European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

My brother had this job in the intelligence.

Mainly he was about pursuing informers who might have harmed Poles.

My brother did not tell me what it looked like,

but I knew when he was directed to execute an informer with whom he was in touch through trading in the ghetto.

This informer, they said, was trading furs and the like.

Since the Jews were selling all their valuables.

That’s how my brother got in touch with him.

He needed to get closer to the informer, to talk to him, to stalk him and later shoot him.

So you needed these contacts, social ones or others.

He wanted this Marian Zieliński to come at a certain time and to a certain place so he could eliminate him.

Three of them went there. He lived at 69 Ogrodowa street.

Although it was my brother, and he seems to have been the commander of this group, they made a mess of it.

When this Zieliński opened the door they should have shot him and run away.

Without coming in and having a talk.

Jerzy drew his pistol and then Zieliński opened a drawer and drew his gun and fired at Jerzy.

The other mate of my brother’s was shot in the hand.

Instead of shooting back, one can do it with the other hand, this mate just turned round and rushed away.

Enraged, Zieliński saw Jerzy lying wounded or dead and ran downstairs, shooting at this mate.

That brought him to death, because the third man was standing in the gateway,

he was the smartest of them, this Andrzejczak.