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

Main Page Search phrase: [Event Date = 1939.09.19 - 1942.02.27]

Witness (date and place of birth)
- Anonymous (56)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (18)
  
  Deja Stanisław; 23.04.1907, Kowala (10)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (6)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (6)
  
  Marcinkiewicz Stefan (6)
  
  Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (6)
  
  Szelest Kazimierz; 25.03.1917, Kraków (6)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 27.01.1913, Warsaw (5)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (5)
  
  Czardybon Bernard; 18.06.1901, Chorzów (4)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (4)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (4)
  
  Rajewski Ludwik; 16.12.1900, Łódź (4)
  
  Russanowska B. (4)
  
  Sendler Irena; 15.02.1910, Warszawa (4)
  
  Wolny Stefan; 30.10.1903, Kamieńskie (Ukraine) (4)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (4)
  
  Łącki Mikołaj; 30.10.1888, Loyew (Belarus) (4)
  
  Banach Ludwig; 24.08.1917, Bydgoszcz (3)
  
  Banach Ludwik; 24.08.1918 (3)
  
  Barzał Czesław; 09.10.1915, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Blinstrub Aniela; 1892? (3)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Duda Konrad; 02.02.1914, Wartogłowiec (Tychy) (3)
  
  Głowa Stanisław; 15.09.1898, Igołomia (3)
  
  Hys Stanisław; 19.07.1910, Sobolew (mazowieckie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Koczorowski Józef; 01.02.1919, Poznań (3)
  
  Konferowicz Wacław; 13.05.1912, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Kotlarski Mieczysław; 09.10.1913, Osieczna (wielkopolskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Krokowski Jan; 08.05.1921, Nowy Sącz (3)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (3)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 04.05.1918, Kraków (3)
  
  Lorentz Stanisław; 28.04.1899, Radom (3)
  
  Ludwig Józef Paweł; 03.07.1910, Sosnowiec (3)
  
  Maliszewski Stefan; 23.05.1912, Warsaw (3)
  
  Maławska-Primas Hanna (3)
  
  Mączka Zofia; 30.11.1905, Kraków (3)
  
  Nagraba Ludwik; 19.08.1910, Kraków (3)
  
  Pająk Wilibald; 15.12.1922, Katowice (3)
  
  Piegat Stanisław; 26.09.1891 (3)
  
  Plaskura Józef; 23.01.1911, Brzeszcze (3)
  
  Plaskura Władysław; 10.05.1905, Łazy (Orłowa, Czech Republic) (3)
  
  Rżewski Władysław, 07.01.1894 (3)
  
  Sendecki Sylwester; 1903? (3)
  
  Siedlecki Karol (3)
  
  Staszkiewicz Bronisław; 18.07.1921, Żywiec (3)
  
  Strynkowski Józef; 23.02.1891, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Szyszko - Bohusz Adolf; 19.08.1883, Narwa (Estonia) (3)
  
  Taul Roman; 28.02.1917, Bytom (3)
  
  Tondos Władysław; 06.10.1900, Kalina Mała (3)
  
  Wiatr Mieczysław; 02.04.1917, Stary Sącz (3)
  
  Wrona Edward; 13.10.1913, Tuchów (3)
  
  Wąsowicz Tadeusz; 29.07.1906, Limanowa (3)
  
  Apolińska Zofia; 1893?, Zambrów (2)
  
  Ast Jadwiga; 24.01.1923, Żarnowiec (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Barabasz Alfred; 16.06.1913, Karwina (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Bartel Erwin; 02.03.1923, Oświęcim (2)
  
  Bartosiewicz Henryk; 1909? (2)
  
  Bartoszko Kazimierz; 09.10.1898 (2)
  
  Bas Ludwik; 18.12.1912, Kraków (2)
  
  Bicz Bolesław; 01.04.1889, Sporysz (Bielsk county) (2)
  
  Bida Władysław; 1886? (2)
  
  Biejat Edmund; 1891? (2)
  
  Bochenek Marta; 19.09.1892 (2)
  
  Boratyński Stefan (Kluska); 13.06.1917, Kraków (2)
  
  Borkowska Cecylia; 20.04.1930, Stoczek (Stoczek commune) (2)
  
  Borkowski Stefan (2)
  
