“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)
- Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (3)
  
  Skowronek Władysław, 17.02.1907, Biskupie (lubelskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Brudkowska Aglaida; 19.10.1914, Żytomierz (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Brudkowska Aglaida; 19.10.1914, Żytomierz (now: Ukraine) (2)
  
  Bryński Antoni; 18.01.1899, Radom (2)
  
  Chrościcki Julian; 26.05.1892, Szymony (2)
  
  Cytron Tobiasz; 30.10.1908, Białystok (2)
  
  Denisow Piotr; 1894? (2)
  
  Franaszewski Hieronim; 30.09.1904, Warsaw (2)
  
  Goljan Stanisław; 1919? (2)
  
  Izbicki Michał; 05.02.1919, Janów (2)
  
  Jaworska Bogna; 28.04.1925, Blachownia (2)
  
  Lang Jerzy Julian; 15.10.1897, Warsaw (2)
  
  Nowak Jan; 23.09.1908, Kraków (2)
  
  Panasiewicz Adam; 23.03.1898, Krystynopol (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (2)
  
  Skowronek Władysław; 1908? (2)
  
  Wolken Otto; 27.04.1903, Vien (Austria) (2)
  
  Woźniak Jan; 27.06.1913, Warsaw (2)
  
  Zelent Stanisław; 1905, Brześć (now in Białoruś) (2)
  
  Znój Stanisław; 1918? (2)
  
  Adler Stanisław; 08.02.1901, Warsaw (1)
  
  Ajdelman Gania; 23.02.1924, Lubartów (lubelskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Anonymous (1)
  
  Babkus Ida; 23.06.1917, Białystok (1)
  
  Badowska Stanisława; 22.04.1908, Łódź (1)
  
  Bator Maria (1)
  
  Bednarska Jadwiga; 21.10.1920, Białystok (1)
  
  Bednarska Władysława (1)
  
  Bida Władysław; 1886? (1)
  
  Biernacka Stefania (1)
  
  Bilska Wanda (1)
  
  Blumenthal Nachman; 1901? (1)
  
  Bochenek Marta; 19.09.1892 (1)
  
  Bogdanowicz Marian; 15.08.1931, Łuków (1)
  
  Bojm Mojżesz; 1902? (1)
  
  Bojm Mojżesz; 1903? (1)
  
  Borysiuk Kazimierz; 05.10.1933, Pogorzelec (1)
  
  Bożek Michał (1)
  
  Brandt Janusz (1)
  
  Brandt Janusz; 1905? (1)
  
  Brewda Alina; 14.06.1905, Warsaw (1)
  
  Brewko Krystyna (1)
  
  Brunvoll Kirsten; 1898 (1)
  
  Bryński Antoni; 18.01.1899 (1)
  
  Brzezicka Stanisława; 27.05.1897, Lipa (1)
  
  Brzozowski Jan; 20.05.1891 (1)
  
  Brzozowski Jan; 20.05.1892 (1)
  
  Burski Bolesław; 01.09.1905, Warsaw (1)
  
  Błas Szloma; 1906? (1)
  
  Cegiełko Jerzy (1)
  
  Celmer Aleksandra; 1908? (1)
  
  Chmielewska Danuta (1)
  
  Chojnacka Pelagia; 09.09.1899, Pakość (1)
  
  Cieślak Karol; 22.04.1933, Łuków (1)
  
  Cypel Władysław; 25.05.1909, Warsaw (1)
  
  Cypel Władysław; 25.05.1909, Warszawa (1)
  
  Czajkowska Danuta; 04.08.1921, Pułtusk (1)
  
  Czertok Mejsza (1)
  
  Czuperska Anna; 10.07.1908, Bielcza (1)
  
  Dankowska Józefa; 1898? (1)
  
  Drabek Jaroslav; 06.04.1901, Chrudim (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Drabek Jaroslav; 1901? (1)
  
  Drabik Henryk; 22.05.1934, Laski (1)
  
  Dubicki Bogusław; 1910? (1)
  
  Duda Eugenia (1)
  
  Dziurska Anna (1)
  
  Długosz Wiesława (1)
  
  Falk Ignacy; Warsaw (1)
  
  Falk Ignacy; Warszawa (1)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (1)
  
  Fiderkiewicz Alfred; 02.07.1886, Horodenka (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Fiderkiewicz Alfred; 2.07.1886, Horodenka (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Filipiak Janina (1)
  
