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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Bazylewska Ludwika (2)
  
  Bochenek Marta; 19.09.1892 (2)
  
  Bronicki Florian; 1907, Inowrocław (2)
  
  Kowalczyk Janina; 10.03.1907, Golkowice (2)
  
  Listkiewicz Ludwik; 1889? (2)
  
  Makowska Janina; 26.11.1906 (2)
  
  Przybyliński Adam; 04.01.1896, Płock (2)
  
  Stuhr Oskar Tadeusz; 08.10.1891, Kraków (2)
  
  Wilczewski Władysław; 21.02.1892 (2)
  
  Zapała Stanisław, 14.11.1902, Brynica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Adamczyk Jan; 1901? (1)
  
  Adamska Halina; 27.02.1903 (1)
  
  Adwent Stefan; 1925? (1)
  
  Arnold Stanisław; 20.12.1895, Dąbrowa Górnicza (1)
  
  Aronson Stanisław; 06.05.1925, Warsaw (1)
  
  Aronson Stanisław; 06.05.1925, Warszawa (1)
  
  Bader Henryk; 15.04.1920, Oświęcim (1)
  
  Bajerowicz Janina (1)
  
  Banasik Andrzej; 1926? (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899?, Brynica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Barański Jan; 1926? (1)
  
  Bech Leon 1898? (1)
  
  Bech Leon; 1898? (1)
  
  Bernat Stanisław; 23.04.1905 (1)
  
  Bida Antoni; 08.04.1897, Ostrów Krupski (1)
  
  Biskup Stanisław; 1911? (1)
  
  Biskup Władysław; 1927? (1)
  
  Bobowski Leszek; 1910? (1)
  
  Bodych Jadwiga Urszula; 19.09.1906, Żyrardów (1)
  
  Borkowski Bolesław; 1890? (1)
  
  Boroń Jan; 1898? (1)
  
  Borto Stefan; 1912? (1)
  
  Borzuchowski Leon; 11.04.1912, Warsaw (1)
  
  Borzykowski Tuwia (Tadeusz); 1911 (1)
  
  Branny Paweł; 13.05.1888, Żuków Dolny (now Czech Teschen, the Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Branny Paweł; 13.05.1888, Żuków Dolny (now: Český Těšín, Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Branny Paweł; 13.05.1888, Żuków Dolny (Český Těšín, Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Brewda Alina; 13.06.1905, Warsaw (1)
  
  Brewda Alina; 14.06.1905, Warsaw (1)
  
  Brodzik Janina; 24.08.1906, Żabików (1)
  
  Brzeziński Kazimierz; 22.08.1909, Kielce (1)
  
  Bublik Józef; 1881? (1)
  
  Bujko Wiktor (1)
  
  Burak Stanisław; 1905? (1)
  
  Cajmer Cecylia; 18.01.1919, Jezierna (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Celler Ewa; 04.01.1895 (1)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Chmielewska Helena; 30.08.1914, Wyszków (Wyszków county) (1)
  
  Chrościcki Julian; 26.05.1892, Szymony (1)
  
  Czapla Władysław; 1901? (1)
  
  Deja Jan; 1902? (1)
  
  Derwiński Franciszek; 1909? (1)
  
  Dobroczek Wacław; 1919? (1)
  
  Durnaś Stanisław; 1891? (1)
  
  Dzik Adam; 1910? (1)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (1)
  
  Dziuba Jan; 1909? (1)
  
  Dziuba Wacław; 20.03.1923, Dębno (Nowa Słupia district) (1)
  
  Flak Zofia; 16.07.1916 (1)
  
  Frankowski Stanisław; 04.01.1911, Drużkowna (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Gajewicz Jakub; 1904? (1)
  
  Gajewski Dionizy; 21.10.1904 (1)
  
  Garas Józef; 1899? (1)
  
  Garwin vel Garfinkiel Mieczysław; 11.05.1898, Zamość (1)
  
  Gałek Alojzy Józef; 1903? (1)
  
  Gil Piotr; 1897? (1)
  
  Golian Konrad; 22.11.1903, Badów Górny (1)
  
  Grabiński Marcin; 08.11.1888 (1)
  
  Grabowska Anna; 17.05.1889 (1)
  
  Gryciuk Michalina; 12.09.1897 (1)
  
  Górecki Ludwik; 25.08.1901, Ćmińsk (1)
  
  Górska Zofia; 13.05.1899, Ostrów Mazowiecka (1)
  
  Górski Antoni Stanisław; 18.08.1914, Warsaw (1)
  
  Góźdź Jan; 11.04.1925, Dębno (Nowa Słupia district) (1)
  
  Głaz Antoni; 17.01.1920, Zawichost (1)
  
