Township: Staszów
Commune: Staszów
District: Sandomierz
Voivodeship: Kielce
QUESTIONNAIRE
on mass executions and mass graves
1. Date and place of execution:
Mass execution: 8 November 1942, individual executions: as in the attachment
[no attachment].
2. Type of execution (by shooting, by hanging, etc.):
By shooting.
3. Personal data of the murdered victims:
Poles, Jews, foreigners: Local residents and foreigners from Austria and Germany.
Number of murdered victims: Poles – see the attachment.
The victims were brought in from: According to the attachment, 20 Jews, about 450
people, local Jewish residents and foreign Jews.
Surname, age, occupation, address: See the attachment; the names of the Jews are
unknown due to the destruction of books and registers of residents.
4. Is it known what the victims were accused of, whether the execution was carried out in retaliation, etc.?
[No data]
5. Who carried out the execution (gendarmerie, Gestapo, SS, police, Wehrmacht)?
All the people were killed during a Jewish displacement operation, according to the
attachment, by the SS and gendarmerie.
6. Are the surnames of the perpetrators known (please provide the surnames)?
No.
7. Were the corpses burned or destroyed in any other way?
According to the attachment, the corpses were buried at the city cemetery in single
graves, while the people shot dead during the displacement operation and on the
following days, those who had been trying to stay, were buried in mass graves at the
Jewish cemetery in Staszów.
8. Where were the corpses buried (exact location)?
According to the attachment, in single graves at a Polish cemetery, while the Jews were
buried at the Jewish cemetery in Staszów.
9. Description of the grave(s) (size, estimated number of victims buried in one grave):
According to the attachment, single graves. As for the Jews, they were buried in groups
of 10 to 130 people.
10. Was there an official exhumation? Were the corpses buried officially, and if so, where?
No.
11. Are there any grounds for exhumation in the future?
[no data]
On 5 October 1945, the contents of the above questionnaire were officially certified by Andrzej Ścisło, the mayor of the city of Staszów, with the Municipal Court in Staszów.