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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Adamczyk Jan; 1901? (1)
  
  Bojar Michał; 19.09.1901, Krasne (1)
  
  Brunarska Zofia; 27.05.1923 (1)
  
  Chrzanowski Stanisław; 1926? (1)
  
  Cywka Józef 1900? (1)
  
  Cywka Józef; 1900? (1)
  
  Damięcki Dobiesław; 02.04.1899, Karniewek (1)
  
  Dawidowski Franciszek (1)
  
  Filipak Olga (1)
  
  Fryt Hanna (1)
  
  Garkowski Alfons (1)
  
  Gwiazdomorski Jan; 1898? (1)
  
  Jakubiec Ignacy; 29.01.1906, Żabno (1)
  
  Jaworski Józef; 23.09.1882 Wierzbica (Radom county) (1)
  
  Jaworski Józef; 23.09.1882, Wierzbica (Radom county) (1)
  
  Jurko Walentyna, 15.05.1915 (1)
  
  Kaczmarek Karol (1)
  
  Kamińska Irena; 30.09.1924, Sadowne (1)
  
  Kiełbowski Paweł; 1892? (1)
  
  Koźmiński Jerzy; 31.08.1924 (1)
  
  Krajewska Sabina; 30.03.1899, Łozówka (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Kret Józef; 03.03.1895, Staromieście (Rzeszów) (1)
  
  Kurkowska Teresa (1)
  
  Kutzner Maria; 02.02.1940, Szelest (1)
  
  Kwiatkowski Ignacy; 1904? (1)
  
  Lampert Lilianna; 02.06.1931 (1)
  
  Lehr-Soławiński Tadeusz; 1890? (1)
  
  Leja Ignacy (1)
  
  Lewandowski Jerzy (1)
  
  Libicki Jacek; 29.09.1934, Kraków (1)
  
  Lorentski Andrzej; 1915?, Kraków (1)
  
  Lorentz Stanisław; 28.04.1899, Radom (1)
  
  Martynuska Janina (1)
  
  Maszczyk Antoni (1)
  
  Małecki Mieczysław; 14.07.1903, Mielec (1)
  
  Maślanko Mieczysław; 07.09.1903, Warsaw (1)
  
  Miecznikowska Hanna (1)
  
  Morawski Zdzisław; 11.01.1927, Mała Wieś (Grójec county) (1)
  
  Oswald Stanisława; 08.05.1902 (1)
  
  Pacholec Władysław; 1927? (1)
  
  Piróg Bazyli; 1908?, Mościska (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Piróg Bazyli; 1908?, Mościska (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Piskorek Franciszek; 1892? (1)
  
  Potworowski Edward (1)
  
  Przyborowska Maria; 29.07.1898, Warsaw (1)
  
  Skarżyński Jerzy (1)
  
  Strawiński Eugeniusz; 1916 (1)
  
  Szotowska Maria (1)
  
  Szpunar Zofia; 01.01.1925, Warsaw (1)
  
  Szpunar Zofia; 01.01.1925, Warszawa (1)
  
  Sękowski Stefan; 1925 (1)
  
  Słyk Anna (1)
  
  Terlecki Wacław; 1907 (1)
  
  Walas Jan; 23.06.1903 (1)
  
  Wesołowska Germana (1)
  
  Witeszczak Lesław (1)
  
  Wniler Samuel, 12.11.1914, Wiedeń (Austria) (1)
  
  Wrona Edward; 13.10.1913, Tuchów (1)
  
  Wrzosek Mieczysław (1)
  
  Żurakowska-Gniazdowska Teresa; 21.05.1929, Kiwerce (1)
Subject
- Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (6)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (4)
  
  The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews (4)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Warsaw (3)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (3)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (3)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (2)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (2)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (2)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  The Polish Righteous Among the Nations (2)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (2)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Kraków (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Lublin region (1)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (1)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (1)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (1)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (1)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (1)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (1)
  
  The tragedy of the Radom Arms Factory (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)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (7)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (7)
  
  Kraków (6)
  
  Warsaw (5)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (4)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (4)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (3)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (3)
  
  Radzymin (3)
  
  Szymanów (Sochaczew district), convent of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Szkolna Street 2 (3)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (2)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (2)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (2)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (2)
  
  Kraków, Collegium Novum of the Jagiellonian University, Gołębia Street 24 (2)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Mała Wieś (Grójec district) (2)
  
  Palmiry (2)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (2)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (2)
  
  Siedlce (2)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (2)
  
  Warsaw, Marszałkowska Street (2)
  
  Warsaw, convent of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Kazimierzowska Street 59 (2)
  
  Wrocław (2)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (1)
  
  Belsk Duży (1)
  
  Belsk Mały (1)
  
  Bieżanów (1)
  
  Bliżyn, forced labor camp (1)
  
  Brody (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Buenos Aires (Argentina) (1)
  
  Busko-Zdrój, Gestapo headquarters, 3 Maja Avenue 7 (Batorego Street/ Mickiewicza Avenue) (1)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (1)
  
  Chroberz (1)
  
  Chroberz, cemetery, Staropolska Street (1)
  
  Chroberz, forced labor camp (1)
  
  Czermna (małopolskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Czortków (now in Ukraine), prison, Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) (1)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Dąbrówka (Wadowice district) (1)
  
