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

Main Page Search phrase: [Object Creation Date = 1948.01.01 - 1948.12.31]

Witness (date and place of birth)
- Kruk Józef; 01.01.1916, Serbinów (3)
  
  Makowska Genowefa; 1913?, Kielce (3)
  
  Apolińska Zofia; 1893?, Zambrów (2)
  
  Bida Władysław; 1886? (2)
  
  Chojnowski Piotr; 07.10.1903, Ostrów Mazowiecka (2)
  
  Depak Bolesław; 05.05.1912 (2)
  
  Fastman Ludwik; 31.07.1899, Drohobycz (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Groszyk Władysław; 1891? (2)
  
  Głaz Antoni; 17.01.1920, Zawichost (2)
  
  Handzel Jan; 20.04.1906, Wincentów (Kielce county) (2)
  
  Handzel Jan; 20.04.1906, Wincentów (kielecki district) (2)
  
  Jamioł Agnieszka; 1881?, Galów (2)
  
  Karpiński Zdzisław; 18.09.1920, Ostrów Mazowiecka (2)
  
  Konca Stanisława; 1899?, Warsaw (2)
  
  Konca Stanisława; 1899?, Warszawa (2)
  
  Kruk Jan; 09.03.1904, Serbinów (2)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Kwapiński Stanisław; 1908?, Karolin (Zwoleń county) (2)
  
  Lipski Stanisław; 09.02.1897 (2)
  
  Majchrzyk Antonina; 1884?, Łosienek (2)
  
  Makowski Marian; 01.12.1924, Kielce (2)
  
  Melisa Cecylia; 22.11.1893, Ostrów Mazowiecka (2)
  
  Nowacki Antoni; 13.06.1897, Ostrów Mazowiecka (2)
  
  Nowakowska Ewelina; 20.12.1924, Mała Wieś (Płock county) (2)
  
  Przybylski Leon; 1886?, Kielce (2)
  
  Ratajczyk Józef; 10.03.1904, Warsaw (2)
  
  Ratajczyk Zdzisław Józef; 21.03.1927, Warsaw (2)
  
  Serek Jan; 11.11.1889, Raszówka (Mniów) (2)
  
  Stoeger Samuel; 14.05.1911, Kraków (2)
  
  Strynkowski Józef; 23.02.1891, Ostrów Mazowiecka (2)
  
  Stąpor Jacenty; 1877?, Niestachów (2)
  
  Szarek Pelagia; 1909?, Węgleszyn (2)
  
  Szewczyk Józef; 1902?, Sycyna (mazowieckie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Szlacheta Wacława; 23.09.1900, Warsaw (2)
  
  Wilk Katarzyna; 1885?, Mały Sławków (2)
  
  Zagórska Antonina; 1888?, Niestachów (2)
  
  Zapała Stanisław, 14.11.1902, Brynica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Adamek Stanisław; 03.04.1899, Przybysławice–Olkusz (1)
  
  Adamiec Jakub; 1875? (1)
  
  Akinin Bazyli; 1902?, Włodawa (1)
  
  Anlen Bronisław Elkana; 9.05.1907, Warsaw (1)
  
  Anonymous (1)
  
  Arkita Maria; 14.09.1914, Reducin (1)
  
  Bachniak Franciszek; 15.10.1904, Gruszewnia (1)
  
  Bakalarz Agata; 1900? (1)
  
  Bala Piotr, 1882? (1)
  
  Balias Dominik; 12.08.1906, Warsaw (1)
  
  Balicki Piotr; 15.08.1897, Szczeka (1)
  
  Banach Stanisława; 15.02.1915, Miniów (1)
  
  Banasik Józef; 8.03.1878, Kielce (1)
  
  Banaszewski Stanisław; 1886?, Bugaj (skarżyski district) (1)
  
  Banaszewski; Stanisław 1886?, Bugaj (Skarżysko Kamienna county) (1)
  
  Banaś Adam (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 31.07.1899, Wymysłów (1)
  
  Baniewski Franciszek; 1916? (1)
  
  Barański Jan; 1926? (1)
  
  Barcz Edward Antoni Leopold; 23.12.1911, Russia (1)
  
  Bartosiak Zofia (1)
  
  Bartosik Antoni; 1902, Gidle (łódzkie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Bartosik Józef; 26.02.1902, Mniów (1)
  
