„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 (76)
  
  Anastasiya, 1985 (3)
  
  Kucharski Teofil; 06.02.1889, Jaszczew (3)
  
  Sieroszewski Władysław; 30.12.1900, Warsaw (3)
  
  Yuliya, 1987 (3)
  
  Al’ona, 1987 (2)
  
  Anastasiya, 1988 (2)
  
  Bohdan (2)
  
  Dar'ya, 2002 (2)
  
  Dmitriy, 1984 (2)
  
  Inna, 1978 (2)
  
  Inna, 1982 (2)
  
  Nadezhda, 1947 (2)
  
  Nataliya, 1979 (2)
  
  Oksana (2)
  
  Ol’ha, 1985 (2)
  
  Tetyana, 1985 (2)
  
  Viktoriya (2)
  
  Vladimir (2)
  
  Yuliya, 1986 (2)
  
  Aleksandr (1)
  
  Aleksandr, 1975 (1)
  
  Aleksandr, 1981 (1)
  
  Aleksandr, 2000 (1)
  
  Aleksandra, 1977 (1)
  
  Aleksandra, 2000 (1)
  
  Aleksey, 1976 (1)
  
  Aleksey, 1978 (1)
  
  Alena, 1988 (1)
  
  Alina, 1992 (1)
  
  Alisa, 1993 (1)
  
  Alla, 1972 (1)
  
  Al’ona, 1995 (1)
  
  Al’ona, 1996 (1)
  
  Amaliya, 2004 (1)
  
  Anastasiya, 1984 (1)
  
  Anastasiya, 1990 (1)
  
  Anastasiya, 1998 (1)
  
  Anastasiya, 2001 (1)
  
  Anastasiya, 2002 (1)
  
  Anastasiya, 2005 (1)
  
  Anatoliy (1)
  
  Andriy (1)
  
  Anna, 1960 (1)
  
  Anna, 1965 (1)
  
  Anna, 1981 (1)
  
  Anna, 1985 (1)
  
  Anna, 1986 (1)
  
  Anna, 1989 (1)
  
  Anna, 1990 (1)
  
  Antonina, 1961 (1)
  
  Anzhelika, 1979 (1)
  
  Artem, 1982 (1)
  
  Artem, 1983 (1)
  
  Banaszczuk Stanisław, 7.07.1932, Dubnica (1)
  
  Bartoszewicz Bogna (1)
  
  Biegański Eugeniusz; 05.01.1915, Poniewież (now in Lithuania) (1)
  
  Bielec Tadeusz; 22.03.1920, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bochenek Marta; 19.09.1892 (1)
  
  Bogdanowicz Jan; 17.12.1894, Warsaw (1)
  
  Bogucki Józef (1)
  
  Brzozowska Alina (1)
  
  Brzozowska Barbara (1)
  
  Bujnowicz Zbigniew; 1920? (1)
  
  Chodyczko Kazimiera; 25.12.1905, Wohyń (Radzyń county) (1)
  
  Choromański Mieczysław (1)
  
  Ciecieląg Henryka (1)
  
  Czyrnek Jan; 25.03.1900, Jasna (Podłopień, wielkopolskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Dacuk Marian (1)
  
  Dar'ya, 1988 (1)
  
  Dar'ya, 1990 (1)
  
  Dar'ya, 2006 (1)
  
  Darina (1)
  
  Denis, 1996 (1)
  
  Derlatka Daniel (1)
  
  Diana, 1993 (1)
  
  Dmitriy, 1982 (1)
  
  Dmytro (1)
  
  Dmytro, 1992 (1)
  
  Dmytro, 2004 (1)
  
  Dobek Krystyna (1)
  
  Dragan Bernardyna; 21.04.1938, Dubnica-Górna (1)
  
  Dutkiewicz Jerzy; 03.08.1922 (1)
  
  Dutkiewicz Jerzy; 03.08.1923 (1)
  
  El’vira, 1967 (1)
  
  Emma, 1958 (1)
  
  Fabisiak Bronisław; 15.12.1892, Mąkolin (1)
  
  Feliks, 2004 (1)
  
  Fultyn Witold Józef; 1913? (1)
  
  Gabrylewicz Alina (1)
  
