“Chronicles of Terror”. Base of testimonies of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor

Main Page Search phrase: [Event Date = 1939.10.01 - 1941.07.30]

Witness (date and place of birth)
- Anonymous (68)
  
  Szulc C. (46)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (16)
  
  Sobierajska Irena (13)
  
  Nowiński (8)
  
  Steinhauf Renata (7)
  
  Deja Stanisław; 23.04.1907, Kowala (6)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (6)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (6)
  
  Marcinkiewicz Stefan (6)
  
  Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (6)
  
  Szelest Kazimierz; 25.03.1917, Kraków (6)
  
  Lewicki W. (5)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 27.01.1913, Warsaw (5)
  
  Czardybon Bernard; 18.06.1901, Chorzów (4)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (4)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (4)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (4)
  
  Rajewski Ludwik; 16.12.1900, Łódź (4)
  
  Russanowska B. (4)
  
  Sendler Irena; 15.02.1910, Warszawa (4)
  
  Łącki Mikołaj; 30.10.1888, Loyew (Belarus) (4)
  
  Barzał Czesław; 09.10.1915, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Blinstrub Aniela; 1892? (3)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Duda Konrad; 02.02.1914, Wartogłowiec (Tychy) (3)
  
  Koczorowski Józef; 01.02.1919, Poznań (3)
  
  Konferowicz Wacław; 13.05.1912, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Krokowski Jan; 08.05.1921, Nowy Sącz (3)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (3)
  
  Lorentz Stanisław; 28.04.1899, Radom (3)
  
  Maliszewski Stefan; 23.05.1912, Warsaw (3)
  
  Maławska-Primas Hanna (3)
  
  Piegat Stanisław; 26.09.1891 (3)
  
  Plaskura Józef; 23.01.1911, Brzeszcze (3)
  
  Plaskura Władysław; 10.05.1905, Łazy (Orłowa, Czech Republic) (3)
  
  Rżewski Władysław, 07.01.1894 (3)
  
  Siedlecki Karol (3)
  
  Staszkiewicz Bronisław; 18.07.1921, Żywiec (3)
  
  Strynkowski Józef; 23.02.1891, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Szyszko-Bohusz Adolf; 19.08.1883, Narva (Estonia) (3)
  
  Taul Roman; 28.02.1917, Bytom (3)
  
  Tondos Władysław; 06.10.1900, Kalina Mała (3)
  
  Wrona Edward; 13.10.1913, Tuchów (3)
  
  Apolińska Zofia; 1893?, Zambrów (2)
  
  Ast Jadwiga; 24.01.1923, Żarnowiec (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Bartel Erwin; 02.03.1923, Oświęcim (2)
  
  Bartoszko Kazimierz; 09.10.1898 (2)
  
  Bas Ludwik; 18.12.1912, Kraków (2)
  
  Bicz Bolesław; 01.04.1889, Sporysz (Bielsk county) (2)
  
  Bida Władysław; 1886? (2)
  
  Biejat Edmund; 1891? (2)
  
  Bochenek Marta; 19.09.1892 (2)
  
  Boratyński Stefan (Kluska); 13.06.1917, Kraków (2)
  
  Borkowski Stefan (2)
  
  Bryński Antoni; 18.01.1899, Radom (2)
  
  Brzoskowski Jan (2)
  
  Bąk Michał; 1903? (2)
  
  Chwistek Barbara (2)
  
  Ciopińska Anna (2)
  
  Cyba Eugeniusz; 07.12.1921, Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Czerwonka Władysław; 22.12.1899, Mucisko (2)
  
  Dubiel Stanisław; 13.11.1910, Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Dudek Władysław; 16.06.1920, Radogoszcz (2)
  
  Dudek Władysław; 1920? (2)
  
  Dąbkowska Wiktoria, 1878? (2)
  
  Dąbrowski Jan (2)
  
  Dąbski Stefan; 26.12.1919, Joanin (2)
  
  Estreicher Karol; 1905? (2)
  
  Filipak Olga (2)
  
  Gitler-Barski Józef; 03.03.1898, Warsaw (2)
  
  Glickson Jerry (2)
  
  Gliński Bogdan; 08.12.1921, Sancygniów (2)
  
  Gotkowska Halina, 1927? (2)
  
  Grabowski Stanisław; 14.05.1900, Grądziki (Ostrów Mazowiecka county) (2)
  
  Grzesiński Marian (2)
  
  Głowiak Stanisław; 10.02.1903, Podzwierzyniec (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Głuszak Józef; 27.10.1913, Koszyce Małe (2)
  
  Herbich Kazimierz; 29.03.1894 (2)
  
  Hys Stanisław; 19.07.1910, Sobolew (mazowieckie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Janikowski Jan Bronisław; 14.05.1888, Warsaw (2)
  
