Żywiec, 23 October 1989.
“Zorza” Weekly Editorial Office
Mokotowska Street 43
00-551 Warsaw
In response to the appeal made in “ Gazeta Krakowska” on 10 April 1989, I kindly inform that our father, Artur Munk, was staying at a POW camp in Kozelsk. We hereby include information ordered accordingly to the questionnaire published in the aforementioned newspaper:
| 1. | Artur Munk, son of Józef and Maria, born 12 October 1898 in Wołcze near Turki on the Stryj River, resident in Żywiec-Zabłocie, formerly Kraków Voivodeship, presently Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship. |
| 2. | Education: farming school; place of work: Żywiec Paper Factory “Solali” in the position of chief accountant, and a President of Reservists Association (voluntarily). |
| 3. | Reserve lieutenant, artillery, then arming service in the Main Arms Repository [Główna Składnica Uzbrojenia] near Warsaw (drafted at the end of August 1939). |
| 5. | According to the information acquired from the people returning from the so-called refuge during the war in 1939, our father was taken into Soviet custody (or interned), probably near Nieśwież. |
| 6. | There is no direct correspondence from our father. |
| 7. | A photocopy of the original statement from the International Red Cross in Geneva about the stay of our father in the POW camp in Kozelsk. |
| 8. | Senders: sons, [...], Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship |
After the war ended in 1939, we searched for our father (also by correspondence to Kozelsk in Russian), but unfortunately we haven’t received any answer.
On Katyń victims list published by the German occupant, we didn’t find the surname of our father, either. It was, however, included in the work of A. Moszyński (pub. Omnipress, Warsaw 1989) on page 132, with date of birth misstated by one year.