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

Main Page Indexes Crimes Desacration of corpses

Witness (date and place of birth)
- Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (3)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (2)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (2)
  
  Mandelbaum Henryk; 15.12.1922, Olkusz (2)
  
  Nagraba Ludwik; 19.08.1910, Kraków (2)
  
  Nagraba Ludwik; 19.08.1911 (2)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Rumunia) (2)
  
  Bartoszko Kazimierz; 09.10.1898 (1)
  
  Bednarz Antoni; 1893? (1)
  
  Bicz Bolesław; 01.04.1889, Sporysz (Bielsk county) (1)
  
  Bicz Bolesław; 01.04.1889, Sporysz (Bielsk district) (1)
  
  Blum Albert; 1918? (1)
  
  Borger Ludwik; 1915? (1)
  
  Bronfeld Bolesław; 03.11.1913, Lublin (1)
  
  Błotnicki Edward; 08.04.1888, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Błotnicki Edward; 08.04.1888, Lwów (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Cera Stanisław (1)
  
  Cieślik-Ciesielska Romualda; 07.02.1908, Grabiny (1)
  
  Cyganik Antoni; 27.03.1909, Chrzanów (1)
  
  Czerwińska Zofia; 20.09.1903, Dąbrowa Górnicza (1)
  
  Drabek Jaroslav; 06.04.1901, Chrudim (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Dragon Szlama; 19.03.1920, Żuromin (1)
  
  Dybus Marian; 13.08.1921, Bochnia (1)
  
  Dybus Marian; 13.08.1922 (1)
  
  Dąbrowski Piotr; 1895 (1)
  
  Fiderkiewicz Alfred; 02.07.1886, Horodenka (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Fiderkiewicz Alfred; 2.07.1886, Horodenka (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Filipowicz Teodor; 1891? (1)
  
  Foltynova Vera; 1919? (1)
  
  Frączek Kazimierz; 15.12.1914, Tarnów (1)
  
  Gansiwiec Henryk; 1902? (1)
  
  Gelbkron Moszek (Maciejuk Józef); 1903? (1)
  
  Gincza Bogusław; 1925? (1)
  
  Glazrot Szyja (1)
  
  Gorzkowicz Tadeusz; 06.11.1918, Borysław (now in Ukraina) (1)
  
  Grabowski Kazimierz; 03.04.1909 (1)
  
  Grabowski Kazimierz; 03.04.1909, Płock (1)
  
  Głowacki Czesław; 1921? (1)
  
  Hanuszek Tadeusz; 11.07.1922, Kraków (1)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 13.11.1916, Kraków (1)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (1)
  
  Jackiewicz Regina; 19.06.1921, Iłowo (1)
  
  Jastrzębski Jan (1)
  
  Jeleń Piotr; 15.01.1921, Kraków (1)
  
  Jeleń Piotr; 1919? (1)
  
  Juralewicz Marian; 1913? (1)
  
  Kamińska Helena (1)
  
  Kaszyński Jan; 19.11.1920, Warsaw (1)
  
  Kisiel Józef; 1905? (1)
  
  Kisiel Mieczysław; 1912? (1)
  
  Klim Jan (1)
  
  Kordek Ryszard; 18.0.04.1921, Ząbkowice (1)
  
  Kordek Ryszard; 1921? (1)
  
  Kowalik Irena (1)
  
  Kula Michał; 1913? (1)
  
  Langbein Hermann; 18.05.1912, Vienna (Austria) (1)
  
  Langbein Hermann; 18.05.1912, Wiedeń (Austria) (1)
  
  Lasok Aniela; 1922? (1)
  
  Lechowski Maksymilian; 1900? (1)
  
  Malawer Bronisława; 1908? (1)
  
  Müller Filip; 1921? (1)
  
  Olbrycht Jan; 06.05.1886, Zachutyń (1)
  
  Olbrycht Jan; 06.05.1886, Zahutyń (1)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (1)
  
  Pająk Wilibald; 15.12.1922, Katowice (1)
  
