QUESTIONNAIRE
about mass executions and mass graves
Location: State forest Złota, department 7 and 8
Commune: Złota
District: Pińczów
Voivodeship: Kielce
1. Date and place of execution:
September 1944, in the forest.
2. Type of execution (shooting, hanging, etc.):
Shooting.
3. Information about those murdered:
Poles, Jews, foreigners: Russian soldiers.
Number of murdered people: Six.
Where were the victims brought from: The Gestapo brought them from Złota.
Names, age, occupation, addresses: Unknown.
4. Do you know what the victims were accused of and whether the execution was a retaliatory order, etc.?
Soviet guerillas.
5. Who carried out the execution (gendarmerie, Gestapo, SS, police, Wehrmacht)?
Gestapo.
6. Do you know the names of the perpetrators (give the names)?
Unknown.
7. Were the corpses burned or destroyed in any other way?
No.
8. Where were the corpses buried (the exact place)?
In departments 7-5 and 8-1.
9. Description of the grave (graves, measurements, presumable number of victims in one grave):
A shared grave 2m wide, 3m long, 1m deep. An individual grave 1m wide, 2m long,
1.5m deep.
10. Was there an exhumation, was it official (a report), where were the bodies buried?
No.
11. Are there grounds for ordering a later exhumation?
No.
On 9 October [19]45 the contents of the above questionnaire were formally confirmed by the leader of Złota Commune, Eugeniusz Stawiarski, in front of the Municipal Court in Pińczów.