„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)
- Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (4)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (3)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć county) (3)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć district) (3)
  
  Gołębiowski Stanisław; 22.08.1918, Kielce (2)
  
  Kazimierski Franciszek; 14.04.1908, Różan (2)
  
  Kukla Zbigniew; 11.08.1910, Kalwaria Zebrzydowska (2)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (2)
  
  Nass Róża; 09.01.1907, Biała (Bielsko-Biała) (2)
  
  Pająk Wilibald; 15.12.1922, Katowice (2)
  
  Pietrzyk Jerzy; 1914? (2)
  
  Bator Helena; 03.03.1904, Wilanów (now: Warsaw) (1)
  
  Bernhard Ferdynand; 03.04.1919, Liberec (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Biega Eugenia; 1906 (1)
  
  Bielska (Mojejko) Jadwiga; 22.07.1922, Warsaw (1)
  
  Bieniek Walenty; 14.02.1924, Ołtarze-Gołacze (1)
  
  Broel-Plater (Skassa) Maria; 18.12.1913, Warsaw (1)
  
  Brudkowska Aglaida; 19.10.1914, Żytomierz (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Brudkowska Aglaida; 19.10.1914, Żytomierz (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Błotnicki Edward; 08.04.1888, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Całczyński Wojciech Andrzej; 17.03.1927 (1)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Cunder Milan; 1908? (1)
  
  Czech Józef 14.01.1913 (1)
  
  Czech Józef; 14.01.1913 (1)
  
  Duchnowski Jan; 22.10.1908, Podbiele (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Dyntar Józef; 17.03.1919, Kraków (1)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (1)
  
  Dąbrowska (Lewandowska) Władysława; 1905 (1)
  
  Epstein Bertold; 01.04.1890, Pilzno (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Falk Ignacy; 1902? (1)
  
  Feinsilber Alter (Jankowski Stanisław); 23.10.1910, Stoczek Łukowski (1)
  
  Fiderkiewicz Alfred; 02.07.1886, Horodenka (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Fiderkiewicz Alfred; 2.07.1886, Horodenka (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Frączek Kazimierz; 15.12.1914, Tarnów (1)
  
  Furmański Icchok (Jacek); 10.04.1903, Warsaw (1)
  
  Galewski Alfred; 06.01.1899, Charlottenburg (Berlin, Germany) (1)
  
  Galina, 1969 (1)
  
  Gelbkron Moszek (Maciejuk Józef); 1903? (1)
  
  Gliński Bogdan; 08.12.1921, Sancygniów (1)
  
  Goldman Roman; 04.05.1931, Tomaszów Mazowiecki (1)
  
  Gorlach Halina; 02.07.1908, Strzelno (kujawsko-pomorskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Grabczyński Jan; 21.05.1908, Tarnów (dolnośląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Grzelec Ludwik; 16.04.1907, Wilanów (Warsaw) (1)
  
  Habrajski Józef; 08.03.1915, Radzionków (1)
  
  Hebrajski Józef, 1915? (1)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 13.11.1916, Kraków (1)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (1)
  
  Janiak Zygmunt; 14.06.1910, Warsaw (1)
  
  Janicka Maria; 1902? (1)
  
  Jona Enrica; 11.02.1910, Asti (Italy) (1)
  
  Jona Enrica; 11.02.1910, Asti (Włochy) (1)
  
  Kazimierski Franciszek; 14.04.1908 (1)
  
  Kleiner Jakub; 15.12.1927, Děčín (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Kleiner Jakub; 1927? (1)
  
  Klinger Jakub; 22.09.1920, Strusów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Klinger Jakub; 22.09.1920, Strusów (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Kon Stanisław (Kohn Shalom); 1910, Praczka (1)
  
  Kosacki Antoni; 1896? (1)
  
  Kotowski Czesław; 19.07.1902, Warsaw (1)
  
  Kowalczyk Janina; 10.03.1907, Golkowice (1)
  
  Kowalczyk Janina; 1907? (1)
  
  Kołodziejczyk Aleksander; 21.01.1914, Kraków (1)
  
  Krosnowski Ryszard; 12.02.1923, Warsaw (1)
  
  Krzywicki Janusz; 15.09.1907, Warsaw (1)
  
  Kula Michał; 1913? (1)
  
  Kulka Erich; 18.02.1911, Vsetín (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Ludwig Józef Paweł; 03.07.1910, Sosnowiec (1)
  
  Lustbader Markus; 11.09.1905, Nowy Sącz (1)
  
