QUESTIONNAIRE
concerning mass executions and mass graves
Township: Zwoleń
Commune: Zwoleń
District: Kozienice
Voivodeship: Kielce
1. Date and place of execution:
19 June [19]44, Zwoleń, next to the market square, by the wall.
2. Type of execution (shooting, hanging, etc.):
Shooting.
3. Personal data of the murdered victims:
Poles, Jews, foreigners: Poles.
Number of murdered victims: 42.
The victims were brought in from: Radom.
Surname, age, profession/occupation, address: cf. overleaf.
4. Is it known what the victims were accused of, whether the execution was carried out in retaliation, etc.?
They were accused of belonging to illegal organizations.
5. Who carried out the execution (gendarmes, Gestapo men, SS men, policemen, the Wehrmacht)?
Gendarmes stationed in Zwoleń and SD men from Radom.
6. Are the surnames of the perpetrators known (provide the surnames if known)?
Of two of the gendarmes – Gross and Keiser, who were very active.
7. Were the corpses burnt or destroyed otherwise?
They were placed in a mass grave near the cemetery wall.
8. Where were the corpses buried (provide the exact location)?
In Zwoleń, near the cemetery wall.
9. Description of the place of burial (graves, dimensions, estimated number of victims buried in one grave).
A pit approximately 8 m by 2 m, which contained all 42 victims of the execution.
10. Were the corpses exhumed, were they officially reinterred (report)? If “yes” to the latter, then where?
An official exhumation was carried out on 15 April [19]45, and the corpses were
reinterred at the parish cemetery in Zwoleń.
11. Are there any grounds for conducting their exhumation in the future?
An exhumation was performed on 15 April 1945.
On 8 October 1945, the contents of the above questionnaire were officially confirmed by the mayor of the city of Zwoleń, Sylwester Sendecki, at the Magistrates’ Court in Zwoleń.
Regarding point 3.
1) Walenty Baryłka, 41 years old, a farmer,
2) Stanisław Bronik, 38 years old, a Lieutenant of the Reserve,
3) Marian Chołuj, 24 years old, a farmer,
4) Jan Chołuj, 21 years old, a farmer,
5) Bronisław Chrost, 30 years old, a farmer,
6) Jan Chrost, 32 years old, a farmer,
7) Czesław Flak, 40 years old, a Doctor of Medicine,
8) Jan Grzybowski, 33 years old, an installation electrician,
9) Wiktor Gugała, 41 years old, a locksmith,
10) Józef Kosela, 38 years old, a Lieutenant of the Reserve,
11) Roch Lisowski, 53 years old, a mechanic,
12) Władysław Nowakowski, 43 years old, an office worker,
13) Józef Mordziński, 67 years old, a farmer,
14) Aleksander Papieski, 39 years old, commandant of the Volunteer Fire Brigade, an office worker,
15) Władysław Peksyk, 35 years old, a farmer,
16) Antoni Penkala, 46 years old, a merchant,
17) Teofil Procki, 42 years old, a farmer,
18) Zdzisław Romanowski, 30 years old, a laborer,
19) Władysław Szymanowski, 41 years old, a Captain of the Polish Army
20) Zygmunt Siewierski, 20 years old, a miller,
21) Woliński Stanisław, 37 years old, a blacksmith – all from Zwoleń and the vicinity;
22) Józef Andzelm, 33 years old, a teacher,
23) Paweł Andzelm, 31 years old, a teacher,
24) Jan Andzelm, 18 years old, a student,
25) Wigo Andersen, 22 years old, a technical school student,
26) Stefan Bolesławski, 41 years old, an office worker,
27) Edward Chołuj, 28 years old, a bandmaster,
28) Stanisław Durnas, 37 years old, a Veterinary Surgeon,
29) Edward Filipowski, 35 years old, a cook,
30) Marian Dziechciarski, 32 years old, a professional Platoon Sergeant,
31) Antoni Gaciara, 40 years old, an office worker,
32) Stanisław Głowacki, 23 years old, a tailor,
33) Marian Graskiewicz, 28 years old, a railway policeman [?],
34) Stanisław Janiszewski (MA), 58 years old,
35) Kazimierz Jung, 34 years old, an airman,
36) Stanisław Jung, 30 years old, an engineer,
37) Franciszek Kordylewski, 37 years old, a teacher,
38) Franciszek Kosmala, 39 years old, a teacher,
39) Jerzy Muszyński, 26 years old, a student of medicine,
40) Franciszek Wójcik, 45 years old, a professional Company Sergeant – all of them from Janowiec;
41) Jan Paszkiewicz, 35 years old, a farmer from Jedlińsk,
42) Unidentified.