„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)
- 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)
  
  Amanowicz Kazimierz; 1922? (1)
  
  Ambroziak Jan (1)
  
  Amsterdamski Saul (1)
  
  Andronowski Piotr; 1921? (1)
  
  Ankudowicz Władysław; 23.10.1923, Białystok (1)
  
  Anonymous (1)
  
  Arciszewski Jan, 1907, Pińsk (1)
  
  Atras Franciszek, 1900.10.08 (1)
  
  Awdziej Alfons; 15.02.1900 (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)
  
  Barachowski Jan, 1900 (1)
  
  Baranowska Władysława (1)
  
  Baranowski Julian; 1902 (1)
  
  Baranowski Maksymilian (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)
  
  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)
  
  Binduga Władysław; 1915 (1)
  
  Binkiewicz Władysław; 1899? (1)
  
  Biskup Piotr, 1900 (1)
  
  Biłyk Stefan (1)
  
  Blewąska Wincenty; 1900 (1)
  
  Bobela Marian; 1893, Rozdół (now in Ukraine) (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)
  
  Bojko Jan; 1920? (1)
  
  Bojko Stefan (1)
  
  Bonchort Zygmunt, 1897? (1)
  
  Bondarewicz Piotr, 1896 (1)
  
  Bondus Piotr, 1904? (1)
  
  Bongold Jakub; 1900 (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 Stefan; 1900? (1)
  
  Brzuszkiewicz Jan (1)
  
  Buchwalter Fryderyk, 1912 (1)
  
  Buciak Józef, 1899 (1)
  
  Buczkowski Franciszek (1)
  
  Buczynski Zbigniew; 1923? (1)
  
  Buczyński Michał; 28.09.1892 (1)
  
  Buczyński Tadeusz, 1923 (1)
  
  Budzianowski Antoni; 1886 (1)
  
  Bujak Aleksander, 10.02.1914 (1)
  
  Bujakiewicz Kazimierz, 1898 (1)
  
  Bukowski Józef, 1898 (1)
  
  Burakiewicz Maria (1)
  
  Buras Michał, 1909 (1)
  
  Burawski Władysław (1)
  
  Busk Kazimierz; 09.01.1915, Kielce (1)
  
  Butrymowicz Jan (1)
  
  Byra Paweł, 1898 ? (1)
  
  Bysiewicz Alfred; 1895 (1)
  
  Byłek Michał, 1917? (1)
  
  Bławat Michał; 1896? (1)
  
  Błażek Władysław; 1897? (1)
Subject
- The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (153)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (133)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (60)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (46)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (46)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (44)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (40)
  
  In exile – Siberia (36)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (31)
  
  In exile – Ural (28)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (24)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (15)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (14)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (14)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (12)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (11)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (11)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (11)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (10)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (6)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (6)
  
  In exile – Mari El Republic (4)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (4)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ryazan Oblast (4)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (3)
  
  In exile – Povolzhye (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Republic of Mordovia (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (3)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (2)
  
  Allied assistance from the air (1)
  
  Archipełag Gułag - Powołże (1)
  
  Deported – the Altai Krai (1)
  
  Deported – the Perm Krai (1)
  
  Deported – the Volgograd Oblast (1)
  
  Dispersed terror – the camp in Inowrocław (1)
  
  Firlej near Radom – the training ground of death (1)
  
  In exile – Far East (1)
  
  In exile – Volgograd Oblast (1)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (1)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Majdanek (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – the Krasnoyarsk Krai (1)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (1)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (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)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (169)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (105)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (101)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (66)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (56)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (55)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (53)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (47)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (45)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (44)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (38)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (38)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (35)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (32)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (29)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (27)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (25)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (24)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (24)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (23)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (23)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (22)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (21)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (21)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (21)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (21)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (21)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (20)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (20)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (19)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (18)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (18)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (17)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (17)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (17)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (17)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (16)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (16)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (16)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (16)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (15)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (15)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (15)
  
  Olesko (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (15)
  
  Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (15)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (15)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (15)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (15)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (14)
  
  Przemyśl, prison, Rokitniańska Street 1 (14)
  
  Kniazhpogost (Russia, Komi Republic) (13)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (13)
  
  Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (13)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (12)
  
  Białystok (11)
  
  Czortków (now in Ukraine), Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) (11)
  
  Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (11)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (11)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (11)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (11)
  
  Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a (11)
  
  Podwołoczyska (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (11)
  
  Sevvostlag (Russia, Magadan Oblast) (11)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (11)
  
  Łomża, prison, Legionów Avenue 36 (11)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (11)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (10)
  
  Czortków (now in Ukraine), prison, Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) (10)
  
  Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (10)
  
  Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (10)
  
  Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) (10)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (10)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (10)
  
  Pińsk (now in Belarus), NKVD prison no 29, Brzeska/Poleska Street (10)
  
  Połąga (now in Lithuania), internee camp (10)
  
  Równe (Ukraine), prison, 3 Maja Street (Soborna Street 16) (10)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison (Castle) (10)
  
