„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)
- Anonim (7)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (2)
  
  Bednarz Marian (2)
  
  Bochenek Marta; 19.09.1892 (2)
  
  Dąbkowski (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)
  
  Rabiej Ryszard (2)
  
  Stuhr Oskar Tadeusz; 08.10.1891, Kraków (2)
  
  Wilczewski Władysław; 21.02.1892 (2)
  
  Zapała Stanisław, 14.11.1902, Brynica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Żyłowski Jan; 15.03.1904, Rabędy (2)
  
  Adamczyk Jan; 1901? (1)
  
  Adamska Halina; 27.02.1903 (1)
  
  Adamuś Zygmunt (1)
  
  Adwent Stefan; 1925? (1)
  
  Andrzejewski W. (1)
  
  Arnold Stanisław; 20.12.1895, Dąbrowa Górnicza (1)
  
  Bader Henryk; 15.04.1920, Oświęcim (1)
  
  Bajerowicz Janina (1)
  
  Banasik Andrzej; 1926? (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 31.07.1899, Wymysłów (1)
  
  Barański Jan; 1926? (1)
  
  Bech Leon; 24.03.1989, Wola (1)
  
  Bednarska Halina (1)
  
  Bednarska Władysława (1)
  
  Bernat Stanisław; 23.04.1905 (1)
  
  Bernatowicz Helena (1)
  
  Bida Antoni; 08.04.1897, Ostrów Krupski (1)
  
  Bida Władysław; 1886? (1)
  
  Biskup Stanisław; 1911? (1)
  
  Biskup Władysław; 1927? (1)
  
  Biskupska Jadwiga (1)
  
  Biskupska Krystyna (1)
  
  Blumenthal Nachman; 1901? (1)
  
  Bobkiewicz Andrzej; 28.08.1928, Zakrzówek (1)
  
  Bobowski Leszek; 1910? (1)
  
  Bodych Jadwiga Urszula; 19.09.1906, Żyrardów (1)
  
  Boguszewska Jadwiga (1)
  
  Bogusławski Romuald; 13.01.1928, Suwałki (1)
  
  Bonalski Antoni; 1889? (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: Český Těšín, Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Branny Paweł; 13.05.1888, Żuków Dolny (Český Těšín, Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Brewda Alina; 14.06.1905, Warsaw (1)
  
  Bronicki Florian; 07.12.1907, Inowrocław (1)
  
  Bronicki Florian; 1907, Inowrocław (1)
  
  Brunarska Zofia; 27.05.1923 (1)
  
  Brzeziński Kazimierz; 22.08.1909, Kielce (1)
  
  Brzozowski Jan; 20.05.1891 (1)
  
  Brzozowski Jan; 20.05.1892 (1)
  
  Bublik Józef; 1881? (1)
  
  Bucior Zygmunt (1)
  
  Budkiewicz Edmund; 16.11.1922, Szczawnica (1)
  
  Bujko Wiktor (1)
  
  Burak Stanisław; 1905? (1)
  
  Bury Adam; 26.11.1931, Zwierzyniec (1)
  
  Bytow Alina (1)
  
  Błasiak Eulalia; 04.12.1927, Włocławek (1)
  
  Błaut Sławomir; 17.12.1930, Lublin (1)
  
  Cajmer Cecylia; 18.01.1919, Jezierna (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Celler Ewa; 04.01.1895 (1)
  
  Chalawa Stanisław; 24.11.1928, Siedlce (1)
  
  Cheda Władysław (1)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Chmielewska Danuta (1)
  
  Chomiczewska Stanisława (1)
  
  Chrościcki Julian; 26.05.1892, Szymony (1)
  
  Ciepichał Janusz (1)
  
  Cieplewski Janusz (1)
  
  Cieplicka Gabriela (1)
  
  Cieplicka Teresa (1)
  
  Cudna Apolonia (1)
  
  Czaja Tadeusz (1)
  
  Czajkowski J. (1)
  
  Czapla Władysław; 1901? (1)
  
  Czaplińska Teresa (1)
  
  Czarnecka Maria (1)
  
  Czarnecka Teresa (1)
  
  Czepel Zbigniew (1)
  
  Daniec Barbara (1)
  
