The interview was recorded by the PILECKI INSTITUTE as part of the WITNESSES TO THE AGE project.
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Our today’s interviewee:
Jerzy Daniel (born 1942), a journalist, writer and expert on the Świętokrzyskie region. Before World War II, his father Władysław Daniel worked as a precision mechanic at the “Granat” factory. During the German occupation, he engaged in the underground resistance, most likely producing weapons parts for the Home Army. He was denounced to the Gestapo - the informer who did it was later sentenced to death and executed by the Polish Underground State. This, however, did not save Władysław Daniel from his tragic fate. Feeling that his time was coming to an end, he bought a beautiful rocking horse for his little son and gave it to him several days prior to Jerzy’s birthday. On the following day, the Germans came to take Władysław away. For a while, Jerzy’s mother was able to bring packages for Władysław to prison, but at one point the guards ceased to accept them. The family found out much later that Władysław Daniel was transported to Suchedniów and shot dead during a mass execution on 6 July 1944. Having lost all contact with her husband, Jerzy’s mother temporarily left her little son with her family near Tarnów. In April 1954, as she was travelling there to take him back home after the war, at the railway station in Katowice she heard an announcement about a train going to Suchedniów for an exhumation. Instead of continuing her journey to Kraków, she decided to go in the opposite direction and join the group going to the exhumation. During the process, she was forced to see horrific things - hundreds of bodies at different stages of decomposition being unearthed. She managed to recognize her husband. The remains of Władysław Daniel were transported along with four other bodies of identified men from Kielce and interred at the Kielce Partisan Cemetery. The remaining bodies were buried in a collective grave in Suchedniów. Jerzy Daniel does not remember his father - the image of Władysław Daniel in his head has been reconstructed with the help of the stories told by his mother and aunts.
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