  Gabrysiak Tadeusz; 20.09.1934, Warsaw (1)
  
  Gadomska Marianna; 28.11.1908, Michów (1)
  
  Gadomska Marianna; 28.11.1908, Michów (kieleckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Galina, 1966 (1)
  
  Goszczyńska Wacława (Franciszka); 18.03.1897, Grodzisk (1)
  
  Grzywalska Maria (1)
  
  Górski Zbigniew (1)
  
  Halyna, 1956 (1)
  
  Halyna, 1964 (1)
  
  Hanna (1)
Subject
- Fighting for Kharkiv (75)
  
  Mariupol Siege (55)
  
  Russian occupation – south Ukraine (45)
  
  Russian missile terror (41)
  
  Fighting in Donbas (2014 and/or 2022) (40)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (34)
  
  Fighting for Kyiv (22)
  
  Battle of Mykolaiv (21)
  
  Fighting for Chernihiv (13)
  
  Fighting in Sumy Oblast (12)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (12)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (12)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (10)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (9)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (8)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (7)
  
  Evacuation to Poland (6)
  
  The city condemned to death (5)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz (5)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Volhynia (4)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (4)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (4)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (3)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (2)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Warsaw (2)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (2)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (2)
  
  Russian occupation – Kyiv Oblast (2)
  
  The Free City of Danzig – erasing Polishness (2)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Żoliborz (2)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (2)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Warsaw (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Mazovia (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Polesie region (1)
  
  Fighting in the Zaporizhia Oblast (1)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (1)
  
  Russian occupation – Kharkiv Oblast (1)
  
  September Campaign (1)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (1)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – uprising in Praga (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Kharkiv (56)
  
  Mariupol (51)
  
  Kherson (15)
  
  Mykolaiv (15)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (13)
  
  Chernihiv (12)
  
  Mariupol, Drama Theater (11)
  
  Kyiv (10)
  
  Irpin (8)
  
  Nova Kakhovka (8)
  
  Donetsk (7)
  
  Severodonetsk (7)
  
  Sumy (7)
  
  Biała Podlaska (6)
  
  Enerhodar (6)
  
  Nikopol (6)
  
  Berdychiv (5)
  
  Służewiec Race Course (Warsaw) (5)
  
  Warsaw (5)
  
  Berdyansk (4)
  
  Kielce (4)
  
  Lysychansk (4)
  
  Marhanets (4)
  
  Pruszków (4)
  
  Rubizhne (4)
  
  Warsaw, Bałuckiego Street 24 (4)
  
  Zaporizhia (4)
  
  Hrubieszów (3)
  
  Kakhovka (3)
  
  Kamyanka Dniprovska (3)
  
  Kreminna (3)
  
  Mariupol, Azovstal (3)
  
  Odesa (3)
  
  Oleshky (3)
  
  Sloviansk (3)
  
  Snihurivka (3)
  
  Tokmak (3)
  
  Vasylivka (3)
  
  Volnovakha (3)
  
  Warsaw, Dolna Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, Dworkowa Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, Franciscan sisters' Home of Divine Providence, Chełmska Street 19 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Hospital of the Sisters of St. Elizabeth, Goszczyńskiego Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, Hospital of the Sisters of St. Elizabeth, ul. Goszczyńskiego 1 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Józef Piłsudski Academy of Physcial Education, Marymoncka Street 34 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Karol and Maria Children's Hospital, Leszno Street 136 (Leszno Street 30) (3)
  
  Warsaw, Madalińskiego Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, Olesińska Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, Pole Mokotowskie (3)
  
  Warsaw, Puławska Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, St. Stanislaus' Hospital, Wolska Street 37 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Ujazdowski Hospital, Jazdów Street 2 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Warszawa Zachodnia Station (3)
  
  Andriivka (2)
  
  Bakhmut (2)
  
  Balakliya (2)
  
  Brovary (2)
  
  Chornobaivka (2)
  
  Dniprorudne (2)
  
  Enerhodar, Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant (2)
  
  Gdynia (2)
  
  Horlivka (2)
  
  Hostomel (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (2)
  
  KL Stutthof (2)
  
  Kampinos Forest (2)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Kozacha Lopan (2)
  
