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

Main Page Indexes Content Pacification of rural areas

Witness (date and place of birth)
- Sulima Jan (11)
  
  Szczerbiński Jan (11)
  
  Sowiński Władysław (7)
  
  Grodzicki Kazimierz (6)
  
  Kruszyna Stanisław (5)
  
  Szymanowski Jan (4)
  
  Tomasik Marcin (4)
  
  Bech Leon; 24.03.1989, Wola (3)
  
  Kruk Józef; 01.01.1916, Serbinów (3)
  
  Stawiarski Eugeniusz (3)
  
  Wiącek Eugeniusz; 11.01.1905, Strużki (3)
  
  Bednarz Antoni; 1893? (2)
  
  Bida Władysław; 1886? (2)
  
  Bąk Antonina; 1902?, Puławy (lubelskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Czechowicz Stanisław; 1883, Białaczów (2)
  
  Czerwonka Władysław; 22.12.1899, Mucisko (2)
  
  Depak Bolesław; 05.05.1912 (2)
  
  Dzik Adam; 1910? (2)
  
  Filipiak Ignacy (2)
  
  Grabiński Marcin; 08.11.1888 (2)
  
  Kruk Jan; 09.03.1904, Serbinów (2)
  
  Kwapiński Stanisław; 1908?, Karolin (Zwoleń county) (2)
  
  Majchrzyk Antonina; 1884?, Łosienek (2)
  
  Majewski Stanisław (2)
  
  Makuch Józef; 1904? (2)
  
  Matynia Wojciech (2)
  
  Nowak Stefan; 1916? (2)
  
  Opacki Władysław; 1904? (2)
  
  Piłsudski Marian; 15.07.1912 (2)
  
  Ryś Władysław; 1894? (2)
  
  Serek Jan; 11.11.1889, Raszówka (Mniów) (2)
  
  Sikora Antoni; 13.07.1907, Kłoda (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Sotomski Henryk (2)
  
  Stępień Stefen (2)
  
  Szewczyk Józef; 1902?, Sycyna (mazowieckie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Zapała Stanisław, 14.11.1902, Brynica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Zatora Marian; 1910? (2)
  
  Adamek Stanisław; 03.04.1899, Przybysławice–Olkusz (1)
  
  Adamski Ludwik; 1901? (1)
  
  Adamus Józef; 1898? (1)
  
  Andruszkiewicz Walenty; 1899? (1)
  
  Anonymous (1)
  
  Antoniak Franciszek; 1901? (1)
  
  Arciszewski Kazimierz; 1909? (1)
  
  Balicki Piotr; 15.08.1897, Szczeka (1)
  
  Banach Stanisława; 15.02.1915, Miniów (1)
  
  Banasik Andrzej; 1926? (1)
  
  Banaszewski Józef; 1883? (1)
  
  Banaszewski Stanisław; 1886?, Bugaj (skarżyski district) (1)
  
  Banaszewski; Stanisław 1886?, Bugaj (Skarżysko Kamienna county) (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 31.07.1899, Wymysłów (1)
  
  Banbura Maria (1)
  
  Barański Bolesław; 1906? (1)
  
  Barański Jan; 1926? (1)
  
  Barcicki Feliks; 1901? (1)
  
  Barszcz Aleksander (1)
  
  Bartosik Józef; 26.02.1902, Mniów (1)
  
  Bartosińska Stanisława; 1905?, Rogowice (1)
  
  Barzycki Aleksander; 1894? (1)
  
  Bańburski Marcin; 1897? (1)
  
  Bednarczyk Bartłomiej; 1911? (1)
  
  Bednarczyk Franciszka; 25.02.1903, Mniów (1)
  
  Bednarczyk Józefa; 13.12.1912, Skoki (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Bednarczyk Władysław; 1899?, Stachura (1)
  
  Belica Marianna; 06.12.1925, Podsuliszka (1)
  
  Belica Marianna; 1904? (1)
  
  Belica Walenty; 1884? (1)
  
  Berliński Józef; 05.03.1905, Koszyce (małopolskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Bernacki Stanisław; 1899? (1)
  
  Białecki Jan; 1889? (1)
  
  Białek Władysław; 05.12.1890 (1)
  
  Bieniek Walenty; 14.02.1924, Ołtarze-Gołacze (1)
  
  Biernik Wojciech; 1893? (1)
  
  Biskup Jan; 1913? (1)
  
  Biskup Stanisław; 1911? (1)
  
  Biskup Władysław; 1927? (1)
  
  Bińkowski Stanisław (1)
  
  Bokwa Jan; 1893?, Sośniczany (1)
  
  Borkowski Bolesław; 1890? (1)
  
  Boroń Jan; 1898? (1)
  
  Boroń Stanisław; 10.07.1914, Orzechówka (podkarpackie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Borto Stefan; 1912? (1)
  
  Borycki Marian; 1915? (1)
  
  Brandt Janusz (1)
  
