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

Main Page Indexes Perpetrators The Volksdeutsche\/The Volksliste

Witness (date and place of birth)
- Bąk Antonina; 1902?, Puławy (lubelskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Filipowska (Freund) Ilza; 14.01.1902, Wrocław (2)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (2)
  
  Jackowski Marian; 1900? (2)
  
  Kwapiński Stanisław; 1908?, Karolin (Zwoleń county) (2)
  
  Płoski Stanisław; 04.12.1899, Briańsk (Russia) (2)
  
  Płoski Stanisław; 04.12.1899, Bryansk (Russia) (2)
  
  Sulima Jan (2)
  
  Szenajch Władysław Ludwik; 13.05.1879, Warsaw (2)
  
  Wilczewski Władysław; 21.02.1892 (2)
  
  Adamska Halina; 27.02.1903 (1)
  
  Akinin Bazyli; 1902?, Włodawa (1)
  
  Banach Leon; 1905? (1)
  
  Bartonezz Irena; 03.10.1896 (1)
  
  Baryłka Stanisława; 1915? (1)
  
  Barzycki Aleksander; 1894? (1)
  
  Bas Ludwik; 18.12.1912, Kraków (1)
  
  Bednarczyk Bartłomiej; 1911? (1)
  
  Białek Stanisław Franciszek; 06.11.1900, Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Bielska (Mojejko) Jadwiga; 22.07.1922, Warsaw (1)
  
  Bochenek Marta; 19.09.1892 (1)
  
  Borowicz Ignacy; 24.01.1905 (1)
  
  Borowicz Ignacy; 24.01.1906 (1)
  
  Brewda Alina; 13.06.1905, Warsaw (1)
  
  Brewda Alina; 14.06.1905, Warsaw (1)
  
  Broel-Plater (Skassa) Maria; 18.12.1913, Warsaw (1)
  
  Brzeziński Bronisław; 20.07.1905, Warsaw (1)
  
  Brzeziński Marian; 1912? (1)
  
  Buska Antonina; 1916?, Kielce (1)
  
  Błaszczyk Władysław; 27.06.1905, Warsaw (1)
  
  Ceregra Kazimierz (1)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Chrościcki Julian; 26.05.1892, Szymony (1)
  
  Ciacia Franciszek; 1907? (1)
  
  Czardybon Bernard; 18.06.1901, Chorzów (1)
  
  Czerewka Zenajda; 1892?, Kielce (1)
  
  Deja Jan; 1902? (1)
  
  Dionizniak Stefan; 26.07.1907, Warsaw (1)
  
  Dudwak Lidia (1)
  
  Duzy Stefania; 02.1910 (1)
  
  Dzido (Hassa) Jadwiga; 26.02.1918, Suchowola (Radzyń county) (1)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (1)
  
  Fabrykiewicz Janina; 06.09.1922, Brzeziny (Dębica county) (1)
  
  Feinsilber Alter (Jankowski Stanisław); 23.10.1910, Stoczek Łukowski (1)
  
  Filipowska Ilza; 1902? (1)
  
  Flak Zofia; 16.07.1916 (1)
  
  Fronenberg Moszek; 04.04.1921, Puławy (1)
  
  Gajewski Dionizy; 21.10.1904 (1)
  
  Gelade Eliasz; 1894? (1)
  
  Gitler-Barski Józef; 03.03.1898, Warsaw (1)
  
  Gitler-Barski Józef; 3.03.1898, Warsaw (1)
  
  Gorzałczyński Stanisław; 15.07.1912, Białaczów (1)
  
  Grabczyński Jan; 21.05.1908, Tarnów (dolnośląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Greniuch Józef (1)
  
  Grodzicki Kazimierz (1)
  
  Grzelski Tadeusz; 04.10.1912, Warsaw (1)
  
  Guzikowski Witold Marian; 19.08.1923, Warsaw (1)
  
  Góralczyk Tadeusz; 31.03.1914, Warsaw (1)
  
  Górniak Stefan; 1898? (1)
  
  Głombiowska Jadwiga; 24.01.1915 (1)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 13.11.1916, Kraków (1)
  
  Jaworski Józef; 23.09.1882 Wierzbica (Radom county) (1)
  
  Jaworski Józef; 23.09.1882, Wierzbica (1)
  
  Juszczakiewicz Wacław; 28.10.1892, Warsaw (1)
  
  Kacperska Franciszka; 1892? (1)
  
  Kacperski Stanisław; 22.03.1913 (1)
  
  Kahl Tadeusz; 27.07.1908, Kraków (1)
  
  Kahl Tadeusz; 27.09.1908, Kraków (1)
  
  Kalinowski Adam; 1899? (1)
  
  Kamiński Józef; 1905?, Kielce (1)
  
