STANISŁAW DAJCZER

Witness interview report drawn up in Odrowąż commune, Końskie district, by the Skarżysko-Kamienna Branch of the Radom District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes, represented by a member of the Commission, defense attorney Wawrzyniec Ergietowski.


Name and surname Stanisław Dajczer, son of Jan
Occupation carpenter
Place of residence Village of Koprusa [Stąporkowo], Odrowąż commune

On 6 April 1940, a German truck arrived in front of my house. Two Germans rushed out of it and approached the house of the Gut family. After some time, I heard four shots and saw fire inside the Guts’ house. Then a Blue Police officer approached me, at the command of the German gendarmerie, and summoned me to the German officer. When I came up [to him], the German officer with the skull and crossbones emblem produced a photograph of Marian Gut. He asked me if I knew that individual. He said the man had been killed in Rogowice, Mniów commune, and that it was because of him – because he [had been] a partisan – that the entire Gut family had been killed and burned. He told me to inform the residents of the village of Koprusa that if anyone joined the partisans or helped them in any way they would share Gut’s fate. I don’t know the names of the German perpetrators, but I do remember the name of the Końskie district head: Fitling [?].

When the Germans left, I went with others to Gut’s homestead, [illegible] mainly from the Guts’ bodies, but I ran away because I noticed a German car approaching again. I saw a uniformed German get out of the car and kill even the hens.

The bodies of the murdered Guts lay there for three days because no one was allowed to touch them. It was not until the gendarmerie from Końskie gave permission, that the remains were buried in the cemetery in Niekłań.

I have said everything.

The report was read out.