On 13 April 1946, the Municipal Court in Opatów, represented by Judge Al. Zalewski, with the participation of reporter app. J. Kwiatkowski, interviewed the person mentioned below as a witness. Having advised the witness of the criminal liability for making false declarations, of the wording of Article 107 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, and of the significance of the oath, the judge swore the witness in accordance with Article 108 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, whereupon the witness testified as follows:
| Name and surname | Andrzej Janda |
| Age | 66 years old |
| Parents’ names | Jan and Antonina née Małowska |
| Place of residence | Opatów, former state company buildings – caretaker |
| Occupation | house caretaker |
| Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic |
| Criminal record | none |
| Relationship to the parties | none |
During the German occupation, I was employed as a caretaker in the former state company buildings. Some of the mentioned buildings were occupied by the German gendarmerie. Not a day went by without gendarmes bringing human corpses. Once, 15 dead bodies were brought in, one of which was massacred to such an extent that it was impossible to identify it as the remains of a human being. Among the officers of the mentioned gendarmerie, commonly known for their cruelty were: 1) Billert (aka “Biller”) from the Warsaw region (Grójec), and [2)] Berger; but I cannot give any specific facts about their crimes, as the premises were heavily guarded, and no stranger was allowed to enter their area.
Once, I saw a gendarmerie sergeant, who always walked with his dog and was known for it, pulling the young – now dead – Sekwand by the hair, while the dog was tearing his body. From their office, one could almost always hear the screams of tortured people, who were taken away in the evening, but I cannot say where to. In my opinion, they were mostly partisans or those accused of collaboration with them. When later, a Blue Police station was also moved there, all of them (including: Szymczak, Ślęzak, Słonka, Grys, Sobol, and Teodorczyk) would go with gendarmes into the field, taking part in the fight against the Polish partisans.
When it comes to the business activity within the same buildings as the branch of the District Agricultural and Commercial Cooperative in Ostrowiec, [and its manager] Spendowski, I know that he was disloyal towards Polish people. He whipped them many times in my presence and secretly sold all sorts of items and goods intended as bonuses for people who usually could not receive them, as they waited a day or two to receive some part of their pay. His practices regarding people were so brutal that they went to the gendarmerie with complaints, which were usually ineffective due to his closeness to the Germans.