  Machajski Henryk; 06.11.1909, Ludwików (Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski) (1)
  
  Magnuszewska Jadwiga; 1920? (1)
  
  Mandelbaum Izrael; 16.11.1913, Lublin (1)
  
  Markowski Stefan; 17.06.1911, Maciejowice (1)
  
  Mańkowski Augustyn; 20.05.1890, Warsaw (1)
  
  Mikołajski Zdzisław; 28.09.1913, Kraków (1)
  
  Mikusz Józef; 23.08.1914, Zabrze (1)
  
  Misztal Konstanty; 28.01.1920, Warsaw (1)
  
  Miziewicz Aleksander; 18.04.1924, Warsaw (1)
  
  Myszko Józef; 1903? (1)
  
  Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (1)
  
  Mączka Zofia; 30.11.1905, Kraków (1)
  
  Nelken Regina; 07.09.1896, Kraków (1)
  
  Obrycki Narcyz; 04.09.1896, Warszawa (1)
  
  Owczarek Feliks; 11.11.1912, Wilanów (Warsaw) (1)
  
  Pietrzyk Jerzy; 11.03.1913, Warsaw (1)
  
  Pietrzyk Jerzy; 1915? (1)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina, 24.12.1900, Warszawa (1)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (1)
  
  Popiół Motek; 17.07.1923, Żuromin (1)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (1)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 1911? (1)
  
  Rablin Andrzej; 01.01.1914, Kraków (1)
  
  Rablin Artur; 03.05.1923, Kraków (1)
  
  Rachwał Stanisława; 29.06.1906, Rudki (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Radomski Eugeniusz; 28.07.1917, Natolin (Warsaw) (1)
  
  Radziszewski Henryk; 05.02.1911, Ostrówek (Węgrów county) (1)
  
  Radziszewski Henryk; 05.02.1911, Ostrówek (district of Węgrów) (1)
  
  Rajewski Ludwik; 16.12.1900, Łódź (1)
  
  Roszkowska Halina; 24.02.1911, Lublin (1)
Subject
- Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (37)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (30)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (22)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (13)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (8)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (7)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (7)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (5)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (5)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (5)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (5)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (3)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (3)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (3)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (2)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  The city condemned to death (2)
  
  Treblinka – extermination camp (2)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Gliwice (1)
  
  Evacuation to Poland (1)
  
  For show – Familienlager Theresienstadt (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Zawichost Ghetto (1)
  
  Lebensborn – the Germanization of Polish children (1)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Majdanek (1)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Neuengamme (1)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (1)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (1)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Soviets in German captivity (1)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Radom region (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (1)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (84)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (78)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (74)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (64)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (61)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (50)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (41)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (27)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (23)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (23)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (20)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (20)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (20)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (18)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (15)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (15)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (14)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (13)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (13)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (11)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (11)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (11)
  
  Łódź (11)
  
  KL Majdanek (10)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (10)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (10)
  
  Warsaw (10)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (9)
  
  Bochnia, train station (8)
  
  KL Plaszow (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (7)
  
  Kraków (7)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (7)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (6)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (6)
  
  Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (5)
  
  Bydgoszcz (5)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (5)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (5)
  
  KL Stutthof (5)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (5)
  
  Jaworzno, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, SS-Stabsgebaude (4)
  
  Lublin, Lublin Castle, Zamkowa Street 9 (4)
  
  Nowy Wiśnicz (4)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (4)
  
  Pszczyna (4)
  
  Wilanów (Warsaw) (4)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (3)
  
  Jawiszowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Lagerhaus (3)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (3)
  
  KL Melk (Austria) (3)
  
  Katowice (3)
  
  Lublin (3)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (3)
  
  Paris (France) (3)
  
  Radom (3)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (3)
  
  Tarnów (3)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Terezin (Czech Republic) (3)
  
  Warsaw, Dworkowa Street 3 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (3)
  
  Warsaw, Gęsiówka prison, Gęsia Street (Anielewicza Street)/ Zamenhofa Street (3)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz I (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (2)
  
  Brussels (Belgium) (2)
  
  Brzeszcze (2)
  
  Budapest (Hungary) (2)
  
  Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Częstochowa (2)
  
  Dresden (Germany) (2)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (2)
  
  KL Blechhammer (2)
  
  KL Malchow (KL Ravensbrück subcamp, Germany) (2)
  
  KL Melk (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) (2)
  
  KL Mittelbau-Dora (Germany) (2)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Niemcy) (2)
  
