Maria was disliked in the village, hence Krystyna Samsonowska's suspicion that she might have been a victim of a denunciation or an accidental deconspiracy on behalf of one of her neighbors, who were in conflict with her.
The mother and her son were visiting her brother in Maleszyn, while the two older girls were under the care of their neighbours.
The execution that took place on her farm, however, terrified the villagers to such an extent that nobody agreed to accept the endangered family under their roof.
After a night spent in the village mayor's house, Maria and her son were taken to the gendarmerie headquarters at the Pilica Castle.
[1][2] The Germans subjected her to a brutal interrogation[3], Maria's three-year-old son Peter was tortured in front of her eyes.