„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 (4)
  
  Lizis Teofil (2)
  
  Szlacheta Wacława; 23.09.1900, Warsaw (2)
  
  Bakalarz Aleksander; 1905? (1)
  
  Banaszkiewicz Józef; 1897? (1)
  
  Baron Szymon; 1897, Tłumacz (now in Ukraina) (1)
  
  Bartkiewicz Franciszek; 1904, Stary Lubotyń (1)
  
  Bańkowska Maria; 17.01.1916, Warsaw (1)
  
  Belina Brzozowski Karol; 23.03.1917, Sokołówka (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Berliński Józef; 05.03.1905, Koszyce (małopolskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Biska Helena; 22.05.1917, Warsaw (1)
  
  Blinstrub Jerzy; 1921? (1)
  
  Blumenthal Nachman; 1901? (1)
  
  Brandt Janusz (1)
  
  Brandt Janusz; 1905? (1)
  
  Brunarska Zofia; 27.05.1923 (1)
  
  Brzozowski Antoni; 1895? (1)
  
  Buraczyńska (Zeiske) Wojciecha; 22.04.1920, Warsaw (1)
  
  Błaszczuk Pelagia; 08.10.1913, Warszawa (1)
  
  Ceglarek Kazimierz Sergiusz; 24.02.1921, Warsaw (1)
  
  Ceglarek Mieczysław Stefan; 01.01.1924, Warsaw (1)
  
  Cendecki J. (1)
  
  Chełmińska (Rupiewicz) Wiesława Bronisława; 07.11.1930, Warsaw (1)
  
  Chmielewska Stefania; 22.03.1898, Płock (1)
  
  Cielecki Edmund; 07.10.1888, Stefanowo (wielkopolskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Ciećwierz Jan (1)
  
  Cyra Józef; 03.07.1909 (1)
  
  Czarnecki Franciszek; 08.09.1890, Dąbrówka (Kutnowski county) (1)
  
  Czerniakowska Jadwiga; 1929? (1)
  
  Czubala Danuta; 02.01.1923, Warsaw (1)
  
  Dobrzelak Helena; 03.04.1903, Warsaw (1)
  
  Drabek Jaroslav; 06.04.1901, Chrudim (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Dryja Antoni; 1910? (1)
  
  Dryja Władysław; 1897? (1)
  
  Duda Bogdan; 1896? (1)
  
  Dudek Władysław; 16.06.1920, Radogoszcz (1)
  
  Dudek Władysław; 1920? (1)
  
  Dudka Józef (1)
  
  Dudka Stanisław; 04.01.1915, Mysiadło (1)
  
  Durasiewicz Genowefa; 1924? (1)
  
  Dziugieł Halina (1)
  
  Dziurżyński Józef; 1898? (1)
  
  Dziwisz Stefania; 1911? (1)
  
  Długołęcki Roman; 23.10.1897, Warsaw (1)
  
  Falk Ignacy; 1902? (1)
  
  Falędziak Hipolit; 04.08.1907 (1)
  
  Figiel Władysław (1)
  
  Fischmann Dawid; 02.01.1906, Ciechanów (1)
  
  Flak Zofia; 16.07.1916 (1)
  
  Fotek Stanisław; 1914? (1)
  
  Frankowska Kazimiera; 1904? (1)
  
  Freda Krystyna (1)
  
  Frydenthal Aron; 1904? (1)
  
  Garwin vel Garfinkiel Mieczysław; 11.05.1898, Zamość (1)
  
  Gałka Wacława; 10.08.1908, Warsaw (1)
  
  Gelbkron Moszek (Maciejuk Józef); 1903? (1)
  
  Gil Piotr; 1897? (1)
  
  Gitler-Barski Józef; 03.03.1898, Warsaw (1)
  
  Gizuk Stefan; 1921? (1)
  
  Gondek Czesław; 1924? (1)
  
  Gorzałczyński Stanisław; 15.07.1912, Białaczów (1)
  
