„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)
- Brunarska Zofia; 27.05.1923 (1)
  
  Czwojdziński Roman (1)
  
  Denisow Piotr; 1894? (1)
  
  Hejnowicz Halina (1)
  
  Juszczyk Mieczysław; 15.08.1905, Łódź (1)
  
  Koseski Mieczysław; 1915? (1)
  
  Kowalski Edward; 14.03.1914, Sępólno Krajeńskie (1)
  
  Kraus Otto; 07.09.1909, Klášterní Skalice (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Machnacz Eliasz; 1900 (1)
  
  Nowacki Witold Antoni (1)
  
  Pozimski Jerzy; 05.05.1913, Szarlej (Piekary Śląskie) (1)
  
  Rajewski Ludwik; 16.12.1900, Łódź (1)
  
  Seyfried Edmund; 15.02.1889, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 19.04.1920, Chorzów (1)
  
  Sperber Karel; 1910, Tachov (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Szunejko Józef (1)
  
  Tomiczek Henryk (1)
  
  Wolter Władysław; 05.02.1897, Kraków (1)
  
  Łomnicka Anna; 1935? (1)
  
  Żarczyński Józef; 10.03.1911, Biała Cerkiew (Ukraine) (1)
Subject
- Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (4)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (4)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (2)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (2)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (2)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (1)
  
  Browar, Czerwoniak – the Ostrów death blocks (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (1)
  
  Pruszków – the town of the displaced (1)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (1)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Soldier's House, Fort VII, Żabikowo – the trail of death in Greater Poland (1)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (1)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (7)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (4)
  
  Warsaw (4)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (3)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (3)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (3)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (3)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (2)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (2)
  
  KL Plaszow (2)
  
  KL Stutthof (2)
  
  Kielce (2)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (2)
  
  Lublin (2)
  
  Radzymin (2)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (2)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Angielówka (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (1)
  
  Biłgoraj (lubelskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Bliżyn, forced labor camp (1)
  
  Bochnia, train station (1)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Chełm (1)
  
  Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Częstochowa (1)
  
  Dresden (Germany) (1)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Dössel, Oflag VI B (1)
  
  Geneva (Switzerland) (1)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (1)
  
  German extermination camp of Sobibór (1)
  
  Gross-Born (Kłomino), Oflag II D (1)
  
  Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (1)
  
  Hołownica (now in Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (1)
  
  Itzehoe, Stalag X A (1)
  
  Jarmolińce (now in Ukraine), transit camp (1)
  
  Jasło (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (1)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (1)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (1)
  
  Kamionka Las (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (1)
  
  Komorowo, Stalag 333 (1)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (1)
  
  Kraków (1)
  
  Kraków, Botaniczna Street (1)
  
  Kraków, Fałata Street (1)
  
  Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 (1)
  
  Kraków, Krowoderska Street (1)
  
  Kraków, Lubicz Street (1)
  
  Kraków, Lubomirskich Street 27 (1)
  
  Kraków, Pędzichów Street 13 (1)
  
  Kraków, Radziwiłłowska Street (1)
  
  Kraków, Strzelecka Street 11 (1)
  
  Kraków, Topolowa Street (1)
  
  Kraków, Warszawska Street (1)
  
  Kraków, Warszawska Street 1 (1)
  
  Kraków, Zamenhofa Street (1)
  
  Kraków, Św. Jana Street (1)
  
  Kraków, Św. Tomasza Street (1)
  
  Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) (1)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (1)
  
  Lager-Kruszyna, training camp (1)
  
  Lübeck, Oflag X C (1)
  
  Mościska (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (1)
  
  Murnau, Oflag VII A (1)
  
  Neubrandenburg (Germany), Stalag IIA (1)
  
  Neuhammer am Queis, Stalag VIII E (1)
  
  Nowe Brzesko (1)
  
  Nowogródek (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Nowojelnia (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Nowy Sącz (1)
  
  Olesko (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (1)
  
  Ostashkov (Russia, Tver Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (1)
  
  Ostróg (now in Ukraine), transit camp (Barracks of the 19th Volhynian Uhlan Regiment) (1)
  
  Ostrów Wielkopolski (1)
  
  Palmiry (1)
  
