On 20 July 1947, in Strużki, Tursko Wielkie commune, Judge Albin Walkiewicz, lawyer in Staszów, member of the District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom, Staszów branch, heard the person named below as an unsworn witness. Having been advised of the criminal liability for making false declarations and of the wording of Article 107 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the witness testified as follows:
| Name and surname | Eugeniusz Wiącek |
| Age | 43 |
| Parents’ names | Michał and Agnieszka |
| Place of residence | Strużki, Tursko Wielkie commune, Sandomierz district |
| Occupation | farmer |
| Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic |
| Criminal record | none |
I lived in Strużki throughout the entire period of the German occupation. On 30 June 1942, I heard only of crimes committed by the Germans on the Polish and Jewish population. However, on 3 June 1943, I was an eyewitness to the murder of the population of our village and its destruction by the Germans.
On 3 June 1942, at approximately 6 AM, units of the military police turned up from Radom, Kielce, Sandomierz, Opoczno, Ostrowiec, Stopnica, from Staszów, from Rytwiany – all in all about 250 [officers]. They surrounded the village and every farmstead, i.e., 19 farms in Strużki and two in the nearby Tursko Wielkie. They immediately told the people [they] encountered in the flats and house yards that they would be shot. They drove people into the flats, which they were not allowed to leave, and then they’d set fire to the homes and entire farms, so that people inside were incinerated. Furthermore, they shot 20 people, including two young children and 16 women. Fifty-one people were burned in Strużki, including 24 children aged from just a few days to 15 years old, as well as pregnant women. That day, they burned five people in Tursko Wielkie.
After showing me the list – the list of people murdered by the Germans in the Tursko Wielkie commune, prepared by [?] [illegible] of the commune [?] dated 7 May 1947 – I hereby attest that the inhabitants of Strużki named there were murdered by the Germans. Two of the people sent from Strużki were killed.
There were no roundups for deportation to Germany in Strużki; however, there were in Niekurza and Tursko Wielkie. On the day of the annihilation of Strużki, where only about 42 people were left alive, the Germans took the entire live inventory: cows, chickens, pigs, with the exception of [the animals of] three farmers. All the farmsteads (19) in Strużki were burned down.
Regarding the quota contributions, it was set and collected with regard to meat, cereal and potatoes, in such a quantity that no family could survive from the remaining crops. When the harvests were worse, the quota contribution determined exceeded the harvest quantity. As it was impossible to hand over the quota contributions in full, the Germans took hostages. Then, some would buy grain, as they didn’t have their own, and give away the quota contribution. For this reason – being behind with the quota contribution – German penal expeditions repeatedly arrived in the village and they’d beat the people they encountered, usually men, with oak clubs to the extent that the beaten people would be sick; others were taken to the municipal building and beaten, including the mayors, the village chief, and municipality employees. As a result, because people had nothing to buy for food, and there was nowhere to buy it, the population suffered from hunger for weeks or even months.
Some were involved in trade, but that was also forbidden, so they traded illegally to keep themselves alive. In our area, life was extremely hard, because the land is poor – [illegible] and sandy, which is why the harvests are usually poor – so the high quota contributions were a plague for the population.
From the village of Ossala, adjoining Strużki, on 3 June 1943, the Germans burned down four homesteads. Two people from Strużki were taken to the concentration camp; they did not return. They were the son of a forester and a professor from Warsaw, whom I didn’t know.
The report was read out.