„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)
- Szulc C. (65)
  
  Anonymous (58)
  
  Deja Stanisław; 23.04.1907, Kowala (22)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (15)
  
  Bochen Stanisław; 1901? (9)
  
  Gałecki Wiktor; 1901? (9)
  
  Szczerbiński Jan (9)
  
  Sobierajska Irena (7)
  
  Baćmaga Walenty, 11.02.1902, Zakrzów (6)
  
  Krakiewicz Feliks; 1873? (6)
  
  Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (6)
  
  Rott Wiesław; 14.06.1914, Lublin (6)
  
  Russanowska B. (6)
  
  Stawiarski Eugeniusz (6)
  
  Sulima Jan (6)
  
  Grodzicki Kazimierz (5)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (5)
  
  Kruszyna Stanisław (5)
  
  Kwiatkowski Jan; 1911? (5)
  
  Mankiewicz Franciszek; 1898 (5)
  
  Maroński Stanisław (5)
  
  Sowiński Władysław (5)
  
  Łukasiewicz Henryk (5)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (4)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (4)
  
  Gozdur Stanisław; 11.11.1891, Wola Solecka (4)
  
  Iwanicka Maria; 27.01.1913 (4)
  
  Klimkiewicz Stanisław; 1895? (4)
  
  Korkosz Stanisław; 1904? (4)
  
  Korszla Jan; 1914? (4)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (4)
  
  Sendecki Sylwester; 1903? (4)
  
  Skrzyniarz Adam (4)
  
  Steinhauf Renata (4)
  
  Tomasik Marcin (4)
  
  Wojcikowski Stanisław (4)
  
  Zielonka Jan (4)
  
  Banach Ludwig; 24.08.1917, Bydgoszcz (3)
  
  Banach Ludwik; 24.08.1918 (3)
  
  Bech Leon; 24.03.1989, Wola (3)
  
  Blinstrub Aniela; 1892? (3)
  
  Bogdanowicz Jan; 17.12.1894, Warsaw (3)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Duda Konrad; 02.02.1914, Wartogłowiec (Tychy) (3)
  
  Grabosz Ludwika; 1879? (3)
  
  Gronczak Józef; 1898? (3)
  
  Głowa Stanisław; 15.09.1898, Igołomia (3)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (3)
  
  Igielski Jan; 12.01.1915, Stróże (Nowy Sącz county) (3)
  
  Kaczanowski Jan; 1913?, Rytwiany (3)
  
  Kiczmachowski Edward; 29.07.1920, Strasburg (3)
  
  Koczorowski Józef; 01.02.1919, Poznań (3)
  
  Konferowicz Wacław; 13.05.1912, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Kotlarski Mieczysław; 09.10.1913, Osieczna (wielkopolskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Kruczyński Michał; 1895? (3)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (3)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Lizis Teofil (3)
  
  Maszczyk Antoni (3)
  
  Olbrycht Jan; 06.05.1886, Zahutyń (3)
  
  Pacocha Leopold; 10.11.1898, Warsaw (3)
  
  Piegat Stanisław; 26.09.1891 (3)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 27.01.1913, Warsaw (3)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (3)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (3)
  
  Rżewski Władysław, 07.01.1894 (3)
  
  Sieroszewski Władysław; 30.12.1900, Warsaw (3)
  
  Skrzypek Jan (3)
  
  Sterner Wacław; 28.11.1908, Warsaw (3)
  
  Sterner Wacław; 28.11.1908, Warszawa (3)
  
  Szewczak Helena; 28.02.1915, Marki (Wołomin county) (3)
  
  Szlacheta Wacława; 23.09.1900, Warsaw (3)
  
  Taul Roman; 28.02.1917, Bytom (3)
  
  Wiącek Eugeniusz; 11.01.1905, Strużki (3)
  
  Wolny Stefan; 30.10.1903, Kamieńskie (Ukraine) (3)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Wąsowicz Tadeusz; 29.07.1906, Limanowa (3)
  
