On 19 February 1946 in Warsaw Associate Judge Antoni Krzętowski, delegated to the Warszawa-Miasto Branch of the Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes, interviewed the person named below as a witness, without taking an oath. The witness was advised of the obligation to speak the truth and of the criminal liability for making false declarations, and thereafter testified as follows:
| Name and surname | Waleria Szymańska |
| Parents’ names | Antoni and Rozalia |
| Date of birth | 22 May 1905 |
| Place of residence | Kalisz, Sukiennicza Street 6, flat 1 |
| Occupation | unemployed |
| Education | secondary school graduate |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Criminal record | none |
On 5 May 1944 my husband, Stanisław Szymański, was arrested by the Gestapo and detained at Pawiak prison. He was arrested in connection with his political activities in his shop at Nowy Świat Street 46. I don’t know what political activities my husband was engaged in. I only know that he was active in a clandestine Polish organisation.
Smuggled messages sent from Pawiak by Zbigniew Tomaszewski and Anna Sipowicz- Gościcka, a dental surgeon who was imprisoned at Pawiak, informed me that on 16 and 17 May 1944 my husband had been interrogated at aleja Szucha, and had been shot on 20 May. I don’t know whether he was executed within Pawiak prison itself. Since then I have not received any information concerning his fate.
I would like to add that I read a German poster giving information about the sentencing to death or maybe about the carrying out of a death sentence passed on 150 “Polish communist bandits being in the pay of Moscow”. This poster was dated 20 May 1944 and I think that it mentioned an execution that was also carried out on 20 May. It may be that my husband was shot in the course of this execution.
I would like to explain that I have certain information that would indicate a somewhat different date of my husband’s death. Both I myself and my husband would receive medical treatment at the “Elektrolecznica” at Piaseckiego Street 16. There I met a certain female orderly, neither the surname nor address of whom I can remember, who later told me that in the registers of Pawiak next to my husband’s surname there was the annotation “passed away on 22 May 1944”. The orderly received this information from a certain male Ukrainian friend of hers, who had access to the registers of Pawiak. I am unable to provide any details concerning this Ukrainian. Anna Sipowicz-Gościcka was kept at Pawiak for some three or four years, where she carried on her medical practice and engaged in the large-scale smuggling of messages to the families of prisoners. These messages would usually come to her mother’s address, and that is where I, too, collected those concerning my husband.
Gościcka’a address is as follows: Włochy, near Warsaw, Długosza Street 4, flat 6. I don’t know Zbigniew Tomaszewski’s address, but I do know that of his brother (I don’t know his name), namely: Żymirskiego Street 72 (Grochów), where he has his own house.