  Kramatorsk (2)
  
  Milanówek (2)
  
  Oleksandrivka (2)
  
  Orikhiv (2)
  
  Pavlohrad (2)
  
  Popasna (2)
  
  Powsin (Warsaw) (2)
  
  Ruski Tyshky (2)
  
  Sandomierz (2)
  
  Svatove (2)
  
  Tavriisk (2)
  
  Vesele (2)
  
  Warsaw, Central Army Gas School, Gdańska Street 6 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Czerniakowska Street (2)
  
  Warsaw, Dormitory, Akademicka Street 5 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (2)
  
  Warsaw, Górczewska Street (2)
  
  Warsaw, I Health and Care Centre, Puławska Street/ Dolna Street (2)
  
  Warsaw, Institute of Industrial Chemistry, Łączności Street 8 (Rydygiera Street 8) (2)
  
  Warsaw, Karolkowa Street (2)
  
  Warsaw, Kazimierzowska Street (2)
  
  Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście Street (2)
  
  Warsaw, Ludna Street (2)
  
  Warsaw, Marii Kazimiery Street (2)
  
  Warsaw, Młynarska Street (2)
  
  Warsaw, National Office of Physical Education and Military Defence, Myśliwiecka Street (2)
  
  Warsaw, Okopowa Street (2)
  
  Warsaw, Old Town (2)
  
  Warsaw, Royal Castle, Zamkowy Square 4 (2)
  
  Warsaw, SS Barracks, Wawelska Street 56 (2)
  
  Warsaw, SS-Stauferkaserne, Rakowiecka Street 4 (2)
Oblast
- Donetsk (81)
  
  Kharkiv (80)
  
  Kherson (53)
  
  Zaporizhia (40)
  
  Luhansk (32)
  
  Kyiv (29)
  
  Mykolaiv (23)
  
  Dnipropetrovsk (19)
  
  Kyiv Oblast (15)
  
  Mikołajowski (15)
  
  Chernihiv (13)
  
  Sumy (12)
  
  Zhytomyr (6)
  
  Odesa (3)
Raion
- Kharkiv (66)
  
  Mariupol (55)
  
  Kherson (24)
  
  Mykolaiv (20)
  
  Severodonetsk (18)
  
  Bucha (17)
  
  Kakhovka (15)
  
  Nikopol (14)
  
  Mikołajów (13)
  
  Chernihiv (12)
  
  Polohy (10)
  
  Kramatorsk (9)
  
  Kiev (8)
  
  Kyiv (8)
  
  Sumy (8)
  
  Vasylivka (8)
  
  Donetsk (7)
  
  Zhytomyr (6)
  
  Berdyansk (5)
  
  Henichesk (5)
  
  Izium (5)
  
  Zaporizhia (5)
  
  Beryslav (4)
  
  Svatove (4)
  
  Bakhmut (3)
  
  Bohoduhiv (3)
  
  Brovary (3)
  
  Odesa (3)
  
  Pokrovsk (3)
  
  Volnovakha (3)
  
  Horlivka (2)
  
  Pawlohrad (2)
  
  Shchastia (2)
  
  Skadovsk (2)
  
  Bashtanka (1)
  
  Bila Tserkva (1)
  
  Chuhuiv (1)
  
  Dnipro (1)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (1)
  
  Kupyansk (1)
  
  Melitopol (1)
  
  Novomoskovsk (1)
  
  Pervomaisk (1)
  
  Rozivka (1)
  
  Schastia (1)
  
  Vyshhorod (1)
Victims
- Civilians (500)
  
  Ukrainians (388)
  
  Women (352)
  
  Children (276)
  
  The Civilian Population (111)
  
  The Poles (108)
  
  The elderly (102)
  
  The sick (65)
  
  The Sick (23)
  
  Prisoners of War (15)
  
  The Elderly (12)
  
  The Inteligentsia (11)
  
  The Church (10)
  
  Internally displaced persons (8)
  
  The Jews (7)
  
  The Disabled (4)
  
  Russians/Soviets (2)
  
  The Russians (2)
  
  Azerbaijanis (1)
  
  Crimean Tatars (1)
  
  Deportees (1)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (1)
  
