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

Main Page Search phrase: [Event Date = 1939.10.16 - 1941.05.31]

Witness (date and place of birth)
- Anonymous (66)
  
  Szulc C. (42)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (14)
  
  Sobierajska Irena (10)
  
  Steinhauf Renata (7)
  
  Deja Stanisław; 23.04.1907, Kowala (6)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (6)
  
  Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (6)
  
  Nowiński (6)
  
  Szelest Kazimierz; 25.03.1917, Kraków (6)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (5)
  
  Lewicki W. (5)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 27.01.1913, Warsaw (5)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (4)
  
  Marcinkiewicz Stefan (4)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (4)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (4)
  
  Rajewski Ludwik; 16.12.1900, Łódź (4)
  
  Russanowska B. (4)
  
  Sendler Irena; 15.02.1910, Warszawa (4)
  
  Łącki Mikołaj; 30.10.1888, Loyew (Belarus) (4)
  
  Barzał Czesław; 09.10.1915, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Blinstrub Aniela; 1892? (3)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Czardybon Bernard; 18.06.1901, Chorzów (3)
  
  Duda Konrad; 02.02.1914, Wartogłowiec (Tychy) (3)
  
  Koczorowski Józef; 01.02.1919, Poznań (3)
  
  Konferowicz Wacław; 13.05.1912, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Krokowski Jan; 08.05.1921, Nowy Sącz (3)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (3)
  
  Lorentz Stanisław; 28.04.1899, Radom (3)
  
  Maliszewski Stefan; 23.05.1912, Warsaw (3)
  
  Maławska-Primas Hanna (3)
  
  Piegat Stanisław; 26.09.1891 (3)
  
  Plaskura Józef; 23.01.1911, Brzeszcze (3)
  
  Plaskura Władysław; 10.05.1905, Łazy (Orłowa, Czech Republic) (3)
  
  Rżewski Władysław, 07.01.1894 (3)
  
  Staszkiewicz Bronisław; 18.07.1921, Żywiec (3)
  
  Strynkowski Józef; 23.02.1891, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Szyszko-Bohusz Adolf; 19.08.1883, Narva (Estonia) (3)
  
  Taul Roman; 28.02.1917, Bytom (3)
  
  Wrona Edward; 13.10.1913, Tuchów (3)
  
  Apolińska Zofia; 1893?, Zambrów (2)
  
  Ast Jadwiga; 24.01.1923, Żarnowiec (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Bartoszko Kazimierz; 09.10.1898 (2)
  
  Bas Ludwik; 18.12.1912, Kraków (2)
  
  Bicz Bolesław; 01.04.1889, Sporysz (Bielsk county) (2)
  
  Bida Władysław; 1886? (2)
  
  Biejat Edmund; 1891? (2)
  
  Bochenek Marta; 19.09.1892 (2)
  
  Boratyński Stefan (Kluska); 13.06.1917, Kraków (2)
  
  Borkowski Stefan (2)
  
  Bryński Antoni; 18.01.1899, Radom (2)
  
  Brzoskowski Jan (2)
  
  Bąk Michał; 1903? (2)
  
  Chwistek Barbara (2)
  
  Ciopińska Anna (2)
  
  Cyba Eugeniusz; 07.12.1921, Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Czerwonka Władysław; 22.12.1899, Mucisko (2)
  
  Dubiel Stanisław; 13.11.1910, Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Dudek Władysław; 16.06.1920, Radogoszcz (2)
  
  Dudek Władysław; 1920? (2)
  
  Dąbkowska Wiktoria, 1878? (2)
  
  Dąbrowski Jan (2)
  
  Dąbski Stefan; 26.12.1919, Joanin (2)
  
  Estreicher Karol; 1905? (2)
  
  Filipak Olga (2)
  
  Gitler-Barski Józef; 03.03.1898, Warsaw (2)
  
  Gliński Bogdan; 08.12.1921, Sancygniów (2)
  
  Gotkowska Halina, 1927? (2)
  
  Grabowski Stanisław; 14.05.1900, Grądziki (Ostrów Mazowiecka county) (2)
  
  Grzesiński Marian (2)
  
  Głowiak Stanisław; 10.02.1903, Podzwierzyniec (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Głuszak Józef; 27.10.1913, Koszyce Małe (2)
  
  Herbich Kazimierz; 29.03.1894 (2)
  
  Hys Stanisław; 19.07.1910, Sobolew (mazowieckie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Janikowski Jan Bronisław; 14.05.1888, Warsaw (2)
  
  Jasińska Zofia (2)
  
  Jaworski Józef; 23.09.1882 Wierzbica (Radom county) (2)
  
  Kamińska Apolonia (2)
  
