To the Main Commission for the Investigation
of German Crimes in Poland
Warsaw
Aleje Jerozolimskie 41, flat 9
In connection with the process of collecting the information about German crimes, I would like to discharge my duty as a citizen and reveal facts that will shed much light on the German extermination of the helpless Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. As a member of the Warsaw fire department who headed firefighter units extinguishing the fires in the houses which had been set on fire, I saw various instances of elaborate and inhumane crimes perpetrated by the German Police, SS, Wehrmacht, the ‘Junak’ units and so on, against the Jews.
In the fire department there are over 200 people who, just like myself, witnessed these crimes. It is all very difficult for me to describe, so I would like to ask the members of the Commission to use this material at their own discretion. I believe that it would be best to appoint a representative who would interview people working in different fire stations. They will gladly tell you what they saw, and what they are otherwise either unable or unwilling to write down.
I wish to point out that the fire department is the only institution which had access to the ghetto throughout the duration of these atrocities and tragedies, until the final liquidation of the ghetto.
A. Jaworski
Acting organizational clerk in the Headquarters of the Fire Department, Polna Street 1
Private address:
Augustyn Jaworski
Warsaw, Szpitalna Street 4, flat 25