  Żelazowska Janina Czesława; 26.10.1908 (3)
  
  Adler Rubin; 24.11.1909, Końskie (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Alscher Josef; 05.06.1894, Legnica (2)
  
  Al’ona, 1987 (2)
  
  Ambrożewicz Irena Gertruda Helena; 17.03.1903, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Anastasiya, 1988 (2)
  
  Ast Jadwiga; 24.01.1923, Żarnowiec (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Barański Jan; 1926? (2)
  
  Bartel Erwin; 02.03.1923, Oświęcim (2)
  
  Bartkowicz Jan (2)
  
  Bartosiewicz Henryk; 1909? (2)
  
  Bekier Zofia; 17.04.1882 (2)
  
  Bielewicz Marian; 19.08.1911, Warsaw (2)
  
  Bochenek Marta; 19.09.1892 (2)
  
  Bocian Zygmunt; 23.10.1909, Warszawa (2)
  
  Bojm Mojżesz; 1903? (2)
  
  Borowy Aleksander; 03.12.1898, Ostrów Mazowiecka (2)
  
  Brojanowska Jolanta (2)
  
  Bucki Jan; 1883? (2)
  
  Bąk Antonina; 1902?, Puławy (lubelskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Bąk Michał; 1903? (2)
  
  Cegłowski Aleksander; 24.12.1904 (2)
  
  Chołodowska Leokadia; 04./23.04.1915 (2)
Subject
- The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (478)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (443)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (359)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (175)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (137)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (135)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (129)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (125)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (124)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (109)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (102)
  
  The city condemned to death (92)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (82)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (77)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (66)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (64)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (59)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (58)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (54)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (49)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (49)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (47)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (43)
  
  Stadion Leśny, Słowik, Herby – execution sites in Kielce (43)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (40)
  
  Firlej near Radom – the training ground of death (37)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (36)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Świętokrzyskie region (36)
  
  Fighting for Kharkiv (34)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (31)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (30)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (30)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (30)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz (30)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (30)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (29)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (29)
  
  Warsaw '44 – uprising in Praga (29)
  
  Terror in the "incorporated lands" – the Łódź region (27)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town (27)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (26)
  
  Russian missile terror (26)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (23)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (23)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (22)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (22)
  
  Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages (22)
  
  Michniów – the extermination of the Polish countryside (22)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (20)
  
  Fighting in Donbas (2014 and/or 2022) (19)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (19)
  
  Mariupol Siege (19)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Żoliborz (19)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (18)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (18)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (18)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (18)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (18)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Radom region (18)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (17)
  
  Wawer Massacre '39 (17)
  
  Fighting for Kyiv (16)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (16)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (16)
  
  Russian occupation – south Ukraine (15)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (15)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (14)
  
  The Free City of Danzig – erasing Polishness (14)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – the Stanisławów area (14)
  
  The persecuted church (14)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Radom Ghetto (13)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (12)
  
  Battle of Mykolaiv (11)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (11)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Lublin region (10)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Gliwice (9)
  
  Fighting for Chernihiv (9)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (9)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (9)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (9)
  
  Pruszków – the town of the displaced (9)
  
  Soviets in German captivity (9)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (8)
  
  Fighting in Sumy Oblast (8)
  
  Radom – daily terror (8)
  
  The Częstochowa region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (8)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (8)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Białystok Ghetto (8)
  
  Treblinka – extermination camp (8)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (7)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Volhynia (7)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (7)
  
  Radom bathed in blood – the prison in the former convent buildings (7)
  
  Soldier's House, Fort VII, Żabikowo – the trail of death in Greater Poland (7)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (7)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Tarnów Ghetto (7)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Mazovia (7)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (6)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (6)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Kłobuck Ghetto (6)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz I (310)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (235)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (233)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (222)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (194)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (183)
  
