“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)
- Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (4)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Koczorowski Józef; 01.02.1919, Poznań (3)
  
  Głuszak Józef; 27.10.1913, Koszyce Małe (2)
  
  Korecki Stanisław; 06.03.1914, Wola Gręboszowska (2)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (2)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć county) (2)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć district) (2)
  
  Stapf Adam; 01.08.1907, Tarnów (2)
  
  Wrona Edward; 13.10.1913, Tuchów (2)
  
  Bas Ludwik; 18.12.1912, Kraków (1)
  
  Bielecki Jerzy; 28.03.1921, Słaboszów (1)
  
  Biliżanka-Bielińska Maria (1)
  
  Brandhuber Jerzy; 23.10.1897, Kraków (1)
  
  Buś Maria; 1897, Kraków (1)
  
  Błotnicki Edward; 08.04.1888, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Cyba Eugeniusz; 07.12.1921, Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Deja Jan; 1902? (1)
  
  Drożdż Zdzisław (1)
  
  Dudek Władysław; 16.06.1920, Radogoszcz (1)
  
  Dudek Władysław; 1920? (1)
  
  Dudwak Lidia (1)
  
  Dybus Marian; 13.08.1921, Bochnia (1)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (1)
  
  Filipak Olga (1)
  
  Gorzkowski Józef; 11.06.1885 (1)
  
  Greniuch Józef (1)
  
  Górka Lucjan; 13.12.1884, Nowy Sącz (1)
  
  Jachym Mieczysław (1)
  
  Jarosz Lucyna (1)
  
  Jarska Roma; 1935 (1)
  
  Jaszczyński Czesław; 12.07.1913, Bochnia (1)
  
  Jaszczyński Roman; 05.04.1918, Bochnia (1)
  
  Jończyk Jan; 1890? (1)
  
  Kaczmarczyk Józef; 1903? (1)
  
  Kiczmachowski Edward; 29.07.1920, Strasburg (1)
  
  Kinel Stefan; 20.12.1912 (1)
  
  Kobylańska Maria (1)
  
  Kocięcki Stanisław; 06.03.1914, Wola Gręboszowska (1)
  
  Koczanowicz Stanisław; 05.05.1921, Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Komusińska Wanda (1)
  
  Kopta Marian; 08.12.1911, Kraków (1)
  
  Kosowicz Józefa (1)
  
  Kołodziejczyk Aleksander; 21.01.1914, Kraków (1)
  
  Krokowski Jan; 08.05.1921, Nowy Sącz (1)
  
  Kukla Zbigniew; 11.08.1910, Kalwaria Zebrzydowska (1)
  
  Litwink Jerzy Bernard; 19.08.1919, Warszawa (1)
  
  Malinowska Jadwiga (1)
  
  Maliński Stanisław; 23.01.1923, Tarnów (1)
  
  Mandel Augusta (1)
  
  Marchwicka Stanisława; 23.10.1899, Oświęcim (1)
  
  Mazanek Stefan; 1895 (1)
  
  Mańkowski Augustyn; 20.05.1890, Warsaw (1)
  
  Mikoś Michał; 10.1939 (1)
  
  Morawski Adam; 09.10.1902, Poznań (1)
  
  Myszkowski Franciszek Tadeusz; 1913? (1)
  
  Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (1)
  
  Mączka Zofia, 1905? (1)
  
  Mączka Zofia; 30.11.1905, Kraków (1)
  
  Nowosielski Aleksander Tadeusz; 14.04.1904, Oszmiana (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Paczyński Józef; 29.01.1920, Wadowice (1)
  
  Paudyn Tadeusz; 16.12.1899, Radom (1)
  
  Pałasiński Zdzisław; 10.12.1919, Kraków (1)
  
  Pietrzykowski Tadeusz; 08.04.1917, Warsaw (1)
  
  Pietrzykowski Tadeusz; 1916? (1)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (1)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Rumunia) (1)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 1911? (1)
  
  Rzepka Stanisława; 02.04.1921, Limanowa (1)
  