  Kapała Stefan (2)
  
  Karcz Jan; 27.08.1915, Skalbmierz (2)
  
  Karczewska-Bełczowska Barbara; 1930; Warsaw (2)
  
  Karpiński Zdzisław; 18.09.1920, Ostrów Mazowiecka (2)
  
  Kaszyński Jan; 19.11.1920, Warsaw (2)
  
  Kazimierski Franciszek; 14.04.1908, Różan (2)
  
  Kiczmachowski Edward; 29.07.1920, Strasburg (2)
  
  Kipa Emil Józef; 17.03.1886, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Kocięcki Józef; 21.12.1899 (2)
  
  Kocięcki Józef; 21.12.1900 (2)
  
  Kopeć Maria; 14.08.1919, Puławy (2)
  
  Kopta Marian; 08.12.1911, Kraków (2)
  
  Korecki Stanisław; 06.03.1914, Wola Gręboszowska (2)
  
  Kot Franciszek; 20.01.1904, Kosewo (Ostrów Mazowiecka county) (2)
  
  Kotlarski Mieczysław; 09.10.1913, Osieczna (wielkopolskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Kowalczyk Józef (2)
  
  Koziar Jan (2)
  
  Kołodziejczyk Aleksander; 21.01.1914, Kraków (2)
  
  Krupka Stanisław; 22.04.1900, Zimna (podlaskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Kucharski Teofil; 06.02.1889, Jaszczew (2)
  
  Kullanda Henryk (1)
Subject
- The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (481)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (332)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (258)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (244)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (203)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (200)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (195)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (153)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (124)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (123)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (119)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (115)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (114)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (110)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (108)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (107)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (105)
  
  In exile – Siberia (104)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (100)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (99)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (98)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (93)
  
  In exile – Ural (75)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (72)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (62)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (59)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (59)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (58)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (56)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (54)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (54)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (46)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (44)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (43)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (42)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (39)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Pomerania (38)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (38)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (36)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (36)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (35)
  
  The city condemned to death (33)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (32)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (32)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (32)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Lublin region (31)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (31)
  
  Firlej near Radom – the training ground of death (28)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (28)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (28)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (26)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (26)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (25)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (24)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (20)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (20)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (20)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Warsaw (19)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (19)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (19)
  
  Radom – daily terror (17)
  
  Wawer Massacre '39 (17)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (16)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (16)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (15)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (15)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Kraków (15)
  
  The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews (14)
  
  The persecuted church (14)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (13)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (13)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Lesser Poland (12)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Upper Silesia (12)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (12)
  
  Prisoners of war – transit camps in Kielce (12)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (11)
  
  The Free City of Danzig – erasing Polishness (11)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (11)
  
  Taken Captive (10)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Volhynia (9)
  
  Poles who saved Jews in the Kielce region (9)
  
  The Polish Righteous Among the Nations (9)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Warsaw (8)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (8)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (8)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Podlasie region (8)
  
  Soviets in German captivity (8)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (7)
  
  Lebensborn – the Germanization of Polish children (7)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (7)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Częstochowa region (7)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Łódź region (7)
  
  Terror in the "incorporated lands" – the Łódź region (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Republic of Mordovia (7)
  
  A mass extermination – KL Flossenbürg (6)
  
  Clandestine teaching classes – Volhynia (6)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Wilno region (6)
  
  In exile – Mari El Republic (6)
  
  In revenge for assisting “Hubal” – reprisal campaigns (6)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (6)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (394)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (345)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (342)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (302)
  
  Warsaw (242)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (240)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (220)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (197)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (196)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (190)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (188)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (184)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (169)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (167)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (161)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (154)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (135)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (134)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (111)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (98)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (96)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (91)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (89)
  
  Siedlce (87)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (79)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (79)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (77)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (77)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (76)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (76)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (76)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (76)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (75)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (73)
  
  Kielce (73)
  
  Lublin (73)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (72)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (71)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (70)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (70)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (69)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (67)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (65)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (65)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (63)
  
  Kraków (62)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (61)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (60)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (59)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (57)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka (56)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (56)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (56)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (54)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (51)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (50)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (50)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (50)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (49)
  
  Radom (48)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (48)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (48)
  
  Białystok (47)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (47)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (47)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (46)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (46)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (46)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (45)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (44)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (44)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (44)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (44)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (44)
  
  KL Majdanek (43)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (43)
  
  Ostashkov (Russia, Tver Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (43)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (42)
  
  Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia) (41)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (41)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (41)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (40)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (40)
  
  Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (40)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (40)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (39)
  
  Przemyśl (39)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (39)
  
  Tehran (Iran) (38)
  
  Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (38)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (37)
  
  Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (37)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (37)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (37)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (36)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (36)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (35)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (34)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (34)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (34)
Victims
- The Poles (5041)
  
  Civilians (4418)
  
  The Civilian Population (4099)
  
  Children (1851)
  
  Women (1693)
  
  The Jews (1477)
  
  The Inteligentsia (1253)
  
  Prisoners of War (976)
  
  Deportees (850)
  
  The sick (746)
  
  The Sick (715)
  
  Ukrainians (713)
  
  Russians/Soviets (673)
  
  The Russians (589)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (502)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (476)
  
  The elderly (416)
  
  The Elderly (399)
  
  Policemen (381)
  
  Belarusians (374)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (322)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (211)
  
  The Church (188)
  
  Internees (159)
  
  Germans (125)
  
  Border Guard (102)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (102)
  
  Lithuanians (84)
  
  Landowners (79)
  
  Border Protection Corps (66)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (66)
  
  Czechs (64)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (58)
  
  Hungarians (53)
  
  The French (45)
  
  Latvians (33)
  
  The Dutch (32)
  
  The Communists (31)
  
  The Disabled (29)
  
  Slovaks (28)
  
  Greeks (26)
  
  Estonians (25)
  
  Romanians (22)
  
  Belgians (20)
  
  Americans (13)
  
  Prison Guard (11)
  
  The British (11)
  
  Italians (10)
  
  Norwegians (7)
  
  the Chinese (7)
  
  Finns (6)
  
  Scouts (3)
  
  Georgians (2)
  
  Serbs (2)
Perpetrators
- SS (643)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (641)
  
  Red Army (448)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (345)
  
  Collaboration (336)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (250)
  
  Denunciation (223)
  
  Soviet Militia (214)
  
  Military Police (182)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (117)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (92)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (76)
  
  Lithuanians (75)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (60)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (59)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (49)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (38)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (26)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (20)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (18)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (18)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (17)
  
  Latvians (16)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (16)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (15)
  
  Collaborators (11)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (11)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (9)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (8)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (7)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (6)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (5)
  
  Security Office (5)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (5)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (4)
  
  Waffen-SS (4)
  
  Administrative Police (3)
  
  Postal Protection (3)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (3)
  
  Assault Units (Sturmabteilung, SA) (1)
  
  The Navy of Nazi Germany (Kriegsmarine) (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (3120)
  
  Biological extermination (2569)
  
  Arrest (2484)
  
  Beating (1645)
  
  Execution (1596)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (1511)
  
  Deportation/Exile (1449)
  
  Death by shooting (1330)
  
  Deportation (877)
  
  Robbery (716)
  
  Cattle wagons (652)
  
  Judicial crime (614)
  
  Punishment cell (601)
  
  Mass graves (395)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (385)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (377)
  
  Round-up (349)
  
  Denationalization (331)
  
  Disarmament (328)
  
  Cremation of corpses (284)
  
  Cremation (275)
  
  Economic exploitation (260)
  
  Gas chambers (239)
  
  Displacement (231)
  
  Hanging (223)
  
  Air raids (211)
  
  Expulsion (206)
  
  Roads of death (183)
  
  Administrative persecution (156)
  
  Racial policy (142)
  
  Burning people alive (128)
  
  Medical experiments (88)
  
  Sovietization (88)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (82)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (73)
  
  "Dosing" (66)
  
  Desacration of corpses (66)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (57)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (56)
  
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  obliterating the traces (99)
  
  Civil resistance (95)
  
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  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (73)
  
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  Students' Army Corps (19)
  
  Called by name (17)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (17)
  
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  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (15)
  
  Free City of Danzig (15)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (15)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (15)
  
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  the Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (9)
  
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  Pabst Plan (Pabst-Plan) (7)
  
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  Aktion T4 (4)
  
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  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (188)
  
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  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland. Research and investigative files (15)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland 1949–1984 (14)
  
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  Provincial Office of Internal Affairs in Katowice (11)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation – Institute of National Remembrance in Białystok (10)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Gdańsk (9)
  
  Inspectorate of Schools in Radom (9)
  
  District Court in Łomża 1945–1950 (8)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków (8)
  
  Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Special Criminal Court in Warsaw. Agency in Białystok (7)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Warsaw (6)
  
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  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes – Institute of National Remembrance in Białystok (4)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Gdańsk 1945–1949 (3)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Białystok (3)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (2)
  
  Magistrates’ Court in Bydgoszcz (2)
  
  Provincial Office of Internal Affairs in Wrocław [1945] 1983–1990 (2)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland. Research and investigative files; Polish Military Mission (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes – Institute of National Remembrance in Kraków (1)
  
  Office of the District Authorities in Ostrów Mazowiecka (1)
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