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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (3)
  
  Rżewski Władysław, 07.01.1894 (3)
  
  Drabek Jaroslav; 06.04.1901, Chrudim (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Dudek Władysław; 16.06.1920, Radogoszcz (2)
  
  Dudek Władysław; 1920? (2)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (2)
  
  Kowalczyk Janina; 10.03.1907, Golkowice (2)
  
  Kościuszko Janina; 17.05.1897, Chrzanów? (2)
  
  Kraus Otto; 07.09.1909, Klášterní Skalice (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (2)
  
  Kulka Erich; 18.02.1911, Vsetín (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Rajewski Ludwik; 16.12.1900, Łódź (2)
  
  Rubach Marian; 14.06.1893 (2)
  
  Rżewski Władysław; 1894? (2)
  
  Skotnicki Jerzy; 12.02.1902, Łódź (2)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć county) (2)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć district) (2)
  
  Sobański Tomasz Stanisław; 22.09.1922, Warsaw (2)
  
  Sperber Karel; 1910, Tachov (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Bernhard Ferdynand; 03.04.1919, Liberec (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Bohosiewicz Mieczysław; 1896.12.04, Bobowce (1)
  
  Bohosiewicz Mieczysław; 1897? (1)
  
  Borger Ludwik; 1915? (1)
  
  Braun Lejzor; 24.11.1920, Żuromin (1)
  
  Brewda Alina; 14.06.1905, Warsaw (1)
  
  Cunder Milan; 1908? (1)
  
  Cyrankiewicz Józef; 23.04.1911, Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Czardybon Bernard; 18.06.1901, Chorzów (1)
  
  Czech Józef 14.01.1913 (1)
  
  Czech Józef; 14.01.1913 (1)
  
  Denisow Piotr; 1894? (1)
  
  Drabek Jaroslav; 1901? (1)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (1)
  
  Dębkowski Marian; 08.12.1912, Warsaw (1)
  
  Epstein Bertold; 01.04.1890, Pilzno (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (1)
  
  Fiderkiewicz Alfred; 02.07.1886, Horodenka (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Fiderkiewicz Alfred; 2.07.1886, Horodenka (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Foltynova Vera; 1919? (1)
  
  Furmański Icchok (Jacek); 10.04.1903, Warsaw (1)
  
  Gawryluk Afanazy (1)
  
  Geniusz Wacław; 1911? (1)
  
  Gołębiowski Stanisław; 22.08.1918, Kielce (1)
  
  Górecki Aleksander; 1901? (1)
  
  Górski Antoni Stanisław; 18.08.1914, Warsaw (1)
  
  Górski Stanisław; 1903 (1)
  
  Habrajski Józef; 08.03.1915, Radzionków (1)
  
  Halbreich Zygfryd; 13.11.1909, Dziedzice (śląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Hebrajski Józef, 1915? (1)
  
  Hipp Franciszek; 1901? (1)
  
  Horczak Krystyna; 23.03.1914, Warsaw (1)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 13.11.1916, Kraków (1)
  
  Hřebík Antonín; 24.02.1902, Řevnice (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Janiak Zygmunt; 14.06.1910, Warsaw (1)
  
  Jeleń Piotr; 15.01.1921, Kraków (1)
  
  Jeleń Piotr; 1919? (1)
  
  Kahl Tadeusz; 27.07.1908, Kraków (1)
  
  Kahl Tadeusz; 27.09.1908, Kraków (1)
  
  Kleinstein Mojżesz; 05.11.1927, Kielce (1)
  
  Klinger Jakub; 22.09.1920, Strusów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Klinger Jakub; 22.09.1920, Strusów (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Kowalczyk Janina; 1907? (1)
  
  Kościelniak Mieczysław; 28.01.1912, Kalisz (1)
  
  Kudzela (1)
  
  Kukla Zbigniew; 11.08.1910, Kalwaria Zebrzydowska (1)
  
  Kula Michał; 1913? (1)
  
  Kulka Otto; 1933? (1)
  
  Langbein Hermann; 18.05.1912, Vienna (Austria) (1)
  
  Langbein Hermann; 18.05.1912, Wiedeń (Austria) (1)
  
  Lasok Erna; 1915? (1)
  
  Limousin Henri ;25.03.1893, Saint Le Noble (France) (1)
  
