„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 (23)
  
  Sendler Irena; 15.02.1910, Warszawa (4)
  
  Krzymiński Aleksander (3)
  
  Maławska-Primas Hanna (3)
  
  Raczkiewicz Zbysław; 04.09.1925, Pobołowice (3)
  
  Ast Jadwiga; 24.01.1923, Żarnowiec (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Chwistek Barbara (2)
  
  Dembiczak Danuta (2)
  
  Drozdowska-Rogowicz Wanda; 11.11.1906 (2)
  
  Drygulska Jadwiga (2)
  
  Filipak Olga (2)
  
  Giedroyć Kazimierz; 29.09.1908, Grodno (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Glickson Jerry (2)
  
  Grzesiński Marian (2)
  
  Jankowska Krystyna (2)
  
  Jasiński Tadeusz (2)
  
  Kajszczak Marian (2)
  
  Kalita Zofia (2)
  
  Kamińska Apolonia (2)
  
  Kapała Stefan (2)
  
  Karczewska-Bełczowska Barbara; 1930; Warsaw (2)
  
  Koziar Jan (2)
  
  Koźmiński Jerzy; 31.08.1924 (2)
  
  Kuchta Jan (2)
  
  Kuczewska Maria (2)
  
  Kulicki Władysław (2)
  
  Leonhard Bolesław (2)
  
  Martynuska Janina (2)
  
  Maślankiewicz Jan; 01.09.1916, Warsaw (2)
  
  Maślankiewicz Jan; 01.09.1916, Warszawa (2)
  
  Morawski Zdzisław; 11.01.1927, Mała Wieś (Grójec county) (2)
  
  Przygodzki Jacek (2)
  
  Roszkowski Paweł; 1927 (2)
  
  Ruszczyńska Bogusława; 1924 (2)
  
  Rysiński Mieczysław (2)
  
  Segiet Maria (2)
  
  Szostakiewicz Janina (2)
  
  Wallisch Irena (2)
  
  Warszawer Zygmunt (2)
  
  Wawrzyniak H. (2)
  
  Wodyńska Czesława (2)
  
  Wrzosek Mieczysław (2)
  
  Włodek Kazimierz (2)
  
  Znamirowski Witold (2)
  
  Łańczak Władysław (2)
  
  Abramczuk Jan, 06.08.1933, Przewłoka (1)
  
  Abramczyk Stanisław (1)
  
  Adamczuk Barbara (1)
  
  Adamkiewicz Zbigniew (1)
  
  Adamski Piotr (1)
  
  Affek Halina (1)
  
  Alaba Bogusław, 06.08.1930, Wodynie-Siedlce (1)
  
  Andrukowicz Tadeusz (1)
  
  Andrzejewski W. (1)
  
  Anonymous; 1928? (1)
  
  Aponiuk Marian, 12.09.1932, Pińsk (1)
  
  Atkins Janina (1)
  
  Bacański Zygmunt (1)
  
  Bakońska Maria; 02.02.1935, Wohyń (1)
  
  Banach Zenobiusz, 28.01.1933, Parczew (1)
  
  Banach-Kielanowska Gabriela (1)
  
  Banaszczuk Stanisław, 7.07.1932, Dubnica (1)
  
  Banaszczyk Jan (1)
  
  Banaszewska-Pisarenko Jadwiga (1)
  
  Baranowski Marceli (1)
  
  Barańska Halina (1)
  
  Barszczewski Wacław (1)
  
  Bartoszewicz Bogna (1)
  
  Bauman Maria (1)
  
  Bazan Kunegunda (1)
  
  Bańkowski Kazimierz (1)
  
  Bednarz Maria (1)
  
  Belec Ewa (1)
  
  Beniówna Alina (1)
  
  Beryt Irena (1)
  
  Biejnia Teresa (1)
  
  Bielak Janina; 1935? (1)
  
  Bielak Wanda (1)
  
  Bielaniewicz Tadeusz (1)
  
  Bielec Wojciech; 23.04.1914, Łubno (podkarpackie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Bielec Wojciech; 23.04.1914, Łubno (woj. podkarpackie) (1)
  
  Bielecki Andrzej; 24.11.1925, Radziejów (1)
  
  Bielska Krystyna (1)
  
  Biernacka Kamila (1)
  
  Biernacka Stefania (1)
  
  Biliński Jerzy; 1923, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Biliżanka-Bielińska Maria (1)
  
  Blajwajs Beno; 1919, Łódź (1)
  
  Bliźniański Włodzimierz (1)
  
  Blum Artur (1)
  
  Bobkiewicz Andrzej; 28.08.1928, Zakrzówek (1)
  