  Warsaw (149)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (142)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (116)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (99)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (86)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (84)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (76)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (67)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (67)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (64)
  
  Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 (63)
  
  Radom (63)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (61)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (60)
  
  KL Majdanek (58)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (54)
  
  KL Plaszow (53)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (53)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (52)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (51)
  
  Kielce (51)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 (49)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (48)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (46)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (44)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (42)
  
  Busko-Zdrój (40)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (39)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (39)
  
  Warsaw, SS-Stauferkaserne, Rakowiecka Street 4 (39)
  
  Firlej (Radom), municipal cemetery, Ofiar Firleja Street 45 (37)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (37)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) (36)
  
  Bydgoszcz (35)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (35)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (35)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (33)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (33)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (33)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (31)
  
  Kraków (31)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (30)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (30)
  
  Michniów (30)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (30)
  
  Kielce, the "Leśny" Stadium (29)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (29)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (28)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (28)
  
  Magnuszew (Kozienice district) (28)
  
  Bochnia, train station (26)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (26)
  
  KL Stutthof (26)
  
  Warsaw, Rakowiecka Street (26)
  
  Warsaw, St. Lazarus' Hospital, Leszno Street 127 (Leszno Street 15) (26)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (25)
  
  Warsaw, Wolski Hospital, Płocka Street 26 (25)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (24)
  
  Warsaw, Wolska Street (24)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (23)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (23)
  
  Lublin (23)
  
  Podsuliszka (Radom District) (23)
  
  Podsuliszka, Pakosławski Forest (23)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (23)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (23)
  
  Warsaw, Ogródek Jordanowski [Jordan garden], Bagatela Street 2/4 (23)
  
  Warsaw, aleja Szucha (23)
  
  Karolin (Zwoleń district) (22)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka (22)
  
  Warsaw, Karolkowa Street (22)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (21)
  
  Kharkiv (21)
  
  Kończyce (Radom), Kosowski Forest (21)
  
  Staszów (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (21)
  
  Warsaw, Puławska Street (21)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (20)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (20)
  
  Staszów (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship) (20)
  
  Warsaw, Marszałkowska Street (20)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's Church, Wolska Street 76 (20)
  
  Warsaw, Warszawa Zachodnia Station (20)
  
  Łódź (20)
  
  Gdańsk (19)
  
  Kielce, St. Adalbert's Church, Św. Wojciecha Square 9 (19)
  
  Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (19)
  
  Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (19)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (19)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (19)
  
  Warsaw, Banacha Market Square, Grójecka Street 95 (19)
  
  Warsaw, Mokotów Prison, Rakowiecka Street 37 (19)
  
  Warsaw, Pole Mokotowskie (19)
  
  Warsaw, Sowiński Park (19)
  
  Częstochowa (18)
Oblast
- Kharkiv (37)
  
  Donetsk (35)
  
  Kherson (28)
  
  Kyiv (18)
  
  Luhansk (17)
  
  Zaporizhia (15)
  
  Dnipropetrovsk (13)
  
  Mykolaiv (12)
  
  Chernihiv (9)
  
  Sumy (8)
  
  Kyiv Oblast (7)
  
  Mikołajowski (7)
  
  Zhytomyr (5)
  
  Odesa (1)
Raion
- Kharkiv (29)
  
  Mariupol (19)
  
  Kherson (13)
  
  Bucha (11)
  
  Severodonetsk (10)
  
  Kakhovka (8)
  
  Mykolaiv (8)
  
  Chernihiv (7)
  
  Izium (6)
  
  Sumy (6)
  
  Henichesk (5)
  
  Nikopol (5)
  
  Donetsk (4)
  
  Kiev (4)
  
  Kramatorsk (4)
  
  Kyiv (4)
  
  Mikołajów (4)
  
  Pawlohrad (4)
  
  Zaporizhia (4)
  
  Bakhmut (3)
  
  Volnovakha (3)
  
  Polohy (2)
  
  Zhytomyr (2)
  
