„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)
- Anonymous (11)
  
  Kostka Stanisław (7)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (6)
  
  Polak Wacław (6)
  
  Brzoskowski Jan (5)
  
  Ciepliński Brunon (5)
  
  Dankowska Jolanta (3)
  
  Apolińska Zofia; 1893?, Zambrów (2)
  
  Brzezińska Ewa (2)
  
  Gotkowska Halina, 1927? (2)
  
  Grochowska Krystyna (2)
  
  Jasionowska Danuta (2)
  
  Lipski Stanisław; 09.02.1897 (2)
  
  Listkiewicz Ludwik; 1889? (2)
  
  Melisa Cecylia; 22.11.1893, Ostrów Mazowiecka (2)
  
  Narloch Bronisława (2)
  
  Plaskura Władysław; 10.05.1905, Łazy (Orłowa, Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Reluga Wincenty; 20.12.1897, Ostrów Mazowiecka (2)
  
  Smuczyński Rudolf (2)
  
  Steinhauf Renata (2)
  
  Szewczak Helena; 28.02.1915, Marki (Wołomin county) (2)
  
  Wene Janina (2)
  
  Adamczyk Jan; 1901? (1)
  
  Antoniak Franciszek; 1901? (1)
  
  Banasik Andrzej; 1926? (1)
  
  Baranowski Marceli (1)
  
  Barańska Halina (1)
  
  Barnaś Maria (1)
  
  Bartonezz Irena; 03.10.1896 (1)
  
  Bednarz Franciszek (1)
  
  Bernat Stanisław; 23.04.1905 (1)
  
  Bida Władysław; 1886? (1)
  
  Bielska Krystyna (1)
  
  Bieniek Marianna; 1908, Dębska Wola (1)
  
  Biskup Stanisław; 1911? (1)
  
  Biskup Władysław; 1927? (1)
  
  Bodera Wiesława; 1935? (1)
  
  Boguniecki Antoni, 1894 (1)
  
  Borowy Aleksander; 03.12.1898, Ostrów Mazowiecka (1)
  
  Boroń Józefa; 1981? (1)
  
  Borto Stefan; 1912? (1)
  
  Borysiuk Kazimierz; 05.10.1933, Pogorzelec (1)
  
  Brandt Janusz; 1905? (1)
  
  Brunarska Zofia; 27.05.1923 (1)
  
  Brzozowski Jan; 20.05.1891 (1)
  
  Brzozowski Jan; 20.05.1892 (1)
  
  Budzioch Mieczysław; 1918? (1)
  
  Bukowiecka-Lipska Zofia; 1911 (1)
  
  Burdon Wiesława (1)
  
  Bury Adam; 26.11.1931, Zwierzyniec (1)
  
  Cecot Katarzyna; 28.09.1892, Chałupki (1)
  
  Cedro Stanisław; 14.12.1912, Kielce (1)
  
  Cendecki J. (1)
  
  Cetkowski Roman (1)
  
  Charszla Lidia (1)
  
  Chełmińska (Rupiewicz) Wiesława Bronisława; 07.11.1930, Warsaw (1)
  
  Chima Jan; 24.12.1906, Dobrowoda (1)
  
  Chmielowiec Elżbieta (1)
  
  Chojnowski Piotr; 07.10.1903, Ostrów Mazowiecka (1)
  
  Chomentowski Bohdan; 08.03.1916, Warsaw (1)
  
  Chomiczewska Stanisława (1)
  
  Chromiński Henryk; 14.04.1930, Janówka (1)
  
  Chudzikiewicz Antonina; 13.06.1898, Semferopol (1)
  
  Cichoński Stefan (1)
  
  Cichy Wiesław (1)
  
  Cieplewski Janusz (1)
  
  Cieplicka Gabriela (1)
  
  Czapiewska Maria (1)
  
  Czapiga Władysław; 14.01.1913 (1)
  
  Czapla Władysław; 1901? (1)
  
  Czarnecka Teresa (1)
  
  Czeczot Stanisław; 04.05.1927, Zagórz-Sanok (1)
  
  Czerewka Zenajda; 1892?, Kielce (1)
  
  Czerniak Mieczysław; 1906? (1)
  
  Czerwonka Teofil; 15.04.1881, Zerzeń (Warszawa) (1)
  
  Czyż Czesław (1)
  
  Danis Bronisława (1)
  
  Dawidowicz Wanda; 1923 (1)
  
  Derek Wiesława (1)
  
  Derlatka Daniel (1)
  
  Derwiński Franciszek; 1909? (1)
  
  Detka Alfred (1)
  
  Dittmer Helena (1)
  
  Dobosz Józefa (1)
  
  Dobroczek Wacław; 20.11.1918, Brzezin (1)
  
  Domasik Stanisław; 1884, Witkowice (Oświęcim county) (1)
  
  Donnerstag Hildegarda; 08.02.1915 (1)
  