  Seyfried Edmund; 15.02.1889, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 19.04.1920, Łysa Góra (1)
  
  Smużewski Zygmunt; 17.05.1919, Stanisławowo (1)
  
  Smużewski Zygmunt; 1919? (1)
  
  Stankowski Kazimierz (1)
  
  Stapf Adam; 1907? (1)
  
  Szewczyk Jan; 15.02.1921, Nowy Sącz (1)
  
  Szuszkiewicz Roman; 24.03.1907, Stryj (1)
  
  Toliński Marian; 23.03.1915, Kraków (1)
  
  Wachholz Szczęsny Wilhelm; 1897 (1)
  
  Walas Józef; 23.02.1898, Bochnia (Bochnia district) (1)
  
  Waserberger Leon (1)
  
  Wesołowski Jerzy (1)
  
  Wieczorek Marian; 19.10.1921, Nowy Sącz (1)
  
  Woźniak Józefa; 1919? (1)
  
  Węgrzyn Elżbieta, 1911? (1)
  
  Zuzula Maria; 1881? (1)
  
  Ścisło Józef; 20.01.1909, Strzyżowice (śląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Światek Mieczysław (1)
  
  Świderek Maria; 09.02.1905 (1)
Subject
- The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (25)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (13)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (11)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (10)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (9)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Tarnów Ghetto (9)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (9)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (4)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (3)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (3)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (3)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (3)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Tarnów Ghetto (2)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (2)
  
  Taken Captive (2)
  
  A mass extermination – KL Flossenbürg (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Lesser Poland (1)
  
  Katowice – daily terror (1)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Flossenbürg (1)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Neuengamme (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Bergen-Belsen (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Sachsenhausen (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Kraków (1)
  
  Poles who saved Jews in the Kielce region (1)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (1)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (1)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (1)
  
  The Polish Righteous Among the Nations (1)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (1)
  
  The persecuted church (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz I (56)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (53)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (39)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (35)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (34)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (30)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (27)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (23)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (21)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (20)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (18)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (16)
  
  Tarnów (16)
  
  KL Plaszow (14)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (14)
  
  Warsaw (12)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (11)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (9)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (9)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (8)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (8)
  
  Kraków (8)
  
  Lublin (8)
  
  Częstochowa (7)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (7)
  
  Bochnia, train station (6)
  
  Jasło, temporary remand prison, Staszica Street 3 (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (6)
  
  Nowy Sącz, correctional facility and temporary remand prison, Pijarska Street 1 (6)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), Gestapo headquarters, Urszulańska Street 18 (6)
  
  Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (5)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (5)
  
  KL Neuengamme (Germany) (5)
  
  Nowy Sącz (5)
  
  Nowy Wiśnicz (5)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (5)
  
  Gorlice, Gestapo headquarters, Legionów Street 8 (4)
  
  Jawiszowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (4)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (4)
  
  KL Majdanek (4)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (4)
  
  Tarnów, Gestapo Headquarters, Urszulańska Street 18 (4)
  
  Babice, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  Bydgoszcz (3)
  
  Harmęże, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  Jaworzno, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, SS-Stabsgebaude (3)
  
  KL Barth (subcamp of KL Ravensbrück, Germany) (3)
  
  KL Ebensee (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) (3)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (3)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (3)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (3)
  
  KL Melk (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) (3)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (3)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Przemyśl (3)
  
  Przemyśl, prison, Rokitniańska Street 1 (3)
  
  Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  Sanok, penal-investigative prison, Zaułek Dobrego Wojaka Szwejka Street 4 (Kościuszki Street 5) (3)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  Starachowice (3)
  
  Tarnów, ghetto (3)
  
  Łódź (3)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz III (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Bochnia (2)
  
  Dąbrówka (Wadowice district) (2)
  
  Gorlice (2)
  
  Jasło (2)
  
  Jerusalem (Israel) (2)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (2)
  
  KL Mittelbau-Dora (Germany) (2)
  
  Katowice (2)
  
  Kielce (2)
  
  Międzybrodzie Bialskie, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Pustków, forced labor camp (2)
  
  Radom (2)
  