  Boczkowska Jadwiga (1)
  
  Bogdanowicz Marian; 15.08.1931, Łuków (1)
  
  Bogucki Andrzej (1)
  
  Boguszewska Jadwiga (1)
  
  Bogusławski Andrzej (1)
  
  Bogusławski Romuald; 13.01.1928, Suwałki (1)
  
  Boguta Maria (1)
  
  Bolek Jadwiga (1)
  
  Borawska Halina; 24.10.1933, Łomża (1)
Subject
- A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (253)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (121)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (121)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (101)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (78)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (74)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (70)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (63)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Lublin region (39)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (39)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (33)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Warsaw (22)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (22)
  
  The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews (20)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Kraków (19)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Upper Silesia (16)
  
  Poles who saved Jews in the Kielce region (16)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Volhynia (15)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Lesser Poland (13)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Podlasie region (12)
  
  The Polish Righteous Among the Nations (12)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Częstochowa region (10)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Warsaw (9)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Volhynia (9)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Mazovia (8)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Zamość region (8)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Nowogród region (8)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Wilno region (7)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Łódź region (7)
  
  Clandestine teaching classes – Volhynia (6)
  
  Clandestine teaching classes – the Lwów region (6)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Kujawy region (6)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Greater Poland (6)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Tarnopol region (6)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Wilno region (6)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Łódź region (5)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Polesie region (5)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Kielce region (5)
  
  Poles who saved Jews (5)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Rzeszów (4)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Stanisławów region (4)
  
  Clandestine teaching classes – Pomerania (3)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Kraków (3)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (3)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Polesie region (3)
  
  The Polish diplomacy and its bid to help Jews (3)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Pomerania (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Kujawy region (2)
  
  Poles who saved Jews in Wilno (2)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lwów region (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Greater Poland (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Podlasie (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Częstochowa region (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Nowogródek region (1)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the ghetto in Tłumacz (1)
  
  Poles who saved Jews in Lwów (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Warsaw (113)
  
  Siedlce (85)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (53)
  
  Lublin (45)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (34)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (30)
  
  Radzymin (30)
  
  Łuków (lubelskie voivodeship) (28)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (25)
  
  Biała Podlaska (24)
  
  Radzyń Podlaski (21)
  
  Chełm (18)
  
  Poznań (18)
  
  Hrubieszów (17)
  
  Kraków (17)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (15)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (11)
  
  Zamość (10)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (9)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (9)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (9)
  
  Wrocław (9)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (8)
  
  Puławy (8)
  
  Zwierzyniec (Zwierzyniec commune), transit camp (8)
  
  German extermination camp of Sobibór (7)
  
  Przemyśl (7)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (7)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (6)
  
  Białystok (6)
  
  Częstochowa (6)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (6)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (6)
  
  KL Stutthof (6)
  
  Kielce (6)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (6)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (6)
  
  Otwock (6)
  
  Sanok (6)
  
  Szymanów (Sochaczew district), convent of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Szkolna Street 2 (6)
  
  Włodawa (6)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (6)
  
  Gdynia (5)
  
  Jedlnia-Letnisko (5)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (5)
  
  KL Majdanek (5)
  
  Katowice (5)
  
  Krężnica Jara (5)
  
  Milanówek (5)
  
  Otwock, ghetto (5)
  
  Turkowice (Hrubieszów district), Monastery of the Protection of Our Lady (5)
  
  Warsaw, All Saints' Church, Grzybowski Square 3/5 (5)
  
  Warsaw, Father Boduen Children's Home, Nowogrodzka Street 75 (5)
  
  Warsaw, Father Boduen House, Nowogrodzka Street 75 (5)
  
  Warsaw, Marszałkowska Street (5)
  
  Włocławek (5)
  
  Łódź, ghetto (5)
  
  Borysław (Ukraine) (4)
  
  Czermna (małopolskie voivodeship) (4)
  
  Gdańsk (4)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (4)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (4)
  
  Grudziądz (4)
  
  Inowrocław (4)
  
  KL Plaszow (4)
  
  Kazimierz Dolny (4)
  
  Lubaczów (4)
  
  Lwów (Ukraine), ghetto (4)
  
  Mordy (4)
  
  Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (4)
  
  Radom (4)
  
  Sandomierz (4)
  
  Skierniewice (4)
  
  Stalingrad (Volgograd, Russia) (4)
  
  Słomniki (4)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (4)
  
  Warsaw, convent of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Kazimierzowska Street 59 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Świętokrzyska Street (4)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania) (4)
  
  Wola Bukowska (4)
  
  Łańcut (4)
  
  Łubno (podkarpackie voivodeship) (4)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (3)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (3)
  
