ZOFIA SZPIKOWSKA

Warsaw, 7 February 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:


Name and surname Zofia Szpikowska, née Osiak
Date and place of birth 18 October 1884, Gąska, Lublin Voivodeship
Parents’ names Aleksander and Maria, née Radzyńska
Father’s occupation farmer
Citizenship and nationality Polish
Religion Roman Catholic
Education 4 classes of elementary school
Occupation blue-collar worker
Place of residence Warsaw, Zgoda Street 9, flat 24
Criminal record none

When the Warsaw Uprising broke out, I was in my house at Zgoda Street 9. Our area was occupied by the insurgents right up until the day of the capitulation of the Uprising (I don’t remember the exact date). On 6 October 1944 Germans entered our house. Some of the residents of our house and of the neighboring buildings started to leave in the direction of Ursus and Włochy. I and a few other people from our house stayed until the following day. Initially the Germans said that the elderly would be allowed to remain in their flats, but on the morning of the next day, 7 October, they ordered everyone to leave. They drove us on foot out of Warsaw, to Ursus, from where we were transported by train to various parts of Poland. I ended up in Kielce.

I did not hear about any crimes being committed by the Germans in our area.

At this point the report was brought to a close and read out.