„Chronicles of Terror”. Base of testimonies of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor

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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Rżewski Władysław, 07.01.1894 (3)
  
  Głowa Stanisław; 15.09.1898, Igołomia (2)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (2)
  
  Kowalczyk Janina; 10.03.1907, Golkowice (2)
  
  Olbrycht Jan; 06.05.1886, Zahutyń (2)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 27.01.1913, Warsaw (2)
  
  Rajewski Ludwik; 16.12.1900, Łódź (2)
  
  Rżewski Władysław; 1894? (2)
  
  Anonymous (1)
  
  Bergson Mieczysław; 14.12.1911, Ciechanów (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Blumenfeld Abus; 20.07.1907, Klimontów (1)
  
  Bohosiewicz Mieczysław; 1896.12.04, Bobowce (1)
  
  Bohosiewicz Mieczysław; 1897? (1)
  
  Brakier Moniek; 23.12.1920, Białystok (1)
  
  Brandhuber Jerzy; 23.10.1897, Kraków (1)
  
  Cendrowski Feliks; 27.11.1913, Warsaw (1)
  
  Chomentowski Bohdan; 08.03.1916, Warsaw (1)
  
  Cunder Milan; 1908? (1)
  
  Cygler Ruchla; 08.02.1909, Tomaszów (1)
  
  Czech Jerzy (1)
  
  Dawidowski Roman, 1884? (1)
  
  Dubicki Bogusław; 1910? (1)
  
  Dworakowski Bolesław; 18.02.1895, Dworaki-Staśki (1)
  
  Feinsilber Alter (Jankowski Stanisław); 23.10.1910, Stoczek Łukowski (1)
  
  Ferri Luigi; 09.09.1932, Mediolan (Italy) (1)
  
  Ferri Luigi; 09.09.1932, Mediolan (Włochy) (1)
  
  Filipowicz Teodor; 1891? (1)
  
  Frankiewicz Janina; 13.08.1912, Wieliczka (1)
  
  Gliński Bogdan; 08.12.1921, Sancygniów (1)
  
  Glogier Stanisław; 1905? (1)
  
  Glogier Zygmunt; 1898? (1)
  
  Gomziuk Witold; 1913? (1)
  
  Gordon Jakub; 30.06.1910, Wilno (now in Lithuania) (1)
  
  Gordon Jakub; 30.06.1910, Wilno (now: Lithuania) (1)
  
  Grzyb Apolonia; 01.05.1893, Uchanie (1)
  
  Grzyb Apolonia; 1897? (1)
  
  Gutman Simon; 1923? (1)
  
  Gwiazdomorski Jan; 04.02.1899, Kraków (1)
  
  Gwiazdomorski Jan; 1898? (1)
  
  Górka Lucjan; 13.12.1884, Nowy Sącz (1)
  
  Głowacki Czesław; 1921? (1)
  
  Głuch Henryk; 12.07.1896, Jaworzno (1)
  
  Halbreich Zygfryd; 13.11.1909, Dziedzice (śląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Hoffman Józef (1)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (1)
  
  Hönings Paul; 1902? (1)
  
  Iczkovitz Estera; 16.01.1904 (1)
  
  Iczkovitz Estera; 16.01.1905 (1)
  
  Janssens Jean; 30.03.1904 Ougrée (Belgium) (1)
  
  Jarosiński Edward; 1904?, Wołów (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Jaszczyński Czesław; 12.07.1913, Bochnia (1)
  
  Jaszczyński Roman; 05.04.1918, Bochnia (1)
  
  Juraszek Rozalia; 1910, Milewo (1)
  
  Juraszek Rozalia; 1911? (1)
  
  Kaczyńska Franciszka; 1904? (1)
  
  Karcz Jan; 27.08.1915, Skalbmierz (1)
  
  Kask Roman; 08.06.1908, Warszawa (1)
  
  Kazimierz Żelis; Orło (Russia), 18.12.1921 (1)
  
  Kinel Stefan; 20.12.1912 (1)
  
  Klamdel Jadwiga; 1912? (1)
  
  Klinger Jakub; 22.09.1920, Strusów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Klinger Jakub; 22.09.1920, Strusów (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Kocięcki Stanisław; 06.03.1914, Wola Gręboszowska (1)
  
  Koczorowski Józef; 01.02.1919, Poznań (1)
  
  Koczyńska Jadwiga; 11.09.1909, Vienna (Austria) (1)
  
  Kopta Marian; 08.12.1911, Kraków (1)
  
  Korecki Stanisław; 06.03.1914, Wola Gręboszowska (1)
  
  Kowalczyk Janina; 1907? (1)
  
  Kozak Jan; 1902? (1)
  
