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

Main Page Indexes Perpetrators The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police \(Ukrainische Hilfspolizei\)

Witness (date and place of birth)
- Baron Szymon; 1897, Tłumacz (now in Ukraina) (1)
  
  Czerenkiewicz Michał; 21.11.1911, Wołkowyja (1)
  
  Dubicki Bogusław; 1910? (1)
  
  Dziura Emilia; 29.08.1905, Góra Grabowiec (1)
  
  Fiderkiewicz Alfred; 02.07.1886, Horodenka (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Fiderkiewicz Alfred; 2.07.1886, Horodenka (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Gelber Zeuma; 26.07.1907, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Gelernter Matylda; 1908, Bolechów (now in Ukraina) (1)
  
  Gołaszewski Jan; 15.06.1913, Tykocin (1)
  
  Gołębiowska Lucyna (1)
  
  Grossbard (1)
  
  Górewicz Roman (1)
  
  Jakubowicz Michał (1)
  
  Kobyłecki Mieczysław (1)
  
  Kruczyński Michał; 1895? (1)
  
  Krzepicki Henryk; 04.03.1914, Złoczew (1)
  
  Lachowicz Stanisław (1)
  
  Lebküchler Adam; 22.12.1899, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Lej Maria (1)
  
  Malec Piotr (1)
  
  Nadel Maria; 1908? (1)
  
  Nadler Fryderyk; 22.11.1918, Dukla (now in Ukraina) (1)
  
  Pawlicka Maria; 1896? (1)
  
  Pydo Maria (1)
  
  Rogala Katarzyna; 1913?, Sydół (1)
  
  Rowińska Elżbieta (1)
  
  Stadnicki Bronisław; 1901? (1)
  
  Stopa F. (1)
  
  Szmidt Antoni; 1898? (1)
  
  Szul Ludwik; 17.05.1928, Łubno (podkarpackie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Sędkowska Teresa (1)
  
  Terlecki Kazimierz (1)
  
  Turkiewicz Leszek; 1917? (1)
  
  Twardak Wiktor (1)
  
  Wanat Leon; 14.06.1906, Kraków (1)
  
  Wasilewski Dymitr; 27.05.1912, Brasław (now: Belarus) (1)
  
  Wniler Samuel, 12.11.1914, Wiedeń (Austria) (1)
  
  Wągrowski Tadeusz; 12.06.1904, Warsaw (1)
  
  Zajde Chaim Boruch; 1912? (1)
Subject
- Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (4)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (4)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (3)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – the Stanisławów area (3)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Lublin region (3)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (2)
  
  A genocide conducted by Ukrainian Nationalists – Volhynia (1)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching classes – Volhynia (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching classes – the Lwów region (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (1)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Volhynia (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (1)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Radom Ghetto (1)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Stanisławów region (1)
  
  Poles who saved Jews in Lwów (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Częstochowa Ghetto (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Radom Ghetto (1)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (1)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Mazovia (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Hrubieszów (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (5)
  
  KL Majdanek (5)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (4)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (4)
  
  Warsaw (4)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (3)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (3)
  
  Bydgoszcz (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (2)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (2)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (2)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Lwów (Ukraine), ghetto (2)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Mościska (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Radom, Ghetto Śródmieście (2)
  
  Radom, forced labor camp, Szwarlikowskiego Street (2)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (2)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (2)
  
  Sanok (2)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (2)
  
  Zamość, resettlement camp, Okrzei Street (2)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (1)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (1)
  
  Bełżec, German extermination camp (1)
  
  Bliżyn, forced labor camp (1)
  
  Bliżyn, school, Piaskowa Street 6 (1)
  
  Bochnia, train station (1)
  
  Bohorodczany (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Brody (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bronisławka (Zamość district) (1)
  
  Bór (Skarżysko-Kamienna) (1)
  
  Częstochowa, Garibaldiego Street (1)
  
  Częstochowa, Ghetto (1)
  
  Częstochowa, Nowy Rynek (Daszyńskiego Square) (1)
  
  Dańczypol (1)
  
  Drohobycz (Ukraine), Grunwaldzka Street 20 (Truskawiecka Street 20) (1)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Dynów (1)
  
  Gliwice (1)
  
  Grabowiec (Zamość district) (1)
  
  Grafenreuth (Germany) (1)
  
  Grodzisk Mazowiecki (1)
  
  Gródek Jagielloński (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Głębokie (Belarus) (1)
  
  Halicz (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Jarmolińce (now in Ukraine), transit camp (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (1)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (1)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (1)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (1)
  
  Kamionka Strumiłowa (Kamionka Bużańska, now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Karolin (Zwoleń district) (1)
  
  Katowice (1)
  
  Kazimierz Dolny (1)
  
  Kałusz (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 (1)
  
  Kiwerce (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Klewań (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Kostopol (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Kołomyja (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Końskie (1)
  