  Zborów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (10)
  
  Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (9)
  
  Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia) (9)
  
  Bezymyanlag (Russia, Samara Oblast) (9)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (9)
  
  Czerlany (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (9)
  
  Jaryczów Stary (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (9)
  
  Kagan (Uzbekistan) (9)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine), prison, Kolejowa Street (Nezalezhnosti Street) (9)
  
  Minsk (Belarus), "Wołodarka" prison, Waladarskaha Street 2 (9)
  
  Mołodeczno (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Wielki Gościniec Street 52 (9)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (9)
  
  Podliski Małe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (9)
  
  Przemyśl (9)
  
  Sądowa Wisznia (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (9)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (8)
  
  Kostopol (now in Ukraine) (8)
  
  Kozelschyna (Ukraine, Poltava Oblast), transit camp (8)
  
  Minsk (Belarus), NKVD remand center "Amerykanka", Hradsky Val Street 4 (8)
  
  Mołodeczno (now in Belarus) (8)
  
  Nakhodka (Russia, Primorsky Krai) (8)
  
  Proskuriv (Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (8)
  
  Shahrisabz (Uzbekistan) (8)
Victims
- The Poles (800)
  
  Civilians (599)
  
  The Civilian Population (475)
  
  Women (265)
  
  Deportees (245)
  
  The Jews (230)
  
  The Inteligentsia (229)
  
  Ukrainians (216)
  
  Children (209)
  
  Prisoners of War (204)
  
  The sick (183)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (168)
  
  The Sick (157)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (153)
  
  Russians/Soviets (141)
  
  Belarusians (135)
  
  Policemen (109)
  
  The Russians (104)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (95)
  
  The elderly (77)
  
  The Elderly (65)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (62)
  
  Internees (50)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (40)
  
  Lithuanians (31)
  
  Border Guard (28)
  
  Germans (28)
  
  The Church (27)
  
  Landowners (24)
  
  Border Protection Corps (20)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (18)
  
  Estonians (6)
  
  Latvians (6)
  
  Romanians (6)
  
  Prison Guard (5)
  
  Czechs (3)
  
  Hungarians (3)
  
  Finns (2)
  
  Scouts (1)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (1)
Perpetrators
- Red Army (180)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (124)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (111)
  
  Denunciation (86)
  
  Soviet Militia (67)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (37)
  
  Collaboration (36)
  
  Lithuanians (36)
  
  Collaborators (11)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (5)
  
  SS (4)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (3)
  
  Latvians (2)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (2)
  
  Military Police (2)
  
  Administrative Police (1)
  
  Postal Protection (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (735)
  
  Biological extermination (705)
  
  Arrest (561)
  
  Deportation/Exile (369)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (354)
  
  Beating (310)
  
  Judicial crime (237)
  
  Punishment cell (200)
  
  Cattle wagons (193)
  
  Disarmament (102)
  
  Robbery (94)
  
  Death by shooting (83)
  
  Roads of death (56)
  
  Execution (47)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (22)
  
  Air raids (20)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (16)
  
  Sovietization (16)
  
  Deportation (12)
  
  Forced voting (12)
  
  Desacration of corpses (8)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (7)
  
  Round-up (7)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (6)
  
  Cremation (5)
  
  Cremation of corpses (5)
  
  Armored weapons (3)
  
  Collectivization (3)
  
  Gas chambers (3)
  
  Mass graves (3)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (2)
  
  Administrative persecution (1)
  
  Denationalization (1)
  
  Economic exploitation (1)
  
  Racial policy (1)
  
  Rape (1)
Place
- NKVD custody suite (187)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (176)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (174)
  
  Kolkhoz (157)
  
  Prison (127)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (120)
  
  Transit camp (120)
  
  Mine (85)
  
  Internment camp (49)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (31)
  
  Sovkhoz (30)
  
  Concentration camp (5)
  
  Extermination camp (3)
  
  Labor camp (3)
  
  Siberia (3)
  
  Orphanage – dietdom (2)
Content
- Health service (510)
  
  Amnesty (208)
  
  Anders' Army (165)
  
  First deportation (125)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (122)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (110)
  
  Epidemics (106)
  
  Communist propaganda (77)
  
  Polish culture in exile (63)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (37)
  
  Third deportation (30)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (22)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (22)
  
  Second deportation (21)
  
  Fourth deportation (18)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (18)
  
  Military hospital (17)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (6)
  
  Students' Army Corps (6)
  
  Obliterating the traces (3)
  
  obliterating the traces (3)
  
  Extermination of Jews (2)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (2)
  
  Partisan warfare (2)
  
  Aid to Jews (1)
  
  Aktion Zamość (1)
  
  Civil resistance (1)
  
  Clandestine courses (1)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (1)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (1)
  
  Polish Underground State (1)
  
  Underground culture and education (1)
Object type
- Account (355)
  
  Report (355)
  
  Summary (355)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (12)
  
  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 (793)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (4)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (1)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (1)
Medium
- Text (801)
  
  Image (14)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (785)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (14)