  Deja Jan; 1902? (1)
  
  Derek Wiesława (1)
  
  Derlatka Daniel (1)
  
  Derwiński Franciszek; 1909? (1)
  
  Detka Alfred (1)
  
  Dobosz Józefa (1)
  
  Dobroczek Wacław; 20.11.1918, Brzezin (1)
  
  Domasik Stanisław; 1884, Witkowice (Oświęcim county) (1)
  
  Domżalska Alina (1)
  
  Dotkiewicz Teresa (1)
  
  Drozd Krystyna (1)
  
  Dubrawka Piotr (1)
  
  Durnaś Stanisław; 1891? (1)
Subject
- The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (95)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (93)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (71)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (26)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (26)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (21)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (19)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (18)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (18)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (16)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (13)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Lublin region (10)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (9)
  
  The city condemned to death (9)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Warsaw (8)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (8)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (8)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (8)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (8)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (7)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (6)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (6)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (5)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (5)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (4)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (4)
  
  Radom – daily terror (4)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Łódź region (3)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (3)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (3)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (3)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (3)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (3)
  
  Pruszków – the town of the displaced (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (3)
  
  The Polish Righteous Among the Nations (3)
  
  The persecuted church (3)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (3)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Polesie region (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Stutthof (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (2)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (2)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (2)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (2)
  
  The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews (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)
  
  Clandestine teaching classes – the Kielce region (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Kraków (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Lesser Poland (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Podlasie (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Częstochowa region (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Kujawy region (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Wilno region (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Mazovia (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Warsaw (1)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (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)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (1)
  
  In exile – Far East (1)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages (1)
  
  Michniów – the extermination of the Polish countryside (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Volhynia (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Częstochowa region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Tarnopol region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Łódź region (1)
  
  Poles who saved Jews in Lwów (1)
  
  Prisoners of war – transit camps in Kielce (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)
  
  Taken Captive (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (1)
  
  The Polish diplomacy and its bid to help Jews (1)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (1)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Świętokrzyskie region (1)
  
  Wyszków – daily terror (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Warsaw (54)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (53)
  
  Siedlce (31)
  
  Kielce (30)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (30)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (28)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (22)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (17)
  
  Lublin (17)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (16)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (16)
  
  Radom (15)
  
  Starachowice (15)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (15)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) (15)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (14)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (13)
  
  Dąbrowa (Kielce) (12)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (12)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (12)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (11)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (11)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (11)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (10)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (10)
  
  Częstochowa (9)
  
  KL Majdanek (9)
  
  Brzeźnica (Kozienice district) (8)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (8)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (8)
  
  Opatów, Słowackiego Street 1 (8)
  
  Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (8)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka (8)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (8)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (8)
  
  Busko-Zdrój (7)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (7)
  
  KL Plaszow (7)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (7)
  
  Warsaw, Dulag, Skaryszewska Street 8 (7)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (7)
  
  Bydgoszcz (6)
  
  Garbatka (Garbatka-Letnisko) (6)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (6)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (6)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (6)
  
  Kraków (6)
  
  Opatów (6)
  
  Opatów, Cememtery, Cmentarna Street (6)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (6)
  
  Staszów (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship) (6)
  
  Staszów (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (6)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (6)
  
  Warsaw, Marszałkowska Street (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)
  
  Iłża (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (5)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (5)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (5)
  
  KL Stutthof (5)
  
  Kielce, St. Adalbert's Church, Św. Wojciecha Square 9 (5)
  
  Masłów Pierwszy (5)
  
  Poznań (5)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship), ghetto (5)
  
  Łączna (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship) (5)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (4)
  
  Bełżec, German extermination camp (4)
  
  Biała Podlaska (4)
  
  Bochnia, train station (4)
  
  Brody (Starachowice district) (4)
  
  German extermination camp of Sobibór (4)
  
  Grodzisk Mazowiecki (4)
  
  Grądziki (mazowieckie voivodeship) (4)
  
  Jeziorko (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship) (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (4)
  
  Karolin (Zwoleń district) (4)
  
  Laskowa (Kostomłoty Drugie, district of Kielce) (4)
  
  Leokadiów (4)
  
  Marcule (4)
  
