Zygmunt Klukowski • 18 februari 1940

• Zygmunt Klukowski (1885-1959) was hoofdarts in een klein Pools ziekenhuis. Hij hield gedurende de oorlog een dagboek bij, dat in 1959 werd gepubliceerd.

February 18, 1940
I met a woman, an official of the Zamoyski estate. She had just arrived from Chelmo. For some time I've been receiving alarming information about the execution of the mentally ill patients of the psychiatric ward at Chelmo Hospital. I asked her if this happened. She verified that it was true.
All the mentally ill were shot with machine guns, but under penalty of death the hospital personnel are forbidden to talk about this crime.
It is so hard to believe anything as terrible as this.