Eugene Chimczak (born 1921) – UB officer, investigator, Stalinist criminal
Initially (as a lieutenant) he worked in Tomaszów Lubelski, later advanced to major and was transferred to Warsaw. Sources and accounts interviewed in Stalinist trials indicate that he was 1 of the cruelest investigators. He interrogated Tadeusz Płużański in an investigation related to Witold's group.
The service in the safety apparatus of the Polish People's Republic ended as Colonel on 15 June 1984.
In 1996, he was sentenced to 8 years in prison in Adam Humer's trial.
The Beast, sadist, man with the animal instinct of the killer – so on the Ubek torturer, Eugeniusz Chimczak, says Tadeusz M. Płużański, journalist, author of books on unaccounted for communist crimes: “Bestie”, “Bestie 2”, “Tenderers. Crimes without punishment’.
What do we know about the origin of Eugenius Chimczak? specified ubiquitous sadists frequently came from social lowlands and their careers were the consequence of fast promotion.
– Chimczak was born in 1921 in a tiny village of Steniatyn, Lublin Voivodeship. He came from a simple peasant family. And it was indeed that the communist, occupyive power provided him with fast social promotion. From the peasant to the "officer". This, of course, had nothing to do with the real officer's cut, as we know from the Second Republic, for example, preceded by appropriate education and qualifications, besides moral.
Chimczak was a primitive killer. But like another ubecs, he felt like a figure, master of life and death of prisoners. He was nobilitated by the fact that he could conduct the most crucial investigations against the enemies of the "people" state, "bandits", "spy". Like another safety companions, he most likely thought that their “dictation of the proletariat” would never end. That is why Chimczak in his beasthood felt impunityless, and then was very amazed that the III of Poland asked questions about his unfriendly past.
What kind of education did Chimczak have?
Little is known about this but that before 1939 he attended any school in Lviv. I say he didn't finish it. Besides, you didn't gotta have college to beat and torture. All I had to do was give it to the superiors from safety and the party, and of course the animal instinct of the killer.
When did Chimczak start working at UB?
His career began in December 1944 in the territory Public safety Office in Tomaszów Lubelski. He had to stand out for efficiency (sadism), since he was transferred to the Ministry of Public safety in Warsaw in September 1945.
He went through all stages of his career, starting with a simple interviewer, through the warden, all the way to Colonel SB. "Service" finished at the Warsaw MMA office in 1984. Thus, even Gomulkowska's “wet” did not harm him, while any of his colleagues from the UB, Stalin's prosecutors and the judiciary were, of course, cited as those who were “breaking socialist rule” and any were sentenced and served respective years of sentences. Like the heads of safety Józef Rozański (Goldberg) and Roman Romkowski (Natan Gruszpan Kikiel).
Chimczak has multiple victims in his account. You can't name them all. Which of them were the loudest?
Perhaps the most celebrated investigation in which he was active is simply a substance of the Witold Pilecki Group. Chimczak tortured the captain, as well as his co-workers, including my father, Tadeusz Płużański, a courier from Warsaw to the Italian Ancona, where they were stationed: II Corps of Polish Armed Forces in the West Gen. Anders.
Chimczak abused Pilecki and members of his “spy net” from the first moments after their arrest in May 1947. Part of the interrogation protocols with his signature have been preserved. This beginning of the “wash” at UB was 1 of the worst moments of almost a year's investigation, due to the fact that then the safety defender wanted to rapidly torture the detainees to break them. It took 2 or 3 days for them to bleed. Pilecki and his friends, however, were not broken. They only confirmed what the Ubecs already knew about them, and they knew a lot, due to the fact that about a year ago the group had been worked out by the impounders (Leszek Kuchciński) and the employees of MBP (Wacław Alchimowicz).
Recently appearing allegations that the rot master went on to cooperate and released his associates, are shameful and arise from ignorance of the subject and realities of those dark times. But specified accusations are not accidental. Their goal is to harm the memory of heroes of the fight for free Poland. The father of Radwański tennis players, who in 1 of the interviews stated that there is presently a conflict between the 3rd generation of AK and the 3rd generation of UB. The heirs of russian collaborators are seemingly afraid of changing power in Poland. Persecutors and their children, sometimes impersonating patriots and attempting, for example, to have Pilecki's person, are among us... The services, whose circular table provided abolition and soft landing in the alleged III RP, are actively active... I think that present we should take to heart the words of Józef Piłsudski, who warned: “In crises – I repeat – beware of agents. Go your own way, serving only Poland, loving only Poland and hating those who service strangers.”
Returning to Chimczak, another of his victims was Kazimierz Moczarski, the head of the BIP KG AK, who mentioned forty-nine ways of abuse of him by Ubeks. Most of these methods were utilized by Chimczak. What kind of torture was that? Beating all over the body where it will fall and what will fall, besides with various bats and rods, insults, including threats of deprivation of life of the arrested and his family, ripping out hair, besides from intimate parts of the body, burning them, pulling nails, planting the victim on the leg of a reversed stool.
Chimczak had an exceptionally bad reputation among the prisoners. His savagery was besides mentioned by his fellow ministry. 1 of them, a neighbour from Madalińskiego Street in Warsaw, Marian Krawczyński claimed that Chimczak was an exceptional bastard. Of course, Krawczyński could whitewash himself in this way, which does not change the fact that Chimczak raised widespread fear on Rakowiecka.
