QUESTIONNAIRE
on mass executions and mass graves
Township: the village of Polany
Commune: Zalesice
District: Radom
Voivodeship: Kielce
1. Date and place of execution:
August 1944 in a field in the village of Pomorzany.
2. Type of execution (by shooting, by hanging, etc.):
By shooting.
3. Personal data of the murdered victims:
Poles, Jews, foreigners: Gypsies.
Number of murdered victims: Ten people.
The victims were brought in from: Found in the forest during a raid by a patrol.
Surname, age, occupation, address: Unknown.
4. Is it known what the victims were accused of, whether the execution was carried out in retaliation, etc.?
Unknown.
5. Who carried out the execution (gendarmerie, Gestapo, SS, police, Wehrmacht)?
The gendarmerie.
6. Are the surnames of the perpetrators known (please provide the surnames)?
Unknown.
7. Were the corpses burned or destroyed in any other way?
Buried in a common grave.
8. Where were the corpses buried (exact location)?
In a forest of the Polany State Forest District, near the village of Pomorzany.
9. Description of the grave(s) (size, estimated number of victims buried in one grave):
A five-by-three-meter grave.
10. Was there an official exhumation? Were the corpses buried officially, and if so, where?
No.
11. Are there any grounds for exhumation in the future?
No.
On 20 November 1945, the contents of the above questionnaire were officially certified by Władysław Łukawski, the head of the Zalesice Commune, with the Municipal Court in Radom.