Questionnaire
concerning mass executions and mass graves
Township: Łoniów
Commune: Łoniów
District: Sandomierz
Voivodeship: Kielce
1. Date and place of execution:
Spring of 1944.
2. Type of execution (shooting, hanging, etc.):
Shooting.
3. Personal data of the murdered victims:
Poles, Jews, foreigners: Poles and Jews.
Number of murdered victims: 5.
The victims were brought in from: Staszów, along the Staszów–Sandomierz road.
Surname, age, occupation, address: The data are unknown.
4. Is it known what the victims were accused of, whether the execution was carried out in retaliation, etc.?
It was not determined.
5. Who carried out the execution (gendarmes, Gestapo men, SS men, policemen, the Wehrmacht)?
Gendarmes.
6. Are the surnames of the perpetrators known (provide the surnames if known)?
Unknown.
7. Were the corpses burnt or destroyed otherwise?
They were not destroyed.
8. Where were the corpses buried (provide the exact location)?
In the woods near Łoniów.
9. Description of the place of burial (graves, dimensions, estimated number of victims buried in one grave):
A common grave 3 meters long and 2 meters wide.
10. Were the corpses exhumed, were they officially reinterred (report)? If “yes” to the latter, then where?
The exhumation was not conducted. The corpses were buried in the woods near Łoniów.
11. Are there any grounds for conducting their exhumation in the future?
No.
On 20 September 1945, the contents of the above questionnaire were officially confirmed by the head of Łoniów commune, Stanisław Klimkiewicz, with the Municipal Court in Sandomierz.