  Lublin, Zamek Lubelski, ul. Zamkowa 9 (2)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Majdanek, German extermination camp (2)
  
  Otwock (2)
  
  Pionki (mazowieckie voivodeship), forced labor camp (2)
  
  Pomorzany (mazowieckie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Poręba (district of Pszczyna) (2)
  
  Pustków, forced labor camp (2)
  
  Puławy (2)
  
  Trzebinia (małopolskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Warsaw, Jewish cemetery, Okopowa Street 49/51 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Marszałkowska Street (2)
  
  Warsaw, Muranowska Street (2)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Towarowa Street (2)
  
  Wilanów (Warsaw), Wilanowskie Lake (2)
  
  Wodzisław Śląski (2)
Oblast
- Dnipropetrovsk (1)
Raion
- Kamianske (1)
Victims
- The Roma and Sinti (136)
  
  Civilians (130)
  
  The Poles (126)
  
  The Civilian Population (122)
  
  The Jews (104)
  
  Women (98)
  
  Children (70)
  
  The sick (60)
  
  The Sick (59)
  
  Russians/Soviets (57)
  
  The Russians (53)
  
  The Inteligentsia (48)
  
  Hungarians (38)
  
  Prisoners of War (37)
  
  Czechs (36)
  
  The Elderly (34)
  
  The elderly (34)
  
  The French (27)
  
  Slovaks (24)
  
  Germans (20)
  
  The Dutch (18)
  
  Greeks (17)
  
  Belgians (16)
  
  The Communists (14)
  
  The Church (11)
  
  The Disabled (10)
  
  Italians (7)
  
  Americans (6)
  
  The British (6)
  
  Ukrainians (5)
  
  Norwegians (3)
  
  Romanians (3)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (2)
  
  Finns (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (111)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (46)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (16)
  
  Collaboration (11)
  
  Military Police (11)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (11)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (7)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (4)
  
  Denunciation (2)
  
  Waffen-SS (2)
  
  Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (1)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (1)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (1)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (1)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (1)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (1)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (1)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Beating (100)
  
  Execution (97)
  
  Forced labor (95)
  
  Gas chambers (84)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (83)
  
  Death by shooting (83)
  
  Biological extermination (75)
  
  Cremation (63)
  
  Cremation of corpses (63)
  
  Arrest (54)
  
  Medical experiments (48)
  
  Deportation (45)
  
  Robbery (40)
  
  "Dosing" (34)
  
  Hanging (31)
  
  Mass graves (22)
  
  Cattle wagons (18)
  
  Economic exploitation (18)
  
  Racial policy (18)
  
  Burning people alive (16)
  
  Death marches (16)
  
  Desacration of corpses (13)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (11)
  
  Judicial crime (9)
  
  Round-up (8)
  
  Displacement (6)
  
  Germanization (6)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (6)
  
  Expulsion (5)
  
  Rape (5)
  
  Administrative persecution (4)
  
  Armored weapons (4)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (4)
  
  Disarmament (4)
  
  Espionage for the Third Reich (4)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (4)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (3)
  
  Deportation/Exile (2)
  
  Air raids (1)
  
  Artillery fire (1)
  
  Artillery shelling (1)
  
  Collectivization (1)
  
  Destruction of civilian infrastructure (1)
Place
- Concentration camp (107)
  
  Extermination camp (86)
  
  Prison (38)
  
  Labor camp (25)
  
  Police headquarters/station (14)
  
  Forced labor (10)
  
  Ghetto (10)
  
  Transit camp (9)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (3)
  
  Center for the Germanization of children (1)
Content
- Extermination of Jews (80)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (38)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (27)
  
  Obliterating the traces (26)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (26)
  
  obliterating the traces (25)
  
  Health service (20)
  
  Aktion Zamość (14)
  
  Civil resistance (10)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (9)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (7)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (6)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (6)
  
  Polish Underground State (4)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (3)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (3)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (2)
  
  Rescue of Jews (2)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (2)
  
  Underground media (2)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (2)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (1)
  
  Field health service (1)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (1)
  
  Judenrat (1)
  
  Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022) (1)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (121)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (6)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (3)
  
  Brief (2)
  
  Book excerpt (1)
  
  Questionnaire (1)
  
  Report (1)
  
  Summary (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Supreme National Tribunal (102)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (14)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (6)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (2)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes – Institute of National Remembrance in Białystok (1)
  
  Lemkin Center (1)
Medium
- Text (136)
  
  Image (17)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (126)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (10)