Józef Bogucki
Class 5
Primary School in Prędocin
Commune of Błaziny, district of Iłża
15 November 1946
Recollection of German crimes
The Germans, those criminals of the world, were treating Poles cruelly in concentration camps. The Gestapo forced poor Poles to work like cattle. A lot of Poles were starving to death.
[If] any Pole collapsed from hunger, the Germans would kill [him] like a dog [unreadable]. They brought exhausted [people] by cars from work, they burned them in gas ovens, and spread their ashes on fields as artificial fertilizer. I saw with my own eyes, how Germans encircled the village with cannons and tanks and burned every building. People began to flee in a great panic.
The few people they caught, were brought to the town, where they were taken as partisans. We will long [recall] and remember in our hearts this German crime.