“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)
- Anonymous (236)
  
  Szulc C. (82)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (30)
  
  Deja Stanisław; 23.04.1907, Kowala (23)
  
  Sobierajska Irena (19)
  
  Sulima Jan (11)
  
  Szczerbiński Jan (11)
  
  Steinhauf Renata (10)
  
  Stopa F. (10)
  
  Bochen Stanisław; 1901? (9)
  
  Gałecki Wiktor; 1901? (9)
  
  Nowiński (9)
  
  Polak Wacław (8)
  
  Kostka Stanisław (7)
  
  Lewicki W. (7)
  
  Sobczański J. (7)
  
  Sowiński Władysław (7)
  
  Stawiarski Eugeniusz (7)
  
  Baćmaga Walenty, 11.02.1902, Zakrzów (6)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (6)
  
  Grodzicki Kazimierz (6)
  
  Krakiewicz Feliks; 1873? (6)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (6)
  
  Marcinkiewicz Stefan (6)
  
  Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (6)
  
  Rott Wiesław; 14.06.1914, Lublin (6)
  
  Russanowska B. (6)
  
  Szelest Kazimierz; 25.03.1917, Kraków (6)
  
  Iwanicka Maria; 27.01.1913 (5)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (5)
  
  Konferowicz Wacław; 13.05.1912, Ostrów Mazowiecka (5)
  
  Kruszyna Stanisław (5)
  
  Kwiatkowski Jan; 1911? (5)
  
  Madej Józef (5)
  
  Mankiewicz Franciszek; 1898 (5)
  
  Maroński Stanisław (5)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 27.01.1913, Warsaw (5)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (5)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (5)
  
  Sendecki Sylwester; 1903? (5)
  
  Zielonka Jan (5)
  
  Łukasiewicz Henryk (5)
  
  Anastasiya, 1985 (4)
  
  Czardybon Bernard; 18.06.1901, Chorzów (4)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (4)
  
  Gozdur Stanisław; 11.11.1891, Wola Solecka (4)
  
  Grabosz Ludwika; 1879? (4)
  
  Jamróz Halina; 1919? (4)
  
  Janiszek Piotr, 19.10.1902, Grabów Szlachecki (4)
  
  Klimkiewicz Stanisław; 1895? (4)
  
  Korkosz Stanisław; 1904? (4)
  
  Korszla Jan; 1914? (4)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 04.05.1918, Kraków (4)
  
  Lizis Teofil (4)
  
  Lorentz Stanisław; 28.04.1899, Radom (4)
  
  Nass Róża; 09.01.1907, Biała (Bielsko-Biała) (4)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (4)
  
  Rajewski Ludwik; 16.12.1900, Łódź (4)
  
  Rogalski Władysław; 1879? (4)
  
  Sendler Irena; 15.02.1910, Warszawa (4)
  
  Skrzyniarz Adam (4)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć county) (4)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć district) (4)
  
  Stoeger Samuel; 14.05.1911, Kraków (4)
  
  Szymanowski Jan (4)
  
  Tomasik Marcin (4)
  
  Wojcikowski Stanisław (4)
  
  Wolny Stefan; 30.10.1903, Kamieńskie (Ukraine) (4)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (4)
  
  Łącki Mikołaj; 30.10.1888, Loyew (Belarus) (4)
  
  Adler Rubin; 24.11.1909, Końskie (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Anna, 1986 (3)
  
  Anna, 1989 (3)
  
  Banach Ludwig; 24.08.1917, Bydgoszcz (3)
  
  Banach Ludwik; 24.08.1918 (3)
  
  Barzał Czesław; 09.10.1915, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Bas Ludwik; 18.12.1912, Kraków (3)
  
  Bech Leon; 24.03.1989, Wola (3)
  
  Bida Władysław; 1886? (3)
  
  Blinstrub Aniela; 1892? (3)
  
  Bochenek Marta; 19.09.1892 (3)
  
  Bogdanowicz Jan; 17.12.1894, Warsaw (3)
  
  Brach Jan; 1919? (3)
  
  Branny Paweł; 13.05.1888, Żuków Dolny (Český Těšín, Czech Republic) (3)
  
  Brzoskowski Jan (3)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Ciepliński Brunon (3)
  
  Denisow Piotr; 1894? (3)
  
  Duda Konrad; 02.02.1914, Wartogłowiec (Tychy) (3)
  
  Dudzik Stanisław, 28.08.1897, Turze (woj. mazowieckie) (3)
  
  Dąbrówka Zofia; 1892? (3)
  
  Dąbski Stefan; 26.12.1919, Joanin (3)
  
  Fastman Ludwik; 31.07.1899, Drohobycz (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Filipowska (Freund) Ilza; 14.01.1902, Wrocław (3)
  
  Gil Piotr; 1897? (3)
  
  Grabczyński Jan; 21.05.1908, Tarnów (dolnośląskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Gronczak Józef; 1898? (3)
  
  Głowa Stanisław; 15.09.1898, Igołomia (3)
  
  Hanna, 1986 (3)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (3)
  