  Bashtanka (1)
  
  Beryslav (1)
  
  Chuhuiv (1)
  
  Fastiv (1)
  
  Horlivka (1)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (1)
  
  Melitopol (1)
  
  Novomoskovsk (1)
  
  Odesa (1)
  
  Pervomaisk (1)
  
  Pokrovsk (1)
  
  Schastia (1)
  
  Shchastia (1)
  
  Vasylivka (1)
  
  Voznesensk (1)
  
  Vyshhorod (1)
  
  Сhuhuiv (1)
Victims
- Civilians (3509)
  
  The Poles (3210)
  
  The Civilian Population (3017)
  
  Women (1607)
  
  Children (1182)
  
  The Jews (1081)
  
  The Inteligentsia (495)
  
  The sick (485)
  
  The Sick (437)
  
  The elderly (422)
  
  Prisoners of War (421)
  
  The Elderly (341)
  
  Ukrainians (286)
  
  Russians/Soviets (283)
  
  The Russians (248)
  
  The Church (197)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (82)
  
  Germans (80)
  
  Hungarians (74)
  
  The French (71)
  
  Czechs (64)
  
  The Disabled (54)
  
  Belarusians (53)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (53)
  
  Slovaks (48)
  
  The Communists (42)
  
  The Dutch (41)
  
  Policemen (39)
  
  Belgians (37)
  
  Greeks (36)
  
  Deportees (25)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (19)
  
  Americans (16)
  
  Italians (14)
  
  Lithuanians (11)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (11)
  
  Norwegians (10)
  
  The British (10)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (10)
  
  Landowners (9)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (9)
  
  Border Protection Corps (8)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (7)
  
  Internees (7)
  
  Border Guard (6)
  
  Romanians (6)
  
  Latvians (3)
  
  Serbs (2)
  
  Crimean Tatars (1)
  
  Finns (1)
  
  Internally displaced persons (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (965)
  
  Military Police (762)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (650)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (314)
  
  Collaboration (239)
  
  Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (193)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (185)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (165)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (96)
  
  Red Army (93)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (52)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (50)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (49)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (44)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (29)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (28)
  
  Soviet Militia (23)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (22)
  
  Denunciation (18)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (18)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (17)
  
  Donetsk People’s Militia (all military formations of so-called separatist republics DNR and LNR) (17)
  
  Lithuanians (15)
  
  The Russian National Liberation Army (RONA) (15)
  
  Collaborators (14)
  
  Kadyrovites (14)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (13)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (12)
  
  Latvians (10)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (8)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (8)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (8)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (7)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (7)
  
  Separatists (7)
  
  Waffen-SS (7)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (5)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (4)
  
  Technical Support (Technische Nothilfe) (4)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (4)
  
  Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (3)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (3)
  
  Russian diversionary groups (3)
  
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Crimes
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  Execution (3044)
  
  Arrest (1203)
  
  Forced labor (1199)
  
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  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (725)
  
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  Cremation of corpses (548)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (527)
  
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  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (442)
  
  Displacement (333)
  
  Expulsion (312)
  
  Gas chambers (292)
  
  Hanging (272)
  
  Round-up (263)
  
  Burning people alive (237)
  
  Air raids (222)
  
  Economic exploitation (211)
  
  Destruction of civilian infrastructure (180)
  
  Armored weapons (162)
  
  Artillery shelling (157)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (144)
  
  Cattle wagons (143)
  
  Missile attack (130)
  
  Humanitarian catastrophe (123)
  
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  Racial policy (108)
  
  Disarmament (107)
  
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  Roads of death (85)
  
  "Dosing" (83)
  
  Administrative persecution (83)
  
  Punishment cell (82)
  
  Desacration of corpses (67)
  
  Denationalization (45)
  
  Artillery fire (43)
  
  Human shields (43)
  
  Limiting freedom of movement (42)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (41)
  
  Persecution of Ukrainian identity/Russification (29)
  
