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.