„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)
- Lorentz Stanisław; 28.04.1899, Radom (4)
  
  Fastman Ludwik; 31.07.1899, Drohobycz (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Anonymous (2)
  
  Chrościcki Julian; 26.05.1892, Szymony (2)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Michelis Zygmunt; 17.03.1880, Bycz (kujawsko-pomorskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Przybyliński Adam; 04.01.1896, Płock (2)
  
  Wolter Władysław; 05.02.1897, Kraków (2)
  
  Łącki Mikołaj; 30.10.1888, Loyew (Belarus) (2)
  
  Andrzejczyk Edward Edmund; 18.08.1918, Słupia (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Bail Alina Eleonora; 21.02.1931, Warsaw (1)
  
  Banaszczyk Jan (1)
  
  Basik Kazimiera; 1913?, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Biejat Edmund; 1891? (1)
  
  Bischoff Krystyna; 1919? (1)
  
  Bliźniański Włodzimierz (1)
  
  Blumenthal Nachman; 1901? (1)
  
  Blusztein Laja; 1921? (1)
  
  Borzykowski Tuwia (Tadeusz); 1911 (1)
  
  Brześciański Julian; 1908 (1)
  
  Cera Stanisław (1)
  
  Chołdyk Stanisław; 1895?, Sielec (1)
  
  Chrzanowski Stanisław; 1926? (1)
  
  Cyra Józef; 03.07.1909 (1)
  
  Czarny Moszek; 05.05.1910, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Czuba Stanisław; 1906? (1)
  
  Damięcki Dobiesław; 02.04.1899, Karniewek (1)
  
  Domasik Stanisław; 1884, Witkowice (Oświęcim county) (1)
  
  Domżalska Alina (1)
  
  Drabik Stanisław; 04.02.1907, Jaworze (1)
  
  Dudziński Zygmunt; 1887? (1)
  
  Estreicher Karol; 1905? (1)
  
  Falk Ignacy; 1902? (1)
  
  Falkowska Janina; 11.03.1914, Warszawa (1)
  
  Fastman Ludwik; 31.07.1897, Drohobycz (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Fastman Ludwik; 31.07.1899, Drohobycz (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Fischmann Dawid; 02.01.1906, Ciechanów (1)
  
  Fryt Hanna (1)
  
  Garwin vel Garfinkiel Mieczysław; 11.05.1898, Zamość (1)
  
  Gałek Alojzy Józef; 1903? (1)
  
  Gałązka Antoni; 1906? (1)
  
  Gelade Eliasz; 1893? (1)
  
  Gelade Eliasz; 1894? (1)
  
  Ginter Teresa (1)
  
  Glibowska Maria; 08.11.1907, Rudniki (1)
  
  Grabowski Franciszek (1)
  
  Grabowski Franciszek; 15.05.1899 Malinowo (1)
  
  Grabowski Lech; 1901 (1)
  
  Grabowski Ludwik; 12.06./06.12.1882, Józefin (Halinów county) (1)
  
  Gryczon Grzegorz; 12.03.1895, Rząśnik Włościański (1)
  
  Grygiel Konstanty; 1899? (1)
  
  Gutkowska Teresa, 06.12.1930 (1)
  
  Gwiazdomorski Jan; 1898? (1)
  
  Góra Jerzy (1)
  
  Górski Antoni Stanisław; 18.08.1914, Warsaw (1)
  
  Hałko Lech (1)
  
  Hirszfeld Ludwik; 05.08.1884, Warsaw (1)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 13.11.1916, Kraków (1)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (1)
  
  Hrad-Głowacka Zofia (1)
  
  Hukiewicz Maria; 1909? (1)
  
  Iwanka Aleksander Konstanty; 04.10.1904, Nitra (Slovakia) (1)
  
  Jakubiec Ignacy; 29.01.1906, Żabno (1)
  
  Jakubowski Tadeusz; 28.04.1893, Kraków (1)
  
  Janikowski Jan Bronisław; 14.05.1888, Warsaw (1)
  
  Janocha Piotr; 28.06.1889 (1)
  
  Jarynowski Jan (1)
  
  Jurecka Waleria; 1919? (1)
  
  Jędrzejowski Ferdynand; 06.01.1893, Sieniawa (1)
  
  Kac Samuel; 1892?, Sandomierz (1)
  
  Kalinowski Adam; 1899? (1)
  
  Kania Jan; 1913? (1)
  
  Kaprzyk Zofia, 08.05.1932 (1)
  
  Kardas Józef; 1915? (1)
  
  Kaszubowski Jan; 05.10.1910, Nygut (1)
  
  Kawecki Jerzy; 1913? (1)
  
  Kidoń Franciszek; 1890? (1)
  
  Kieroń Wiktor; 03.10.1894, Zagórz (podkarpackie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Klarner Czesław; 07.02.1872, Płońsk (1)
  
  Klecha Józef; 1903? (1)
  
  Klimas Zbigniew (1)
  
  Knauff Stanisław; 03.05.1905 (1)
  