  Głażewski Kazimierz; 17.09.1911, Warsaw (1)
  
  Głażewski Kazimierz; 1911, Warsaw (1)
  
  Handzel Jan; 20.04.1906, Wincentów (Kielce county) (1)
  
  Handzel Jan; 20.04.1906, Wincentów (kielecki district) (1)
  
  Helman Bolesław; 1890? (1)
  
  Herbich Kazimierz; 29.03.1894 (1)
  
  Holender Adam (1)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (1)
  
  Jakubowski Stanisław; 1886?, Pniewy (1)
  
  Janowski Józef (1)
  
  Janus Anna; 23.04.1920, Wincentów (Kielce county) (1)
  
  Jastrzębski Stanisław; 02.04.1901, Ostrów Mazowiecka (1)
  
  Jaworski Seweryn Stanisław; 17.12.1898, Warsaw (1)
  
  Jaworski Stanisław; 1898 (1)
  
  Jurecka Waleria; 1919? (1)
  
  Józef Majdak; 1899? (1)
  
  Kacperska Franciszka; 1892? (1)
  
  Kacperski Stanisław; 22.03.1913 (1)
  
  Kaczmarski Władysław, 06.12.1903, Krzeszowice (1)
  
  Kalata Mieczysław; 12.09.1905, Warsaw (1)
  
  Kania Jan; 1913? (1)
  
  Kasiński Władysław; 1904? (1)
  
  Kaszyński Jan; 19.11.1920, Warsaw (1)
  
  Kawecki Jerzy; 1913? (1)
  
  Kempisty Józef; 18.03.1899, Ostrów Mazowiecka (1)
Subject
- The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (95)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (26)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (16)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (14)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (13)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (13)
  
  The Ostrów forests – mass executions (9)
  
  The city condemned to death (9)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (8)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (8)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (6)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (6)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (6)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (6)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (5)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (4)
  
  Radom – daily terror (4)
  
  Browar, Czerwoniak – the Ostrów death blocks (3)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (3)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (3)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (3)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Stutthof (2)
  
  Resistance, documentation, solidarity – the underground activity at Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (2)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Radom region (2)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  Warsaw '44 – uprising in Praga (2)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (2)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (2)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Częstochowa region (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Radom region (1)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Stopnica Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Zamość Ghetto (1)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (1)
  
  Pruszków – the town of the displaced (1)
  
  Radom bathed in blood – the prison in the former convent buildings (1)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (1)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (1)
  
  The persecuted church (1)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Świętokrzyskie region (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (36)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (26)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (20)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (20)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (20)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (16)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (16)
  
  Warsaw (16)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (15)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (13)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (13)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) (13)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (12)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (11)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (11)
  
  Guty-Bujno, execution site (10)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (10)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (9)
  
  KL Majdanek (9)
  
  Brzeźnica (Kozienice district) (8)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (8)
  
  Opatów, Słowackiego Street 1 (8)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (8)
  
  Busko-Zdrój (7)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (7)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (7)
  
  Bydgoszcz (6)
  
  Garbatka (Garbatka-Letnisko) (6)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (6)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (6)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (6)
  
  Opatów, Cememtery, Cmentarna Street (6)
  
  Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (6)
  
  Radom (6)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (6)
  
  Staszów (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship) (6)
  
  Staszów (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (6)
  
  Warsaw, Dulag, Skaryszewska Street 8 (6)
  
  Brynica (district of Kielce) (5)
  
  Dębno (commune of Nowa Słupia), Cemetery (5)
  
  Dębno (commune of Nowa Słupia), St. Michael's Church, Dębno 49 (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (5)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (5)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (5)
  
  Kielce (5)
  
  Kraków (5)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (5)
  
  Lublin (5)
  
  Opatów (5)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (5)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (5)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship), ghetto (5)
  
  Bełżec, German extermination camp (4)
  
  Bochnia, train station (4)
  
  Częstochowa (4)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (4)
  
  Jeziorko (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship) (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (4)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (4)
  
  KL Stutthof (4)
  
  Karolin (Zwoleń district) (4)
  
  Laskowa (Kostomłoty Drugie, district of Kielce) (4)
  
  Leokadiów (4)
  
  Marcule (4)
  
  Radom, Gestapo Headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (4)
  
  Radom, Gestapo headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (4)
  
  Radom, prison (benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (4)
  
  Radzymin (4)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  Skadla (4)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  Słupia, forced labor camp (4)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (4)
  
  Warsaw, Marszałkowska Street (4)
  
  Łączna (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship) (4)
  
  Bugaj (district of Kielce) (3)
  
  Bór Kunowski (3)
  
  Chmielnik (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Chroberz (3)
  
  Częstochowa, forced labor camp "Hasag Pelcery", 1 Maja Street (Filomatów Street 14) (3)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (3)
  
