Zosia was the daughter of Maria and Leonard Zajdel. She lived with her parents in a one-room apartment in Łódź. Leonard worked as a chauffeur, but when he died unexpectedly and Maria was left alone with the debts. The problems she found herself in made her decide to commit the worst possible crime.
The whole country talked about Zosia’s death. Initially, the police thought that the girl had run away from home
On January 28, 1939, Maria Zajdel reported the disappearance of her 12-year-old daughter Zosia at the police station. She claimed that she left the house for 45 minutes and when she returned, the child was gone. The officers assumed that Zosia could have run away from home, but after a few days the girl’s mother came to the police station again. She showed an anonymous letter in which the author suggested that Zosia was dead. When the police arrived at the Zajdel house, the neighbors shed new light on the case. It turned out that Maria was neglecting the child and believed that because of Zosia she could not arrange her life again. The officers’ attention was drawn to notes found in Maria’s house. The handwriting was similar to what they had seen on the anonymous letter.
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She threw her daughter’s body into a hole in the outhouse. “I heard a splash”
The area around the Zajdel house was searched, as well as the outhouse used by the residents. Inside they made a gruesome discovery. There was the body of a 12-year-old girl. It turned out that Zosia had been hit on the head with a blunt instrument and strangled, but this was not the cause of death. She died from poisoning by gases from human excrement. Maria Zajdel confessed to the crime when the police found the murder weapon – a hammer – in the apartment. She said that her teeth hurt that day and the girl’s crying only disturbed her. So she grabbed a hammer and hit the baby on the head and then started choking him. When she saw that Zosia wasn’t moving, she got scared. — I wanted to remove it at all costs. There was a bag lying there. I put the body in it. (…) I saw the toilet door open. I went in there. I rested the bag. But it came to my mind. I heard a splash. I ran away as quickly as possible without looking back. I didn’t know what happened. I couldn’t sleep until the morning – . Maria Zajdel was sent to a psychiatric facility in Tworki, and later transferred to a prison in Bydgoszcz. In 1939, with the order to release all women prisoners, Zajdlowa disappeared.
Source: Gazeta
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