  Janssens Jean; 30.03.1904 Ougrée (Belgium) (2)
  
  Jasińska Zofia (2)
  
  Jaworski Józef; 23.09.1882 Wierzbica (Radom county) (2)
  
  Kamińska Apolonia (2)
  
  Kapała Stefan (2)
  
  Karcz Jan; 27.08.1915, Skalbmierz (2)
  
  Karczewska-Bełczowska Barbara; 1930; Warsaw (2)
  
  Karpiński Zdzisław; 18.09.1920, Ostrów Mazowiecka (2)
  
  Kaszyński Jan; 19.11.1920, Warsaw (2)
  
  Kazimierski Franciszek; 14.04.1908, Różan (2)
  
  Kiczmachowski Edward; 29.07.1920, Strasburg (2)
  
  Kipa Emil Józef; 17.03.1886, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Kocięcki Józef; 21.12.1899 (2)
  
  Kocięcki Józef; 21.12.1900 (2)
  
  Kopeć Maria; 14.08.1919, Puławy (2)
  
  Kopta Marian; 08.12.1911, Kraków (2)
  
  Korecki Stanisław; 06.03.1914, Wola Gręboszowska (2)
  
  Kot Franciszek; 20.01.1904, Kosewo (Ostrów Mazowiecka county) (2)
  
  Kotlarski Mieczysław; 09.10.1913, Osieczna (wielkopolskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Kullanda Henryk (1)
Subject
- The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (486)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (335)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (258)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (257)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (205)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (204)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (202)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (157)
  
  In exile – Siberia (141)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (128)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (126)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (125)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (117)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (116)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (111)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (110)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (107)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (107)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (105)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (104)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (102)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (95)
  
  In exile – Ural (77)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (74)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (64)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (63)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (59)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (58)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (57)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (56)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (54)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (48)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (47)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (46)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (43)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Pomerania (39)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (39)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (38)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (37)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (36)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (36)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (36)
  
  The city condemned to death (34)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (32)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (32)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Lublin region (31)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (31)
  
  Firlej near Radom – the training ground of death (29)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (28)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (28)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (27)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (26)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (26)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (25)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (25)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (20)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (20)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (20)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Warsaw (19)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (19)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (17)
  
  Radom – daily terror (17)
  
  The Free City of Danzig – erasing Polishness (17)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (17)
  
  Wawer Massacre '39 (17)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (16)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (15)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (15)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Kraków (15)
  
  The persecuted church (15)
  
  The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews (14)
  
  Prisoners of war – transit camps in Kielce (13)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (13)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Lesser Poland (12)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Upper Silesia (12)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (12)
  
  Soviets in German captivity (12)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (11)
  
  Taken Captive (11)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (11)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Volhynia (9)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (9)
  
  Poles who saved Jews in the Kielce region (9)
  
  The Polish Righteous Among the Nations (9)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Warsaw (8)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (8)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Podlasie region (8)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – the Stanisławów area (8)
  
  A mass extermination – KL Flossenbürg (7)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Wilno region (7)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (7)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (7)
  
  Lebensborn – the Germanization of Polish children (7)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (7)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Częstochowa region (7)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Łódź region (7)
  
  Terror in the "incorporated lands" – the Łódź region (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Republic of Mordovia (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ryazan Oblast (7)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Mazovia (7)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (398)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (349)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (348)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (316)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (246)
  
  Warsaw (246)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (221)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (209)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (209)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (201)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (196)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (193)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (171)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (168)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (166)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (164)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (140)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (134)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (112)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (98)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (96)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (95)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (89)
  
  Siedlce (88)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (82)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (81)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (81)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (79)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (78)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (77)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (77)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (77)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (76)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (76)
  
  Kielce (75)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (74)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (73)
  
  Lublin (73)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (71)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (71)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (69)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (67)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (67)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (65)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (63)
  
  Kraków (62)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (61)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (61)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (60)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (59)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka (56)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (56)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (56)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (54)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (54)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (53)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (51)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (51)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (51)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (50)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (50)
  
  Białystok (48)
  
  Radom (48)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (48)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (48)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (48)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (47)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (47)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (46)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (46)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (46)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (45)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (45)
  
  KL Majdanek (45)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (44)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (43)
  
  Ostashkov (Russia, Tver Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (43)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (42)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (42)
  
  Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia) (41)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (41)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (41)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (41)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (40)
  
  Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (40)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (40)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (39)
  
  Przemyśl (39)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (39)
  
  Tehran (Iran) (39)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (38)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (38)
  
  Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (38)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (37)
  
  Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (37)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (36)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (36)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (36)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (36)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (35)
Victims
- The Poles (5215)
  
  Civilians (4603)
  
