On 2 December 1968 in Białystok Waldemar Monkiewicz, assistant prosecutor for the District Prosecutor’s Office, delegated to the District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Białystok by the Prosecutor General of the Polish People’s Republic, proceeding in accordance with the provisions of Article 4 of the decree of 10 November 1945 (Journal of Laws No. 57, item 293) and Article 129 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, interviewed the person named below as an unsworn witness. Having been advised of the criminal liability for making false statements, he testified as follows:
| Name and surname | Henryk Wołoszynowicz |
| Date and place of birth | 4 December 1940, Waniewo |
| Parents’ names | Władysława and Stanisław |
| Place of residence | Białystok, Mazowiecka Street 66a, apt. 2 |
| Occupation | retiree |
| Criminal record | none |
| Relationship to the parties | son of the murdered |
Since I was a child back then I cannot recall the date, I suppose it could have been on 8 September 1943. I don’t remember this, but from what I was told by the residents of the village of Waniewo and my older siblings I know that on this day German gendarmes arrived at our farmstead in the settlement outside the village of Waniewo and encircled the buildings.
My father Stanisław and mother Władysława were sheltering a significant number of Jews. Because of this, the Germans set fire to their buildings and shot people emerging from the flames. Allegedly, my father was murdered on the spot by the German gendarmes. After encircling the buildings the gendarmes asked him if he was sheltering Jews. My father did not admit to that and was shot. My mother though was taken by the German gendarmes to Tykocin. The five of us kids the gendarmes planned to shoot at first, but our neighbors agreed to take us in and on this condition the gendarmes abandoned their initial idea.
Based on testimonies of people familiar with the case I learned that my parents were murdered by the German gendarmes from Tykocin. That is where my mother Władysława was taken to and murdered.
After the deaths of my parents, the murder of the Jews sheltered by my parents by these same gendarmes, and the burning of our buildings we were taken care of by complete strangers. Myself and my sister Teresa were taken in by the Wołoszynowiczs, who at that time lived in Wysokie Mazowieckie. We were both adopted by them.