On 9 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, 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, she testified as follows:
| Name and surname | Irena Żur |
| Date and place of birth | 4 August 1935, Waniewo |
| Parents’ names | Stanisław and Władysława |
| Place of residence | Łapy, Manifestu Lipcowego Street 138 |
| Occupation | preschool employee |
| Criminal record | none |
| Relationship to the parties | daughter of the murdered |
During the Hitlerite occupation I lived with my parents and siblings in the settlement outside the village of Waniewo. I do not recall the date, but it could have been in the autumn of 1943. One night, the German gendarmes from Tykocin encircled the buildings belonging to my parents. They barged into our house and first took my father, leading him out into the yard. They asked him if he was sheltering Jews.
As soon as they led our father into the yard, they shot him. A moment later they drove all of us outside. They shot my father practically in front of us. I remember how when I stepped into the yard [I saw] my father lying there, dead.
The Germans set on fire the farm buildings belonging to my parents. I watched them tie up my mother and throw her onto the horse wagon; they then drove her to Tykocin. I later heard that the gendarmes were planning to shoot us as well, but asked the neighbors if they would take care of us. Since the neighbors agreed, they left us in their care. There were five of us siblings. Nothing is left of the buildings now.
My mother was murdered by the gendarmes after she was taken to Tykocin. Where my parents are buried I do not know, but I heard that my father was buried on the scene and later at the cemetery in Waniewo, and my mother, allegedly, in Tykocin.
After our parents were murdered by the Germans we were taken care of by strangers and distant relatives.
I’ve heard that my parents were sheltering Jews and that’s the reason they were murdered.