Warsaw, 22 August 1946. Judge Antoni Knoll, acting as a member of the Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland, interviewed the person named below, who testified as follows:
My name is Aleksander Zakrzewski, son of Ryszard and Weronika, born on 12 February 1916 in Stavropol (now in the USSR), a laborer, I completed six grades of elementary school, Roman Catholic, no criminal record, relationship to the parties – none.
At the beginning of 1944, I was employed in the oil mill at Żelazna Street 22, which belonged to Teklak. On 15 February, returning from work, as I was walking to the Jabłonna-Wawer train, on Senatorska Street, near the former Ministry of Agriculture, I noticed a few people praying at an execution site. At that moment, two motorcycles arrived with four gendarmes armed with “ rozpylacze” [machine guns]. Without any warning or call to disperse, the gendarmes started firing at the people. Ten people were killed and 18 more were wounded. I was among the latter and lost my left eye as a result of the shooting. Two women fell next to me. Due to my wound, I was treated in the hospital on Smolna for three days [only], because the gendarmerie had ordered them to sign me out. Currently, I have a prosthesis in my left eye.
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