"Around 9 p.m., we heard loud commands and orders in the corridor. A moment later the door to cell 43, mine, opened, and I heard a loud voice say "Achtung!" All 37 of us stood at attention in two rows. Names were called out; those called were made to stand in the corridor with their faces to the wall. The rest of us were pale, nervous and unsure of what would happen next. A moment later, a short sentence was read in German and then translated into Polish: For hostile activities against the Germans, you have been sentenced to death by shooting. Afterwards the men were taken to cell 48 and the women to the second floor. The death cell rang out with the national anthem, hymns and military songs all night."
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Stanisław Piwiński, recalling prisoners at Rzeszów executed 27 June 1940 in the Lubzina forest near Dębica, in Destruction of the Polish Elite, p. 63
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