  Radzymin (2)
  
  Rajsko, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Stryszów (2)
  
  Warzyce (Jasło), penal institution, Warzyce 467 (2)
  
  Zakopane, Gestapo headquarters, Chałubińskiego Street 7 (2)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz I (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz II (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz IV (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (1)
  
  Berlin, Moabit prison, Lehrter Strasse 5 (1)
  
  Białystok (1)
  
  Bochnia, Czackiego Street (1)
  
  Bochnia, King Kazimierz Wielki Public Middle and High School, Ks. Czaplińskiego Square 1 (1)
  
  Brno (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Brody (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Brzeszcze (1)
  
  Buczacz (now in Ukraine) (1)
Victims
- Civilians (107)
  
  The Civilian Population (88)
  
  The Poles (88)
  
  The Jews (73)
  
  Women (64)
  
  Children (39)
  
  The Inteligentsia (38)
  
  Russians/Soviets (29)
  
  The Russians (27)
  
  Prisoners of War (26)
  
  The sick (24)
  
  The elderly (23)
  
  The Sick (19)
  
  The Elderly (17)
  
  Germans (15)
  
  The Church (15)
  
  Hungarians (13)
  
  Czechs (10)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (10)
  
  The Communists (8)
  
  The French (8)
  
  Greeks (7)
  
  Slovaks (7)
  
  The Dutch (7)
  
  Belgians (5)
  
  The Disabled (5)
  
  Romanians (3)
  
  Italians (2)
  
  Norwegians (2)
  
  Americans (1)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (1)
  
  Policemen (1)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (1)
  
  The British (1)
  
  Ukrainians (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (78)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (36)
  
  Collaboration (14)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (9)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (4)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (2)
  
  Latvians (2)
  
  Security Office (2)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (2)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (2)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (2)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (2)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (1)
  
  Military Police (1)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (1)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (1)
  
  Red Army (1)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (1)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (1)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (1)
Crimes
- Execution (78)
  
  Beating (76)
  
  Forced labor (75)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (71)
  
  Death by shooting (70)
  
  Arrest (59)
  
  Deportation (58)
  
  Biological extermination (53)
  
  Gas chambers (41)
  
  Cremation of corpses (35)
  
  Robbery (33)
  
  Cremation (30)
  
  Hanging (29)
  
  Medical experiments (15)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (15)
  
  "Dosing" (13)
  
  Round-up (13)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (13)
  
  Mass graves (12)
  
  Displacement (10)
  
  Economic exploitation (10)
  
  Cattle wagons (9)
  
  Racial policy (9)
  
  Burning people alive (8)
  
  Administrative persecution (7)
  
  Desacration of corpses (7)
  
  Death marches (6)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (6)
  
  Judicial crime (6)
  
  Expulsion (5)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (5)
  
  Germanization (3)
  
  Rape (2)
  
  Air raids (1)
  
  Disarmament (1)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (1)
Place
- Concentration camp (66)
  
  Prison (53)
  
  Extermination camp (42)
  
  Labor camp (19)
  
  Police headquarters/station (13)
  
  Forced labor (3)
  
  Ghetto (3)
  
  Transit camp (2)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (1)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (1)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (1)
Content
- Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (39)
  
  Extermination of Jews (38)
  
  Rescue of Jews (17)
  
  Health service (12)
  
  Obliterating the traces (12)
  
  obliterating the traces (10)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (9)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (8)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (7)
  
  Civil resistance (6)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (6)
  
  Aktion Zamość (5)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (4)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (4)
  
  Underground culture and education (3)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (2)
  
  Central Welfare Council (2)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (2)
  
  Judenrat (2)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (2)
  
  Polish Underground State (2)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (2)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (2)
  
  Underground media (2)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (1)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (1)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (85)
  
  Brief (10)
  
  Account (6)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (6)
  
  Book excerpt (1)
  
  Statement (1)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Supreme National Tribunal (67)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków (15)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (14)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (1)
  
  District Court in Radom (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)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (1)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (1)
Medium
- Text (113)
  
  Image (14)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (92)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (21)