  Podkowa Leśna (1)
  
  Poznań (1)
  
  Pruszków (1)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (1)
  
  Pruszków, Tworki Hospital, Partyzantów Street 2/4 (1)
  
  Pszczyna (1)
  
  Pustków, forced labor camp (1)
  
  Radom (1)
  
  Radziwiłłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (1)
  
  Sandbostel (Germany), Stalag X B (1)
  
  Sanok (1)
  
  Sarny (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Silberberg, Oflag VIII B (1)
Victims
- The Poles (22)
  
  Prisoners of War (18)
  
  Civilians (16)
  
  The Civilian Population (15)
  
  The Inteligentsia (11)
  
  The Jews (10)
  
  Women (10)
  
  Children (9)
  
  The sick (8)
  
  Russians/Soviets (7)
  
  The French (7)
  
  The Sick (7)
  
  The elderly (6)
  
  The Elderly (5)
  
  The Russians (5)
  
  Czechs (4)
  
  Germans (3)
  
  Greeks (3)
  
  Hungarians (3)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (3)
  
  The Church (3)
  
  The Dutch (3)
  
  Belgians (2)
  
  Italians (2)
  
  Policemen (2)
  
  The Disabled (2)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (2)
  
  Ukrainians (2)
  
  Belarusians (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  Romanians (1)
  
  Slovaks (1)
  
  The British (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (8)
  
  Collaboration (5)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (5)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (4)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (4)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (3)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (3)
  
  Military Police (2)
  
  Red Army (2)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (1)
  
  Denunciation (1)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (1)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (1)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (1)
  
  The Navy of Nazi Germany (Kriegsmarine) (1)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (1)
Crimes
- Execution (20)
  
  Forced labor (18)
  
  Death by shooting (14)
  
  Arrest (13)
  
  Biological extermination (13)
  
  Beating (11)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (10)
  
  Deportation (10)
  
  Robbery (9)
  
  Displacement (6)
  
  Economic exploitation (6)
  
  Expulsion (6)
  
  Cremation (5)
  
  Cremation of corpses (5)
  
  Gas chambers (5)
  
  Mass graves (5)
  
  Racial policy (5)
  
  Deportation/Exile (4)
  
  Judicial crime (4)
  
  Administrative persecution (3)
  
  Air raids (3)
  
  Cattle wagons (3)
  
  Death marches (3)
  
  Disarmament (3)
  
  Hanging (3)
  
  Roads of death (3)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (3)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (2)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (2)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (2)
  
  Round-up (2)
  
  "Dosing" (1)
  
  Armored weapons (1)
  
  Artillery fire (1)
  
  Artillery shelling (1)
  
  Burning people alive (1)
  
  Medical experiments (1)
  
  Punishment cell (1)
  
  Rape (1)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (1)
Place
- POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (15)
  
  Concentration camp (13)
  
  Prison (6)
  
  Extermination camp (4)
  
  Forced labor (4)
  
  Labor camp (4)
  
  Transit camp (4)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (3)
  
  Ghetto (3)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (3)
  
  Police headquarters/station (3)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (1)
  
  Mine (1)
Content
- Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (11)
  
  Extermination of Jews (7)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (5)
  
  Anders' Army (4)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (4)
  
  Aktion Zamość (3)
  
  Amnesty (3)
  
  Civil resistance (3)
  
  Health service (3)
  
  Obliterating the traces (3)
  
  Rescue of Jews (3)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (3)
  
  Communist propaganda (2)
  
  Epidemics (2)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (2)
  
  Polish culture in exile (2)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (2)
  
  obliterating the traces (2)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (1)
  
  Central Welfare Council (1)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (1)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (1)
  
  Polish Underground State (1)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (1)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (1)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
  
  Underground culture and education (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (9)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (4)
  
  Account (3)
  
  Brief (3)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Supreme National Tribunal (9)
  
  Independent Historical Office of the Command of the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union/Documentation Office of the Polish Army in the East (4)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Gdańsk 1945–1949 (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 in Warsaw (1)
  
  Katyn Museum (1)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (1)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland 1949–1984 (1)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (1)
Medium
- Text (23)
  
  Image (1)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (15)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (8)