  Kullanda Henryk (1)
Subject
- The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (772)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (586)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (528)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (474)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (431)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (411)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (357)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (352)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (336)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (313)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (297)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (263)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (253)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (240)
  
  In exile – Siberia (203)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (190)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (186)
  
  The city condemned to death (174)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (162)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (161)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (161)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (157)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (156)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (146)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (140)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (136)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (131)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (130)
  
  Fighting for Kharkiv (129)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (123)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (112)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (112)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (110)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (110)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (110)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (107)
  
  Russian missile terror (102)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (102)
  
  In exile – Ural (101)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Mazovia (101)
  
  Russian occupation – south Ukraine (96)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (96)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (93)
  
  The tragedy of the Radom Arms Factory (91)
  
  Upper Silesia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (87)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (82)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (78)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (75)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (74)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Pomerania (73)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (72)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (71)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (70)
  
  Mariupol Siege (66)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (66)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (66)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (65)
  
  Fighting in Donbas (2014 and/or 2022) (63)
  
  Fighting for Kyiv (62)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (60)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (57)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (56)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Upper Silesia (56)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz (55)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (54)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (54)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (54)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (53)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (52)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (50)
  
  Stadion Leśny, Słowik, Herby – execution sites in Kielce (46)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (45)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (44)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town (44)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (44)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (42)
  
  Evacuation to Poland (41)
  
  The persecuted church (41)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Świętokrzyskie region (41)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (41)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (41)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (40)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Lublin region (39)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (39)
  
  Battle of Mykolaiv (38)
  
  Terror in the "incorporated lands" – the Łódź region (38)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Lublin region (38)
  
  Firlej near Radom – the training ground of death (37)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (37)
  
  Lebensraum – deportations from Lesser Poland (35)
  
  Treblinka – extermination camp (35)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (33)
  
  Radom – daily terror (33)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (33)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (33)
  
  Warsaw '44 – uprising in Praga (33)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (31)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (28)
  
  Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages (27)
  
  Michniów – the extermination of the Polish countryside (27)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz I (554)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (496)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (460)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (443)
  
  Warsaw (420)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (398)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (364)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (344)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (341)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (300)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (237)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (220)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (216)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (206)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (205)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (175)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (169)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (168)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (167)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (161)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (155)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (146)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (140)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (138)
  
  KL Majdanek (134)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (129)
  
  Kielce (127)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (120)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (120)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (106)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (105)
  
  Lublin (102)
  
  Radom (98)
  
  Siedlce (98)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (97)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (97)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (95)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (95)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (93)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (93)
  
  KL Plaszow (92)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (90)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (90)
  
  Kharkiv (90)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (89)
  
  Kraków (88)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (87)
  
  Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 (84)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka (84)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (79)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (79)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (79)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (78)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (78)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (75)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (75)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (73)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (72)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (72)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (72)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (70)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (69)
  
  Busko-Zdrój (68)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (67)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (67)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 (67)
  
  KL Stutthof (65)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (65)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (63)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (63)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (63)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (63)
  
  Mariupol (61)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (60)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (58)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (58)
  
  Firlej (Radom), municipal cemetery, Ofiar Firleja Street 45 (57)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (57)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (56)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (55)
  
  Starachowice (54)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (54)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) (54)
  
  Radom, Arms Factory "Łucznik", Poniatowskiego Street (1905 Street 1/9) (53)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (53)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (53)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (53)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (53)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (52)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (51)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (51)
  
  Bydgoszcz (50)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (50)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (49)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (49)
  
  Bochnia, train station (48)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (48)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (47)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (46)
  
  Białystok (46)
Oblast
- Kharkiv (148)
  
  Donetsk (112)
  
  Kherson (96)
  
  Zaporizhia (80)
  
  Kyiv (73)
  
  Dnipropetrovsk (47)
  
  Luhansk (44)
  
  Mykolaiv (40)
  
  Kyiv Oblast (33)
  
  Mikołajowski (27)
  
  Chernihiv (21)
  
  Sumy (20)
  
  Zhytomyr (14)
  
  Odesa (8)
  
  Lviv (7)
  
  Poltava (5)
  
  Rivne (5)
  
  Volyn (5)
  
  Ivano-Frankivsk (1)
Raion
- Kharkiv (110)
  
  Mariupol (66)
  
  Kherson (37)
  
  Kyiv (33)
  
  Mykolaiv (33)
  
  Kiev (32)
  
  Kakhovka (29)
  
  Bucha (24)
  
  Severodonetsk (23)
  
  Mikołajów (22)
  
  Nikopol (22)
  
  Chernihiv (16)
  
  Kramatorsk (15)
  
  Zaporizhia (15)
  
  Melitopol (14)
  
  Donetsk (13)
  
  Polohy (13)
  
  Sumy (13)
  
  Berdyansk (12)
  
  Izium (12)
  
  Vasylivka (11)
  
  Zhytomyr (11)
  
  Dnipro (10)
  
  Beryslav (9)
  
  Henichesk (9)
  
  Pokrovsk (8)
  
  Skadovsk (8)
  
  Svatove (7)
  
  Chuhuiv (6)
  
  Odesa (6)
  
  Bakhmut (5)
  