  Karczmarz (Łysakowska) Maria; 27.07.1917 (1)
  
  Karolewska (Łapińska) Władysława; 15.03.1909, Żuromin (1)
  
  Kisiel Aleksander; 31.12.1913, Wilno (now in Lithuania) (1)
  
  Kleinstein Mojżesz; 05.11.1927, Kielce (1)
  
  Koch Antoni; 13.06.1886 (1)
  
  Koch Teofila; 20.12.1888 (1)
  
  Koczanowicz Stanisław; 05.05.1921, Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Koliński Tadeusz; 15.03.1925, Warsaw (1)
  
  Kosiński Wacław; 21.09.1882 (1)
  
  Kowalska Maria; 02.09.1905 (1)
  
  Kozubski Zygmunt; 01.01.1887, Siepraw (1)
  
  Kołodziejczyk Edward; 1903? (1)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (1)
  
  Kulka Erich; 18.02.1911, Vsetín (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Kuropatwa Eugeniusz; 28.05.1922 (1)
  
  Kuropatwa Eugeniusz; 28.05.1923 (1)
  
  Kustra Franciszek; 1885? (1)
  
  Kustra Szczepan; 1896? (1)
  
  Kwapiński Stanisław; 1908? (1)
  
  Kwapiński Stanisław; 1908?, Karolin (Zwoleń district) (1)
  
  Kwiatkowski Stanisław; 1917? (1)
  
  Kwiecińska Leokadia; 1899, Lublin (1)
  
  Kępczyńska Anna; 27.04.1919, Warsaw (1)
  
  Kłosowska Ewa (1)
  
  Lebküchler Adam; 22.12.1899, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Leon Osiecki; 18.06.1892, Zielonka (Wołomin county) (1)
  
  Lewak Adam; 03.09.1891, Pieniaki (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Lewarski Stanisław; 1905? (1)
  
  Lis Józef; 1910? (1)
  
  Lisek Adam; 1924? (1)
Subject
- The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (33)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (24)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (10)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (10)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (8)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (8)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (8)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (7)
  
  The city condemned to death (7)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (6)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (5)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (5)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (5)
  
  The persecuted church (5)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (5)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (5)
  
  Resistance, documentation, solidarity – the underground activity at Auschwitz-Birkenau (4)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (4)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (3)
  
  Radom – daily terror (3)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (3)
  
  The tragedy of the Radom Arms Factory (3)
  
  Browar, Czerwoniak – the Ostrów death blocks (2)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (2)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (2)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (2)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Radom region (2)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town (2)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Trzebinia (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Radom region (1)
  
  Kujawy region - the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Lebensborn – the Germanization of Polish children (1)
  
  Lebensraum – the Germanization of the Zamość region (1)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Majdanek (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Dachau (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Sachsenhausen (1)
  
  Ostrów ’39 – extermination of Jews (1)
  
  Stadion Leśny, Słowik, Herby – execution sites in Kielce (1)
  
  The German-Soviet border – opportunity and oppression (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Staszów Ghetto (1)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (1)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – uprising in Praga (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz I (30)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (26)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (24)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (23)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (23)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (19)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (18)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (15)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (14)
  
  Karolin (Zwoleń district) (14)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (13)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (13)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) (13)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (10)
  
  KL Majdanek (10)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (10)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (9)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (9)
  
  Warsaw (9)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (9)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (8)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (8)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (8)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (8)
  
  Radom (8)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (8)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (7)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (7)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (7)
  
  Warsaw, Dworkowa Street 3 (7)
  
  Łódź (7)
  
  Bydgoszcz (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (6)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (6)
  
  Leokadiów (6)
  
  Lublin, Lublin Castle, Zamkowa Street 9 (6)
  
  Sydół (6)
  
  Bochnia, train station (5)
  
  Ciepielów (mazowieckie voivodeship) (5)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (5)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (5)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (5)
  
  Lublin (5)
  
  Majdanek, German extermination camp (5)
  
  Palmiry (5)
  
  Radom, Gestapo Headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (5)
  
  Radom, Gestapo headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (5)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (5)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (5)
  
  Warsaw, Puławska Street (5)
  
  Warsaw, Warszawa Zachodnia Station (5)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship), ghetto (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (4)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (4)
  
  KL Plaszow (4)
  
  Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 (4)
  
  Kraków (4)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (4)
  
  Lublin, Gestapo detention center, Uniwersytecka Street 1 (4)
  
  Modrzejowice, an estate (4)
  
  Podsuliszka (Radom District) (4)
  
  Podsuliszka, Pakosławski Forest (4)
  
  Radzymin (4)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (4)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Aleje Ujazdowskie (4)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship), market square (4)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (3)
  