  Gozdur Stanisław; 11.11.1891, Wola Solecka (1)
  
  Grabiński Marcin; 08.11.1888 (1)
  
  Grabowski Jan; 25.01.1911 (1)
  
  Grossbard (1)
  
  Grubert Maria; 24.09.1909, Struga (Marki) (1)
  
  Grubert Maria; 24.09.1909, Struga (now: Marki) (1)
  
  Gutkowska Teresa, 06.12.1930 (1)
  
  Górecka Halina; 04.09.1930, Warsaw (1)
  
  Górska Filomena (1)
  
  Głuszczak Józef; 1913? (1)
  
  Harkot (Harkotówna) Danuta (1)
  
  Horawia Aron; 1902? (1)
  
  Igielski Jan; 12.01.1915, Stróże (Nowy Sącz county) (1)
  
  Jachym Mieczysław (1)
  
  Jakubowska Zofia Stanisława; 22.03.1900, Warka (1)
  
  Janiszewska Barbara (1)
  
  Jarosz Tymoteusz; 18.01.1890, Przemyków (1)
  
  Jaworski Henryk; 19.01.1907, Warsaw (1)
  
  Jaworski Stanisław; 14.07.1907 (1)
  
  Kalisz Stanisława; 06.01.1897, Kąty (Sochaczew county) (1)
  
  Kamiński Adam; 18.10.1889 (1)
  
  Kamiński Roman Kazimierz; 09.07.1906, Warsaw (1)
  
  Kaszubowski Jan, 05.10.1902, Nyguta (1)
  
  Kobiałka Wanda (1)
  
  Komar Stefan; 1907? (1)
  
  Komornicka Jadwiga Ludmiła; 02.01.1891, Stepań (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Koniecpoler Dawid; 1897? (1)
  
  Koprowicz Stanisława; 17.11.1908, Dobrzyń (Lipno county) (1)
  
  Korff-Kawecka Helena; 10.08.1907, Warsaw (1)
  
  Korzeniak Danuta (1)
  
  Kosiński Wacław; 21.09.1882 (1)
  
  Kostańska Marcelina (Stanisława); 14.04.1896, Trzebaw (wielkopolskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Kowalczyk Janina; 10.03.1907, Golkowice (1)
  
  Kowalski Edward; 14.03.1914, Sępólno Krajeńskie (1)
  
  Kowrecki Aleksander; 24.03.1897, Mińsk (Belarus) (1)
  
  Kozicki Jan; 13.01.1933, Trzeszczany (1)
  
  Kozłowski Józef; 1919? (1)
  
  Kołodziejczyk Edward; 1903? (1)
  
  Kołsut Jan; 1909? (1)
Subject
- Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (34)
  
  Firlej near Radom – the training ground of death (23)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (21)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (19)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (19)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (14)
  
  The city condemned to death (13)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (12)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (10)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (7)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (7)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (6)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (6)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (5)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Radom Ghetto (5)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (5)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (5)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (5)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (4)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (4)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (4)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (4)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (4)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz (4)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (3)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (3)
  
  Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages (3)
  
  Michniów – the extermination of the Polish countryside (3)
  
  The persecuted church (3)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town (3)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Stopnica Ghetto (2)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Tarnów Ghetto (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (2)
  
  Pruszków – the town of the displaced (2)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (2)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Radom Ghetto (2)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Radom region (2)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Warsaw (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Volhynia (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Częstochowa region (1)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death - the Lipsko 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)
  
  Lebensraum – the Germanization of the Zamość region (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Bergen-Belsen (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (1)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Volhynia (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Poles who saved Jews in Lwów (1)
  
  Radom – daily terror (1)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (1)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (1)
  
  The Free City of Danzig – erasing Polishness (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski Ghetto (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Staszów Ghetto (1)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (1)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – the Stanisławów area (1)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Lublin region (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Żoliborz (1)
  
  Wawer Massacre '39 (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Pruszków, Dulag 121 (54)
  