  Landowners (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (1)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (1)
Perpetrators
- Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (381)
  
  Donetsk People’s Militia (all military formations of so-called separatist republics DNR and LNR) (36)
  
  Kadyrovites (29)
  
  Collaborators (27)
  
  SS (16)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (15)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (15)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (14)
  
  Russian diversionary groups (11)
  
  Separatists (10)
  
  Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (9)
  
  Military Police (7)
  
  Collaboration (5)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (5)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (4)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (4)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (4)
  
  Rosgvardiya [National Guard of Russia] (3)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (3)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (3)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (1)
  
  Red Army (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (1)
Crimes
- Artillery shelling (506)
  
  Destruction of civilian infrastructure (347)
  
  Air raids (250)
  
  Humanitarian catastrophe (213)
  
  Missile attack (204)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (193)
  
  Death by shooting (157)
  
  Armored weapons (145)
  
  Robbery (144)
  
  Artillery fire (116)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (91)
  
  Limiting freedom of movement (78)
  
  Persecution of Ukrainian identity/Russification (58)
  
  Arrest (53)
  
  Execution (47)
  
  Beating (42)
  
  Deportation (35)
  
  Displacement (27)
  
  Forced labor (27)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (26)
  
  Human shields (26)
  
  Round-up (23)
  
  Economic exploitation (20)
  
  Rape (19)
  
  Pacification (18)
  
  Expulsion (17)
  
  Denationalization (14)
  
  Confiscation (13)
  
  Forced mobilization (12)
  
  Biological extermination (11)
  
  Cremation of corpses (11)
  
  Forced passportization (11)
  
  Mass graves (10)
  
  White phosphorus weapons (9)
  
  Cremation (8)
  
  Minefields (8)
  
  Burning people alive (6)
  
  Scorched-earth policy (6)
  
  Administrative persecution (3)
  
  Hanging (2)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (2)
  
  Cattle wagons (1)
  
  Deportation/Exile (1)
  
  Desacration of corpses (1)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (1)
  
  Judicial crime (1)
  
  Medical experiments (1)
  
  Racial policy (1)
Place
- Checkpoint (96)
  
  Filtration camp (36)
  
  Transit camp (13)
  
  Prison (12)
  
  Forced labor (10)
  
  Border post (6)
  
  Sewers (6)
  
  Concentration camp (4)
  
  Police headquarters/station (3)
  
  Ghetto (2)
  
  NKVD custody suite (2)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (2)
  
  Extermination camp (1)
Content
- Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022) (375)
  
  Evacuation from war zone/occupied territories (132)
  
  Russian occupation/Occupation terror (92)
  
  Urban warfare (65)
  
  Departure from Ukraine (46)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (41)
  
  Armed Forces of Ukraine (38)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (25)
  
  Russian propaganda/disinformation (19)
  
  War in Donbas (2014) (18)
  
  Pseudoreferendums in occupied territories (17)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (12)
  
  “Donetsk People’s Republic” (11)
  
  Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces (10)
  
  Field health service (9)
  
  “Luhansk People’s Republic” (9)
  
  Health service (7)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (6)
  
  Polish Underground State (6)
  
  Wola Massacre (6)
  
  Extermination of Jews (3)
  
  Security Service of Ukraine (3)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (3)
  
  Underground courts (3)
  
  Bucha Massacre (2)
  
  Free City of Danzig (2)
  
  Ochota Massacre (2)
  
  Central Welfare Council (1)
  
  Civil resistance (1)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (1)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (1)
  
  First deportation (1)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (1)
  
  Irpin Massacre (1)
  
  National Guard of Ukraine (1)
  
  Pabst Plan (Pabst-Plan) (1)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (1)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
  
  Underground media (1)
  
  War reparations (1)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
Object type
- Questionnaire (387)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (34)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (23)
  
  Account (6)
  
  Interview (2)
  
  Report (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Lemkin Center (389)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (69)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (25)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (13)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (6)
  
  Independent Historical Office of the Command of the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union/Documentation Office of the Polish Army in the East (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (1)
  
  Voivodeship Court in Łódź (1)
Medium
- Text (504)
  
  Image (34)
  
  Film (2)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (395)
  
  Full content available online (111)