  Bartosińska Stanisława; 1905?, Rogowice (1)
  
  Barzycki Aleksander; 1894? (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)
  
  Bednarek Stanisław; 1904?, Kuchary (śląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Bekier Zofia; 17.04.1882 (1)
  
  Berliński Józef; 05.03.1905, Koszyce (małopolskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Bernaś Jan; 27.05.1923, Świniary (1)
  
  Białek Bronisława; 1906?, Kielce (1)
  
  Białek Władysław; 05.12.1890 (1)
  
  Bielecki Józef; 1910?, Przezwody (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Bielica Marianna; 4.10.1904, Kielce (1)
  
  Bielicz Józef; 1903?, Małogoszcz (1)
  
  Bielski Czesław; 29.09.1904, Kanigówek (1)
  
  Bieniek Marianna; 1908, Dębska Wola (1)
  
  Biernaczyk Stanisław, 29.08.1886 (1)
  
  Blech Leon; 1907, Rohatyn (dziś: Ukraina) (1)
  
  Bobrowicz Helena; 15.06.1896, Krzeszowice (1)
  
  Bobrowska Janina; 27.12.1908, Skarżysko-Kamienna (1)
  
  Bogacz Paweł; 1875? (1)
  
  Bojm Mojżesz; 1903? (1)
  
  Bokwa Jan; 1893?, Sośniczany (1)
  
  Bomba Stefan; 1918?, Łachów (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Boroń Jan; 1898? (1)
  
  Borzykowski Tuwia (Tadeusz); 1911 (1)
  
  Bożymowski Stefan; 22.08.1906, Warsaw (1)
  
  Brach Jan; 1919? (1)
  
  Brach Jan; 1920? (1)
  
  Brachowicz Stefan; 14.12.1906, Wełecz (1)
  
  Brakier Moniek; 23.12.1920, Białystok (1)
  
  Brandt Janusz; 1905? (1)
  
  Branny Franciszek Karol; 26.09.1896, Ropica (now in the Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Brożyna Helena; 02.03.1921, Bieliny (1)
  
  Brzeziński Chaskiel; 1901?, Gąbin (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Brzeziński Marian; 1912? (1)
  
  Brzozowska Barbara (1)
  
  Brzozowska Bronisława Apolonia 14.04.1906 (1)
  
  Brzozowska Bronisława Apolonia; 14.04.1906 (1)
Subject
- The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (248)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (225)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (85)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (71)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (48)
  
  Stadion Leśny, Słowik, Herby – execution sites in Kielce (36)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (36)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (34)
  
  The city condemned to death (26)
  
  Soviets in German captivity (22)
  
  The Częstochowa region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (22)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (21)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (18)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town (18)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz (17)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (15)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (14)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (14)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Świętokrzyskie region (13)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – the Stanisławów area (11)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (10)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (9)
  
  Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages (8)
  
  Michniów – the extermination of the Polish countryside (8)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (8)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (7)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (7)
  
  The persecuted church (7)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Kłobuck Ghetto (6)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (5)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Radom region (5)
  
  Radom – daily terror (5)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Żoliborz (5)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (4)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Kielce Ghetto (4)
  
  Prisoners of war – transit camps in Kielce (4)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Radom Ghetto (4)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (4)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Radom Ghetto (3)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (3)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (3)
  
  Radom bathed in blood – the prison in the former convent buildings (3)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto (3)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (2)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Częstochowa region (2)
  
  Kujawy region - the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  Lebensraum – the Germanization of the Zamość region (2)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (2)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (1)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Częstochowa Ghetto (1)
  
  Lesser Poland – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Bergen-Belsen (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Dachau (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Kraków (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (1)
  
  Taken Captive (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Białystok Ghetto (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Jedlińsk Ghetto (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Kłobuck Ghetto (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski Ghetto (1)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (1)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Lesser Poland (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 (56)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka (39)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (38)
  
  Kielce, the "Leśny" Stadium (28)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (20)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (20)
  
  Warsaw, SS-Stauferkaserne, Rakowiecka Street 4 (20)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (18)
  
  Kielce, the "Hasag-Granat" factory, Karczówkowska Street (17)
  
  Busko-Zdrój (15)
  
  Karolin (Zwoleń district) (15)
  
  Kielce, Ludwików Steelworks, Zagnańska Street 27 (15)
  
  Mniów (13)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (13)
  
