„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)
- Lenczewski Tadeusz; 1913?, Rzędziany (2)
  
  Mongiałło Wacław; 1910 (2)
  
  Nowak Jan (2)
  
  Zdanowicz Michał; 1899.12.11 (2)
  
  Adamowicz Alfons; 15.12.1906, Białystok (1)
  
  Adamski Alojzy, 1908.06.30 (1)
  
  Adamski Antoni, 1894? (1)
  
  Adamski Antoni; 1894? (1)
  
  Adamusik Stanisław (1)
  
  Aftergut Bronisław; 1893? (1)
  
  Aksnowicz Alfons; 21.01.1920 (1)
  
  Amanowicz Kazimierz; 1922? (1)
  
  Ambroziak Jan (1)
  
  Amsterdamski Saul (1)
  
  Andronowski Piotr; 1921? (1)
  
  Andruszkiewicz Józef; 1893? (1)
  
  Ankudowicz Władysław; 23.10.1923, Białystok (1)
  
  Anonymous (1)
  
  Arciszewski Jan, 1907, Pińsk (1)
  
  Atras Franciszek, 1900.10.08 (1)
  
  Aunszlok Kazimierz (1)
  
  Awdziej Alfons; 15.02.1900 (1)
  
  Awienko Henryk; 1910? (1)
  
  Babiarz Józef; 13.03.1909, Łańcut (1)
  
  Baka Jan; 1896 (1)
  
  Bakuła Antoni; 1899 (1)
  
  Bakuła Antoni; 1900 (1)
  
  Balińska Janina; 19.03.1905, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Balter Berek; 15.01.1909 (1)
  
  Balter Berek; 15.01.1910 (1)
  
  Banach Jan; 1894? (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899 (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899?, Brynica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Barachowski Jan, 1900 (1)
  
  Baranowska Władysława (1)
  
  Baranowski Julian; 1902 (1)
  
  Baranowski Maksymilian (1)
  
  Barna Teodor; 1900 (1)
  
  Bartoszko Kazimierz; 09.10.1898 (1)
  
  Barwicki Władysław; 1898 (1)
  
  Baszker Fiyszel, 1899.08.06 (1)
  
  Batura Józef; 1916 (1)
  
  Bauer Ludmiła; 28.01.1922 (1)
  
  Baumgarten Józefina (1)
  
  Bednarska Wanda; 16.06.1912, Suchedniów (1)
  
  Beker Władysław; 1911 (1)
  
  Bendowski Stefan; 1906 (1)
  
  Berkowicz Icko; 1906, Różana (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Bernacki Michal, 1898 (1)
  
  Bernatowicz Jan; 1899 (1)
  
  Bełzki Jan; 1896, Potok Górny (1)
  
  Białobocki Andrzej; 1900? (1)
  
  Białous Edward; 03.04.1914, Kantorówka (1)
  
  Bibik Stanisław (1)
  
  Biel Ferdynand; 1898? (1)
  
  Bielecki Andrzej; 1893, Podhorce (1)
  
  Bielski Emil, 1898 (1)
  
  Bier Maksymilian; 1892? (1)
  
  Biełooki Wiktor; 1900 (1)
  
  Biełous Włodzimierz; 1904 (1)
  
  Biler Romuald, 06.02.1912 (1)
  
  Binduga Władysław; 1915 (1)
  
  Binkiewicz Władysław; 1899? (1)
  
  Biskup Piotr, 1900 (1)
  
  Biłyk Stefan (1)
  
  Blewąska Wincenty; 1900 (1)
  
  Bloch Ilia; 1912? (1)
  
  Bobela Marian; 1893, Rozdół (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bobowski Leszek; 1910? (1)
  
  Bobrzek Wladyslaw; 08.09.1899 (1)
  
  Bochenek Jan; 1898 (1)
  
  Bochno Michał, 1903? (1)
  
  Boguski Aleksander, 1900 (1)
  
  Bogusz Zygmunt, 1897? (1)
  
  Bohdanowicz Klemens, (1)
  
  Bohdziewicz Jan, 1891? (1)
  
  Bohotko Józef (1)
  
  Bojarski Jan, 1899 (1)
  
  Bojda Ferdynand; 1921? (1)
  
  Bojko Jan; 1920? (1)
  
  Bojko Stefan (1)
  
  Bonchort Zygmunt, 1897? (1)
  
  Bondarewicz Piotr, 1896 (1)
  
