ANTONI BRZOZOWSKI

On 24 July 1947 in Staszów, the District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes with its seat in Radom, Branch Office in Staszów, Judge Albin Walkiewicz, an attorney in Staszów, interviewed the person mentioned hereunder as an unsworn witness. Having been advised of the criminal liability for making false declarations and of the wording or Article 107 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the witness testified as follows:


Name and surname Antoni Brzozowski
Age 52 years old
Parents’ names Eugeniusz and Marianna
Place of residence Staszów, Krakowska 23 Street
Occupation tax collector
Religious affiliation Roman Catholic
Criminal record none

During the German occupation, I was a janitor at the Municipal Board Office in Staszów; there was a jail in the courtyard of the building of the Municipal Board. In 1943, I saw a German gendarme from Opatów shoot dead Marian Poniedzielski from Staszów, while he was escorting the arrestee to jail, although Poniedzielski was calm. In my presence, another gendarme from Opatów shot dead Dorosiński from Rytwiany, also without a reason. In that courtyard, I saw the corpse of Dąbrowska, who had been shot dead (she was the wife of a Polish Army major, Jan Jastrząb from Golejów), and about 15 Jews, including two children – one little child was in its mother’s hands and one was about five years old. One of the Jews had been shot by a German called Lezner, a colonist from Sielec, Oględów Commune, Stopnica District. Lezner also took part in the killing of a resident of the Połaniec settlement whose name I cannot remember.

I saw weaker Jews being killed, while they were being displaced from Staszów; the streets of the town were full of corpses. I do not know anything else.