“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)
- Adler Rubin; 24.11.1909, Końskie (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Fastman Ludwik; 31.07.1899, Drohobycz (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Żelazowska Janina Czesława; 26.10.1908 (3)
  
  Cytron Tobiasz; 30.10.1908, Białystok (2)
  
  Gelade Eliasz; 1894? (2)
  
  Makowski Marian; 01.12.1924, Kielce (2)
  
  Mankiewicz Franciszek; 1898 (2)
  
  Penson Jakub; 23.04.1899, Płock (2)
  
  Rott Wiesław; 14.06.1914, Lublin (2)
  
  Sterner Wacław; 28.11.1908, Warsaw (2)
  
  Sterner Wacław; 28.11.1908, Warszawa (2)
  
  Adler Stanisław; 08.02.1901, Warsaw (1)
  
  Ajdelman Gania; 23.02.1924, Lubartów (lubelskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Andrzejczyk Edward Edmund; 18.08.1918, Słupia (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Anlen Bronisław Elkana; 9.05.1907, Warsaw (1)
  
  Anonymous (1)
  
  Babkus Ida; 23.06.1917, Białystok (1)
  
  Baron Szymon; 1897, Tłumacz (now in Ukraina) (1)
  
  Baron Zenek; 1926? (1)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (1)
  
  Biliński Jerzy; 1923, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Blinstrub Aniela; 1892? (1)
  
  Blumenthal Nachman; 1901? (1)
  
  Blusztein Laja; 1921? (1)
  
  Bojm Mojżesz; 1902? (1)
  
  Bojm Mojżesz; 1903? (1)
  
  Borzykowski Tuwia (Tadeusz); 1911 (1)
  
  Brakier Moniek; 23.12.1920, Białystok (1)
  
  Branny Paweł; 13.05.1888, Żuków Dolny (Český Těšín, Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Brener Liber; 08.11.1907, Turzysk (1)
  
  Bresler Jerzy (1)
  
  Brunarska Zofia; 27.05.1923 (1)
  
  Brzeziński Chaskiel; 1901?, Gąbin (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Błas Szloma; 1906? (1)
  
  Cajmer Cecylia; 18.01.1919, Jezierna (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Chrobak Franciszek; 1899? (1)
  
  Chądzyńska-Czarnocka Maria (1)
  
  Czajka Teodozja; 29.05.1934 (1)
  
  Czapla Władysław; 1901? (1)
  
  Czarnecki Antoni (1)
  
  Czarny Moszek; 05.05.1910, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Czechocki Eli; 1901? (1)
  
  Czerniaków Felicja; 01.06.1883, Warsaw (1)
  
  Czertok Mejsza (1)
  
  Czyżewska Anna (1)
  
  Dawidowicz Wanda; 1923 (1)
  
  Delingowski Jan; 19.06.1888 (1)
  
  Dobrzycka Anna (1)
  
  Dziuba Władysław; 1895?, Kielce (1)
  
  Dąbski Stefan; 26.12.1919, Joanin (1)
  
  Dębski Moszek; 1910?, Kielce (1)
  
  Długosz Wiesława (1)
  
  Edelman Marek; 01.01.1919, Warsaw (1)
  
  Fabrycki Jakob (1)
  
  Falk Ignacy; 1902? (1)
  
  Falk Ignacy; Warsaw (1)
  
  Falk Ignacy; Warszawa (1)
  
  Fastman Ludwik; 31.07.1897, Drohobycz (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Fastman Ludwik; 31.07.1899, Drohobycz (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Feder Sala; 02.01.1918, Pilica (śląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Frydenthal Aron; 1904? (1)
  
  Frydman Moszek; 14.12.1919, Radom (1)
  
  Garwin vel Garfinkiel Mieczysław; 11.05.1898, Zamość (1)
  
  Gelade Eliasz; 1893? (1)
  
  Gelbkron Moszek (Maciejuk Józef); 1903? (1)
  
  Gitler-Barski Józef; 03.03.1898, Warsaw (1)
  
  Goc Zdzisław (1)
  
  Goldman Roman; 04.05.1931, Tomaszów Mazowiecki (1)
  
  Gordon Jakub; 30.06.1910, Wilno (now in Lithuania) (1)
  
  Gordon Jakub; 30.06.1910, Wilno (now: Lithuania) (1)
  
  Gozdur Stanisław; 11.11.1891, Wola Solecka (1)
  
  Grynsztejn Szmel (1)
  
  Grzybowski Jerzy (1)
  
  Gutman Jakub; 09.10.1910, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Gutman Jakub; 1911? (1)
  
  Hamburg Ozjasz; 16.04.1905, Rohatyn (dziś: Ukraina) (1)
  
  Haupenthal Janina (1)
  
  Heliczer Helena; 27.07.1890, Jezierna (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Hirszfeld Ludwik; 05.08.1884, Warsaw (1)
  
  Honig Daniel (1)
  
  Horawia Aron; 1902? (1)
  
  Hyla Sabina; 22.01.1933 (1)
  