  Dotkiewicz Teresa (1)
  
  Drabik Henryk; 22.05.1934, Laski (1)
  
  Durnaś Stanisław; 1891? (1)
  
  Dwojak Józef (1)
  
  Dzieniszewski Paweł; 1890? (1)
  
  Dąbrowa-Kostka Stanisława (1)
  
  Dąbrowska Jadwiga (1)
  
  Długosz Wiesława (1)
  
  Fedorowicz Marta (1)
  
  Filipak Olga (1)
  
  Fiszer Irena; 07.09.1922, Kłobuck (1)
  
  Fąfara Leszek (1)
  
  Gago Eugeniusz; 20.05.1925, Górki-Grubaki (1)
Subject
- Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (58)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Pomerania (57)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (40)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (38)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (29)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (21)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (20)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (18)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (17)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (16)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (14)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (13)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (11)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (11)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (10)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (9)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (8)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (8)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (7)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (6)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (5)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Volhynia (4)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Lesser Poland (4)
  
  Lebensborn – the Germanization of Polish children (4)
  
  Lebensraum – the Germanization of the Zamość region (4)
  
  Pruszków – the town of the displaced (4)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (4)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (3)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Warsaw (3)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (3)
  
  Radom – daily terror (3)
  
  Taken Captive (3)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (3)
  
  The city condemned to death (3)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (3)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Lesser Poland (2)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Rzeszów (2)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Polesie region (2)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (2)
  
  Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages (2)
  
  Michniów – the extermination of the Polish countryside (2)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Volhynia (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (2)
  
  Soviets in German captivity (2)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews (2)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (2)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (2)
  
  Clandestine teaching classes – the Lwów region (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Kraków (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Mazovia (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Zamość region (1)
  
  Firlej near Radom – the training ground of death (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Kłobuck Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Zamość Ghetto (1)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (1)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Majdanek (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Sachsenhause (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Sachsenhausen (1)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Stanisławów region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Tarnopol region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Wilno region (1)
  
  Poles who saved Jews (1)
  
  Prisoners of war – transit camps in Kielce (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)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (1)
  
  The Polish Righteous Among the Nations (1)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – the Stanisławów area (1)
  
  The persecuted church (1)
  
  The tragedy of the Radom Arms Factory (1)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Żoliborz (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (44)
  
  Warsaw (43)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka (23)
  
  Siedlce (17)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (15)
  
  Kielce (15)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (14)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (13)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (13)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (13)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (12)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (12)
  
  Busko-Zdrój (11)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (11)
  
  Kraków (11)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (10)
  
  Zamość, resettlement camp, Okrzei Street (10)
  
  Łódź (10)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (9)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (8)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (7)
  
  Częstochowa (7)
  
  Kościerzyna (7)
  
  Starachowice (7)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (6)
  
  Michniów (6)
  
  Radom (6)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 (6)
  
  Zwierzyniec (Zwierzyniec commune), transit camp (6)
  
  Bydgoszcz (5)
  
  Dąbrowa (Kielce) (5)
  
  Gdańsk (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (5)
  
  KL Plaszow (5)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (5)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (5)
  
  Lublin (5)
  
  Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (5)
  
  Skadla (5)
  
  Słupia, forced labor camp (5)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's Church, Wolska Street 76 (5)
  
  Wrocław (5)
  
  Zofiówka (Busko district) (5)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) (5)
  
  Biała Podlaska (4)
  
  Chmielnik (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (4)
  
  Gdynia (4)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (4)
  
  Iłowo-Osada (subcamp of KL Soldau transit camp), Szkolna Street (Leśna Street) (4)
  
  Iłża (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (4)
  
  Kielce, St. Adalbert's Church, Św. Wojciecha Square 9 (4)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (4)
  
  Opatów, Słowackiego Street 1 (4)
  
  Pińczów, Pińczów Prison (4)
  
  Potulice (kujawsko-pomorskie voivodeship), forced labor camp (4)
  
  Poznań (4)
  
  Pruszków (4)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (4)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (4)
  
  Staszów (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship) (4)
  
  Staszów (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (4)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Hale Mirowskie [trade halls] (4)
  
  Łuków (lubelskie voivodeship) (4)
  
  Białystok (3)
  
  Bukówka (Kielce) (3)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (3)
  
  Hammerstein (Germany), Stalag II B (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (3)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (3)
  
  KL Stutthof (3)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Małkinia (3)
  
  Mińsk Mazowiecki (3)
  
  Niewachlów (Kielce) (3)
  
  Opatów (3)
  
  Pińczów, prison, 3-go Maja Street (3)
  
  Podkowa Leśna (3)
  
  Pruszków, Tworki Hospital, Partyzantów Street 2/4 (3)
  
  Radom, Gestapo headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (3)
  
  Stanisławowo (district of Nowy Dwór Mazoweicki) (3)
  
  Szczebrzeszyn (3)
  