  Pałasiński Zdzisław; 15.08.1921 (1)
  
  Piotrak Franciszek, 1896 (1)
  
  Pleszczyńska Eugenia; 1901?, Zaosie (1)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 1911? (1)
  
  Pozimski Jerzy; 05.05.1913, Szarlej (Piekary Śląskie) (1)
  
  Pozimski Jerzy; 05.05.1915, Piekary Śląskie (1)
  
  Rychlik Czesław; 01.06.1909, Wąwoźnica (1)
  
  Sarkowski Feliks (1)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć county) (1)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć district) (1)
  
  Sperber Karel; 1910, Tachov (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Stapf Adam; 01.08.1907, Tarnów (1)
  
  Stapf Adam; 1907? (1)
  
  Staruch Jan; 1897? (1)
  
  Suliborski Stanisław; 13.03.1911, Pińsk (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Sulima Jan (1)
  
  Szafrański Zygmunt; 1913? (1)
  
  Szczepan Józef; 1908? (1)
  
  Szmaglewska Seweryna; 11.02.1916, Przygłów (1)
  
  Szuszkiewicz Roman; 1907? (1)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Zielenkiewicz Aleksander; 1893? (1)
  
  Ścisło Józef; 20.01.1909, Strzyżowice (śląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Świetlicki Stefan (1)
  
  Żurad Stanisław; 15.04.1933, Wiercany (1)
Subject
- Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (18)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (7)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (6)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (6)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (5)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (4)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (4)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (4)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (3)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (2)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (2)
  
  Browar, Czerwoniak – the Ostrów death blocks (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (1)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (1)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (1)
  
  Lebensborn – the Germanization of Polish children (1)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Neuengamme (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (1)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Soviets in German captivity (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (41)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (39)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (39)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (39)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (30)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (26)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (20)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (16)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (16)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (13)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (10)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (10)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (9)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (8)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (7)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (7)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (7)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (6)
  
  KL Majdanek (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (5)
  
  Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (4)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (4)
  
  Rajsko, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (4)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (4)
  
  Bochnia, train station (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (3)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (3)
  
  KL Plaszow (3)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (3)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (3)
  
  Skniłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (3)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (3)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (3)
  
  Bydgoszcz (2)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (2)
  
  Jawiszowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (2)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (2)
  
  KL Mittelbau-Dora (Germany) (2)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Kraków, Marshal Józef Piłsudski Retreat of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers, Łobzowska Street 3 (2)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (2)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Pustków, forced labor camp (2)
  
  Radom, Gestapo Headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (2)
  
  Radom, Gestapo headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (2)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (2)
  
  Sosnowiec (Śląskie Voivodeship) (2)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Vienna (Austria) (2)
  
  Warsaw (2)
  
  Łódź (2)
  
  Asino (Russia, Tomsk Oblast) (1)
  
  Babin (now in Ukraine, Rivne Oblast), POW forced labor camp (1)
  
  Barysaw (Belarus) (1)
  
  Bay of Lübeck (Germany) (1)
  
  Belfort (France), prison (1)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (1)
  
  Borowiczki (Płock) (1)
  
  Borysów (Belarus) (1)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (1)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
  
  Budziszewice (łódzkie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Busk (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (1)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (1)
  
  Będzin (1)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (1)
  
  Chlewiska (Szydłowiec district) (1)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (1)
  
  Ciepielów Górki (Stary Ciepielów) (1)
  
  Czajków (Staszów district) (1)
  
  Czyżew, train station (1)
  
  Dresden (Germany) (1)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (1)
  
  Firlej (Radom) (1)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (1)
  
  Goleszów, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
  
  Grodzisk Mazowiecki (1)
  
  Góra Puławska (1)
  
  Harmęże, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
  
  Huta (Radoszyce commune) (1)
  
  Iłowo (1)
  
  Iłowo-Osada (subcamp of KL Soldau transit camp), Szkolna Street (Leśna Street) (1)
  
  Jaworzno, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Lagerhaus (1)
  