  Machałowski Jan; 22.02.1912, Warszawa (1)
  
  Magnuszewska Jadwiga; 1920? (1)
  
  Marchwicka Stanisława, 1900? (1)
  
  Marchwicka Stanisława; 23.10.1899, Oświęcim (1)
  
  Martens Ryszard; 27.10.1922 (1)
  
  Mańkowski Augustyn; 20.05.1890, Warsaw (1)
  
  Mączka Zofia; 30.11.1905, Kraków (1)
  
  Obrycki Narcyz; 04.09.1896, Warszawa (1)
  
  Olbrycht Jan; 06.05.1886, Zahutyń (1)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (1)
  
  Pająk Wilibald; 15.12.1922, Katowice (1)
  
  Pająk Willibald; 15.12.1922, Katowice (1)
  
  Pałasiński Zdzisław; 15.08.1921 (1)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (1)
  
  Pleszowska Felicja; 28.07.1913, Warsaw (1)
  
  Popiół Motek; 17.07.1923, Żuromin (1)
  
  Prawer Seweryn; 1903? (1)
  
  Rachwał Stanisława; 29.06.1906, Rudki (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Rosin Arnošt; 1912, Snina (Slovakia) (1)
  
  Rubach Marian, 14.06.1893 (1)
  
  Rubach Marian; 1892? (1)
  
  Rubinstein Dawid; 1921 (1)
  
  Ruciński Ludwik; 1914? (1)
  
  Rychlik Czesław; 01.06.1909 (1)
  
  Rychlik Czesław; 01.06.1909, Wąwoźnica (1)
  
  Skórzewski Arkadiusz; 1916? (1)
  
  Smerczyński Władysław; 1926? (1)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 19.04.1920, Łysa Góra (1)
Subject
- Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (37)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (27)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (23)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (13)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (8)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (8)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (7)
  
  A mass extermination – KL Flossenbürg (5)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (5)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (4)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (4)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Flossenbürg (3)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Gliwice (2)
  
  For show – Familienlager Theresienstadt (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (2)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Lesser Poland (1)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (1)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Sachsenhausen (1)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Sverdlovsk Oblast (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (83)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (74)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (72)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (63)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (51)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (43)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (33)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (27)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (27)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (27)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (24)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (22)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (18)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (18)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (18)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (18)
  
  Łódź (17)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (16)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (16)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (16)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (14)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (14)
  
  KL Majdanek (14)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (14)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (13)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (11)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (11)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (9)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (9)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (9)
  
  Bochnia, train station (8)
  
  Bydgoszcz (8)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (8)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (7)
  
  KL Mittelbau-Dora (Germany) (6)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (5)
  
  KL Plaszow (5)
  
  KL Stutthof (5)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (5)
  
  Warsaw (5)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (5)
  
  Hamburg (Germany) (4)
  
  Jawiszowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  Jaworzno, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, SS-Stabsgebaude (4)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (4)
  
  KL Melk (Austria) (4)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (4)
  
  Pszczyna (4)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (4)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz I (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  Brzeszcze (3)
  
  KL Blechhammer (3)
  
  Kraków (3)
  
  Lublin (3)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (3)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Nakhodka (Russia, Primorsky Krai) (3)
  
  Poznań (3)
  
  Sevvostlag (Russia, Magadan Oblast) (3)
  
  Terezin (Czech Republic) (3)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (3)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz II (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz III (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz IV (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (2)
  
  Bratislava (Slovakia) (2)
  
  Budapest (Hungary) (2)
  
  Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Będzin (2)
  
  Gdańsk, Schichau Shipyard, Schichaua Street (Jana z Kolna Street) (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (2)
  
  Jasło, temporary remand prison, Staszica Street 3 (2)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (2)
  
  KL Ebensee (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) (2)
  
  KL Gotendorf (2)
  
  KL Melk (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) (2)
  
  Kherson (Ukraine), prison, Perekopska Street 10 (2)
  
  Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 (2)
  
  Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 (2)
  
  Kraków, Jewish Police Service prison, Józefińska Street 37 (2)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (2)
  
  Lidice (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Magadan (Russia, Magadan Oblast) (2)
  
  Majdanek, German extermination camp (2)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (2)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (2)
  
  Nowy Wiśnicz (2)
  