  Firlej (Radom) (1)
  
  Firlej (Radom), municipal cemetery, Ofiar Firleja Street 45 (1)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (1)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (1)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (1)
  
  Gilowa Góra (1)
  
  Gola (Gostyń district) (1)
  
  Grzegorzewo (1)
  
  Hołosko (Lwów, Ukraine) (1)
  
  Januszowice (Busko-Zdrój district) (1)
  
  Jedlnia (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, SS-Stabsgebaude (1)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (1)
  
  KL Leitmeritz (subcamp of KL Flossenbürg, Czech Republic) (1)
  
  KL Plaszow (1)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (1)
  
  Kazimierz Dolny (1)
  
  Koluszki (1)
  
  Konetsgorye (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (1)
  
  Korotkovo (Russia, Vologda Oblast) (1)
  
  Kostopol (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Kozelschyna (Ukraine, Poltava Oblast), transit camp (1)
  
  Koźle (Zgierz district) (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)
  
  Leżajsk, Church of Merciful Jesus, Jarosławska Street 2 (1)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (1)
  
  Lwów (Ukraine), Gestapo headquarters, Pełczyńska Street 55 (Witowskiego Street 55) (1)
  
  Lwów (Ukraine), Kochanowskiego Street 51 (Lewickiego Street 51) (1)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Gestapo Headquarters, Pełczyńska Street 55 (Witowskiego Street 55) (1)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no. 1, Łąckiego Street (Bandery Street 1) (1)
  
  Majdan Łukawiecki (1)
Victims
- Civilians (54)
  
  The Civilian Population (53)
  
  The Poles (47)
  
  Women (32)
  
  The Inteligentsia (29)
  
  The Jews (28)
  
  Children (25)
  
  Prisoners of War (6)
  
  The Church (6)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (5)
  
  Russians/Soviets (5)
  
  The sick (5)
  
  The elderly (4)
  
  The Sick (4)
  
  The Elderly (3)
  
  The Russians (3)
  
  Border Guard (2)
  
  Border Protection Corps (2)
  
  Deportees (2)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (2)
  
  Internees (2)
  
  Policemen (2)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (1)
  
  Germans (1)
  
  Landowners (1)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (1)
  
  The Disabled (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (10)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (10)
  
  Military Police (6)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (5)
  
  Collaboration (4)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (4)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (4)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (3)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (2)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (2)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (2)
  
  Denunciation (1)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (1)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Red Army (1)
  
  Security Office (1)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1)
Crimes
- Arrest (32)
  
  Forced labor (22)
  
  Deportation (19)
  
  Execution (19)
  
  Death by shooting (17)
  
  Biological extermination (16)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (16)
  
  Beating (15)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (12)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (12)
  
  Administrative persecution (11)
  
  Robbery (11)
  
  Round-up (8)
  
  Denationalization (7)
  
  Displacement (7)
  
  Expulsion (7)
  
  Racial policy (5)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (5)
  
  Air raids (4)
  
  Deportation/Exile (4)
  
  Gas chambers (4)
  
  Judicial crime (4)
  
  Mass graves (4)
  
  Armored weapons (3)
  
  Cattle wagons (3)
  
  Economic exploitation (3)
  
  Cremation (2)
  
  Cremation of corpses (2)
  
  Death marches (2)
  
  Germanization (2)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (2)
  
  Punishment cell (2)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (2)
  
  Desacration of corpses (1)
  
  Disarmament (1)
  
  Hanging (1)
  
  Rape (1)
  
  Sovietization (1)
Place
- Prison (13)
  
  Concentration camp (11)
  
  Forced labor (7)
  
  Ghetto (6)
  
  Police headquarters/station (4)
  
  Transit camp (4)
  
  Labor camp (3)
  
  Extermination camp (2)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (2)
  
  Internment camp (2)
  
  NKVD custody suite (2)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (2)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (2)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (1)
  
  Mine (1)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (1)
  
  Sewers (1)
Content
- Underground culture and education (56)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (29)
  
  Rescue of Jews (21)
  
  Civil resistance (12)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (11)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (10)
  
  Health service (8)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (6)
  
  Anders' Army (5)
  
  Extermination of Jews (5)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (4)
  
  Clandestine courses (4)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (4)
  
  Communist propaganda (3)
  
  Polish Underground State (3)
  
  Underground media (3)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (3)
  
  Central Welfare Council (2)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (2)
  
  Epidemics (2)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (2)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (2)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (2)
  
  Obliterating the traces (2)
  
  Polish culture in exile (2)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (2)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (2)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (2)
  
  Underground courts (2)
  
  obliterating the traces (2)
  
  the Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (2)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (1)
  
  Amnesty (1)
  
  Called by name (1)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (1)
  
  First deportation (1)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (1)
  
  Judenrat (1)
  
  Pabst Plan (Pabst-Plan) (1)
  
  Second deportation (1)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (1)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
  
  the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (21)
  
  Brief (10)
  
  Account (8)
  
  Statement (4)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (19)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (11)
  
  Independent Historical Office of the Command of the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union/Documentation Office of the Polish Army in the East (7)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (7)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (6)
  
  District Court in Radom (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (1)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (1)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (1)
Medium
- Text (54)
  
  Image (7)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (30)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (26)