  Koczorowski Józef; 01.02.1919, Poznań (1)
  
  Kogut Jan; 1902? (1)
  
  Koniecpoler Dawid; 1898?, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Kotowska Łucja; 1929? (1)
  
  Kowal Aleksandra (1)
  
  Kozub Aleksy; 1892? (1)
  
  Kołodziej Tadeusz (1)
  
  Krassowska Eugenia; 21.01.1910, Nowy Dwór (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Krassowska Eugenia; 21.01.1910, Nowy Dwór (now: Belarus) (1)
  
  Krawczyk Feliks; 1897? (1)
  
  Królikowski Jan; 25.05.1905 (1)
  
  Kuczkowska Leokadia, 16.02.1898 (1)
  
  Kulikiewicz Józef; 1893? (1)
  
  Lampe Wiktor; 10.03.1875, Warsaw (1)
  
  Lehr-Soławiński Tadeusz; 1890? (1)
  
  Leja Ignacy (1)
  
  Lepszy Kazimierz; 11.06.1904 (1)
  
  Lipczyński Józef (1)
Subject
- Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (48)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (28)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (25)
  
  The persecuted church (9)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (8)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (8)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (7)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (6)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (6)
  
  The Free City of Danzig – erasing Polishness (6)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (6)
  
  The city condemned to death (6)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (4)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (4)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (3)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (3)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Radom Ghetto (3)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (3)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (3)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Radom Ghetto (3)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (3)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (2)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Lesser Poland (2)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (2)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Tarnów Ghetto (2)
  
  Pruszków – the town of the displaced (2)
  
  Radom – daily terror (2)
  
  Terror in the "incorporated lands" – the Łódź region (2)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews (2)
  
  Clandestine teaching classes – Pomerania (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Wilno region (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (1)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Stopnica Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Zamość Ghetto (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Bergen-Belsen (1)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Greater Poland (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Upper Silesia (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Volhynia (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Nowogród region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Podlasie region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Łódź region (1)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (1)
  
  Soldier's House, Fort VII, Żabikowo – the trail of death in Greater Poland (1)
  
  Taken Captive (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Częstochowa Ghetto (1)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Lesser Poland (1)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (1)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Radom region (1)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Wawer Massacre '39 (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (26)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (19)
  
  Warsaw (16)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (11)
  
  Kraków (10)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (9)
  
  Radom (9)
  
  Częstochowa (8)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (8)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (8)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (8)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (7)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (7)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (6)
  
  KL Majdanek (6)
  
  KL Plaszow (6)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (6)
  
  Lublin (6)
  
  Opatów, Słowackiego Street 1 (6)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (5)
  
  Gdańsk (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (5)
  
  Opatów, Cememtery, Cmentarna Street (5)
  
  Palmiry (5)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (5)
  
  Radom, Ghetto Śródmieście (5)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (5)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (5)
  
  Bliżyn, forced labor camp (4)
  
  Busko-Zdrój (4)
  
  Częstochowa, Ghetto (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (4)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (4)
  
  Karolin (Zwoleń district) (4)
  
  Radom, Ghetto Glinice (4)
  
  Radomsko (4)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (4)
  
  Stopnica (4)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), Gestapo headquarters, Urszulańska Street 18 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Central Jail, Daniłowiczowska Street 7 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Nalewki Street 9 (4)
  
  Warsaw, National Museum, Aleje Jerozolimskie 3 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Royal Castle, Zamkowy Square 4 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Saski Square (Piłsudskiego Square) (4)
  
  Warsaw, Łazienki Królewskie [Royal Baths Park] (4)
  
  Bełżec, German extermination camp (3)
  
  Bydgoszcz (3)
  
  Gdynia (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (3)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (3)
  
  KL Stutthof (3)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (3)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (3)
  
  Warsaw, Evangelical-Augsburg Church of the Holy Trinity, Małachowskiego Square 1 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Gęsiówka prison, Gęsia Street (Anielewicza Street)/ Zamenhofa Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, Koszykowa Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, St. John's Cathedral, Świętojańska Street 8 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Warsaw University of Technology, Politechniki Square 1 (3)
  
  Warsaw, city hall (Jabłonowski Palace), Senatorska Street 16 (3)
  
  Wrocław (3)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Łódź (3)
  
  Biała Podlaska (2)
  
  Bochnia, train station (2)
  
  Borszczów (Ukraine) (2)
  
  Busko-Zdrój, Gestapo headquarters, 3 Maja Avenue 7 (Batorego Street/ Mickiewicza Avenue) (2)
  
  Częstochowa, forced labor camp "Hasag Pelcery", 1 Maja Street (Filomatów Street 14) (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Sobibór (2)
  
  Gołąbki (Warsaw), Śniadeckich Street 7 (2)
  
  Gołąbki, Śniadeckich Street 7 (district of Warsa) (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (2)
  
  Kielce (2)
  
  Kraków, Collegium Novum of the Jagiellonian University, Gołębia Street 24 (2)
  