  Firlej (Radom), municipal cemetery, Ofiar Firleja Street 45 (22)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (16)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 (15)
  
  Warsaw (13)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (10)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (9)
  
  Radom (9)
  
  Warsaw, Sowiński Park (9)
  
  Kraków (8)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (8)
  
  Warsaw, Płocka Street (8)
  
  Warsaw, St. Lawrence's church, Wolska Street 140A (8)
  
  Wincentów (Radom) (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (7)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (7)
  
  Warsaw, Chłodna Street (7)
  
  Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście Street (7)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (6)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (6)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (6)
  
  Radom, Ghetto Glinice (6)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (6)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (6)
  
  Warsaw, Leszno Street (6)
  
  Warsaw, Ursus factory, Wolska Street 55 (6)
  
  Warsaw, Warszawa Zachodnia Station (6)
  
  Warsaw, Wolska Street 129 (6)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (5)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (5)
  
  KL Plaszow (5)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (5)
  
  Stary Lubotyń (5)
  
  Staszów (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship) (5)
  
  Staszów (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (5)
  
  Warsaw, Górczewska Street (5)
  
  Warsaw, Karolkowa Street (5)
  
  Warsaw, Trębacka Street (5)
  
  Bydgoszcz (4)
  
  Częstochowa (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (4)
  
  Kielce (4)
  
  Koszyce (małopolskie voivodeship) (4)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (4)
  
  Lublin (4)
  
  Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (4)
  
  Podkowa Leśna (4)
  
  Poznań (4)
  
  Radom, Ghetto Śródmieście (4)
  
  Sochaczew (4)
  
  Warsaw, Dworkowa Street (4)
  
  Warsaw, Długa Street 7 (4)
  
  Warsaw, General Inspectorate of the Armed Forces, aleja Szucha 12/14 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Górczewska Street/ Zagłoby Street (Górczewska Street 32) (4)
  
  Warsaw, Idźkowskiego Street 4 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Józef Piłsudski Academy of Physcial Education, Marymoncka Street 34 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Młynarska Street (4)
  
  Warsaw, Ogród Saski [Saxon Garden] (4)
  
  Warsaw, Ogródek Jordanowski [Jordan garden], Bagatela Street 2/4 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Ordona Street (4)
  
  Warsaw, Puławska Street (4)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's Church, Wolska Street 76 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Wolska Street 122/124 (4)
  
  Wrocław (4)
  
  Zwierzyniec (Zwierzyniec commune), transit camp (4)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (3)
  
  KL Majdanek (3)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (3)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (3)
  
  KL Stutthof (3)
  
  Kampinos Forest (3)
  
  Michniów (3)
  
  Palmiry (3)
  
  Płock (3)
  
  Radom, Słowackiego Street 13 (3)
  
  Starachowice (3)
  
  Stopnica (3)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (3)
  
  Warsaw, Banacha Market Square, Grójecka Street 95 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Bednarska Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, Bema Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, Bielański Forest (3)
  
  Warsaw, Brustman Ponds (3)
  
  Warsaw, Dembińskiego Street 2/4 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Dormitory, Akademicka Street 5 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Focha Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, Grand Theatre, Teatralny Square 1 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Gęsia Street (Anielewicza Street) (3)
  
  Warsaw, Gęsiówka prison, Gęsia Street (Anielewicza Street)/ Zamenhofa Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, Hale Mirowskie [trade halls] (3)
  
  Warsaw, Jewish cemetery, Okopowa Street 49/51 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Kirchmayer and Marczewski factory, Wolska Street 79/81 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Marii Kazimiery Street 29 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Marii Kazimiery Street 3 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Muranowska Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, Nalewki Street 9 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Narutowicza Square (3)
  
  Warsaw, Orthodox cemetery, Wolska Street 138/140 (3)
Victims
- Civilians (245)
  
  The Civilian Population (225)
  
  The Poles (222)
  
  Women (156)
  
  Children (121)
  
  The Jews (87)
  
  The Elderly (59)
  
  The elderly (51)
  