  Brach Jan; 1919? (2)
  
  Bryński Antoni; 18.01.1899, Radom (2)
  
  Buraczyńska (Zeiske) Wojciecha; 22.04.1920, Warsaw (2)
  
  Bąk Michał; 1903? (2)
  
  Chwistek Barbara (2)
  
  Ciopińska Anna (2)
  
  Cyba Eugeniusz; 07.12.1921, Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Czerwonka Władysław; 22.12.1899, Mucisko (2)
  
  Denisow Piotr; 1894? (2)
  
  Dubiel Stanisław; 13.11.1910, Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Dudek Władysław; 16.06.1920, Radogoszcz (2)
  
  Dudek Władysław; 1920? (2)
  
  Dzido (Hassa) Jadwiga; 26.02.1918, Suchowola (Radzyń county) (2)
  
  Dąbkowska Wiktoria, 1878? (2)
  
  Dąbski Stefan; 26.12.1919, Joanin (2)
  
  Estreicher Karol; 1905? (2)
  
  Filipak Olga (2)
  
  Gamm Rudolf; 28.10.1884; Gdańsk (2)
  
  Gitler-Barski Józef; 03.03.1898, Warsaw (2)
  
  Glickson Jerry (2)
  
  Gliński Bogdan; 08.12.1921, Sancygniów (2)
  
  Goljan Stanisław; 1919? (2)
  
  Gotkowska Halina, 1927? (2)
  
  Gozdur Stanisław; 11.11.1891, Wola Solecka (2)
  
  Grabowski Stanisław; 14.05.1900, Grądziki (Ostrów Mazowiecka county) (2)
  
  Grzesiński Marian (2)
  
  Głowiak Stanisław; 10.02.1903, Podzwierzyniec (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Głuszak Józef; 27.10.1913, Koszyce Małe (2)
  
  Hegier (Rafalska) Helena; 07.09.1916, Chișinău (Moldova) (2)
  
  Herbich Kazimierz; 29.03.1894 (2)
  
  Janikowski Jan Bronisław; 14.05.1888, Warsaw (2)
  
  Janssens Jean; 30.03.1904 Ougrée (Belgium) (2)
  
  Kullanda Henryk (1)
Subject
- The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (444)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (294)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (266)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (247)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (242)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (193)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (191)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (183)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (177)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (170)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (135)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (128)
  
  In exile – Siberia (125)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (123)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (117)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (111)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (105)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (104)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (99)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (96)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (91)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (90)
  
  In exile – Ural (72)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (71)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (65)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (65)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (64)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (63)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (57)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (56)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (53)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (48)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (47)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (45)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (43)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (43)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (42)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (40)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (38)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (36)
  
  The city condemned to death (36)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (34)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Lublin region (33)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (33)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (33)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (32)
  
  Firlej near Radom – the training ground of death (29)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (27)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (25)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (25)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (24)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (23)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (22)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (22)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (22)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (22)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Warsaw (20)
  
  Radom – daily terror (20)
  
  Soviets in German captivity (20)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (20)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (19)
  
  The Free City of Danzig – erasing Polishness (18)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (18)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (18)
  
  Wawer Massacre '39 (17)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (16)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (15)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Kraków (15)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (15)
  
  Prisoners of war – transit camps in Kielce (15)
  
  The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews (15)
  
  The persecuted church (15)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (14)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (14)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Lesser Poland (13)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (13)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (13)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Upper Silesia (12)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (12)
  
  Poles who saved Jews in the Kielce region (11)
  
  Lebensborn – the Germanization of Polish children (10)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (10)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (10)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (10)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (10)
  
  The Polish Righteous Among the Nations (10)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Volhynia (9)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (9)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Częstochowa region (9)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Warsaw (8)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (8)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Podlasie region (8)
  
  Stadion Leśny, Słowik, Herby – execution sites in Kielce (8)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Tarnów Ghetto (8)
  
  A mass extermination – KL Flossenbürg (7)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Wilno region (7)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Radom Ghetto (7)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Łódź region (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Republic of Mordovia (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ryazan Oblast (7)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz I (372)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (354)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (312)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (304)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (287)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (254)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (246)
  
