Stanisław Bąk
Class 4a
Niewachlów, 10 November 1946
The most memorable moment of the occupation
In July 1944, an accident happened near our house. My whole family worked in the field at the harvest. Suddenly I heard shots in the distance, maybe about 200 meters from the forest. I saw that a taxi had stopped on the road by the forester’s lodge. I saw one German collapse next to the taxi and two run away towards Kielce. The shooting stopped, the partisans fled.
Two hours later, five cars of the German gendarmerie arrived. The gendarmes entered the forest, while shooting. The partisans were gone. I thought that our buildings and the forester’s lodge, which were nearby, would be burnt down, but an hour later they left for Kielce, taking the deceased German with them.
The next day, the Germans arrived in a truck, brought five Poles, who were tied up, threw them out of the car and shot these five innocent people where the previous day the partisans had killed one German. When the gendarmes left, many people came running. Five innocent victims lay near the forest. They were buried in a common grave on the spot where the Germans had killed them.