Warsaw, 3 July 1946, Investigating District Judge of Second District of the District Court in Warsaw, Halina Wereńko, delegated to the Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw, interviewed the person named below as a witness. Having been advised of the criminal liability for making false declarations and of the provisions of art. 107 and art. 115 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the witness testified as follows:
| Name and surname | Józefa Bałaszkiewicz |
| Marital status | single |
| Parents’ names | Stanisław and Emilia née Brzozowicz |
| Date and place of birth | 18 March 1916 r, Żarnów settlement, Opoczno district |
| Occupation | none |
| Education | seven classes of primary school |
| Place of residence | Warsaw, Poznańska Street 22 flat 49 |
| Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic |
| Criminal record | none |
During the German occupation, I was living in Warsaw, on Poznańska Street 22, together with Teofil Gileciński. On 19 August 1943 I heard shots and looked out the window onto Poznańska street. I was on the 4th floor then. I saw two young men standing against the wall of the house no. 23, facing the wall, with their hands raised. A couple of the Gestapo men were watching them, carrying out a search. I saw the Gestapo soldier seize a revolver from one of the captured men, who was wearing a bright coat. At the same time I noticed that the whole street was crawling with German gendarmerie and the Gestapo. Gileciński, who was present in the room, pointed at the roof of house no. 21. There were gendarmes standing on it. There were lots of military vehicles in Poznańska Street. Soon after, a group of gendarmes burst into our house, calling upon all residents to come out into the street and leave their flats open. I went downstairs to the courtyard of our house, along with all the other residents. We were ordered to stand facing the wall. At that moment, I heard shots and grenade explosions on the stairs of our building. I later learned that three men, who had been hiding in the 4th floor of our house, ran down the stairs shooting and hurling grenades. Two of them were killed in front of the building, one fled. After the shooting, during which we hid in the basements, the gendarmes lined us up again in the middle of the courtyard, with our hands raised, and searched all the apartments. Men were ordered to lie face-down on the ground. After the search, which didn’t reveal anything of interest to the gendarmes, came trucks – one of them took men, another took women. We were all transported to the Pawiak prison.
I was held in prison until 4 September 1943. I was interrogated three times. They asked me where I was when the grenades were thrown, whether I read underground magazines, what I knew of events of 19 August 1943. Then I was released. Apart from seven men, who got deported to the camp in Auschwitz, all residents were released. Gileciński, who now lives with me, was among those sent to Auschwitz. Others who went there: Józef Kania, Stefan Nalepa, Zbigniew Zakrzewski. I don’t recall other names – they still haven’t returned to Warsaw and it’s unknown if they’re alive. As far as I know, none of those men took part in the incidents of 19 August 1943 and were sent to the camp for absolutely no reason. I know for sure that Gileciński didn’t have anything to do with the planned post office assault. Later I heard, I don’t remember who from exactly, that on 19 August 1943, a unit of the Polish Underground was designing a plan to take over the post office on the corner of Poznańska and Nowogrodzka Streets. However, due to denunciation, Germans were informed soon enough, they locked down the area, captured two of the insurgents, shot two in front of our house, and one fled. I don’t know the surnames of the insurgents, the informant, or the Gestapo men.
The report was read out.