  Warsaw (242)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (226)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (213)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (195)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (188)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (187)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (159)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (152)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (145)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (133)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (118)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (103)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (97)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (93)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (91)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (89)
  
  Siedlce (89)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (88)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (88)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (85)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (82)
  
  Kielce (81)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (81)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (80)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (74)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (71)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (71)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (69)
  
  Lublin (69)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (68)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (67)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (66)
  
  Kraków (65)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (65)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka (64)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (64)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (63)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (62)
  
  KL Majdanek (62)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (61)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (60)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (57)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (56)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (55)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (55)
  
  Radom (54)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (54)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (53)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (53)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (51)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (50)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (50)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (49)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (48)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (48)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (47)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (47)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (46)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (46)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (46)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (46)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (45)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (44)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (44)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (43)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (43)
  
  Ostashkov (Russia, Tver Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (43)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (43)
  
  Białystok (42)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (42)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (42)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (41)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (41)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (40)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (40)
  
  Tehran (Iran) (40)
  
  Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia) (39)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (39)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (39)
  
  Przemyśl (38)
  
  Bydgoszcz (37)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (37)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (37)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (37)
  
  Bochnia, train station (36)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (36)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (36)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (36)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (35)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (35)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (34)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (34)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (34)
Victims
- The Poles (5109)
  
  Civilians (4566)
  
  The Civilian Population (4500)
  
  Children (1954)
  
  Women (1806)
  
  The Jews (1652)
  
  The Inteligentsia (1275)
  
  Prisoners of War (980)
  
  Deportees (814)
  
  The sick (785)
  
  The Sick (770)
  
  Russians/Soviets (694)
  
  Ukrainians (672)
  
  The Russians (653)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (470)
  
  The elderly (437)
  
  The Elderly (433)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (424)
  
  Belarusians (360)
  
  Policemen (353)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (285)
  
  The Church (192)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (183)
  
  Internees (145)
  
  Germans (131)
  
  Border Guard (93)
  
  Lithuanians (90)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (87)
  
  Czechs (79)
  
  Hungarians (75)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (73)
  
  Landowners (72)
  
  Border Protection Corps (65)
  
  The French (55)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (54)
  
  The Dutch (44)
  
  The Disabled (42)
  
  The Communists (41)
  
  Slovaks (40)
  
  Belgians (33)
  
  Latvians (29)
  
  Greeks (28)
  
  Estonians (25)
  
  Romanians (22)
  
  Americans (15)
  
  The British (14)
  
  Italians (13)
  
  Norwegians (10)
  
  Prison Guard (8)
  
  the Chinese (7)
  
  Finns (6)
  
  Georgians (2)
  
  Scouts (2)
  
  Serbs (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (753)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (671)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (401)
  
  Red Army (382)
  
  Collaboration (355)
  
  Military Police (250)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (203)
  
  Denunciation (195)
  
  Soviet Militia (187)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (137)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (92)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (81)
  
  Lithuanians (71)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (71)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (65)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (63)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (42)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (38)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (22)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (21)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (20)
  
  Latvians (18)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (18)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (17)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (15)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (14)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (11)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (11)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (8)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (8)
  
  Waffen-SS (7)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (6)
  
  Security Office (6)
  
  Collaborators (5)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (5)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (4)
  
  Administrative Police (3)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (3)
  
  Postal Protection (3)
  
  Assault Units (Sturmabteilung, SA) (1)
  
  The Navy of Nazi Germany (Kriegsmarine) (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (3081)
  
  Biological extermination (2477)
  
  Arrest (2465)
  
  Execution (1748)
  
  Beating (1733)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (1524)
  
  Death by shooting (1481)
  
  Deportation/Exile (1429)
  
  Deportation (924)
  
  Robbery (749)
  
  Cattle wagons (633)
  
  Punishment cell (562)
  
  Judicial crime (540)
  
  Mass graves (440)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (398)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (398)
  
  Round-up (372)
  
  Cremation (355)
  
  Cremation of corpses (355)
  
  Denationalization (347)
  
  Gas chambers (310)
  
  Economic exploitation (303)
  
  Disarmament (298)
  
  Hanging (256)
  
  Displacement (242)
  
  Expulsion (241)
  
  Air raids (217)
  
  Roads of death (170)
  