  Szydłowiec (Szydłowiec district) (3)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (3)
  
  Warsaw, Dulag, Skaryszewska Street 8 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (3)
  
  Warsaw, Żelaznej Bramy Square (3)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Łódź, ghetto (3)
  
  Barłożno (2)
  
  Bosowice (2)
  
  Brussels (Belgium) (2)
  
  Busko-Zdrój, Gestapo headquarters, 3 Maja Avenue 7 (Batorego Street/ Mickiewicza Avenue) (2)
Victims
- Civilians (466)
  
  The Poles (458)
  
  The Civilian Population (374)
  
  Children (252)
  
  Women (200)
  
  The Jews (86)
  
  The Inteligentsia (64)
  
  The elderly (46)
  
  The Elderly (42)
  
  The sick (39)
  
  The Sick (32)
  
  Prisoners of War (26)
  
  Russians/Soviets (26)
  
  The Russians (22)
  
  The Church (19)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (10)
  
  The Communists (7)
  
  The French (7)
  
  Hungarians (5)
  
  The Disabled (4)
  
  Ukrainians (4)
  
  Greeks (3)
  
  Italians (3)
  
  Belgians (2)
  
  Czechs (2)
  
  Germans (2)
  
  Slovaks (2)
  
  The British (2)
  
  Americans (1)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  The Dutch (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (77)
  
  Military Police (46)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (39)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (30)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (29)
  
  Collaboration (26)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (20)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (16)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (14)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (8)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (6)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (5)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (5)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (5)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (3)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (3)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (2)
  
  Denunciation (2)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (2)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (1)
  
  Red Army (1)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (411)
  
  Deportation (352)
  
  Execution (170)
  
  Arrest (153)
  
  Round-up (151)
  
  Death by shooting (142)
  
  Beating (116)
  
  Biological extermination (96)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (95)
  
  Displacement (95)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (90)
  
  Robbery (87)
  
  Economic exploitation (76)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (66)
  
  Expulsion (66)
  
  Denationalization (57)
  
  Air raids (43)
  
  Cremation of corpses (41)
  
  Cremation (40)
  
  Mass graves (35)
  
  Burning people alive (34)
  
  Hanging (31)
  
  Racial policy (25)
  
  Gas chambers (22)
  
  Administrative persecution (21)
  
  Germanization (14)
  
  Cattle wagons (13)
  
  Medical experiments (13)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (13)
  
  Artillery fire (10)
  
  Artillery shelling (10)
  
  "Dosing" (6)
  
  Desacration of corpses (6)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (6)
  
  Death marches (5)
  
  Rape (5)
  
  Armored weapons (4)
  
  Deportation/Exile (4)
  
  Espionage for the Third Reich (3)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (3)
  
  Judicial crime (3)
  
  Human shields (1)
  
  Sovietization (1)
Place
- Forced labor (473)
  
  Concentration camp (47)
  
  Transit camp (47)
  
  Labor camp (39)
  
  Prison (35)
  
  Extermination camp (29)
  
  Ghetto (21)
  
  Police headquarters/station (20)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (10)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (2)
  
  Center for the Germanization of children (1)
  
  Robbery (1)
Content
- Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (109)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (74)
  
  Extermination of Jews (41)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (40)
  
  Rescue of Jews (27)
  
  Civil resistance (16)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (14)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (14)
  
  Aktion Zamość (13)
  
  obliterating the traces (12)
  
  Obliterating the traces (10)
  
  Health service (9)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (9)
  
  Central Welfare Council (8)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (7)
  
  Underground culture and education (7)
  
  Polish Underground State (5)
  
  Underground media (5)
  
  Wola Massacre (5)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (5)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (4)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (4)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (4)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (4)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (4)
  
  Clandestine courses (3)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (3)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (3)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (3)
  
  Judenrat (3)
  
  Underground courts (3)
  
  Called by name (2)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (2)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (2)
  
  the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (2)
  
  Anders' Army (1)
  
  Communist propaganda (1)
  
  Field health service (1)
  
  National Armed Forces (1)
  
  Polish culture in exile (1)
  
  The Silent Unseen (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (177)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (34)
  
  Brief (15)
  
  Summary (9)
  
  Report (8)
  
  Account (7)
  
  Statement (2)
  
  Official memo (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Ministry of Education in Warsaw (163)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (86)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (71)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (42)
  
  District Court in Łomża (30)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (20)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (17)
  
  District Court in Radom (10)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (7)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (5)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland. Research and investigative files (3)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Warsaw (3)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Białystok (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Gdańsk (1)
  
  District Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Warsaw (1)
  
  Independent Historical Office of the Command of the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union/Documentation Office of the Polish Army in the East (1)
  
  Katyn Museum (1)
  
  Office of the District Authorities in Ostrów Mazowiecka (1)
  
  Voivodeship Court in Łódź (1)
Medium
- Text (473)
  
  Image (56)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (308)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (165)