp in Bliżyn nor who its commandant was. The camp personnel consisted of German SS officers and “Ukrainians”. I do not know how many of them were in the camp. In this camp there were Jews and Poles. I do not know what the number of prisoners in the camp was nor for how long the prisoners stayed there. I do not know what kind of work the prisoners performed, what their food was, or how the guards treated them or whether any sort of torture or repression was used towards them. The prisoners wore striped clothes. In the camp there was an epidemic, but I do not know of what sort. I saw how they were taking away the dead from the camp. I do not know whether the executions were committed in the camp. There was no crematorium. I don’t know whether they gassed people. I do not know whether there was an infirmary or who treated prisoners. The dead prisoners were taken away and buried outside the camp in the woods near Bliżyn.
In this camp there were Russian POWs. There were approximately 6,000–7,000 of them. Most of them died in this camp and were buried in the woods near Bliżyn. You can still see the cemetery there. I don’t know anything more on this issue.
I do not know how the camp guards behaved towards the prisoners. I know that the camp guards were secretly delivering food that they had brought from outside of the camp to Poles and Jews.
I don’t know anything else on this matter.
The report was read out.