  Germanization (16)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (13)
  
  Forced passportization (9)
  
  Confiscation (7)
  
  Forced voting (7)
  
  Pacification (6)
  
  Sovietization (6)
  
  White phosphorus weapons (6)
  
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  Minefields (4)
  
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  Ukrainianization (1)
Place
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  Center for the Germanization of children (1)
  
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Content
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  Pacification of rural areas (574)
  
  Health service (245)
  
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  Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022) (184)
  
  Obliterating the traces (172)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (171)
  
  obliterating the traces (147)
  
  Wola Massacre (120)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (115)
  
  Anders' Army (71)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (68)
  
  Civil resistance (67)
  
  Evacuation from war zone/occupied territories (62)
  
  Amnesty (58)
  
  Called by name (55)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (50)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (50)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (50)
  
  Russian occupation/Occupation terror (47)
  
  Field health service (42)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (41)
  
  Polish Underground State (39)
  
  Urban warfare (36)
  
  Epidemics (30)
  
  Underground media (30)
  
  Underground courts (29)
  
  Judenrat (28)
  
  Polish culture in exile (28)
  
  Communist propaganda (27)
  
  Armed Forces of Ukraine (26)
  
  Aktion Zamość (25)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (25)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (23)
  
  Ochota Massacre (22)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (21)
  
  Central Welfare Council (20)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (19)
  
  Free City of Danzig (19)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (17)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (17)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (17)
  
  Underground culture and education (17)
  
  Departure from Ukraine (16)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (15)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (13)
  
  First deportation (12)
  
  Pseudoreferendums in occupied territories (10)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (10)
  
  War in Donbas (2014) (10)
  
  Clandestine courses (9)
  
  Russian propaganda/disinformation (8)
  
  Verbrennungskommando (8)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (7)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (5)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (5)
  
  Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces (5)
  
  “Donetsk People’s Republic” (5)
  
  Aktion T4 (4)
  
  National Armed Forces (4)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (3)
  
  Military hospital (3)
  
  Second deportation (3)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (3)
  
  “Luhansk People’s Republic” (3)
  
  Bucha Massacre (2)
  
  Operation "Tempest" (2)
  
  the Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (2)
  
  Aid to Jews (1)
  
  Blue Police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (1)
  
  Fourth deportation (1)
  
  Irpin Massacre (1)
  
  Izyum Massacre (1)
  
  Pabst Plan (Pabst-Plan) (1)
  
  Security Service of Ukraine (1)
  
  Students' Army Corps (1)
  
  The Silent Unseen (1)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (1)
  
  the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
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- District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (1041)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (578)
  
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  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (318)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (227)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (226)
  
  Independent Historical Office of the Command of the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union/Documentation Office of the Polish Army in the East (224)
  
  Lemkin Center (197)
  
  District Court in Radom (169)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (81)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków (43)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (33)
  
  District Court in Łomża (29)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland. Research and investigative files (21)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland 1949–1984 (19)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation – Institute of National Remembrance in Białystok (18)
  
  Provincial Office of Internal Affairs in Katowice (10)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Białystok (8)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Warsaw (7)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Gdańsk (6)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (5)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (4)
  
  District Court in Łomża 1945–1950 (4)
  
  Voivodeship Court in Łódź (4)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (3)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes – Institute of National Remembrance in Białystok (3)
  
  Katyn Museum (2)
  
  Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Special Criminal Court in Warsaw. Agency in Białystok (2)
  
  A collection of copies of witness interview reports and accounts of former prisoners of Ravensbrück and other camps, written down at the Polish Research Institute in Lund. (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Gdańsk 1945–1949 (1)
  
  Inspectorate of Schools in Radom (1)
  
  Magistrates’ Court in Bydgoszcz (1)
  
  Magistrates’ Court in Włocławek (1)
  
  Office of the District Authorities in Ostrów Mazowiecka (1)
Medium
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