  KL Fort VII Posen (1)
  
  KL Melk (Austria) (1)
  
  KL Neuengamme (Germany) (1)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (1)
  
  KL Stutthof (1)
  
  KL Treblinka (1)
  
  Karakub (Kalmiuske, Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (1)
Victims
- The Poles (75)
  
  The Civilian Population (74)
  
  Women (52)
  
  The Jews (48)
  
  The Sick (37)
  
  Children (36)
  
  The Inteligentsia (29)
  
  The Russians (29)
  
  Prisoners of War (22)
  
  The Elderly (20)
  
  Hungarians (18)
  
  Germans (17)
  
  Czechs (15)
  
  The French (15)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (12)
  
  The Communists (9)
  
  Greeks (8)
  
  The Church (8)
  
  The Disabled (8)
  
  The Dutch (8)
  
  Slovaks (7)
  
  Americans (5)
  
  The British (5)
  
  Ukrainians (5)
  
  Belgians (4)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (3)
  
  Latvians (3)
  
  Lithuanians (3)
  
  Belarusians (2)
  
  Deportees (2)
  
  Italians (2)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (2)
  
  Policemen (2)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (2)
  
  Landowners (1)
  
  Norwegians (1)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (47)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (23)
  
  Collaboration (14)
  
  Military Police (5)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (5)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (4)
  
  Red Army (3)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (3)
  
  Denunciation (2)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (2)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (2)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (2)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Postal Protection (1)
  
  Soviet Militia (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (1)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (1)
  
  Waffen-SS (1)
Crimes
- Desacration of corpses (80)
  
  Execution (63)
  
  Forced Labour (61)
  
  Beatings (54)
  
  Brutal Interrogation/Tortures (50)
  
  Shooting (50)
  
  Biological extermination (48)
  
  Cremation (44)
  
  Gas chambers (42)
  
  Arrest (33)
  
  Deportation (28)
  
  Robbery (27)
  
  Mass graves (26)
  
  Hanging (25)
  
  Cattle wagons (19)
  
  Medical experiments (19)
  
  Judicial crime (12)
  
  Racial policy (12)
  
  "Dosing" (11)
  
  Burning people alive (10)
  
  Deportation/Exile (10)
  
  Economic exploitation (9)
  
  Expulsion (5)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (5)
  
  Death marches (4)
  
  Disarmament (4)
  
  Roads of death (4)
  
  Administrative persecution (3)
  
  Germanization (3)
  
  Punishment cell (3)
  
  Round-up (3)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (2)
  
  Air raids (1)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (1)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (1)
  
  Rape (1)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (1)
Place
- Concentration camp (53)
  
  Extermination camp (39)
  
  Prison (18)
  
  Labor camp (7)
  
  Police headquarters/station (7)
  
  Transit camp (6)
  
  Forced labor (4)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (4)
  
  NKVD custody suite (4)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (3)
  
  Ghetto (3)
  
  Kolkhoz (3)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (3)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (2)
  
  Mine (1)
Content
- Extermination of Jews (37)
  
  obliterating the traces (24)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (21)
  
  Health service (19)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (9)
  
  Civil resistance (8)
  
  Aktion Zamość (6)
  
  Amnesty (6)
  
  Anders' Army (6)
  
  Epidemics (5)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (5)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (4)
  
  Underground media (4)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (3)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (3)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (2)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (2)
  
  Communist propaganda (2)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (2)
  
  Rescue of Jews (2)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (2)
  
  First deportation (1)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (1)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (1)
  
  Obliterating the traces (1)
  
  Polish Underground State (1)
  
  Polish culture in exile (1)
  
  Third deportation (1)
  
  Underground courts (1)
Object type
- Testimony from judicial/criminal proceedings (63)
  
  Account (5)
  
  Brief (2)
  
  Press clipping (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Supreme National Tribunal (52)
  
  Independent Historical Office of the Command of the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union/Documentation Office of the Polish Army in the East (12)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (3)
  
  District Court in Radom (3)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (1)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (1)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (74)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (6)