  Częstochowa, Ghetto (3)
  
  Garwolin (mazowieckie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Gliwice (3)
  
  Grodzisk Mazowiecki (3)
  
  Grójec (3)
  
  Janów Podlaski (3)
  
  Jarosław (podkarpackie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Jasło (3)
  
  Jedlnia-Letnisko, Ogrodowa Street (3)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (3)
  
  Legionowo, ghetto (3)
  
  Lida (now in Belarus) (3)
  
  Mała Wieś (Grójec district) (3)
  
  Mińsk Mazowiecki (3)
  
  Nakło nad Notecią (3)
  
  Olesno (małopolskie voivodeship) (3)
Victims
- Civilians (1141)
  
  The Civilian Population (1141)
  
  The Poles (976)
  
  Children (833)
  
  The Jews (468)
  
  Women (368)
  
  The Inteligentsia (133)
  
  The elderly (27)
  
  The Elderly (27)
  
  Prisoners of War (23)
  
  The Church (16)
  
  The Sick (14)
  
  The sick (14)
  
  Russians/Soviets (12)
  
  The Russians (12)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (3)
  
  Americans (2)
  
  Deportees (2)
  
  The French (2)
  
  Ukrainians (2)
  
  Belarusians (1)
  
  Germans (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (1)
  
  The British (1)
  
  The Communists (1)
  
  The Dutch (1)
Perpetrators
- German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (57)
  
  Collaboration (31)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (31)
  
  SS (28)
  
  Military Police (25)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (21)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (15)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (12)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (12)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (11)
  
  Red Army (8)
  
  Security Office (8)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (5)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (5)
  
  Lithuanians (4)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (4)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (3)
  
  Denunciation (2)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (2)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (2)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (2)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Soviet Militia (1)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (1)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (1)
Crimes
- Denationalization (320)
  
  Execution (268)
  
  Arrest (240)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (223)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (223)
  
  Deportation (215)
  
  Death by shooting (194)
  
  Forced labor (174)
  
  Air raids (153)
  
  Round-up (125)
  
  Beating (84)
  
  Displacement (83)
  
  Expulsion (83)
  
  Robbery (77)
  
  Artillery fire (56)
  
  Artillery shelling (56)
  
  Economic exploitation (53)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (38)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (37)
  
  Biological extermination (35)
  
  Administrative persecution (33)
  
  Mass graves (27)
  
  Hanging (25)
  
  Racial policy (20)
  
  Cremation (17)
  
  Cremation of corpses (17)
  
  Burning people alive (12)
  
  Germanization (12)
  
  Armored weapons (9)
  
  Cattle wagons (6)
  
  Gas chambers (5)
  
  Ukrainianization (4)
  
  Death marches (3)
  
  Desacration of corpses (3)
  
  Disarmament (3)
  
  Medical experiments (3)
  
  Sovietization (3)
  
  Rape (2)
  
  Deportation/Exile (1)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (1)
  
  Judicial crime (1)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (1)
Place
- Ghetto (145)
  
  Forced labor (96)
  
  Concentration camp (57)
  
  Prison (33)
  
  Extermination camp (27)
  
  Labor camp (22)
  
  Transit camp (22)
  
  Police headquarters/station (16)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (13)
  
  Sewers (4)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (2)
  
  NKVD custody suite (1)
Content
- Rescue of Jews (457)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (256)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (87)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (81)
  
  Polish Underground State (33)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (28)
  
  Civil resistance (27)
  
  Extermination of Jews (26)
  
  Underground culture and education (26)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (23)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (19)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (19)
  
  Central Welfare Council (17)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (13)
  
  the Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (12)
  
  Underground media (8)
  
  Health service (7)
  
  National Armed Forces (6)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (6)
  
  Underground courts (6)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (5)
  
  Obliterating the traces (5)
  
  Operation "Tempest" (5)
  
  Aktion Zamość (4)
  
  Clandestine courses (4)
  
  Judenrat (4)
  
  obliterating the traces (4)
  
  the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (4)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (3)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (2)
  
  The Silent Unseen (2)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (2)
  
  Aid to Jews (1)
  
  Anders' Army (1)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (1)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (1)
  
  Kidnapping (and Germanization) of Polish children (1)
  
  Polish culture in exile (1)
  
  Wola Massacre (1)
Object type
- Brief (298)
  
  Statement (71)
  
  Account (70)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (30)
  
  Interview (3)
  
  Book excerpt (2)
  
  Exhumation report (1)
  
  Official memo (1)
  
  Press clipping (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Ministry of Education in Warsaw (713)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (480)
Medium
- Text (1193)
  
  Image (248)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (768)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (426)