  The Civilian Population (4242)
  
  Children (1919)
  
  Women (1779)
  
  The Jews (1539)
  
  The Inteligentsia (1308)
  
  Prisoners of War (1007)
  
  Deportees (903)
  
  The sick (779)
  
  The Sick (744)
  
  Ukrainians (725)
  
  Russians/Soviets (701)
  
  The Russians (613)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (527)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (500)
  
  The elderly (428)
  
  The Elderly (407)
  
  Policemen (391)
  
  Belarusians (385)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (324)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (211)
  
  The Church (197)
  
  Internees (162)
  
  Germans (126)
  
  Border Guard (105)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (103)
  
  Lithuanians (102)
  
  Landowners (81)
  
  Border Protection Corps (69)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (67)
  
  Czechs (64)
  
  Hungarians (59)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (58)
  
  The French (47)
  
  Latvians (36)
  
  The Communists (34)
  
  The Dutch (32)
  
  Slovaks (31)
  
  Estonians (30)
  
  The Disabled (29)
  
  Greeks (27)
  
  Belgians (23)
  
  Romanians (23)
  
  Americans (13)
  
  Italians (11)
  
  Prison Guard (11)
  
  The British (11)
  
  Norwegians (7)
  
  the Chinese (7)
  
  Finns (6)
  
  Scouts (3)
  
  Georgians (2)
  
  Serbs (2)
Perpetrators
- SS (684)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (670)
  
  Red Army (454)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (358)
  
  Collaboration (343)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (264)
  
  Denunciation (228)
  
  Soviet Militia (216)
  
  Military Police (186)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (120)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (92)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (81)
  
  Lithuanians (79)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (63)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (61)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (50)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (38)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (27)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (22)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (20)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (18)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (18)
  
  Latvians (16)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (16)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (15)
  
  Collaborators (11)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (11)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (10)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (8)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (7)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (6)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (5)
  
  Security Office (5)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (5)
  
  Waffen-SS (5)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (4)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (4)
  
  Administrative Police (3)
  
  Postal Protection (3)
  
  Assault Units (Sturmabteilung, SA) (1)
  
  The Navy of Nazi Germany (Kriegsmarine) (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (3234)
  
  Biological extermination (2646)
  
  Arrest (2575)
  
  Beating (1696)
  
  Execution (1667)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (1549)
  
  Deportation/Exile (1512)
  
  Death by shooting (1397)
  
  Deportation (916)
  
  Robbery (745)
  
  Cattle wagons (678)
  
  Judicial crime (626)
  
  Punishment cell (607)
  
  Mass graves (414)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (392)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (384)
  
  Round-up (356)
  
  Denationalization (335)
  
  Disarmament (328)
  
  Cremation of corpses (294)
  
  Cremation (284)
  
  Economic exploitation (269)
  
  Gas chambers (251)
  
  Displacement (237)
  
  Hanging (227)
  
  Air raids (225)
  
  Expulsion (209)
  
  Roads of death (190)
  
  Administrative persecution (162)
  
  Racial policy (145)
  
  Burning people alive (132)
  
  Medical experiments (94)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (90)
  
  Sovietization (88)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (78)
  
  "Dosing" (72)
  
  Desacration of corpses (68)
  
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  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (116)
  
  obliterating the traces (104)
  
  Civil resistance (96)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (77)
  
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  Polish Underground State (53)
  
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  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (36)
  
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  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (30)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (28)
  
  Aktion Zamość (24)
  
  Free City of Danzig (23)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (23)
  
  Judenrat (22)
  
  Underground courts (21)
  
  Students' Army Corps (20)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (18)
  
  Called by name (17)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (15)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (15)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (15)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (12)
  
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  the Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (9)
  
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  the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (5)
  
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  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (201)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (173)
  
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  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland. Research and investigative files (25)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (25)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland 1949–1984 (14)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (14)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation – Institute of National Remembrance in Białystok (11)
  
  Provincial Office of Internal Affairs in Katowice (11)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Gdańsk (9)
  
  Inspectorate of Schools in Radom (9)
  
  District Court in Łomża 1945–1950 (8)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków (8)
  
  Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Special Criminal Court in Warsaw. Agency in Białystok (7)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Warsaw (6)
  
  Voivodeship Court in Łódź (5)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Białystok (4)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes – Institute of National Remembrance in Białystok (4)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Gdańsk 1945–1949 (3)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (2)
  
  Magistrates’ Court in Bydgoszcz (2)
  
  Provincial Office of Internal Affairs in Wrocław [1945] 1983–1990 (2)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland. Research and investigative files; Polish Military Mission (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes – Institute of National Remembrance in Kraków (1)
  
  Magistrates’ Court in Włocławek (1)
  
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