JAN BIAŁECKI

Turowice, 8 September 1947. I, Station Commissioner Ludwik Wodzinowski from the Citizens’ Militia station in Skórnice, acting under the provisions of Article 245 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, interviewed the person named below as a witness. The witness testified as follows:


Name and surname Jan Białecki
Parents’ names Walenty and Marianna, née Pet
Age 58
Occupation farmer
Religious affiliation Roman Catholic
Education none
Criminal record reportedly none
Place of residence Turowice, Czermno commune, Końskie district

In March 1943, together with the Włodarczyks from [the] Czermno commune, I was going to do the spring sowing with a quota of grain. When passing the house in the forest belonging to the gromada [administrative unit being a subdivision of commune (gmina)] of Skórnice, 50 m from the house of the Kopalnicz [?] family, we were arrested by the German gendarmerie, who checked our documents. After checking our documents, [the gendarmes] told us that two of us were to go to work – the Włodarczyks went on and I remained at the wagon, and I noticed them leading a Jewish man and three Jewish women from interrogation, from the forest; a moment later they killed them in the barn where there was a shelter. After a few minutes, they also killed the owner of the house, Olszewska, together with her daughter-in-law and two children, for sheltering Jews, which the Germans told us. After killing the people mentioned above, they set fire to the house as well as the barn and the cowshed, and they told us to go home.