  Administrative persecution (164)
  
  Burning people alive (148)
  
  Racial policy (142)
  
  Medical experiments (115)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (111)
  
  "Dosing" (87)
  
  Sovietization (76)
  
  Desacration of corpses (67)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (61)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (61)
  
  Death marches (56)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (56)
  
  Germanization (46)
  
  Artillery fire (42)
  
  Artillery shelling (42)
  
  Armored weapons (37)
  
  Forced voting (25)
  
  Rape (23)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (16)
  
  Collectivization (12)
  
  Ukrainianization (3)
  
  Human shields (2)
Place
- Prison (865)
  
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  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (596)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (552)
  
  Kolkhoz (496)
  
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  Transit camp (397)
  
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  NKVD camp for POWs (328)
  
  Ghetto (283)
  
  NKVD custody suite (275)
  
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  Labor camp (210)
  
  Mine (207)
  
  Police headquarters/station (161)
  
  Internment camp (128)
  
  Sovkhoz (112)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (60)
  
  Siberia (9)
  
  Orphanage – dietdom (7)
  
  Sewers (6)
  
  Robbery (1)
Content
- Health service (1417)
  
  Anders' Army (963)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (778)
  
  Amnesty (710)
  
  Extermination of Jews (446)
  
  First deportation (422)
  
  Rescue of Jews (419)
  
  Communist propaganda (328)
  
  Epidemics (312)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (310)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (297)
  
  Polish culture in exile (279)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (247)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (201)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (170)
  
  Obliterating the traces (130)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (129)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (127)
  
  obliterating the traces (122)
  
  Second deportation (121)
  
  Civil resistance (104)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (91)
  
  Third deportation (71)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (68)
  
  Fourth deportation (64)
  
  Polish Underground State (58)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (49)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (49)
  
  Underground culture and education (47)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (44)
  
  Central Welfare Council (38)
  
  Underground media (37)
  
  Military hospital (36)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (32)
  
  Aktion Zamość (30)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (25)
  
  Free City of Danzig (24)
  
  Called by name (23)
  
  Underground courts (22)
  
  Judenrat (20)
  
  Students' Army Corps (20)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (20)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (19)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (18)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (17)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (15)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (13)
  
  Clandestine courses (12)
  
  the Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (12)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (10)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (10)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (8)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (8)
  
  Aid to Jews (7)
  
  Pabst Plan (Pabst-Plan) (7)
  
  Aktion T4 (6)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (5)
  
  National Armed Forces (5)
  
  the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (5)
  
  Partisan warfare (4)
  
  Wola Massacre (4)
  
  Field health service (3)
  
  Operation "Tempest" (3)
  
  The Silent Unseen (2)
  
  Blue Police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (1)
  
  Border provocations in 1939 (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching classes (1)
  
  Kidnapping (and Germanization) of Polish children (1)
Object type
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File creator ^?
- Independent Historical Office of the Command of the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union/Documentation Office of the Polish Army in the East (2313)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (949)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (724)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (410)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (367)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (211)
  
  Katyn Museum (111)
  
  District Court in Łomża (85)
  
  District Court in Radom (65)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (40)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland. Research and investigative files (26)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (25)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków (21)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (14)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation – Institute of National Remembrance in Białystok (13)
  
  Provincial Office of Internal Affairs in Katowice (12)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland 1949–1984 (10)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Gdańsk (9)
  
  District Court in Łomża 1945–1950 (9)
  
  Inspectorate of Schools in Radom (9)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (8)
  
  Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Special Criminal Court in Warsaw. Agency in Białystok (7)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Warsaw (6)
  
  Voivodeship Court in Łódź (5)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Białystok (4)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes – Institute of National Remembrance in Białystok (4)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (3)
  
  Magistrates’ Court in Bydgoszcz (3)
  
  Office of the District Authorities in Ostrów Mazowiecka (2)
  
  Provincial Office of Internal Affairs in Wrocław [1945] 1983–1990 (2)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland. Research and investigative files; Polish Military Mission (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes – Institute of National Remembrance in Kraków (1)
  
  Magistrates’ Court in Włocławek (1)
  
  Magistrates’ Court in Łomża (1)
Medium
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  Image (531)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (4719)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (759)