On 16 October 1947 in Radom, the District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes with its seat in Radom, this in the person of a member of the Commission, lawyer Zygmunt Glogier, interviewed the person mentioned hereunder as a witness, without taking an oath. The witness testified as follows:
| Name and surname | Adam Lebküchler |
| Age | 48 |
| Parents’ names | Józef, Rozalia née Kozub |
| Place of residence | Radom, 3 Maja Square 1 |
| Occupation | doctor |
| Criminal record | none |
| Relationship to the parties | none |
On 9 November 1939, I was arrested for the first time by the Radom Gestapo and I was held in prison for only a couple of hours, because as all doctors had been arrested, I was needed as a venereologist to maintain the city’s state of health. At that time more than a hundred people were arrested: the intelligentsia, doctors, judges, attorneys, engineers, industrialists and merchants, etc.. I don’t know what the purpose of these arrests was, I suppose the Germans wanted to terrorize and intimidate the residents. I was arrested by a Gestapo man named Pajkert, Untersturmführer, and it was also him who released me later. At this time, Dr. Wroński had an incident with the Gestapo men arresting him when he refused to take off his Red Cross band, and one of the Gestapo men ripped it off brutally and threw it on the ground.
I was arrested for the second time on 15 May 1941, and I was kept in the Gestapo’s dungeons on Kościuszki Street until 29 July 1941. The arrest itself was carried out in the following way. On 15 May 1941, I was ordered to come to the Gestapo in Kościuszki Street to see the director of section V, von Dorpowski, supposedly of Polish origin. When I came in, some NCO told me that Fuchs wanted to speak with me. When I entered his office, he said he knew I was a socialist, a patriot, that I had been a city alderman two times, and that I belonged to an underground organization, following which he ordered that I be taken to the dungeon situated below the Gestapo buildings, telling me to think about what he’d said, as it could all end in a bad way.
After several days I was summoned for interrogation. I went to the second floor, and, I think in the first room on the right from the entrance, I was questioned by a Gestapo man named König, who interrogated with the help of a Dolmetscher named Franz – a slim dark-haired man, a specialist in the physical work. I think during the second or third interrogation Dolmetscher Franz beat me with a whip, aiming at my heels, torturing me in such a way for a long time, pausing to ask if I would confess.
I need to mention that I was always cuffed when taken for interrogation and when I was beaten. I was interrogated a couple more times and finally I was called to see Fuchs, who told me I was released.
The basements are located below the former Gestapo headquarters on Kościuszki Street, there were eight cells in the basements. 12 to 16 people could be held there. Józef Siemieński, a professor of the University of Warsaw, was kept in a cell with me. He told me he was arrested when visiting Wieczorkiewicz, a custodian from the Museum of Old Warsaw, who was staying in another cell at the time. During the search conducted in Siemieński’s flat, as he himself put it, leaflets belonging to one of the ladies who had attended his wife’s name day party were found. Three people were arrested then. Siemieński also told me that Guderian, a Volksdeutscher, while advising him to confess and pretending to be friendly, got out of him that [Siemieński] had read those leaflets – and that probably lost him. Siemieński told me, and I could see it with my own eyes too, that once he had been beaten very badly – and at every interrogation he received a similar beating. He was always cuffed while being taken for interrogation. A person who was especially brutal towards Siemieński, according to what he told me, was a Volksdeutscher from Łodź named Manowski. Siemieński was taken to Auschwitz where he died. What happened to Wieczorkiewicz, I don’t know. Representatives of Radom’s Jewish left were being kept in the Gestapo dungeons too, including Finkielsztajn, who was their head.
I recall that one time when I was called for interrogation from the basement to the room on the second floor, the chief of criminal investigators named Aftanas was wandering around the rooms of the Political Department; he was widely believed to be at the Gestapo’s service. I could gather from his behavior that he was on friendly terms with members of the Political Department.
I also know that by the Section V of the Gestapo there was a unit which took care of finding Jews who were hiding from the German authorities. A captured Jew would be shot behind the sports stadium, on a path. A certain Volksdeutscher, whose surname I cannot recall, was especially active in this field. Mrs. Ogórek, who used to serve in the vice unit, should be able to provide his surname, she is presently staying in Kielce prison.
As far as I know, the Dolmetscher s were mostly Volksdeutschers who came from near Łódź, Poznań, Silesia – all those Dolmetschers were used by the Germans mostly for beating. A lot on the matters of the organization and the surnames could be provided by an ex member of the Radom Gestapo, the Viennese Hermann Möslinger, residing in Vienna (XVI, Hasnerstrasse 57 flat 3), who informed me and other people of arrests that were going to be conducted by the Gestapo.
Working at the Health Office, I would most often see Axnik, a Gestapo man who worked in section V. I know that he took part in some operations against guerillas in 1940 near Skarżysko-Końskie. As for his views, he was a fierce Hitlerite. I also know Guderian, a Volksdeutscher from Łódź – description: [illegible] slim, oval face, blond hair. I can’t recall any other surnames of the Gestapo men, actually many of them were treated by me, but I burned the book of patients as a precaution.
As a doctor leading the health unit I can ascertain with confidence that the Germans did not shoot any of the prostitutes, even for infecting a German. The worst punishment was deportation to a camp. Even during the Little Ghetto liquidation, when I was removed from the Jewish hospital where I was head of a venereal ward, and where I had left ill prostitutes, then while all the ill Jews were shot dead, including Bekerman, a judge of the District Court in Radom, I was ordered to transport the remaining Polish prostitutes to a new place on Saska Street, which I did together with Axnik.
In 1942, I was a guest at a conference at Radom’s Stadthauptmann ’s concerning the ghetto closure. The case was presented by Dr. Weitzneger, a district official, who indicated typhus as the reason for the necessary closure. As far as I know, he was a fierce implementer of all rulings against the Jews. In the Szydłów operation, to my knowledge, many Jewish doctors died; they were lured in by rumors that they were going to be moved to Palestine, and went with their families to a rallying spot in Szydłowiec in two cars, where they were shot by Ukrainians under the Gestapo’s command at the Jewish cemetery. As far as I know, only Kajlerowa née Kurc, together with her daughter, saved herself from the pogrom. I think they are living in Łódź now. Around a hundred of the Jewish intelligentsia were killed then. To the best of my knowledge, during all the round-ups and arrests that took place in Radom in the period between 1939 and 1945, around 16 Polish doctors were arrested, 70% of whom are dead, and around 30 Jewish doctors [were arrested] of whom only 3 managed to stay alive.
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