  The sick (44)
  
  The Sick (40)
  
  The Church (34)
  
  The Inteligentsia (32)
  
  Prisoners of War (20)
  
  Russians/Soviets (19)
  
  The Russians (16)
  
  The elderly (16)
  
  Czechs (6)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (6)
  
  The Disabled (5)
  
  The French (5)
  
  Germans (3)
  
  Greeks (3)
  
  The Communists (3)
  
  Belgians (2)
  
  Hungarians (2)
  
  The Dutch (2)
  
  Americans (1)
  
  Deportees (1)
  
  Slovaks (1)
  
  The British (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (88)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (60)
  
  Military Police (50)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (46)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (29)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (20)
  
  Collaboration (13)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (9)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (9)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (4)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (4)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (4)
  
  Latvians (3)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (3)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (3)
  
  Waffen-SS (3)
  
  Assault Units (Sturmabteilung, SA) (2)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (2)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (2)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (1)
  
  Postal Protection (1)
  
  Red Army (1)
  
  Soviet Militia (1)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (1)
  
  Technical Support (Technische Nothilfe) (1)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1)
Crimes
- Death by shooting (250)
  
  Execution (249)
  
  Displacement (248)
  
  Expulsion (229)
  
  Forced labor (105)
  
  Robbery (93)
  
  Beating (66)
  
  Deportation (61)
  
  Cremation of corpses (58)
  
  Cremation (57)
  
  Biological extermination (53)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (51)
  
  Arrest (50)
  
  Mass graves (47)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (43)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (39)
  
  Round-up (35)
  
  Economic exploitation (27)
  
  Racial policy (27)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (26)
  
  Administrative persecution (24)
  
  Hanging (21)
  
  Rape (21)
  
  Burning people alive (19)
  
  Armored weapons (16)
  
  Gas chambers (15)
  
  Air raids (14)
  
  Human shields (14)
  
  Cattle wagons (8)
  
  Artillery fire (7)
  
  Artillery shelling (7)
  
  Desacration of corpses (7)
  
  Medical experiments (7)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (7)
  
  "Dosing" (6)
  
  Judicial crime (6)
  
  Death marches (4)
  
  Germanization (3)
  
  Denationalization (2)
  
  Deportation/Exile (2)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (2)
  
  Collectivization (1)
Place
- Transit camp (55)
  
  Ghetto (36)
  
  Concentration camp (22)
  
  Forced labor (22)
  
  Prison (20)
  
  Labor camp (18)
  
  Extermination camp (17)
  
  Police headquarters/station (13)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (5)
  
  Sewers (1)
Content
- Warsaw Uprising (110)
  
  Extermination of Jews (64)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (41)
  
  obliterating the traces (32)
  
  Obliterating the traces (30)
  
  Wola Massacre (30)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (24)
  
  Rescue of Jews (22)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (16)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (16)
  
  Judenrat (12)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (11)
  
  Health service (9)
  
  Central Welfare Council (8)
  
  Civil resistance (8)
  
  Field health service (8)
  
  Aktion Zamość (6)
  
  Ochota Massacre (5)
  
  Polish Underground State (5)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (4)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (3)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (2)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (2)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (2)
  
  Underground courts (2)
  
  Underground media (2)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (1)
  
  Called by name (1)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (1)
  
  Free City of Danzig (1)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (1)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (1)
  
  National Armed Forces (1)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (1)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (1)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (1)
  
  The Silent Unseen (1)
  
  Underground culture and education (1)
  
  Verbrennungskommando (1)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (167)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (65)
  
  Account (8)
  
  Photograph (6)
  
  Brief (4)
  
  Report (4)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (54)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (52)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (51)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (25)
  
  District Court in Radom (17)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (14)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (14)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (7)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków (2)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland. Research and investigative files (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Gdańsk (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Warsaw (1)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland 1949–1984 (1)
  
  Voivodeship Court in Łódź (1)
Medium
- Text (251)
  
  Image (33)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (218)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (33)