  Brandt Janusz; 1905? (1)
  
  Bronisław Kornaś; 1911? (1)
  
  Brożyna Helena; 02.03.1921, Bieliny (1)
  
  Brzezicka Stanisława; 27.05.1897, Lipa (1)
  
  Brzeziński Franciszek; 12.08.1904 (1)
  
  Bucior Ryszard (1)
  
  Bucki Jan; 1883? (1)
  
  Budzioch Mieczysław; 1918? (1)
  
  Budzowicz Franciszek; 1900, Sosnowiec (1)
  
  Bugaj Kazimierz (1)
  
  Bury Adam; 26.11.1931, Zwierzyniec (1)
  
  Bzduch Feliks; 30.05.1899, Cegielnia (now: Koprzywnica, świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Bębeniec Adam; 1905?, Sydół (1)
  
  Bęc Alfreda (1)
  
  Błaszczyk Jan; 1914? (1)
  
  Błąk Jan; 1899? (1)
Subject
- The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (309)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (281)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (229)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (57)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (34)
  
  Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages (26)
  
  Michniów – the extermination of the Polish countryside (26)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (16)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Świętokrzyskie region (15)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (14)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (13)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (13)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (9)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (9)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Radom region (9)
  
  The Podlasie region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (8)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (6)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (6)
  
  In revenge for assisting “Hubal” – reprisal campaigns (5)
  
  The Częstochowa region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (5)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Zamość region (3)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (3)
  
  Lebensraum – the Germanization of the Zamość region (3)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (3)
  
  Terror in the "incorporated lands" – the Łódź region (3)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (2)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (2)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (2)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (2)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Lublin region (2)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Radom region (2)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Volhynia (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Pomerania (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (1)
  
  Lesser Poland – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (1)
  
  Radom – daily terror (1)
  
  The Ostrów forests – mass executions (1)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (1)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (76)
  
  Michniów (38)
  
  Busko-Zdrój (31)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (30)
  
  Podsuliszka (Radom District) (23)
  
  Podsuliszka, Pakosławski Forest (23)
  
  Karolin (Zwoleń district) (20)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) (20)
  
  Warsaw (18)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (16)
  
  Radom (16)
  
  Zamość, resettlement camp, Okrzei Street (16)
  
  Końskie, district hospital, Warszawska Street 25 (15)
  
  Mniów (15)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (15)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (13)
  
  Kielce (13)
  
  Modrzejowice, an estate (13)
  
  Suchedniów (13)
  
  Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (12)
  
  Pogłodów (Mniów) (12)
  
  Raszówka (Mniów) (12)
  
  Serbinów (12)
  
  Staszów (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship) (12)
  
  Staszów (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (12)
  
  Kornica (11)
  
  Końskie (11)
  
  Końskie, prison, Jatkowa Street (Spółdzielcza Street 16) (11)
  
  Nowa Słupia (11)
  
  Zwierzyniec (Zwierzyniec commune), transit camp (11)
  
  Barycz (Końskie district), "Barycz" training ground (9)
  
  Chmielnik (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (9)
  
  Garbatka (Garbatka-Letnisko) (9)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (9)
  
  Magnuszew (Kozienice district) (9)
  
  Sydół (9)
  
  Antoniówka (Radom district) (8)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (8)
  
  Bieliny (Kielce district), Police Station (8)
  
  Gębice (Godów) (8)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (8)
  
  Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 (8)
  
  Opatów (8)
  
  Piekło (Końskie district) (8)
  
  Starachowice (8)
  
  Strużki (8)
  
  Słupia, forced labor camp (8)
  
  Brzeźnica (Kozienice district) (7)
  
  Bór Kunowski (7)
  
  Janina (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (7)
  
  Modrzejowice (7)
  
  Młotkowice (7)
  
  Niebo (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (7)
  
  Opatów, Cememtery, Cmentarna Street (7)
  
  Policzna (mazowieckie voivodeship) (7)
  
  Skałka Polska (7)
  
  Stadnicka Wola (7)
  
  Zaborów (7)
  
  Łopuszno (7)
  
  Łączna (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship) (7)
  
  Bedlno (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (6)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (6)
  
  Ciepielów (mazowieckie voivodeship) (6)
  
  Iłża (6)
  
  Kozienice (6)
  
  Opatów, Słowackiego Street 1 (6)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (6)
  
  Bogoria (Staszów district) (5)
  
  Brynica (district of Kielce) (5)
  
  Brzeście (district of Pińczów) (5)
  
  Busko-Zdrój, jewish cemetery, Widuchowska Street (5)
  
  Częstochowa (5)
  
  Dębno (commune of Nowa Słupia), Cemetery (5)
  
  Dębno (commune of Nowa Słupia), St. Michael's Church, Dębno 49 (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (5)
  
  KL Majdanek (5)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (5)
  
  Kołków (district of Pińczów) (5)
  
  Kołków, Chroberski Forest (5)
  