  Warsaw, Długa Street 7 (13)
  
  Warsaw, Ogródek Jordanowski [Jordan garden], Bagatela Street 2/4 (13)
  
  Warsaw, St. Hyacinth's church, Freta Street 10 (13)
  
  Kielce (12)
  
  Nowa Słupia (12)
  
  Radom (12)
  
  Raszówka (Mniów) (12)
  
  Warsaw, General Inspectorate of the Armed Forces, al. Szucha 12/14 (12)
  
  Warsaw, General Inspectorate of the Armed Forces, aleja Szucha 12/14 (12)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (11)
  
  Pogłodów (Mniów) (11)
  
  Serbinów (11)
  
  Warsaw (11)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (10)
  
  Kraków (10)
  
  Warsaw, Rakowiecka Street (10)
  
  Warsaw, Seminary Church, Krakowskie Przedmieście Street 52/54 (10)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 (10)
  
  KL Plaszow (9)
  
  Kielce, Fijałkowski's Barracks (Cemetery of Soviet Prisoners of War) (9)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (9)
  
  Bieliny (Kielce district), Police Station (8)
  
  Bliżyn, forced labor camp (8)
  
  Jaworznia (commune of Piekoszów), Baudienst (8)
  
  Kielce, "Henryków" factory, Młynarska Street 133 (Mielczarskiego Street) (8)
  
  Kielce, St. Adalbert's Church, Św. Wojciecha Square 9 (8)
  
  Nowa Wieś (Kłobuck district) (8)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (8)
  
  Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (8)
  
  Sydół (8)
  
  Warsaw, Dembińskiego Street 2/4 (8)
  
  Warsaw, Jesuit Monastery, Rakowiecka Street 61 (8)
  
  Warsaw, Litewska Street 14 (8)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's Church, Wolska Street 76 (8)
  
  Warsaw, Wolska Street (8)
  
  Beniaminów, Stalag 368 (7)
  
  Busko-Zdrój, jewish cemetery, Widuchowska Street (7)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (7)
  
  Kielce, Bodzentyńska Street (7)
  
  Kielce, forced labor camp "Henryków", Młynarska Street 133 (Mielczarskiego Street) (7)
  
  Koprzywnica (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship) (7)
  
  Kłobuck, ghetto (7)
  
  Michniów (7)
  
  Piekoszów (7)
  
  Raczyce (świętokrzyskie voivodeship), forced labor camp "Piaski" (7)
  
  Warsaw, Grand Theatre, Teatralny Square 1 (7)
  
  Warsaw, Ogród Saski [Saxon Garden] (7)
  
  Wincentów (district of Kielce) (7)
  
  Brzeźnica (Kozienice district) (6)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (6)
  
  Kielce, Baudienst, Piramowicza Street 8 (6)
  
  Kielce, Gestapo Station, Seminaryjska Street 12 (6)
  
  Kielce, municipal jail, Zamkowa Street 7 (6)
  
  Radom, Ghetto Śródmieście (6)
  
  Sandomierz (6)
  
  Stefanów (Zwoleń commune) (6)
  
  Słowik (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship) (6)
  
  Warsaw, Banacha Market Square, Grójecka Street 95 (6)
  
  Warsaw, Czerniakowska Street (6)
  
  Warsaw, Narbutta Street (6)
  
  Warsaw, Senatorska Street (6)
  
  Warsaw, Stara Street (6)
  
  Warsaw, Trębacka Street (6)
  
  Warsaw, Unii Lubelskiej Square (6)
  
  Warsaw, Waffen-SS Warehouses, Stawki Street 4 (6)
  
  Warsaw, Warszawa Zachodnia Station (6)
  
  Warsaw, Zamkowy Square (6)
  
  Warsaw, Złota Street 38 (6)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) (6)
  
  Babin (mazowieckie voivodeship) (5)
  
  Białaczów (5)
  
  Białobrzegi (Legionowo county), Soviet POW cemetery (5)
  
  Bliżyn, Stalag XII C/Z (5)
  
  Brynica (district of Kielce) (5)
  
  Częstochowa (5)
  
  Dębno (commune of Nowa Słupia), Cemetery (5)
  
  Dębno (commune of Nowa Słupia), St. Michael's Church, Dębno 49 (5)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (5)
  
  Grądziki (mazowieckie voivodeship) (5)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (5)
  