  Bełżec, German extermination camp (3)
  
  Garbatka (Garbatka-Letnisko) (3)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (3)
  
  Jawiszowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (3)
  
  KL Mittelbau-Dora (Germany) (3)
  
  Kielce (3)
  
  Kielce, the "Hasag-Granat" factory, Karczówkowska Street (3)
  
  Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 (3)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  Ranachów B (3)
  
  Wacławów (Zwoleń district) (3)
  
  Warsaw, Belwederska Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, Dworkowa Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, General Inspectorate of the Armed Forces, al. Szucha 12/14 (3)
  
  Warsaw, General Inspectorate of the Armed Forces, aleja Szucha 12/14 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Litewska Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, Mazowiecka Street 10 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Mokotów Prison, Rakowiecka Street 37 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Puławska Street 49 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Puławska Street 51 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Rakowiecka Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's Church, Wolska Street 76 (3)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Unii Lubelskiej Square (3)
  
  Warsaw, Ursus factory, Wolska Street 55 (3)
Victims
- The Poles (184)
  
  The Civilian Population (173)
  
  The Jews (93)
  
  Women (92)
  
  Children (62)
  
  The Inteligentsia (46)
  
  The Sick (43)
  
  The Elderly (33)
  
  Prisoners of War (27)
  
  The Russians (27)
  
  The Church (22)
  
  The French (15)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (15)
  
  Czechs (14)
  
  Germans (14)
  
  Hungarians (13)
  
  Slovaks (13)
  
  The Disabled (10)
  
  The Communists (9)
  
  Belgians (8)
  
  Italians (8)
  
  The Dutch (8)
  
  Greeks (6)
  
  The British (6)
  
  Americans (5)
  
  Ukrainians (5)
  
  Norwegians (3)
  
  Romanians (3)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Policemen (1)
Perpetrators
- The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (200)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (98)
  
  SS (83)
  
  Military Police (60)
  
  Collaboration (32)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (31)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (24)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (18)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (6)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (6)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (5)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (4)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (4)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (4)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (3)
  
  Waffen-SS (3)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (2)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (2)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (2)
  
  Latvians (2)
  
  Assault Units (Sturmabteilung, SA) (1)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (1)
  
  Denunciation (1)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (1)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (1)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (1)
  
  Technical Support (Technische Nothilfe) (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Execution (153)
  
  Shooting (150)
  
  Beatings (103)
  
  Arrest (96)
  
  Forced Labour (74)
  
  Brutal Interrogation/Tortures (69)
  
  Deportation (65)
  
  Robbery (57)
  
  Biological extermination (43)
  
  Cremation (41)
  
  Gas chambers (29)
  
  Mass graves (29)
  
  Racial policy (28)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (28)
  
  Round-up (27)
  
  Hanging (24)
  
  Expulsion (23)
  
  Economic exploitation (22)
  
  Medical experiments (22)
  
  Administrative persecution (20)
  
  Burning people alive (13)
  
  "Dosing" (11)
  
  Armoured Weapon (11)
  
  Cattle wagons (11)
  
  Judicial crime (10)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (9)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (9)
  
  Death marches (8)
  
  Germanization (7)
  
  Rape (7)
  
  Air raids (6)
  
  Disarmament (5)
  
  Human shields (5)
  
  Desacration of corpses (4)
  
  Artillery fire (3)
  
  Deportation/Exile (3)
  
  Displacement (2)
  
  Collectivization (1)
Place
- Concentration camp (72)
  
  Prison (56)
  
  Police headquarters/station (30)
  
  Extermination camp (26)
  
  Ghetto (25)
  
  Labor camp (20)
  
  Forced labor (10)
  
  Transit camp (9)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (1)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (1)
  
  Sewers (1)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (1)
Content
- Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (58)
  
  Extermination of Jews (57)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (37)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (29)
  
  Health service (24)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (20)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (19)
  
  obliterating the traces (18)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (9)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (9)
  
  Central Welfare Council (7)
  
  Rescue of Jews (7)
  
  Underground media (7)
  
  Civil resistance (6)
  
  Polish Underground State (6)
  
  Wola Massacre (6)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (5)
  
  Underground courts (5)
  
  Aktion Zamość (4)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (4)
  
  Field health service (3)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (3)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (3)
  
  Underground culture and education (3)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (3)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (2)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (2)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (2)
  
  Obliterating the traces (2)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (2)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (1)
  
  Judenrat (1)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (1)
  
  Verbrennungskommando (1)
  
  the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
Object type
- Testimony (193)
  
  Account (4)
  
  Brief (3)
  
  Photograph (1)
  
  Press clipping (1)
  
  Report (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (65)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (51)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (51)
  
  District Court in Radom (16)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (15)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (5)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (1)