JÓZEFA ROGALA

In Kielce on this day, 27 October 1948, at 2.00 p.m., I, Jan Zielono from the Criminal Investigation Section of the Citizens’ Militia station in Kielce, with the participation of reporter Stanisław Gałka, whom I informed of his obligation to attest to the conformity of the report with the actual course of the procedure by his own signature, heard the person named below as a witness. Having been advised of the significance of the oath, of the right to refuse to testify for the reasons set out in Article 104 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, and of the criminal liability for making false declarations, pursuant to Article 140 of the Criminal Code, the witness testified as follows:


Name and surname Józefa Rogala
Parents’ names Piotr and Tekla
Age 51 years old
Place of birth Cisów, Ociesęki commune, Kielce district
Religious affiliation Roman Catholic
Occupation laborer
Place of residence Kielce, Zamknięta Street 7
Relationship to the parties none

With regard to the matter at hand I can provide the following information: On 18 November 1943, ten Poles were executed at Młynarska Street in Kielce, at the spot where a chapel now stands. One of them was my husband, Antoni Rogala, who had been arrested by the Gestapo six weeks before the execution. I don’t know why he was arrested and I don’t know the surnames of the Gestapo men who took him. All the executed people had been incarcerated at the prison in Kielce, but I cannot say whether they all came from Kielce. The execution was carried out by the Gestapo, but I don’t know any surnames. After the execution, the Gestapo left the corpses at the site, whereupon some civilians buried the bodies there. After the liberation, the bodies were exhumed and transferred to the Cemetery for War Heroes and Nazi Victims.

At this point the report was concluded, read out and signed.