JÓZEF OSUCH

Questionnaire
concerning mass executions and mass graves

Township: Jugoszów

Commune: Obrazów

District: Sandomierz

Voivodeship: Kielce

1. Date and place of execution:

5 August 1944, Jugoszów village.

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

Shooting.

3. Personal data of the murdered victims:

Poles, Jews, foreigners: Poles.

Number of murdered victims: 12 people.

The victims were brought in from: 6 partisans caught in Jugoszów; the remaining victims were residents of Jugoszów.

Surnames, ages, professions/occupations, addresses:


1) Józefa Macios, 60 years old, farming, resident of Jugoszów village, Obrazów commune
2) Emilia Macios, 25 years old, farming, resident of Jugoszów village, Obrazów commune
3) Maria Macios, 5 months old, farming, resident of Jugoszów village, Obrazów commune
4) Lucjan Macios, 4 years old, farming, resident of Jugoszów village, Obrazów commune
5) Walenty Cichoń, 50 years old, farmer, resident of Jugoszów village, Obrazów commune
6) Antoni Cichoń, 28 years old, farmer, resident of Jugoszów village, Obrazów commune

These are the surnames of the residents of Jugoszów, as the surnames of the partisans are unknown.

4. Is it known what the victims were accused of, whether the execution was carried out in retaliation, etc.?

The partisans were executed for membership in an illegal organization, while for the rest it was a repressive measure for hiding partisans.

5. Who carried out the execution (gendarmes, Gestapo men, SS men, policemen, the Wehrmacht)?

The German gendarmerie from Opatów. The surnames of the perpetrators are unknown.

6. Are the surnames of the perpetrators known (provide the surnames if known)?

The surnames of the perpetrators are unknown.

7. Were the corpses burnt or destroyed otherwise?

The corpses were buried at the execution site.

8. Where were the corpses buried (provide the exact location)?

In the field at the execution site.

9. Description of the place of burial (graves, dimensions, estimated number of victims buried in one grave):

The graves are no longer there, as having learned about the execution, the families secretly took the corpses away.

10. Were the corpses exhumed, were they officially reinterred (report)? If “yes” to the latter, then where?

No.

11. Are there any grounds for conducting their exhumation in the future?

No.

On 17 September 1945, the contents of the above questionnaire were officially confirmed by the head of Obrazów commune, Józef Osuch, with the Municipal Court in Sandomierz.