WOJCIECH PIETRUSIŃSKI

1 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, who testified as follows:


Name and surname Wojciech Pietrusiński
Date and place of birth 29 March 1895, Kocerany, district of Grójec
Parents’ names Józef and Józefa, née Pyrka
Father’s occupation farmer
State affiliation and nationality Polish
Religious affiliation Catholic
Education can read and write
Father’s occupation janitor
Place of residence Warsaw, Żurawia Street 8, flat 41
Criminal record none

At the moment when the Warsaw Uprising began, I was in the house at Żurawia Street 8. Until 2 October 1944, that is, until the surrender, our part of Żurawia Street was occupied by the insurgents. That day a significant number of people from this section of our district left their houses. The Germans sent us to Okęcie where, at the end of Grójecka Street, we stayed for the night. In the morning of the following day, we were all allowed to go wherever we wanted, except back to Warsaw.

All the other people who remained in our area were, as I heard, led out in the same direction as we were. Bronisława Walczewska, who remained in our house the longest (she now resides at Żurawia Street 8, flat 25), told me – and so did others – that the Germans had committed no crimes in our area.

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