STANISŁAWA SZYSZKO

On 10 January 1968 in Warsaw, the assistant prosecutor for the District Prosecutor’s Office for Warsaw-Żoliborz heard the person named below as a witness, without an oath. After being informed about the criminal liability for false testimony, the witness testified as follows:


Name and surname Stanisława Szyszko
Age 54
Parents’ names Stanisław, Władysława née Krzyżanowska
Place of residence Warsaw, Gąbińska Street 18, flat 1
Occupation housewife
Criminal record none

I have lived on Gąbińska for 54 years, in the so-called Piaski [the Sands]. I heard that seven human skulls were dug out during excavations for the construction of a new block. This was on the estate formerly inhabited by Władysława Burzycka. Personally, I didn’t see these skulls. I hadn’t heard that there had been any execution in this place. For as long as I was in Warsaw during the Warsaw Uprising, there was no insurgent combat in this area. Fighting did occur near the current bus garage on Włościańska Street. But the partisans from Kampinos passed by there. In September, we were deported from our homes to the camp in Pruszków. What happened then in this area, I don’t know.

I know that there was an underground organization operating in Piaski, but I don’t know its name. Kita, Tyszko, Maślanka, Romanowski and, I think, Konczewski, Wacław Wilanowski [?] and Sztrejmer belonged to it. During one of the operations in the so-called hills, at the back of the present bus station, Kita, Tyszko and Studziński were killed. I know that everyone was buried in Powązki. Edward Konczewski and his mother Stanisława were shot dead in their apartment at Gąbińska Street 14 by the Gestapo, acting on information from Romanowski. Romanowski switched sides and began cooperating with the Gestapo and then wore a German uniform. He also contributed to the arrest of Lepisz at Gąbińska Street 14, as well as Wacław Wilanowski [?] and others.

I know that at Włościańska Street 3, two Jewish girls with the surname Jankien were hiding. They were shot by the Germans during their escape and buried in the embankments on Włościańska Street. I don’t know about any other cases of Jews in hiding.

Stanisława Ignaczak lived on the Burzycka estate. I know that Germans came to her. Her husband was in Auschwitz. She was arrested by the Germans because, apparently, she had been given up by Romanowski, [saying] that she was buying weapons from German soldiers. What happened to her, I don’t know. When Lepisz was arrested, Romanowski was present, but still in civilian clothes.

The statement was read out.