STEFANIA WOJDAN

In Kielce, on 27 January 1948, at 2:20 PM, I, Stanisław Gałka from the Investigative Department at the Citizens’ Militia station in Kielce, acting pursuant to the recommendation of the prosecutor of the District Court issued on the basis of Article 20 of the provisions introducing the Code of Criminal Procedure, while observing the formalities listed in Articles 135, 140, 258, and 259 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, in the presence of reporter Jan Zielono, whom I have instructed of the obligation to certify the compliance of the Protocol with the course of procedure by signing, heard the person named below as a witness. Having been advised of the criminal liability for making false declarations, the witness testified as follows:


Name and surname Stefania Wojdan
Parents’ names Stefan and Wiktoria
Date and place of birth 28 April 1889, in Kielce
Religious affiliation Roman Catholic
Occupation home worker
Place of residence Kielce, Karczówkowska Street 18

Regarding the present case, I have the following knowledge. In 1943, on the morning of 14 October, my husband was arrested by a Gestapo officer in the flat at Karczówkowska Street and immediately taken to the prison in Kielce, where he stayed until 19 December 1943. [Germany] accused him that he belonged to an underground communist organization, and as a result he was badly beaten by the Gestapo. I don’t know the name of any of the Gestapo men who beat and abused him; I don’t know them and I cannot describe them.

On 19 December, my husband was transported from the prison in Kielce to Auschwitz, and in January 1944, I don’t remember the [exact] date, posters were hung up that the sentence had been carried out. After some time, I learned that my husband was burned in the crematorium.

As for my son, Stanisław Wojdan, I explain that he was arrested on 19 October 1943 and transported to the Pawiak prison in Warsaw. He spent a month there and was released for a large ransom because the organization was trying to get him.

In 1944, he was murdered by the Gestapo on All Souls’ Day. That day, they were going to work in Radom, but in the woods near Przysucha [their] car stopped because the military police detained him, because he was betrayed by a man named Karłowski; I don’t know his first name. Forty men were murdered there, my son among them.

I conclude my testimony and signed it after it was read out to me.