ALICJA ŚWIERCZEWSKA

Warsaw, 23 February 1950. 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 Alicja Świerczewska, née Obojska
Date and place of birth 14 January 1928, Piastów
Parents’ names Stefan and Rozalia, née Kępka
Father’s occupation chemical technician
Citizenship and nationality Polish
Religion Roman Catholic
Education secondary
Occupation office worker
Place of residence Warsaw, Asfaltowa Street 14, flat 44
Criminal record none

On 1 August 1944 I was outside Warsaw, in Brwinów. I remained there throughout the Warsaw Uprising.

My father, Stefan Obojski, owned a company that manufactured glass instruments, which was located at Emilii Plater Street 10; he was present there on 1 August 1944.

After the Uprising, on 17 April 1945, during the exhumation of a grave in the courtyard of the house at Emilii Plater Street 15, we found my father’s body, buried along with seven other men. I learned from the doorkeeper at the Warsaw Crane and Lift Company, located at Emilii Plater Street 10, one Józef Otulak, and his wife – Henryka, if I remember correctly – that my father had been executed together with the other men on 1 August 1944, more or less an hour before the Uprising started. I learned all the details of this crime from the abovementioned Mr. and Mrs. Otulak (currently residing at Emilii Plater Street 10).

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