  Kołodziejczyk Aleksander; 21.01.1914, Kraków (1)
  
  Krakowiak Ryszard; 1923? (1)
  
  Kraus Otto; 07.09.1909, Klášterní Skalice (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Krokowski Jan; 08.05.1921, Nowy Sącz (1)
  
  Krzetuski Artur; 08.11.1897, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Krzetuski Artur; 08.11.1897, Lwów (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Krzywda-Pogorzelski Jan Wiktor; 8.03.1904, Iłża (1)
  
  Krzywicki Janusz; 15.09.1907, Warsaw (1)
  
  Kuhlemann Hermann; 22.10.1908, Barntrup (Germany) (1)
  
  Kulawik Franciszek; 28.03.1898, Bydlin (1)
  
  Kulka Erich; 18.02.1911, Vsetín (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Kumala Kazimierz; 22.04.1909, Kraków (1)
  
  Kupferminc Chana; 10.08.1914, Przedbórz (1)
  
  Kwiatkowski Mikołaj; 1.05.1906; Gródek (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 04.05.1918, Kraków (1)
  
  Lang Jerzy Julian; 15.10.1897, Warsaw (1)
  
  Lang Julian, 15.10.1897, Warsaw (1)
  
  Lang Julian, 15.10.1897, Warszawa (1)
  
  Lehr-Soławiński Tadeusz; 1890? (1)
  
  Lewin Jakub; 13.04.1903, Warsaw (1)
  
  Lewin Jakub; 1903? (1)
  
  Lipiński Edward (1)
  
  Litwink Jerzy Bernard; 19.08.1919, Warszawa (1)
  
  Lubicz Jerzy; 25.05.1914, Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (1)
  
  Ludwig Józef Paweł, 1910? (1)
  
  Ludwig Józef Paweł; 03.07.1910, Sosnowiec (1)
  
  Mandelbaum Izrael; 16.11.1913, Lublin (1)
  
  Markowski Stefan; 17.06.1911, Maciejowice (1)
  
  Mazanek Stefan; 1895 (1)
  
  Mańkowski Augustyn; 20.05.1890, Warsaw (1)
  
  Maślanko Mieczysław; 07.09.1903, Warsaw (1)
Subject
- Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (43)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (29)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (17)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (14)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Sachsenhausen (8)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (8)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (6)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (6)
  
  The persecuted church (6)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (6)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (5)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (4)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (4)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (4)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (4)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (4)
  
  A mass extermination – KL Flossenbürg (3)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (3)
  
  Radom bathed in blood – the prison in the former convent buildings (3)
  
  Radom – daily terror (3)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (3)
  
  Browar, Czerwoniak – the Ostrów death blocks (2)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Ravensbrück branch in KL Malchow (2)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Flossenbürg (2)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Neuengamme (2)
  
  Soldier's House, Fort VII, Żabikowo – the trail of death in Greater Poland (2)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (2)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Lesser Poland (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (1)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (1)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Dachau (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (1)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (1)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Łódź region (1)
  
  The Free City of Danzig – erasing Polishness (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Białystok Ghetto (1)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (149)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (96)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (67)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (66)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (60)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (51)
  
  Bochnia, train station (48)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (48)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (40)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (35)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (33)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (28)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (26)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (19)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (19)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (16)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (15)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (15)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (12)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (12)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (12)
  
  Kraków (12)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (10)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (10)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (10)
  
  Łódź (10)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (9)
  
  KL Majdanek (9)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (9)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (8)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (7)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (7)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (7)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (7)
  
  Warsaw (7)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (7)
  
  Bydgoszcz (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (6)
  
  KL Neuengamme (Germany) (6)
  
  Mechelen (Belgium), transit camp (6)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (6)
  
  Radom, Gestapo headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (6)
  
  Radom, prison (benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (6)
  
  Schwerin (Germany) (6)
  
  Brussels (Belgium) (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (5)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (5)
  
  KL Malchow (KL Ravensbrück subcamp, Germany) (5)
  
  Lublin (5)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (5)
  
  Zamość, resettlement camp, Okrzei Street (5)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (4)
  
  Jawiszowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (4)
  
  KL Barth (subcamp of KL Ravensbrück, Germany) (4)
  
  Radom, Gestapo Headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (4)
  
  Brzeszcze (3)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (3)
  
  Hamburg (Germany) (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, SS-Stabsgebaude (3)
  
  Kraków, Collegium Novum of the Jagiellonian University, Gołębia Street 24 (3)
  
  Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 (3)
  
  Nowy Sącz, correctional facility and temporary remand prison, Pijarska Street 1 (3)
  
  Nowy Wiśnicz (3)
  
  Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  Rajsko (Oświęcim district) (3)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (3)
  
  Uchanie (3)
  
  Wrocław (3)
  
