Warsaw, 22 March 1949. Judge Halina Wereńko, a member of the District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes, interviewed the person named below as an unsworn witness. Having been advised of the criminal liability for making false declarations, the witness testified as follows:
| Name and surname | Wiktor Chojnacki |
| Parents’ names | Jan and Stefania, née Augustyniak |
| Date of birth | 17 October 1901 in Warsaw |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Education | elementary school |
| Citizenship and nationality | Polish |
| Occupation | lives with his daughter, who is an office worker |
| Place of residence | Warsaw, Puławska Street 56, flat 26 |
| Father’s occupation | coachman |
| Profession | bricklayer |
| Criminal record | none |
| When th | e Warsaw Uprising broke out, I was in my house at Puławska Street 73. The area |
was controlled by the insurgents, who were shooting from the corner of Boryszewska Street towards German positions at the corner of Madalińskiego, Żuławska and Dworkowa streets. On 3 August 1944 – I don’t remember the time, but it was before lunch – I noticed that the house on the corner of Olesińska and Puławska streets was burning. Shortly after that some girl ran up to our house and said that the Germans were murdering people in Belgijska Street. Maybe an hour after lunch, tanks drove up from Belgijska Street into Puławska Street – I saw two of them. I later learned that at almost the same time, German soldiers burst into the houses at Puławska Street nos. 69, 71 and 73.
Hearing that the Germans were trying to gain entry into our house and had thrown a grenade, I ran down to the basement and managed to get through to Puławska Street 71 – the neighboring house – from where I fled to Lower Mokotów. While escaping through the house at Puławska Street 71, I noticed the body of a man, unknown to me, lying on the stairs. An hour later I saw that the houses at Puławska Street 71 and 73 were ablaze.
Three days later my daughter, Władysława, and sister, Anna Żukowska, returned to the house at Puławska Street 73. They told me later that they had seen charred human remains on the premises of our house. Other tenants of our house calculated that on 3 August 1944 some fifty people perished on the premises of our house.
Their bodies were buried in the courtyard. I saw this grave after I returned to Warsaw in 1945. In the spring of that year the Polish Red Cross performed an exhumation in the courtyard of the house at Puławska Street 73, and the remains of the murdered victims were then buried in Dreszer’s Park.
At this point the report was brought to a close and read out.