  Iwaniska (3)
  
  Jurków (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (3)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (3)
  
  Kozienice (3)
  
  Magnuszew (Kozienice district) (3)
  
  Majdanek, German extermination camp (3)
  
  Milanowska Wólka (3)
  
  Nowa Słupia (3)
  
  Opatów, Agricultural and Trading Cooperative, Ćmielowska Street (3)
  
  Osuchowskie Woods (3)
  
  Piekoszów (3)
  
  Pińczów, prison, 3-go Maja Street (3)
  
  Popielarnia (Ostrów Mazowiecka district) (3)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (3)
Victims
- The Poles (255)
  
  The Civilian Population (245)
  
  Women (104)
  
  The Jews (84)
  
  Children (55)
  
  The Inteligentsia (44)
  
  The Elderly (40)
  
  The Sick (35)
  
  The Russians (23)
  
  Prisoners of War (16)
  
  The Church (16)
  
  Germans (15)
  
  The French (11)
  
  Czechs (10)
  
  Greeks (8)
  
  Slovaks (8)
  
  The Communists (8)
  
  Hungarians (7)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (7)
  
  Belgians (6)
  
  The Disabled (6)
  
  The Dutch (6)
  
  Italians (4)
  
  Ukrainians (4)
  
  The British (3)
  
  Americans (2)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (2)
  
  Romanians (2)
  
  Belarusians (1)
  
  Deportees (1)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (1)
  
  Landowners (1)
  
  Norwegians (1)
  
  Policemen (1)
  
  Serbs (1)
Perpetrators
- Military Police (116)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (88)
  
  SS (58)
  
  Collaboration (30)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (27)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (27)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (27)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (23)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (17)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (8)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (7)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (7)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (5)
  
  Latvians (4)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (4)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (3)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (3)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (3)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (2)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (2)
  
  Waffen-SS (2)
  
  Assault Units (Sturmabteilung, SA) (1)
  
  Denunciation (1)
  
  Soviet Militia (1)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (1)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Round-up (272)
  
  Execution (175)
  
  Shooting (167)
  
  Arrest (133)
  
  Forced Labour (110)
  
  Beatings (109)
  
  Deportation (109)
  
  Brutal Interrogation/Tortures (57)
  
  Robbery (54)
  
  Biological extermination (51)
  
  Economic exploitation (41)
  
  Expulsion (33)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (31)
  
  Administrative persecution (27)
  
  Racial policy (25)
  
  Gas chambers (21)
  
  Cremation (20)
  
  Hanging (19)
  
  Mass graves (18)
  
  Burning people alive (17)
  
  Medical experiments (17)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (17)
  
  Cattle wagons (12)
  
  Judicial crime (12)
  
  "Dosing" (11)
  
  Death marches (6)
  
  Deportation/Exile (6)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (5)
  
  Air raids (4)
  
  Germanization (4)
  
  Punishment cell (4)
  
  Artillery fire (3)
  
  Desacration of corpses (2)
  
  Rape (2)
  
  Armoured Weapon (1)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (1)
  
  Roads of death (1)
  
  Sovietization (1)
Place
- Concentration camp (79)
  
  Prison (55)
  
  Forced labor (46)
  
  Ghetto (31)
  
  Police headquarters/station (30)
  
  Extermination camp (28)
  
  Labor camp (24)
  
  Transit camp (22)
  
  Kolkhoz (3)
  
  Sovkhoz (2)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (1)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (1)
  
  Sewers (1)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (1)
Content
- Pacification of rural areas (98)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (95)
  
  Extermination of Jews (54)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (37)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (15)
  
  Health service (14)
  
  obliterating the traces (14)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (12)
  
  Underground media (10)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (9)
  
  Central Welfare Council (8)
  
  Civil resistance (8)
  
  Aktion Zamość (7)
  
  Rescue of Jews (7)
  
  Polish Underground State (6)
  
  Underground courts (6)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (5)
  
  Clandestine courses (5)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (4)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (4)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (4)
  
  Amnesty (3)
  
  Anders' Army (3)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (3)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (3)
  
  Judenrat (3)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (3)
  
  Epidemics (2)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (2)
  
  Underground culture and education (2)
  
  Wola Massacre (2)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (2)
  
  Communist propaganda (1)
  
  Field health service (1)
  
  First deportation (1)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (1)
  
  Polish culture in exile (1)
Object type
- Testimony (234)
  
  Account (10)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (133)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (56)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (40)
  
  District Court in Radom (20)
  
  Independent Historical Office of the Command of the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union/Documentation Office of the Polish Army in the East (6)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (5)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (4)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (1)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (1)
  
  Voivodeship Court in Łódź (1)