ANNA CHAMCZYK

On 18 October 1947 in Końskie, the District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes, in the department of Końskie, represented by a member of the Commission, K. Gwarek, interviewed the person specified below as a witness, without taking an oath. Having been advised of the criminal liability for making false declarations, the witness testified as follows:

Name and surname Anna Chamczyk


Age 62
Place of residence Kornica
Parents’ names Jan and Józefa
Occupation housewife
Religious affiliation Roman Catholic

On 16 September 1943, our grandson, Stanisław Portuła, was arrested in our apartment in Kornica. On that day, 19 men were arrested in Kornica. Towards the evening, through the window of our apartment, we saw the German gendarmes leading our captured son, Kazimierz, to an assembly point. He was not home at the time, for he had ridden off somewhere on a bike before noon that day. For a week we kept sending packages with food to the prison in Końskie, where the arrestees had been transported, and the packages were accepted. After a week, the prison refused to accept the packages. During the next two years we had no other information, we thought that our son might be in Germany, performing forced labor. But we received some papers stating that he had been executed along with the others in Barycz, a week after the arrest. In February 1945, together with other residents of Kornica, I was present at an uncovered grave on the grounds of the Barycz camp. On the basis of the preserved scraps of clothing and shoes I recognized the corpse of my son Kazimierz among the corpses of 11 people who had been shot to death. All the corpses were transported and buried in the cemetery in Końskie. I have no information regarding the reasons behind my son’s death. I did not know the functionaries of the gendarmerie in Końskie.

The report was read out.