FRANCISZEK KONCZEWSKI

On 10 January 1968 in Warsaw, the assistant prosecutor for the District Prosecutor’s Office for Warsaw-Żoliborz heard the person named below as a witness, without an oath. After being informed about the criminal liability for false testimony, the witness testified as follows:


Name and surname Franciszek Konczewski
Age 64
Parents’ names Bronisław, Ewa née Grzesiak
Place of residence Warszawa, Gąbińska Street 14, flat 2
Occupation retired
Criminal record none
Relation to the parties none

I have been living at Gąbińska Street 14, flat 2, for 64 years. My mother and sister-in-law Stanisław Konczewska lived in the same house along with her 20-year-old son Edward. I know that Konczewski belonged to an organization whose name I don’t know – to the same one which Ryszard Andrzejewski and Zdzisław Balcerzak belonged to. In exactly what year, I don’t remember, my sister-in-law and nephew were shot by the Gestapo. At the time, I wasn’t at home because I had gone out to do a bit of so-called smuggling. From my mother, who is now dead and who was at home at that time, I found out that they had taken a box and two blankets in bundles, but I don’t know what for. These things were dug up near the toilet. I don’t know if there was a weapon.

My nephew was betrayed by Romanowski, son of Kazimierz, who later began to cooperate with the Germans, but who used to be in the same organization at the beginning. I don’t know if he wore a German uniform. Whether Romanowski is alive now, I don’t know.

I didn’t hear of any executions aside from the incident involving my sister-in-law. I know that during the excavations for a new block, human skulls were dug up on the Burzycka estate. I didn’t see them. I don’t know anything about any execution in this place.

During the Uprising I wasn’t in Warsaw and I don’t know if there was any fighting there. I know that Kita, Tyszko and Studziński were shot dead during an operation in the area of the Bielańskie Fields—that is, in the area of the present Huta Warszawa housing estate. Everyone was buried in the Powązki military cemetery.

The report was read out.