  Jakubowicz Mojsze; 15.05.1922, Poddębice (łódzkie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Jaszczak Wacław; 12.09.1907, Wilkucice Duże (1)
  
  Jaworska Bogna; 1925? (1)
  
  Jaworska Bogna; 28.04.1925, Blachownia (1)
  
  Jendrzejczuk Henryk; 03.01.1943, Białe Szczepanowice (1)
  
  Kac Samuel; 1892?, Sandomierz (1)
  
  Kajszczak Marian (1)
  
  Kalinowski Adam; 1899? (1)
  
  Karafioł Pinkus; 17.03.1901, Radom (1)
  
  Karnasiewicz Helena; 20.03.1928, Gajówka Wschodnia (Węgrów county) (1)
  
  Komusińska Wanda (1)
  
  Koniecpoler Dawid; 1897? (1)
  
  Kosiński Wacław; 21.09.1882 (1)
  
  Krajew Helena; 1917? (1)
  
  Krok Ignacy; 21.01.1895, Kłobuck (1)
  
  Krzepicki Henryk; 04.03.1914, Złoczew (1)
  
  Kwaśniewski Józef; 1893? Piotrkowice (Chmilnik commune) (1)
  
  Kóper Dawid; 17.06.1901, Częstochowa (1)
Subject
- Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (24)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (18)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (15)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (14)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (9)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Radom Ghetto (9)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Białystok Ghetto (8)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Tarnów Ghetto (8)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Radom Ghetto (7)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (6)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (6)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (5)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (5)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (5)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (5)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Częstochowa Ghetto (5)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Mazovia (5)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (4)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Kłobuck Ghetto (3)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (3)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Upper Silesia (3)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto (3)
  
  The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews (3)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (2)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (2)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Gliwice (2)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (2)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Częstochowa region (2)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (2)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Kielce Ghetto (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Tarnopol region (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Wilno region (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Łódź region (2)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – the Stanisławów area (2)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Mazovia (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Lesser Poland (1)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Częstochowa Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Stopnica Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death - the Lipsko Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Chmielnik Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Klimontów Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Sandomierz Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Staszów Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Zamość Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Zawichost Ghetto (1)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (1)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Greater Poland (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Volhynia (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Częstochowa region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Kujawy region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Nowogród region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Polesie region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Stanisławów region (1)
  
  Radom – daily terror (1)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Jedlińsk Ghetto (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Kłobuck Ghetto (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski Ghetto (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Sandomierz Ghetto (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Tomaszów Mazowiecki Ghetto (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Zwoleń Ghetto (1)
  
  The Polish Righteous Among the Nations (1)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (1)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – the Lublin region (1)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (1)
  
  Third Reich – the Kielce region (1)
  
  Treblinka – extermination camp (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- German extermination camp of Treblinka (32)
  
  KL Plaszow (31)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (26)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (22)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (19)
  
  Warsaw (19)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (19)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (16)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (13)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (11)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (11)
  
  Radom, Ghetto Śródmieście (11)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (10)
  
  Radom, Ghetto Glinice (10)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Umschlagplatz, Stawki Street 2/6 (10)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (9)
  
  Częstochowa (8)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (8)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (8)
  
  Warsaw, Gęsiówka prison, Gęsia Street (Anielewicza Street)/ Zamenhofa Street (8)
  
  Białystok, ghetto (7)
  
  Częstochowa, Ghetto (7)
  
  Piotrków Trybunalski, ghetto (7)
  
  Radom (7)
  
  Bliżyn, forced labor camp (6)
  
  Częstochowa, Jewish cemetery, Złota Street (6)
  
  Częstochowa, Rynek Warszawski (Bohaterów Getta Square) (6)
  
  Częstochowa, forced labor camp "Hasag Pelcery", 1 Maja Street (Filomatów Street 14) (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (6)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (6)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (5)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (5)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (5)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (5)
  
  Kielce, Ludwików Steelworks, Zagnańska Street 27 (5)
  
  Kraków (5)
  
  Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (5)
  
  Poniatowa, German forced labor camp (5)
  
  Warsaw, ghetto, Umschlagplatz, Stawki Street 2/6 (5)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship), ghetto (5)
  
  Częstochowa, Garibaldiego Street (4)
  
  KL Majdanek (4)
  
  Kłobuck, ghetto (4)
  
  Lublin (4)
  
  Radom, Wałowa Street (4)
  
  Radzymin (4)
  
  Starachowice (4)
  
  Warsaw, Hotel Polski, Długa Street 29 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Zamenhofa Street (4)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) (4)
  
  Łódź, ghetto (4)
  
  Będzin, ghetto (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (3)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (3)
  
  Katowice (3)
  
  Kielce, "Henryków" factory, Młynarska Street 133 (Mielczarskiego Street) (3)
  
  Kielce, Ghetto (3)
  
  Kielce, forced labor camp "Henryków", Młynarska Street 133 (Mielczarskiego Street) (3)
  
  Majdanek, German extermination camp (3)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (3)
  
  Pionki (mazowieckie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Piotrków Trybunalski, Manufaktura, Sulejowska Street 45 (3)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (3)
  