  Bondus Piotr, 1904? (1)
  
  Bongold Jakub; 1900 (1)
  
  Borger Ludwik; 1915? (1)
  
  Borkowski Bronisław; 12.03.1912 (1)
  
  Borkowski Edward; 1892? (1)
  
  Boroch Michał; ? (1)
  
  Borowski Bolesław (1)
  
  Borys Piotr, 1901 (1)
  
  Borysiuk Mateusz; 1903? (1)
  
  Boryń Franciszek; 1898 (1)
  
  Brunstein Stanislaw; 27.10.1914 (1)
  
  Bryning Sylwester; 1898 (1)
  
  Brzozowski Jan; 1895? (1)
  
  Brzozowski Stefan; 1900? (1)
  
  Brzuszkiewicz Jan (1)
  
  Buben Wincenty (1)
  
  Buchwalter Fryderyk, 1912 (1)
  
  Kullanda Henryk (1)
Subject
- The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (212)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (193)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (96)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (78)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (72)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (65)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (64)
  
  In exile – Siberia (50)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (44)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (42)
  
  In exile – Ural (41)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (24)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (23)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (22)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (20)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (17)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (16)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (16)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (12)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (11)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (11)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (8)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (6)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ryazan Oblast (6)
  
  In exile – Mari El Republic (5)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (4)
  
  In exile – Povolzhye (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Republic of Mordovia (3)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (2)
  
  Deported – the Altai Krai (2)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Majdanek (2)
  
  Allied assistance from the air (1)
  
  Archipełag Gułag - Powołże (1)
  
  Deported – the Perm Krai (1)
  
  Deported – the Volgograd Oblast (1)
  
  Dispersed terror – the camp in Inowrocław (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (1)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (1)
  
  Firlej near Radom – the training ground of death (1)
  
  In exile – Far East (1)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Volgograd Oblast (1)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Sverdlovsk Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – the Krasnoyarsk Krai (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – the Republic of Karelia (1)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (1)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Radom region (1)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (1)
  
  the Gulag Archipelago – the Krasnoyarsk Krai (1)
  
  the Gulag Archipelago – the Republic of Karelia (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (248)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (174)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (147)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (100)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (93)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (93)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (82)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (71)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (71)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (67)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (67)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (66)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (59)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (48)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (48)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (41)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (39)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (37)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (35)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (34)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (33)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (33)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (33)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (33)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (32)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (31)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (31)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (28)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (28)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (28)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (28)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (28)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (27)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (27)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (27)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (27)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (27)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (26)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (26)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (25)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (24)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (24)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (24)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (24)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (23)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (22)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (22)
  
  Olesko (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (21)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (21)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (20)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (20)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (20)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (20)
  
  Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (19)
  
  Połąga (now in Lithuania), internee camp (19)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (18)
  
  Kniazhpogost (Russia, Komi Republic) (18)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (18)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (18)
  
  Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (18)
  
  Przemyśl, prison, Rokitniańska Street 1 (18)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (18)
  
  Łomża, prison, Legionów Avenue 36 (18)
  
  Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (17)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (17)
  
  Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a (17)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (now in Lithuania), internee camp (17)
  
  Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (17)
  
  Białystok (16)
  
  Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (16)
  
  Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) (16)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (16)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (16)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (16)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (15)
  
  Kagan (Uzbekistan) (15)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (15)
  
  Pińsk (now in Belarus), NKVD prison no 29, Brzeska/Poleska Street (15)
  
  Sevvostlag (Russia, Magadan Oblast) (15)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine) (15)
  
  Bezymyanlag (Russia, Samara Oblast) (14)
  
  Czortków (now in Ukraine), Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) (14)
  
  Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (14)
  
  Mołodeczno (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Wielki Gościniec Street 52 (14)
  
  Radziwiłłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (14)
  
  Ukmergė (Lithuania), internee camp (14)
  
  Zborów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (14)
  
  Jaryczów Stary (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (13)
  
  Shahrisabz (Uzbekistan) (13)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania) (13)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison (Castle) (13)
  
  Czortków (now in Ukraine), prison, Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) (12)
  
  Mołodeczno (now in Belarus) (12)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (12)
  
  Ostróg (now in Ukraine), transit camp (Barracks of the 19th Volhynian Uhlan Regiment) (12)
  
  Pavlodar (Kazakhstan) (12)
  
  Podliski Małe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (12)
  
  Podwołoczyska (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (12)
  