  Kielce, Arbeitsamt, Kolejowa Street (Sienkiewicza Street) (5)
  
  Kielce, Kielce-Herby railway station (5)
  
  Kielce, water supply reservoir, Prosta Street 22 (5)
  
  Kielce, water supply system reservoir, Prosta Street 22 (5)
  
  Kozienice (5)
  
  Kołków (district of Pińczów) (5)
Victims
- Civilians (757)
  
  The Civilian Population (742)
  
  The Poles (690)
  
  Women (253)
  
  The Jews (161)
  
  Children (109)
  
  The sick (79)
  
  The Sick (77)
  
  The elderly (54)
  
  Prisoners of War (54)
  
  The Elderly (50)
  
  The Church (45)
  
  The Inteligentsia (41)
  
  Russians/Soviets (37)
  
  The Russians (31)
  
  The Disabled (8)
  
  The French (4)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (3)
  
  Czechs (2)
  
  Americans (1)
  
  Greeks (1)
  
  Romanians (1)
  
  Slovaks (1)
  
  The Communists (1)
  
  The Dutch (1)
  
  Ukrainians (1)
Perpetrators
- Military Police (258)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (186)
  
  SS (143)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (96)
  
  Collaboration (58)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (41)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (32)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (28)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (21)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (13)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (7)
  
  The Russian National Liberation Army (RONA) (7)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (5)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (5)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (5)
  
  Latvians (3)
  
  Technical Support (Technische Nothilfe) (3)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (2)
  
  Waffen-SS (2)
  
  Administrative Police (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (1)
  
  Red Army (1)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (1)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (1)
Crimes
- Execution (608)
  
  Death by shooting (531)
  
  Arrest (288)
  
  Forced labor (224)
  
  Beating (176)
  
  Deportation (152)
  
  Mass graves (112)
  
  Robbery (104)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (94)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (93)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (86)
  
  Displacement (72)
  
  Round-up (70)
  
  Expulsion (69)
  
  Economic exploitation (62)
  
  Biological extermination (55)
  
  Burning people alive (54)
  
  Cremation of corpses (53)
  
  Cremation (51)
  
  Hanging (40)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (40)
  
  Rape (30)
  
  Racial policy (21)
  
  Administrative persecution (18)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (12)
  
  Armored weapons (11)
  
  Human shields (10)
  
  Air raids (7)
  
  Cattle wagons (6)
  
  Desacration of corpses (6)
  
  Disarmament (6)
  
  Gas chambers (6)
  
  Germanization (5)
  
  Judicial crime (5)
  
  Artillery fire (3)
  
  Artillery shelling (3)
  
  Death marches (3)
  
  Deportation/Exile (3)
  
  Medical experiments (3)
  
  "Dosing" (2)
  
  Denationalization (1)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (1)
Place
- Prison (102)
  
  Labor camp (78)
  
  Ghetto (53)
  
  Concentration camp (47)
  
  Police headquarters/station (43)
  
  Forced labor (42)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (34)
  
  Transit camp (32)
  
  Extermination camp (8)
  
  Sewers (3)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (2)
  
  Kolkhoz (1)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (1)
Content
- Pacification of rural areas (231)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (206)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (171)
  
  Extermination of Jews (128)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (55)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (32)
  
  Rescue of Jews (18)
  
  Underground courts (18)
  
  Health service (15)
  
  Obliterating the traces (14)
  
  obliterating the traces (13)
  
  Ochota Massacre (12)
  
  Field health service (11)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (11)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (10)
  
  Civil resistance (8)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (8)
  
  Underground media (8)
  
  Central Welfare Council (7)
  
  Judenrat (6)
  
  Verbrennungskommando (5)
  
  Wola Massacre (5)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (4)
  
  Polish Underground State (4)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (4)
  
  Aktion Zamość (3)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (3)
  
  Underground culture and education (3)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (2)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (2)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (2)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (2)
  
  Aktion T4 (1)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (1)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (1)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
  
  the Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (1)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (791)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (184)
  
  Account (7)
  
  Brief (5)
  
  Official memo (5)
  
  Scene investigation report (5)
  
  Statement (3)
  
  Photograph (2)
  
  Exhumation report (1)
  
  Report (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (493)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (215)
  
  District Court in Radom (82)
  
  District Court in Łomża (58)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (29)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (25)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland. Research and investigative files (13)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Gdańsk 1945–1949 (5)
  
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