On 10 January 1946 in Warsaw, acting investigating judge Halina Wereńko, delegated to the Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland, interviewed the person named below as a witness. Having advised the witness of the criminal liability for giving false testimony and of the significance of the oath, the judge swore the witness, who then testified as follows:
| Name and surname | Barbara Warda |
| Age | b. 1912 |
| Names of parents | Wincenty and Malwina |
| Place of residence | Płocka Street 26, Wolski Hospital |
| Occupation | nurse and medical student |
| Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic |
| Criminal record | none |
During the uprising in 1944 I worked at Wolski Hospital at Płocka Street 26, in the surgery ward. On 5 August, when I was assisting during an operation, four SS-men stormed into the operating theatre and ordered us to immediately leave the hospital. At that point the patient, operated under anaesthesia, was still on the bed. Her name was Leontyna Braun (resident at Wolska Street 54). The SS-men told us to leave the patient and get out. I went down to the hall with the others, trying to help a patient with a severe leg injury get down. Then, a great commotion broke out and shots were heard. Everybody was ordered to leave the hall for Płocka Street. I exited with Dr. Manteuffel and Dr. Wesołowski. In the courtyard, I saw that Ukrainians were standing guard outside the building, as the SS-men forced people out. As I would later learn, this was Major Reck’s unit. The SS-men were fully armed. They had light machine guns. Our removal from the hospital was swift. A procession was formed, in rows of four, made up of doctors, staff, patients and civilians who had been hiding in the hospital, and when I entered Płocka Street, I saw that the head of the column was already turning into Górczewska Street.
I cannot tell how many people there were.
On Górczewska Street, beyond the level crossing, the SS-men divided the column into groups: doctors and hospital auxiliary staff up front, patients and civilians behind them. At that moment, one of the Germans called over Dr. Wesołowski, Dr. Manteuffel, myself as well as Irena Dobrzańska, a nurse, and took us to an SS unit first-aid station. Half an hour later, Dr. Wesołowski and Dr. Manteuffel were taken to another station, at St. Stanislaus hospital, as I later learned, while my colleague and I stayed, for the time being, at the station on Górczewska Street, in the Simpleks factory. Shots could be heard all the time. After more or less an hour, I heard regular machine gun volleys and German soldiers told me that it was our hospital that’s been finished off. Later, I learned from a German doctor named Stefan Pucher, whose attitude towards me and Poles in general was positive, that all the men from our hospital were executed at that time. Later still, I learned that some of those men had survived and that around 200 people might have been executed, including staff and patients. In the evening, I learned from the injured German soldiers who had been brought to the station that the Germans had launched a raid and seized St. Lazarus hospital. Later, I found out – I do not remember from whom – that after St. Lazarus hospital had been seized, some patients were executed and that after being wiped out, the ward building was set on fire. Reportedly, there had been some insurgents on the premises. The next day, I moved together with the German station to Wolski Hospital. On my way there, I saw around 15 corpses, including five wearing hospital clothes; this was the same route that those evacuated from the hospital had walked the previous day.
I do not know how and when they were shot.
As regards the Germans who displayed particular cruelty, there was Dr. Puschel (I do not know his first name), who was a doctor at the first aid station I was forced to work at and treated Poles badly, kicking and beating the laborers, who were Polish civilians. In addition to this, he took away various valuable items and chests, which he would send to Germany, to his family.
On 25 August, I was sent to the Maltański Hospital on Senatorska Street with the German station. The following incident took place there: the insurgents attacked Bankowy Square, as a result of which eight of them were captured by the Germans. After the interrogation, five men and two women were executed, and one severely wounded person was transported to the Maltański Hospital. This insurgent, whose name was Liliental, resident of Janusza Street (I do not remember his first name), was severely wounded and there was no hope that he would make it. The command demanded that he be sent for interrogation but Dr. Pucher objected. When the same demand was made again an hour later, Dr. Pucher injected him with morphine, after which the insurgent died. I thought then that it was the only way out because he would have given away a lot of information and would probably not have made it, since he would have been executed just like his companions.
The Tresckau SS unit was stationed at the Maltański Hospital. On 8 September, I was transferred with the German station to Wybrzeże Kościuszkowskie Street, where I was released, and I had been in Wolski Hospital since.
The report was read out.