ZOFIA KOZŁOWSKA

Warsaw, 7 March 1950. Trainee Judge Irena Skonieczna, acting as a member of the Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland, interviewed the person named below, who testified as follows:


Forename and surname Kozłowska Zofia, née Grudna
Age and place of birth 54 years old, Góra, Płock county
Names of parents Grzegorz and Marianna, née Pietrzak
State affiliation Polish
Religious affiliation Roman Catholic
Education 5 grades at elementary school
Occupation domestic help
Place of residence Grochowska Street 106, flat 7
Criminal record none

Throughout the Warsaw Uprising I stayed in the house at Grochowska Street 106. I did not see any insurgents in our area. In the main, German SS-men occupied the schools in our area that is to say at Kordeckiego and Boremlowska streets. People were allowed to walk [the streets] only until 6.00 p.m.. After this hour, SS patrols roamed the city. I heard that they often beat up those whom they stumbled upon after curfew.

I have heard nothing about any crimes, including murders, committed by the Germans in this area during the Uprising. However, I did hear that closer to Warsaw, in the vicinity of Podskarbińska Street, it was not so peaceful.

Around 25 August 1944, a few days before the Soviet army entered Grochów, the Germans took all of the men from the area between Gocławek and Szembeka square. I watched through the gate how masses of men were marched that day, also from the area of Gocławek. They were deported to Germany. The majority of the men from our house who had been taken at the time returned after the Uprising.

At this point the report was concluded and read out.