  Poręba (district of Pszczyna) (2)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (2)
  
  Pustków, forced labor camp (2)
  
  Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Rajsko (Oświęcim district) (2)
  
  Rajsko, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (2)
Victims
- Czechs (124)
  
  Civilians (117)
  
  The Civilian Population (116)
  
  The Poles (115)
  
  The Jews (99)
  
  Women (83)
  
  The Inteligentsia (67)
  
  Children (64)
  
  The Sick (58)
  
  The sick (58)
  
  Russians/Soviets (54)
  
  The Russians (54)
  
  Hungarians (48)
  
  Germans (38)
  
  The elderly (36)
  
  Prisoners of War (36)
  
  The Elderly (36)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (36)
  
  The French (35)
  
  Slovaks (34)
  
  The Dutch (25)
  
  Greeks (24)
  
  Belgians (23)
  
  The Communists (18)
  
  The Disabled (14)
  
  Ukrainians (14)
  
  The Church (13)
  
  Italians (12)
  
  Americans (7)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (7)
  
  Norwegians (6)
  
  Romanians (6)
  
  The British (6)
  
  Deportees (3)
  
  Latvians (3)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (3)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (2)
  
  Landowners (2)
  
  Lithuanians (2)
  
  Policemen (2)
  
  Belarusians (1)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (1)
  
  Serbs (1)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (103)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (42)
  
  Collaboration (18)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (15)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (8)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (6)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (6)
  
  Denunciation (4)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (4)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (4)
  
  Waffen-SS (4)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (3)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (2)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (1)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (1)
  
  Postal Protection (1)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (1)
  
  Soviet Militia (1)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (1)
  
  The Navy of Nazi Germany (Kriegsmarine) (1)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Beating (102)
  
  Forced labor (97)
  
  Biological extermination (93)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (86)
  
  Execution (84)
  
  Gas chambers (79)
  
  Cremation of corpses (64)
  
  Death by shooting (64)
  
  Cremation (63)
  
  Arrest (54)
  
  Robbery (48)
  
  Deportation (46)
  
  Medical experiments (40)
  
  Hanging (29)
  
  "Dosing" (25)
  
  Cattle wagons (25)
  
  Burning people alive (20)
  
  Economic exploitation (19)
  
  Mass graves (19)
  
  Death marches (16)
  
  Desacration of corpses (16)
  
  Racial policy (16)
  
  Deportation/Exile (14)
  
  Judicial crime (12)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (12)
  
  Round-up (10)
  
  Germanization (8)
  
  Displacement (6)
  
  Expulsion (6)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (6)
  
  Punishment cell (6)
  
  Rape (3)
  
  Administrative persecution (2)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (1)
  
  Disarmament (1)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (1)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (1)
Place
- Concentration camp (101)
  
  Extermination camp (76)
  
  Prison (41)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (13)
  
  Labor camp (12)
  
  Police headquarters/station (10)
  
  Ghetto (8)
  
  Kolkhoz (4)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (4)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (3)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (3)
  
  Forced labor (2)
  
  NKVD custody suite (2)
  
  Transit camp (2)
  
  Center for the Germanization of children (1)
  
  Internment camp (1)
Content
- Extermination of Jews (73)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (43)
  
  Health service (32)
  
  Obliterating the traces (29)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (28)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (27)
  
  obliterating the traces (27)
  
  Civil resistance (15)
  
  Anders' Army (10)
  
  Aktion Zamość (9)
  
  Amnesty (8)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (6)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (5)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (5)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (4)
  
  Epidemics (4)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (3)
  
  Polish Underground State (3)
  
  Polish culture in exile (3)
  
  Rescue of Jews (3)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (3)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (2)
  
  First deportation (2)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (2)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (2)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (2)
  
  Underground media (2)
  
  Aktion T4 (1)
  
  Communist propaganda (1)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (1)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (1)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (1)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
  
  Underground courts (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (101)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (3)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (3)
  
  Account (2)
  
  Brief (2)
  
  Book excerpt (1)
  
  Press clipping (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Supreme National Tribunal (99)
  
  Independent Historical Office of the Command of the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union/Documentation Office of the Polish Army in the East (16)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (3)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (3)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków (1)
Medium
- Text (124)
  
  Image (12)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (122)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (2)