Czeladź, 31 September 1989
Stanisława Borkowska
[…]
Editorial Board of the “Zorza” weekly
“The list of the missing”
Mokotowska Street 23 [sic!]
00-551 Warsaw
In response to the appeal made by engineer Jędrzej Tucholski in “Dziennik Zachodni” of 29 March 1989 (“An attempt at completing the Katyń list”), I would like to provide information about my husband, by answering consecutive questions from the questionnaire:
| 1. | Wacław Borkowski, son of Zofia and Marcin, born on 23 April 1905 in Łuków, resident of Brześć nad Bugiem. |
| 2. | Secondary education, white-collar worker, senior inspector at the Voivodeship Police Headquarters in Brześć nad Bugiem, position: voivodeship senior intendant. |
| 3. | Data provided under point 4 for the Polish State Police. |
| 4. | Senior inspector at the Voivodeship Police Headquarters in Brześć nad Bugiem. |
| 5. | He was taken captive around 15 September 1939 in the area of Kowel, where he was headed in his police uniform after the evacuation from Brześć nad Bugiem. |
| 6. | In March 1940, my husband sent a letter from Ostashkov to our address in Brześć nad Bugiem. I didn’t receive his letter, because in September all families of policemen had to flee. I finally arrived in Warsaw. After some time, I met a friend from Brześć who left the town at a later date, and she told me that a letter had come from my husband from Ostashkov and that she had sent it to my Warsaw address. This letter never reached me – it got lost. [I sent] letters [to] the Polish Red Cross, [to] England, and France, asking about my husband. I always received the same answer: “address unknown”. |
| 7. | I don’t have any documents, correspondence, or photographs, as I lost everything in the Warsaw Uprising. |
| 8. | I provide my address and personal data, as I don’t want to remain anonymous – I have suffered enough, and I am 85 years old. My wish is to learn the fate of my husband before I die. Stanisława Borkowska – the wife, […]. |
I am glad that there are people who took up the issue of the Katyń crime, which has been hushed up for decades.
Stanisława Borkowska, the wife