  Franaszewski Hieronim, 1904? (1)
  
  Gaczyńska Irena (1)
  
  Gago Eugeniusz; 20.05.1925, Górki-Grubaki (1)
  
  Galińska Zofia (1)
  
  Goraj Ludwik (1)
  
  Gołębiowska Lucyna (1)
  
  Grabowska Anna; 17.05.1889 (1)
  
  Grabowski Wacław; 28.02.1904 (1)
  
  Grabowski Wacław; 28.02.1905 (1)
  
  Grabowski Władysław; 1886? (1)
  
  Grabowski Władysław; 22.04.1897, Ignaczewo (1)
  
  Gruszka Jan (1)
  
  Grynsztejn Szmel (1)
  
  Gryta Marcin (1)
  
  Gutkowska Julia (1)
  
  Górska Jadwiga (1)
  
  Głuszczak Józef; 1913? (1)
  
  Habrajski Józef; 08.03.1915, Radzionków (1)
  
  Harkot (Harkotówna) Danuta (1)
  
  Hebrajski Józef, 1915? (1)
  
  Heininger Edmund; 06.07.1905, Malbork (1)
  
  Ignaciuk Aleksander (1)
  
  Jakubowicz Michał (1)
  
  Jamróz Halina; 1919? (1)
  
  Jaszczyński Czesław; 12.07.1913, Bochnia (1)
  
  Jaworska Bogna; 1925? (1)
Subject
- Majdanek – terror and extermination (48)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (23)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (22)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (16)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (15)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (14)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (12)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Majdanek (12)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (9)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (8)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (7)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (7)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (6)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Białystok Ghetto (6)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (5)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (5)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (4)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (4)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (4)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (4)
  
  Lebensraum – the Germanization of the Zamość region (3)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (3)
  
  Radom – daily terror (3)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (2)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Volhynia (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (2)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (2)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (2)
  
  The persecuted church (2)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Lublin region (2)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Closeness to the border – opportunity and oppression (1)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Ravensbrück branch in KL Malchow (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Polesie region (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Zamość region (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (1)
  
  Radom bathed in blood – the prison in the former convent buildings (1)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  The city condemned to death (1)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (1)
  
  The tragedy of the Radom Arms Factory (1)
  
  Third Reich – the Kielce region (1)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – uprising in Praga (1)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Majdanek (134)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (67)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (37)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (30)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (28)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (27)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (26)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (26)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (25)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (25)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (24)
  
  Majdanek, German extermination camp (21)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (19)
  
  Lublin (18)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (16)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (15)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (14)
  
  Warsaw (14)
  
  Bełżec, German extermination camp (13)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (13)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (13)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (12)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (10)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (10)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (8)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (8)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (7)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (7)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (7)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (7)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (7)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (6)
  
  KL Plaszow (6)
  
  Radom (6)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (6)
  
  Zwierzyniec (Zwierzyniec commune), transit camp (6)
  
  Biała Podlaska (5)
  
  Białystok, ghetto (5)
  
  Bydgoszcz (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (5)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (5)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (5)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (5)
  
  Radom, Gestapo headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (5)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (5)
  
  Zamość, resettlement camp, Okrzei Street (5)
  
  Łuków (lubelskie voivodeship) (5)
  
  Bochnia, train station (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (4)
  
  Puławy (4)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (4)
  
  Wodzisław Śląski (4)
  
  Łódź (4)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (3)
  
  Biłgoraj (lubelskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (3)
  
  Częstochowa (3)
  
  Dziesiąta (Lublin) (3)
  
  German extermination camp of Sobibór (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (3)
  
  Lublin, Lublin Castle, Zamkowa Street 9 (3)
  
  Masłów Pierwszy (3)
  
  Niemiecki obóz zagłady Majdanek (3)
  
  Poniatowa, German forced labor camp (3)
  
  Radom, Gestapo Headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (3)
  
  Starachowice (3)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (3)
  
  Zamość (3)
  
  Bedlno (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Bliżyn, forced labor camp (2)
  
  Brody (Starachowice district) (2)
  
  Budzyń, German forced labor camp (2)
  
  Chlewiska (Szydłowiec district) (2)
  
  Garbatka (Garbatka-Letnisko) (2)
  
  Gębice (Godów) (2)
  
  Hrubieszów (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Lagerhaus (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (2)
  
  KL Leitmeritz (subcamp of KL Flossenbürg, Czech Republic) (2)
  