  Kraków (1)
  
  Lesko (1)
  
  Lubaczów (1)
  
  Lublin (1)
  
  Lwów (Ukraine), Gestapo headquarters, Pełczyńska Street 55 (Witowskiego Street 55) (1)
  
  Lwów (Ukraine), Institute for Study of Typhus and Virology of Professor Rudolf Weigl (St. Nicholas' Church, Hruszewskiego Street 2) (1)
  
  Lwów (Ukraine), Mączyńskiego Street 21 (Yefremova Street 21) (1)
  
  Lwów (Ukraine), Nabielaka Street (Ivana Kotlyarevskoho Street) (1)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Gestapo Headquarters, Pełczyńska Street 55 (Witowskiego Street 55) (1)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no. 1, Łąckiego Street (Bandery Street 1) (1)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), St. Mary Magdalene's Church, Sapiehy Street 8 (Bandery Street 8) (1)
  
  Masłów Pierwszy (1)
  
  Milanówek, Żwirowa Street (Fiderkiewicza Street) (1)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (1)
  
  Minsk (Belarus), Gestapo headquarters, Ostrowskiego Street 7 (Rakowska Street 7) (1)
  
  Minsk (Belarus), ghetto (1)
  
  Mszczonów (1)
  
  Nadwórna (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (1)
  
  Opatów, Słowackiego Street 1 (1)
  
  Otwock, ghetto (1)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (1)
  
  Przemyśl (1)
  
  Radom (1)
Victims
- Civilians (39)
  
  The Poles (30)
  
  The Civilian Population (28)
  
  The Jews (26)
  
  Women (25)
  
  Children (23)
  
  The Inteligentsia (10)
  
  The elderly (8)
  
  Russians/Soviets (7)
  
  The Russians (6)
  
  Prisoners of War (5)
  
  The sick (5)
  
  The Elderly (3)
  
  The Sick (3)
  
  The Church (2)
  
  The Communists (2)
  
  Czechs (1)
  
  Deportees (1)
  
  Germans (1)
  
  Greeks (1)
  
  Hungarians (1)
  
  The Disabled (1)
  
  The Dutch (1)
  
  The French (1)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (1)
Perpetrators
- The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (42)
  
  SS (15)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (6)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (6)
  
  Collaboration (5)
  
  Military Police (5)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (5)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (5)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (3)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (2)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (2)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (2)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (2)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (1)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (1)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (1)
Crimes
- Execution (34)
  
  Death by shooting (31)
  
  Beating (20)
  
  Deportation (16)
  
  Arrest (15)
  
  Forced labor (14)
  
  Robbery (13)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (12)
  
  Biological extermination (8)
  
  Cremation of corpses (8)
  
  Mass graves (8)
  
  Round-up (8)
  
  Cremation (7)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (7)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (7)
  
  Displacement (6)
  
  Cattle wagons (5)
  
  Economic exploitation (5)
  
  Gas chambers (5)
  
  Racial policy (5)
  
  Air raids (4)
  
  Expulsion (4)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (4)
  
  "Dosing" (2)
  
  Administrative persecution (2)
  
  Burning people alive (2)
  
  Denationalization (2)
  
  Desacration of corpses (2)
  
  Hanging (2)
  
  Judicial crime (2)
  
  Armored weapons (1)
  
  Artillery fire (1)
  
  Artillery shelling (1)
  
  Death marches (1)
  
  Espionage for the Third Reich (1)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (1)
  
  Medical experiments (1)
  
  Rape (1)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (1)
Place
- Ghetto (13)
  
  Extermination camp (8)
  
  Concentration camp (6)
  
  Labor camp (6)
  
  Police headquarters/station (5)
  
  Prison (5)
  
  Transit camp (3)
  
  Forced labor (2)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (1)
Content
- Extermination of Jews (15)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (10)
  
  Rescue of Jews (7)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (4)
  
  Judenrat (4)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (3)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (3)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (2)
  
  Aktion Zamość (2)
  
  Civil resistance (2)
  
  Health service (2)
  
  Obliterating the traces (2)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (2)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (2)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (2)
  
  obliterating the traces (2)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (1)
  
  Called by name (1)
  
  Central Welfare Council (1)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (1)
  
  The Silent Unseen (1)
  
  Underground culture and education (1)
  
  Underground media (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (18)
  
  Account (7)
  
  Report (7)
  
  Summary (7)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (3)
  
  Brief (1)
  
  Statement (1)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (7)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (7)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (6)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (6)
  
  District Court in Radom (4)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland. Research and investigative files (3)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (2)
  
  A collection of copies of witness interview reports and accounts of former prisoners of Ravensbrück and other camps, written down at the Polish Research Institute in Lund. (1)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (1)
Medium
- Text (42)
  
  Image (3)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (24)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (17)