  Brovary (5)
  
  Rivne (5)
  
  Bohoduhiv (4)
  
  Fastiv (4)
  
  Kamianske (4)
  
  Pawlohrad (4)
  
  Volnovakha (4)
  
  Bashtanka (3)
  
  Kupyansk (3)
  
  Lutsk (3)
  
  Vyshhorod (3)
  
  Сhuhuiv (3)
  
  Bila Tserkva (2)
  
  Boryspil (2)
  
  Horlivka (2)
  
  Kremenchuk (2)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (2)
  
  Shchastia (2)
  
  Bilokurakyne (1)
  
  Ivano-Frankivsk (1)
  
  Kamin-Kashyrskyi (1)
  
  Markivka (1)
  
  Novoiavorivsk (1)
  
  Novomoskovsk (1)
  
  Oleszky (1)
  
  Pervomaisk (1)
  
  Podilsk (1)
  
  Rozivka (1)
  
  Schastia (1)
  
  Volyn (1)
  
  Voznesensk (1)
  
  Yavoriv (1)
Victims
- Civilians (9164)
  
  The Poles (8735)
  
  The Civilian Population (7799)
  
  Women (4071)
  
  Children (3409)
  
  The Jews (2544)
  
  The Inteligentsia (1612)
  
  Ukrainians (1476)
  
  The sick (1334)
  
  Prisoners of War (1224)
  
  The Sick (1213)
  
  The elderly (921)
  
  Deportees (919)
  
  Russians/Soviets (901)
  
  The Russians (769)
  
  The Elderly (731)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (537)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (518)
  
  Policemen (399)
  
  Belarusians (391)
  
  The Church (357)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (327)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (218)
  
  Germans (184)
  
  Internees (166)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (136)
  
  Hungarians (133)
  
  Czechs (124)
  
  The French (111)
  
  Lithuanians (106)
  
  Border Guard (105)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (104)
  
  Landowners (84)
  
  Slovaks (81)
  
  Belgians (74)
  
  Border Protection Corps (73)
  
  The Disabled (70)
  
  The Dutch (70)
  
  The Communists (67)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (60)
  
  Greeks (55)
  
  Latvians (39)
  
  Estonians (32)
  
  Italians (30)
  
  Romanians (24)
  
  Americans (23)
  
  The British (20)
  
  Internally displaced persons (15)
  
  Norwegians (14)
  
  Prison Guard (11)
  
  Finns (7)
  
  the Chinese (7)
  
  Azerbaijanis (3)
  
  Georgians (3)
  
  Scouts (3)
  
  Serbs (3)
  
  Bulgarians (2)
  
  Crimean Tatars (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (1730)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (971)
  
  Military Police (963)
  
  Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (710)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (673)
  
  Collaboration (509)
  
  Red Army (477)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (467)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (307)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (278)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (247)
  
  Denunciation (234)
  
  Soviet Militia (220)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (144)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (119)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (97)
  
  Lithuanians (90)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (81)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (64)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (61)
  
  Collaborators (59)
  
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Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation

Date

1942-1943.02

Location

German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House”

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Langbein Hermann 18.05.1912, Vienna (Austria)

Topic

Resistance movement in Auschwitz

Date

1942.08-1944.08

Location

KL Auschwitz I German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Dachau (Germany) KL Flossenbürg (Germany) Vienna (Austria)

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Łukaszczuk Wawrzyniec

Topic

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory

Date

1942.12.28-1943

Location

KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) Zamość, relocation camp, Okrzei Street Jaworzno, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) Zamość, resettlement camp, Okrzei Street

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Plaskura Józef 23.01.1911, Brzeszcze

Topic

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory

Date

1940.06.20-1944.08

Location

KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau

Witness

Woycicki Alfred 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine)

Topic

Resistance movement in Auschwitz

Date

1940-1945

Location

KL Gross-Rosen KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz I Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau KL Gross-Rosen

Witness

Kowalczyk Janina 10.03.1907, Golkowice

Topic

Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau

Date

1943.01-1943.08

Location

KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V Rajsko (Oświęcim district) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp Kraków Hamburg (Germany) Bochnia, train station KL Dachau (Germany) KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg)

Witness

Wąsowicz Tadeusz 29.07.1906, Limanowa

Topic

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death

Date

1922.08.31-1944.10.16

Location

KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau

Witness

Błotnicki Edward 08.04.1888, Lwów (now in Ukraine)

Topic

Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau

Date

1942.05.26-1945.01.27

Location

German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" Rajsko, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III Jawiszowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Nowy Sącz, correctional facility and temporary remand prison, Pijarska Street 1 Tarnów Krynica (Krynica-Zdrój) Jaworzno, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Krynica (Krynica-Zdrój), Gestapo headquarters, Piękna Street 13 Rajsko, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship)

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Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation

1942-1943.02

German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House”

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Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory

1940.06.20-1944.08

Resistance movement in Auschwitz

1940-1945

KL Gross-Rosen KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz I Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau KL Gross-Rosen

Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau

1943.01-1943.08

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death

1922.08.31-1944.10.16

KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau

Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau

1942.05.26-1945.01.27

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