ALEKSANDER PIOTROWSKI

13 February 1950, Warsaw. Trainee judge Irena Skonieczna, acting as a member of the Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland, interviewed the person named below as a witness, who testified as follows:


Name and surname Aleksander Piotrowski
Date and place of birth 4 July 1882, Ryczyca, Warsaw Voivodeship
Parents’ names Łukasz and Magdalena, née Trojanowska
Father’s occupation farmer
State affiliation and nationality Polish
Religious affiliation Catholic
Education can sign his name
Occupation janitor at the Agricultural Bank
Place of residence Warsaw, Czackiego Street 21, flat 18e
Criminal record none

When the Warsaw Uprising broke out, I was in the Credit Society building at Czackiego 21, where I stayed until the Germans’ entry into the area, that is, until 7 or 8 September 1944. When the Germans entered, there were no insurgents in our house. By the time the Germans arrived, the insurgents had already left the area. The people were in the basements. We were given 15 minutes to leave our house, and the Germans escorted us to Saski Square where there were many people from the surrounding streets, including our own. Two old ladies remained in our house after all the residents had left. The Germans wanted to take them in a wagon to a hospital. However, after the Uprising, when the Polish Red Cross was carrying out an exhumation in our area, the bodies of two women were found in one of the graves. But I am unable to say whether these were the old ladies from our house.

The Germans escorted us from Saski Square to the church in Wola, from where we were transported to Pruszków.

I haven’t heard of any other crimes committed by the Germans in Czackiego Street.

At this point the report was brought to a close and read out.