  Końskie, Jewish cemetery (Wjazdowa Street/ Staszica Street) (5)
  
  Laskowa (Kostomłoty Drugie, district of Kielce) (5)
  
  Nowy Korczyn (5)
  
  Piekoszów (5)
  
  Pińczów, prison, 3-go Maja Street (5)
  
  Pliskowola (5)
  
  Przyłęk (Zwoleń district) (5)
  
  Skronina (5)
  
  Szczytniki (Stopnica commune) (5)
  
  Tursko Wielkie (5)
  
  Wacławów (Zwoleń district) (5)
  
  Zamość (5)
  
  Bieliny (district of Kielce) (4)
  
  Bliżyn, forced labor camp (4)
  
  Busko-Zdrój, Gestapo headquarters, 3 Maja Avenue 7 (Batorego Street/ Mickiewicza Avenue) (4)
  
  Chroberz (4)
  
  Daromin (4)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (4)
  
  Hucisko (Przysucha district) (4)
  
  Iwaniska (4)
  
  Jeziorko (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship) (4)
Victims
- Civilians (803)
  
  The Civilian Population (798)
  
  The Poles (796)
  
  Women (311)
  
  Children (257)
  
  The elderly (80)
  
  The Elderly (78)
  
  The Jews (77)
  
  The Inteligentsia (37)
  
  Russians/Soviets (16)
  
  The Church (15)
  
  The Russians (15)
  
  The sick (15)
  
  The Sick (14)
  
  Prisoners of War (11)
  
  The Communists (4)
  
  The Disabled (4)
  
  The French (3)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (3)
  
  Germans (2)
  
  Czechs (1)
  
  Greeks (1)
  
  Landowners (1)
  
  The Dutch (1)
Perpetrators
- Military Police (363)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (118)
  
  Collaboration (73)
  
  SS (71)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (39)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (35)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (29)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (24)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (14)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (13)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (11)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (7)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (4)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (3)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (3)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (2)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (2)
  
  Red Army (2)
  
  Technical Support (Technische Nothilfe) (2)
  
  Administrative Police (1)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (1)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (1)
  
  Gendarmerie (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (1)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1)
Crimes
- Execution (639)
  
  Death by shooting (574)
  
  Arrest (347)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (223)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (222)
  
  Beating (200)
  
  Deportation (197)
  
  Forced labor (175)
  
  Burning people alive (144)
  
  Round-up (135)
  
  Robbery (113)
  
  Mass graves (99)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (98)
  
  Economic exploitation (79)
  
  Cremation (55)
  
  Cremation of corpses (55)
  
  Displacement (53)
  
  Expulsion (50)
  
  Biological extermination (44)
  
  Hanging (27)
  
  Air raids (21)
  
  Administrative persecution (17)
  
  Gas chambers (15)
  
  Denationalization (14)
  
  Disarmament (12)
  
  Armored weapons (8)
  
  Death marches (7)
  
  Deportation/Exile (7)
  
  Judicial crime (7)
  
  Medical experiments (7)
  
  Artillery fire (6)
  
  Artillery shelling (6)
  
  Desacration of corpses (6)
  
  Racial policy (6)
  
  Cattle wagons (5)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (5)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (5)
  
  Germanization (4)
  
  Rape (3)
  
  "Dosing" (1)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (1)
Place
- Concentration camp (92)
  
  Forced labor (73)
  
  Labor camp (46)
  
  Prison (44)
  
  Police headquarters/station (30)
  
  Transit camp (26)
  
  Extermination camp (22)
  
  Ghetto (10)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (3)
  
  Internment camp (1)
  
  Kolkhoz (1)
Content
- Pacification of rural areas (808)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (303)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (73)
  
  Extermination of Jews (56)
  
  Aktion Zamość (20)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (19)
  
  Underground courts (14)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (12)
  
  Civil resistance (10)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (10)
  
  Rescue of Jews (10)
  
  Obliterating the traces (9)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (9)
  
  Underground media (8)
  
  obliterating the traces (8)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (7)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (7)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (6)
  
  Central Welfare Council (4)
  
  Health service (4)
  
  Underground culture and education (4)
  
  Polish Underground State (3)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (3)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (2)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (2)
  
  Anders' Army (1)
  
  Blue Police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (1)
  
  Clandestine courses (1)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (1)
  
  Judenrat (1)
  
  Kidnapping (and Germanization) of Polish children (1)
  
  National Armed Forces (1)
  
  Operation "Tempest" (1)
  
  The Silent Unseen (1)
  
  the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (667)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (14)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (3)
  
  Account (1)
  
  Brief (1)
  
  Report (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (579)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (124)
  
  District Court in Radom (77)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (36)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (18)
  
  District Court in Łomża (8)
  
  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)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (2)
  
  Office of the District Authorities in Ostrów Mazowiecka (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation – Institute of National Remembrance in Białystok (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Warsaw (1)
Medium
- Text (805)
  
  Image (116)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (766)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (42)