JÓZEF MADEJ

QUESTIONNAIRE

about mass executions and mass graves

Location: Wiślica
Commune: Chotel
District: Pińczów
Voivodeship: Kielce

1. Date and place of execution:

12 June 1943 in Wiślica, plac Królowej Jadwigi.

2. Type of execution (shooting, hanging, etc.):

Shooting.

3. Information about those murdered:

Poles, Jews, foreigners: Poles.

Number of murdered people: 5.

Where were the victims brought from: From the pacification led by the gendarmerie

in Wiślica.

Names, age, occupation, addresses:

Adolf Kamiński, aged 18, shoemaker, Gorysławice

Tadeusz Borowski, aged 18, shoemaker, Wiślica

Henryk Hanc, aged 20, with parents, Wiślica

Ludwik Skołyszewski, aged 37, merchant, Skawina

Szymon Gluca, aged 47, merchant, Skawina

4. Do you know what the victims were accused of and whether the execution was a retaliatory order, etc.?

No.

5. Who carried out the execution (gendarmerie, Gestapo, SS, police, Wehrmacht)?

Gendarmes.

6. Do you know the names of the perpetrators (give the names)?

No.

7. Were the corpses burned or destroyed in any other way?

No.

8. Where were the corpses buried (the exact place)?

They were buried in the parish cemetery in Gorysławice.

9. Description of the grave (graves, measurements, presumable number of victims in one grave):

Individual graves.

10. Was there an exhumation, was it official (a report), where were the bodies buried?

No.

11. Are there grounds for ordering a later exhumation?

No.

On 19 October 1945 the contents of the above questionnaire were formally confirmed by the leader of the Chotel Commune, Józef Madej, in front of the Municipal Court in Pińczów.