  Przemyśl (12)
  
  Równe (Ukraine), prison, 3 Maja Street (Soborna Street 16) (12)
Victims
- The Poles (1204)
  
  Civilians (905)
  
  The Civilian Population (677)
  
  Women (399)
  
  The Inteligentsia (390)
  
  Deportees (373)
  
  Ukrainians (365)
  
  The Jews (361)
  
  Children (311)
  
  Prisoners of War (301)
  
  The sick (270)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (264)
  
  Russians/Soviets (241)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (240)
  
  The Sick (232)
  
  Belarusians (209)
  
  Policemen (181)
  
  The Russians (170)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (146)
  
  The elderly (113)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (95)
  
  Internees (94)
  
  The Elderly (92)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (52)
  
  Border Guard (48)
  
  Lithuanians (47)
  
  Germans (45)
  
  The Church (42)
  
  Landowners (37)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (34)
  
  Border Protection Corps (33)
  
  Estonians (14)
  
  Latvians (10)
  
  Romanians (7)
  
  Prison Guard (6)
  
  Czechs (5)
  
  Hungarians (5)
  
  Finns (3)
  
  Scouts (2)
  
  Slovaks (1)
  
  The British (1)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- Red Army (234)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (230)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (139)
  
  Denunciation (137)
  
  Soviet Militia (98)
  
  Collaboration (65)
  
  Lithuanians (51)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (44)
  
  Collaborators (15)
  
  SS (5)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (5)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (4)
  
  Military Police (4)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (3)
  
  Latvians (2)
  
  Administrative Police (1)
  
  Postal Protection (1)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (1104)
  
  Biological extermination (1055)
  
  Arrest (843)
  
  Deportation/Exile (610)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (535)
  
  Beating (464)
  
  Judicial crime (325)
  
  Punishment cell (305)
  
  Cattle wagons (268)
  
  Robbery (145)
  
  Disarmament (141)
  
  Death by shooting (124)
  
  Execution (88)
  
  Roads of death (87)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (33)
  
  Air raids (31)
  
  Sovietization (30)
  
  Deportation (27)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (26)
  
  Forced voting (19)
  
  Desacration of corpses (14)
  
  Round-up (11)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (10)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (9)
  
  Cremation (7)
  
  Cremation of corpses (7)
  
  Armored weapons (6)
  
  Mass graves (4)
  
  Collectivization (3)
  
  Gas chambers (3)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (3)
  
  Administrative persecution (2)
  
  Displacement (2)
  
  Economic exploitation (2)
  
  Expulsion (2)
  
  Burning people alive (1)
  
  Denationalization (1)
  
  Racial policy (1)
  
  Rape (1)
Place
- Spetsposelok (special settlement) (261)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (247)
  
  Kolkhoz (240)
  
  NKVD custody suite (226)
  
  Prison (224)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (219)
  
  Transit camp (169)
  
  Mine (111)
  
  Internment camp (91)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (80)
  
  Sovkhoz (51)
  
  Concentration camp (6)
  
  Siberia (5)
  
  Extermination camp (3)
  
  Labor camp (3)
  
  Orphanage – dietdom (3)
  
  Police headquarters/station (1)
  
  Sewers (1)
Content
- Health service (789)
  
  Anders' Army (331)
  
  Amnesty (328)
  
  First deportation (190)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (187)
  
  Epidemics (173)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (160)
  
  Communist propaganda (134)
  
  Polish culture in exile (119)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (54)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (52)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (49)
  
  Third deportation (43)
  
  Second deportation (39)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (32)
  
  Fourth deportation (24)
  
  Military hospital (20)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (12)
  
  Students' Army Corps (9)
  
  Civil resistance (5)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (5)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (4)
  
  Obliterating the traces (3)
  
  Partisan warfare (3)
  
  Polish Underground State (3)
  
  obliterating the traces (3)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (2)
  
  Extermination of Jews (2)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (2)
  
  Underground culture and education (2)
  
  Aid to Jews (1)
  
  Aktion Zamość (1)
  
  Clandestine courses (1)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (1)
  
  Underground media (1)
Object type
- Account (472)
  
  Report (472)
  
  Summary (472)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (19)
  
  Book excerpt (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Independent Historical Office of the Command of the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union/Documentation Office of the Polish Army in the East (1194)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (5)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (3)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (2)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (2)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (1)
Medium
- Text (1207)
  
  Image (29)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (1188)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (16)