Did your father, Tadeusz Płużanski, mention Chimczak?
Although his father was interrogated by a full group of Ubek “followers”, he peculiarly remembered 2 degenerates: Józef Goldberg-Różański and Eugeniusz Chimczak. During the last “talk” Rosański told Dad: “You have 2 death sentences with me, nothing will save you. They will come, bring, far... those in the head and it will be a simple human death.” Ober-ubek's words later confirmed in the courtroom, which shows who actually gave the sentences. Rozański did so in consultation with Romkowski, Berman and Bierut. And any reasons indicate that Pilecki's destiny and co-workers were determined in Moscow – after all, there was a command center conquered by the Soviets by Poland.
And there are 2 another stories with Chimczak. Dad, after the perjured court sentenced him to a double death punishment (for espionage and for “the attempts at assassinations on leading MBP personalities” – these are the 2 paragraphs that Rosański spoke about) and spending 73 days on death row pending execution, was pardoned by the “President” Bierut. From the dense prison in Wronki he went free on a wave of “wet” 1956.
After having problem uncovering a occupation – as a political enemy he was watched at least until 1990 – he managed to complete philosophical studies (at 41 years of age). Then he did his PhD and habilitation. And then, in the '70s, he recognized Chimczak in the fresh World. For a minute he wondered what to do, but he wouldn't do anything. Years later, he told me: “I could spit in his face, but I did not. He didn't even deserve it." I think the fact that he was engulfed in Christian doctrine was a large influence on Dad’s attitude.
The second communicative is already post-circular Poland. In the 1990s, a alleged sleazy twelve – brutal safety investigators with Adam Humer and Eugeniusz Chimczak were brought to trial. Dad got an “invitation” to court – he was to attest as the main witness accusing Chimczak of bullying him in an investigation. However, erstwhile he saw media reports from the trial about how the victims were treated, he refused to come to court. He thought it was a mockery of justice. However, his evidence to the prosecutor was read earlier.
Are you kidding me? How were the witnesses treated?
Witnesses were treated “out of a shoe”, which is small better than the accused. The court was primarily curious in confirming the credibility of the witnesses. The justice questioned these aged people – abused in Stalinist prisons, and then vegetative in the Polish People's Republic as second-class citizens – whether they were surely imprisoned on Rakowiecka, why they were there. There were besides suggestions to them that they were compromising, confusing those who persecuted them and so on. In a word – ignorance and disrespect for those who have been oppressed for years, people. Dad didn't want to be a part of this charade.
It was besides possible to get the impression that the court gave religion to the defendants' testimony, their lie, that they were innocent as lambs, that they had not touched anyone with their finger, and had not heard of torture at all on the UB. Chimczak testified in court: “I have not seen any injuries on the body of the interrogated and have not heard of them. Yes, I was accused by Tadeusz Płużański of bullying him during interrogations, but they are lies, a political matter.”
I would like to stress that Chimczak, in addition to physical abuse, has exerted very severe intellectual pressure. During the next phase of the investigation, erstwhile Dad refused to testify, Chimczak said, “We know that you have a tough d... but in the cell next door is your wife, from whom we will compression everything out.” And indeed, Ubecki's "search" led Dad's wife – Stanisława Płużańska – to pre-agonist state. Thrown by murderers into the hole, she aborted, and they inactive told her to lie in a puddle of blood and feces of another prisoners. That's why Dad didn't want to talk besides much about the Mokotov investigation, it must have been besides painful for him.
However, about his stalkers – “officers” of investigators, judges and prosecutors, he said without a doubt: “The moral and political weakness of these people made them simply rags that could be wiped off all floor, even the dirtiest. Weakness is the scariest quality of character. Weak people are capable of any crime.”
Returning to Humer's trial, I have the impression that by placing a "sucking twelve" on the defendants' bench and very medially publicising this substance – unlike another processes of no little "deserved" Stalinists – the 3rd Republic of Poland wanted to show that it was a state of law, that it could account for the communist past. However, it is primarily appearances and propaganda.
Chimczak was a sadist, beat his victims, tormented them mentally. How much did he spend in prison for his crimes?
That's right, although the sentences of respective years in the Humer trial may seem high, most of these sadists did not go to jail for even 1 day. They immediately began sending medical certificates that they were besides old and sick to be punished. For example, Adam Humer was only on Rakowiecka for a moment. Here is simply a grim curiosity – I heard that any of the older prison officers referred to “the Colonel” with honors. They must have remembered their superior from the old days.
And Eugenius Chimczak, who besides got his own wellness records, lived for almost 20 years. He died last October and was buried at the Northern Cemetery in Warsaw.
I besides participated in this last earthly way of my father's torturer. After the ceremony, erstwhile I asked his wife, Stanisława Chimczak, if she realized what her husband was doing after the war, I heard: “If you ask specified questions, you must be the boy of any bandit, and we did order with them after the war.” These Ubek families, descendants of russian collaborators, inactive spit on Polish patriots. And as far as judging the Stalinist degenerates, we went back even to the times before 1956. But what is amazing is that communism in Poland was not even considered a criminal totalitarian system. If you don't call things by their first name, what's there to say about accounting...
