LEON BECH

QUESTIONNAIRE

about mass executions and mass graves

Location: Bogucice
Commune: Zagość
District: Pińczów
Voivodeship: Kielce

1. Date and place of execution:

April 1943 in Bogucice.

2. Type of execution (shooting, hanging, etc.):

Shooting.

3. Information about those murdered:

Poles, Jews, foreigners: Poles.
Number of murdered people: 2 (two people).
Where the victims were brought from: They were locals. Names, age, occupation, addresses: 1) Stanisław Krawiec, aged 25, farmer from Wola Zagojska; 2) Stanisław Lech, aged 33, farmer from Bogucice, both from Zagość Commune, Pińczów District.

4. Do you know what the victims were accused of and whether the execution was a retaliatory order, etc.?

No.

5. Who carried out the execution (gendarmerie, Gestapo, SS, police, Wehrmacht)?

Gendarmerie from Busk.

6. Do you know the names of the perpetrators (give the names)?

No.

7. Were the corpses burned or destroyed in any other way?

No.

8. Where were the corpses buried (the exact place)?

In the Bogucice parish cemetery.

9. Description of the grave (graves, measurements, presumable number of victims in one grave):

They were buried individually.

10. Was there an exhumation, was it official (a report), where were the bodies buried?

1) No. 2) In the cemetery in Bogucice.

11. Are there grounds for ordering a later exhumation?

There are none.

On 12 October 1945 the contents of the above questionnaire were formally confirmed by the leader of Zagość Commune, Leon Bech, before of the Municipal Court in Pińczów.