  Radom, forced labor camp, Szkolna Street (Poznańska Street) (3)
  
  Radom, forced labor camp, Szwarlikowskiego Street (3)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  Szydłowiec (Szydłowiec district) (3)
  
  Vittel (France) (3)
  
  Warsaw, Dzika Street 17 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Jewish cemetery, Okopowa Street 49/51 (3)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship), market square (3)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz IV (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Bliżyn (2)
  
  Borki Wielkie (Ukraine) (2)
  
  Budzyń, German forced labor camp (2)
  
  Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship), Gestapo headquarters, Rostka Street 2 (2)
  
  Czortków (Ukraine) (2)
  
  Częstochowa, Krótka Street (2)
  
  Firlej (Radom) (2)
  
  Garbatka (Garbatka-Letnisko) (2)
  
  Hanover (Germany) (2)
  
  Jaworzno, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Jezierna (Ukraine) (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (2)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (2)
  
  Kielce, the "Hasag-Granat" factory, Karczówkowska Street (2)
  
  Kraków, Enamel Factory of Oskar Schindler (subcamp of KL Płaszów), Lipowa Street 4 (2)
  
  Legionowo, ghetto (2)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Opatów (2)
  
  Opatów, Ghetto (2)
  
  Opatów, Słowackiego Street 1 (2)
  
  Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, ghetto (2)
  
  Otwock, ghetto (2)
  
  Pionki (Mazovian Voivodeship) (2)
  
  Piotrków Trybunalski (2)
  
  Poznań (2)
  
  Radom, Biała Street (2)
Victims
- The Jews (218)
  
  Civilians (206)
  
  The Civilian Population (166)
  
  Women (126)
  
  The Poles (116)
  
  Children (105)
  
  The Inteligentsia (50)
  
  The elderly (48)
  
  The Elderly (38)
  
  The sick (37)
  
  The Sick (31)
  
  Russians/Soviets (8)
  
  The Russians (7)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (6)
  
  Prisoners of War (4)
  
  The Church (4)
  
  The Communists (3)
  
  The Disabled (3)
  
  Hungarians (2)
  
  Slovaks (2)
  
  Americans (1)
  
  Czechs (1)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (1)
  
  Germans (1)
  
  Greeks (1)
  
  The British (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (89)
  
  Military Police (36)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (23)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (23)
  
  Collaboration (11)
  
  Latvians (9)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (9)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (9)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (8)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (8)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (6)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (5)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (4)
  
  Lithuanians (3)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (3)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (2)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (2)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (2)
  
  Red Army (2)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (2)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (1)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (1)
  
  Security Office (1)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (1)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (1)
Crimes
- The liquidation of ghetto (221)
  
  Execution (164)
  
  Death by shooting (144)
  
  Deportation (108)
  
  Forced labor (102)
  
  Beating (84)
  
  Robbery (57)
  
  Biological extermination (44)
  
  Arrest (42)
  
  Displacement (40)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (38)
  
  Mass graves (38)
  
  Expulsion (36)
  
  Racial policy (33)
  
  Cremation of corpses (32)
  
  Economic exploitation (32)
  
  Hanging (30)
  
  Round-up (29)
  
  Cremation (23)
  
  Gas chambers (22)
  
  Administrative persecution (21)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (20)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (16)
  
  Cattle wagons (14)
  
  Burning people alive (12)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (8)
  
  Air raids (7)
  
  Medical experiments (7)
  
  Desacration of corpses (5)
  
  Judicial crime (4)
  
  Death marches (3)
  
  Rape (3)
  
  "Dosing" (2)
  
  Collectivization (1)
  
  Deportation/Exile (1)
  
  Germanization (1)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (1)
Place
- Ghetto (160)
  
  Labor camp (39)
  
  Concentration camp (35)
  
  Extermination camp (30)
  
  Forced labor (13)
  
  Prison (12)
  
  Police headquarters/station (6)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (3)
  
  Sewers (3)
  
  Transit camp (3)
Content
- Extermination of Jews (161)
  
  Rescue of Jews (56)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (40)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (33)
  
  Judenrat (15)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (15)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (13)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (12)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (10)
  
  Obliterating the traces (10)
  
  obliterating the traces (8)
  
  Health service (7)
  
  Called by name (6)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (5)
  
  Central Welfare Council (4)
  
  Civil resistance (3)
  
  Polish Underground State (3)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (3)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (2)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (2)
  
  Underground culture and education (2)
  
  Wola Massacre (2)
  
  the Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (2)
  
  Clandestine courses (1)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (1)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (1)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (1)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (1)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
  
  Underground media (1)
  
  the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (173)
  
  Brief (19)
  
  Account (12)
  
  Statement (5)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (1)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (38)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (38)
  
  District Court in Radom (34)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków (28)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (26)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (21)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (7)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (3)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland. Research and investigative files (2)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (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 Kraków (1)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland 1949–1984 (1)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (1)
Medium
- Text (221)
  
  Image (16)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (168)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (52)