  Wrocław, prison, Kleczkowska Street 35 (3)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz I (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Bełżec, German extermination camp (2)
  
  Compiègne (France), transit camp (2)
  
  Częstochowa (2)
  
  Dresden (Germany) (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (2)
  
  Jaworzno, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Lagerhaus (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (2)
  
  KL Fort VII Posen (2)
  
  KL Mittelbau-Dora (Germany) (2)
  
  KL Soldau (2)
  
  Kielce (2)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Lübeck (Germany) (2)
  
  Majdanek, German extermination camp (2)
  
  Międzybrodzie Bialskie, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Nowy Sącz (2)
  
  Nowy Wiśnicz, forced labor camp (2)
  
  Opatów, Słowackiego Street 1 (2)
  
  Palmiry (2)
  
  Paris (France) (2)
  
  Poznań (2)
  
  Pszczyna (2)
  
  Radom (2)
  
  Siemianowice Śląskie, Laurahütte industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Sosnowiec (Śląskie Voivodeship) (2)
Victims
- Civilians (169)
  
  The Civilian Population (166)
  
  The Poles (164)
  
  Women (95)
  
  The Jews (89)
  
  The Inteligentsia (79)
  
  The sick (61)
  
  The Sick (60)
  
  Children (56)
  
  Russians/Soviets (49)
  
  The Russians (48)
  
  Prisoners of War (39)
  
  The elderly (32)
  
  The Elderly (32)
  
  Germans (27)
  
  The French (24)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (24)
  
  Czechs (21)
  
  Hungarians (21)
  
  Belgians (20)
  
  The Church (18)
  
  The Communists (15)
  
  Greeks (14)
  
  Slovaks (14)
  
  The Dutch (12)
  
  The Disabled (8)
  
  Italians (5)
  
  Ukrainians (4)
  
  Americans (3)
  
  Norwegians (3)
  
  The British (3)
  
  Romanians (2)
  
  Belarusians (1)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (135)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (55)
  
  Collaboration (18)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (12)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (10)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (10)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (9)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (5)
  
  Military Police (4)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (3)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (3)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (3)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (2)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (2)
  
  Latvians (2)
  
  Waffen-SS (2)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (1)
  
  Red Army (1)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (1)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Beating (132)
  
  Forced labor (116)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (111)
  
  Arrest (106)
  
  Execution (106)
  
  Deportation (94)
  
  Biological extermination (93)
  
  Death by shooting (82)
  
  Gas chambers (74)
  
  Cremation (64)
  
  Cremation of corpses (64)
  
  Robbery (46)
  
  Hanging (44)
  
  Medical experiments (39)
  
  "Dosing" (26)
  
  Death marches (22)
  
  Cattle wagons (20)
  
  Economic exploitation (16)
  
  Mass graves (15)
  
  Racial policy (15)
  
  Burning people alive (12)
  
  Desacration of corpses (12)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (12)
  
  Displacement (12)
  
  Expulsion (12)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (12)
  
  Round-up (12)
  
  Administrative persecution (11)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (10)
  
  Judicial crime (9)
  
  Rape (6)
  
  Germanization (5)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (5)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (4)
  
  Denationalization (3)
  
  Air raids (2)
  
  Armored weapons (2)
  
  Artillery fire (1)
  
  Artillery shelling (1)
  
  Disarmament (1)
Place
- Concentration camp (133)
  
  Extermination camp (78)
  
  Prison (59)
  
  Police headquarters/station (28)
  
  Labor camp (27)
  
  Transit camp (14)
  
  Forced labor (10)
  
  Ghetto (9)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (4)
  
  Center for the Germanization of children (1)
Content
- Extermination of Jews (53)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (50)
  
  Health service (21)
  
  Obliterating the traces (16)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (16)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (16)
  
  obliterating the traces (15)
  
  Aktion Zamość (11)
  
  Civil resistance (11)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (9)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (8)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (5)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (5)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (5)
  
  Rescue of Jews (3)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (3)
  
  Underground courts (3)
  
  Underground culture and education (3)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (2)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (2)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (2)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (1)
  
  Aktion T4 (1)
  
  Central Welfare Council (1)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (1)
  
  Free City of Danzig (1)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (1)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (1)
  
  Judenrat (1)
  
  Polish culture in exile (1)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (156)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (8)
  
  Brief (3)
  
  Account (2)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (2)
  
  Book excerpt (1)
  
  Press clipping (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Supreme National Tribunal (121)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (12)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (7)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (6)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (4)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (3)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (2)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland. Research and investigative files (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes – Institute of National Remembrance in Kraków (1)
  
  District Court in Radom (1)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (1)
Medium
- Text (171)
  
  Image (28)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (143)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (31)