  KL Melk (Austria) (2)
  
  KL Natzweiler (France) (2)
  
  KL Stutthof (2)
  
  Karolin (Zwoleń district) (2)
  
  Kazimierz Dolny (2)
  
  Kielce (2)
  
  Końskie (2)
  
  Kraków, Jewish Police Service prison, Józefińska Street 37 (2)
  
  Kraków, Rekener Company, Dietla Street 29 (2)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (2)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Michniów (2)
  
  Palmiry (2)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (2)
Victims
- Civilians (238)
  
  The Civilian Population (234)
  
  The Poles (228)
  
  Children (133)
  
  Women (118)
  
  The Jews (100)
  
  The Inteligentsia (62)
  
  The sick (49)
  
  The Sick (46)
  
  Russians/Soviets (38)
  
  The Russians (33)
  
  The elderly (26)
  
  The Elderly (24)
  
  Prisoners of War (21)
  
  The Church (20)
  
  Czechs (16)
  
  Hungarians (16)
  
  Greeks (12)
  
  Slovaks (12)
  
  The French (12)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (12)
  
  Germans (11)
  
  The Disabled (11)
  
  The Communists (8)
  
  The Dutch (8)
  
  Belgians (7)
  
  Italians (5)
  
  Americans (4)
  
  The British (3)
  
  Ukrainians (3)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (2)
  
  Norwegians (2)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (124)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (36)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (21)
  
  Collaboration (16)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (16)
  
  Military Police (15)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (11)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (8)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (8)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (7)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (4)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (4)
  
  Latvians (3)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (3)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (3)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (2)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (2)
  
  Lithuanians (2)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (2)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (2)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (2)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (1)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (1)
  
  Denunciation (1)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (1)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Execution (143)
  
  Beating (128)
  
  Forced labor (115)
  
  Deportation (110)
  
  Death by shooting (108)
  
  Arrest (100)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (94)
  
  Cremation of corpses (83)
  
  Cremation (82)
  
  Biological extermination (62)
  
  Gas chambers (62)
  
  Robbery (50)
  
  Hanging (42)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (38)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (38)
  
  Economic exploitation (36)
  
  Mass graves (36)
  
  Round-up (32)
  
  Burning people alive (27)
  
  Denationalization (21)
  
  Medical experiments (21)
  
  Air raids (18)
  
  Displacement (18)
  
  Expulsion (17)
  
  Cattle wagons (16)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (15)
  
  Racial policy (13)
  
  Death marches (12)
  
  "Dosing" (11)
  
  Administrative persecution (10)
  
  Desacration of corpses (9)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (8)
  
  Rape (7)
  
  Armored weapons (5)
  
  Artillery fire (4)
  
  Artillery shelling (4)
  
  Germanization (4)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (3)
  
  Judicial crime (3)
  
  Deportation/Exile (1)
  
  Disarmament (1)
Place
- Concentration camp (128)
  
  Extermination camp (66)
  
  Prison (43)
  
  Forced labor (28)
  
  Ghetto (24)
  
  Police headquarters/station (14)
  
  Labor camp (12)
  
  Transit camp (10)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (2)
  
  Center for the Germanization of children (1)
  
  NKVD custody suite (1)
Content
- Extermination of Jews (65)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (58)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (24)
  
  Health service (22)
  
  Obliterating the traces (16)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (14)
  
  obliterating the traces (13)
  
  Rescue of Jews (10)
  
  Central Welfare Council (9)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (9)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (9)
  
  Civil resistance (8)
  
  Aktion Zamość (7)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (6)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (5)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (5)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (4)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (4)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (4)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (3)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (3)
  
  Polish Underground State (3)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (2)
  
  Judenrat (2)
  
  Underground courts (2)
  
  Underground media (2)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (1)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (1)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (1)
  
  National Armed Forces (1)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (1)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
  
  Underground culture and education (1)
  
  the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (158)
  
  Brief (8)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (5)
  
  Account (3)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (2)
  
  Press clipping (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Supreme National Tribunal (107)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (77)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (18)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (10)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (9)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (8)
  
  District Court in Radom (8)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (6)
  
  A collection of copies of witness interview reports and accounts of former prisoners of Ravensbrück and other camps, written down at the Polish Research Institute in Lund. (1)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland. Research and investigative files (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (1)
  
  Inspectorate of Schools in Radom (1)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (1)
Medium
- Text (252)
  
  Image (45)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (221)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (31)