  Lasocin (district of Opatów) (2)
  
  Leokadiów (2)
  
  Nowy Wiśnicz, forced labor camp (2)
  
  Opatów, Agricultural and Trading Cooperative, Ćmielowska Street (2)
  
  Orzechówka (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship) (2)
  
  Orzechówka (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka (2)
  
  Pustków, forced labor camp (2)
  
  Płock (2)
  
  Radom, Gestapo headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (2)
  
  Radom, forced labor camp, Szwarlikowskiego Street (2)
  
  Sandomierz (2)
  
  Siedlce (2)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna, forced labor camp "Hasag", Legionów Street 122 (2)
  
  Skała (małopolskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Skała (małopolskie voivodeship), Jewish cemetery (2)
  
  Stopnica, Ghetto, Kościuszki Street (2)
  
  Słupcza (2)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (2)
  
  Tarnów, Gestapo Headquarters, Urszulańska Street 18 (2)
  
  Tomaszów Lubelski (2)
  
  Warsaw, Bar Association, Aleje Jerozolimskie 11 (2)
Victims
- Civilians (199)
  
  The Civilian Population (190)
  
  The Poles (186)
  
  The Jews (105)
  
  Children (85)
  
  Women (82)
  
  The Inteligentsia (71)
  
  The elderly (31)
  
  The sick (31)
  
  The Elderly (26)
  
  The Sick (26)
  
  The Church (22)
  
  Prisoners of War (12)
  
  Russians/Soviets (11)
  
  The Russians (9)
  
  The Disabled (5)
  
  The Communists (4)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (4)
  
  Germans (3)
  
  Czechs (2)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (2)
  
  The French (2)
  
  Ukrainians (2)
  
  Belarusians (1)
  
  Greeks (1)
  
  Hungarians (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (1)
  
  The British (1)
  
  The Dutch (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (65)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (43)
  
  Military Police (33)
  
  Collaboration (32)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (24)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (21)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (21)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (20)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (12)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (7)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (7)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (6)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (5)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (4)
  
  Latvians (3)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (3)
  
  Assault Units (Sturmabteilung, SA) (2)
  
  Denunciation (2)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (2)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (2)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (2)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (2)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (2)
  
  Waffen-SS (2)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (1)
  
  Soviet Militia (1)
Crimes
- Administrative persecution (213)
  
  Arrest (106)
  
  Execution (104)
  
  Death by shooting (83)
  
  Beating (81)
  
  Robbery (79)
  
  Forced labor (78)
  
  Economic exploitation (70)
  
  Deportation (64)
  
  Racial policy (58)
  
  Displacement (54)
  
  Biological extermination (52)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (49)
  
  Expulsion (48)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (48)
  
  Round-up (41)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (39)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (21)
  
  Judicial crime (18)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (17)
  
  Mass graves (16)
  
  Germanization (14)
  
  Cremation of corpses (12)
  
  Cremation (11)
  
  Air raids (10)
  
  Burning people alive (8)
  
  Cattle wagons (8)
  
  Desacration of corpses (8)
  
  Gas chambers (8)
  
  Hanging (8)
  
  Rape (8)
  
  Denationalization (7)
  
  Medical experiments (7)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (6)
  
  Artillery fire (3)
  
  Artillery shelling (3)
  
  "Dosing" (1)
  
  Death marches (1)
  
  Deportation/Exile (1)
Place
- Ghetto (51)
  
  Concentration camp (39)
  
  Prison (34)
  
  Labor camp (23)
  
  Forced labor (21)
  
  Police headquarters/station (19)
  
  Extermination camp (16)
  
  Transit camp (7)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (5)
Content
- Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (58)
  
  Extermination of Jews (57)
  
  Rescue of Jews (43)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (23)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (20)
  
  Civil resistance (20)
  
  Health service (17)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (17)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (16)
  
  Judenrat (14)
  
  Central Welfare Council (13)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (12)
  
  Underground culture and education (11)
  
  Underground courts (10)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (8)
  
  Free City of Danzig (8)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (8)
  
  Underground media (7)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (7)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (5)
  
  Obliterating the traces (5)
  
  Polish Underground State (5)
  
  obliterating the traces (5)
  
  Aktion Zamość (4)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (4)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (4)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (3)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (3)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (3)
  
  the Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (3)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (2)
  
  Pabst Plan (Pabst-Plan) (2)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (2)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (2)
  
  Called by name (1)
  
  Clandestine courses (1)
  
  Polish culture in exile (1)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (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 (162)
  
  Brief (21)
  
  Account (8)
  
  Statement (3)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (2)
  
  Questionnaire (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Supreme National Tribunal (79)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (35)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (25)
  
  District Court in Radom (15)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (13)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (12)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (9)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (7)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (6)
  
  District Court in Łomża (5)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Gdańsk (2)
  
  Voivodeship Court in Łódź (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation – Institute of National Remembrance in Białystok (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Białystok (1)
Medium
- Text (209)
  
  Image (25)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (140)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (73)