  Michniów (4)
  
  Piekoszów (4)
  
  Puławy (4)
  
  Radom, Gestapo headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (4)
  
  Radom, prison (benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (4)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  Sandomierz (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)
  
  Wierzbnik (Starachowice) (4)
  
  Wrocław (4)
  
  Łuków (lubelskie voivodeship) (4)
  
  Białystok (3)
  
  Bugaj (district of Kielce) (3)
  
  Bór Kunowski (3)
Victims
- The Poles (496)
  
  The Civilian Population (492)
  
  Children (283)
  
  Women (181)
  
  The Jews (140)
  
  The Inteligentsia (93)
  
  The Elderly (56)
  
  The Sick (52)
  
  Russians/Soviets (31)
  
  The Russians (30)
  
  The Church (29)
  
  Prisoners of War (27)
  
  Germans (17)
  
  The French (13)
  
  Czechs (10)
  
  Ukrainians (10)
  
  The Communists (9)
  
  Greeks (8)
  
  Slovaks (8)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (8)
  
  Hungarians (7)
  
  The Disabled (7)
  
  Belgians (6)
  
  Deportees (6)
  
  The Dutch (6)
  
  Italians (4)
  
  Policemen (4)
  
  The British (3)
  
  Americans (2)
  
  Belarusians (2)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (2)
  
  Landowners (2)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (2)
  
  Romanians (2)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Norwegians (1)
  
  Serbs (1)
Perpetrators
- Military Police (107)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (88)
  
  SS (71)
  
  Collaboration (44)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (31)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (30)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (27)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (24)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (17)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (12)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (9)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (8)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (8)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (6)
  
  Soviet Militia (6)
  
  Latvians (5)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (5)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (5)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (5)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (4)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (4)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (2)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (2)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (2)
  
  Waffen-SS (2)
  
  Assault Units (Sturmabteilung, SA) (1)
  
  Denunciation (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  Red Army (1)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (1)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Round-up (522)
  
  Execution (265)
  
  Arrest (241)
  
  Shooting (241)
  
  Deportation (240)
  
  Forced Labour (225)
  
  Beatings (158)
  
  Biological extermination (104)
  
  Brutal Interrogation/Tortures (95)
  
  Robbery (90)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (88)
  
  Denationalization (86)
  
  Expulsion (74)
  
  Economic exploitation (73)
  
  Hanging (46)
  
  Cremation (44)
  
  Burning people alive (40)
  
  Administrative persecution (37)
  
  Air raids (37)
  
  Mass graves (35)
  
  Gas chambers (33)
  
  Racial policy (33)
  
  Cattle wagons (25)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (22)
  
  Judicial crime (19)
  
  Medical experiments (17)
  
  Artillery fire (15)
  
  "Dosing" (12)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (12)
  
  Deportation/Exile (9)
  
  Germanization (9)
  
  Death marches (6)
  
  Desacration of corpses (5)
  
  Punishment cell (5)
  
  Rape (4)
  
  Armoured Weapon (2)
  
  Forced voting (2)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (2)
  
  Sovietization (2)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (1)
  
  Roads of death (1)
  
  Ukrainianization (1)
Place
- Forced labor (137)
  
  Concentration camp (85)
  
  Prison (69)
  
  Ghetto (44)
  
  Extermination camp (41)
  
  Labor camp (36)
  
  Police headquarters/station (34)
  
  Transit camp (29)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (5)
  
  Kolkhoz (4)
  
  NKVD custody suite (4)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (3)
  
  Mine (2)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (2)
  
  Sovkhoz (2)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (1)
  
  Center for the Germanization of children (1)
  
  Sewers (1)
Content
- Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (157)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (129)
  
  Extermination of Jews (65)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (37)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (36)
  
  Rescue of Jews (35)
  
  Health service (26)
  
  Civil resistance (23)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (21)
  
  Obliterating the traces (16)
  
  obliterating the traces (15)
  
  Underground media (13)
  
  Central Welfare Council (12)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (11)
  
  Polish Underground State (10)
  
  Aktion Zamość (8)
  
  Underground courts (8)
  
  Underground culture and education (7)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (6)
  
  Epidemics (6)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (6)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (6)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (6)
  
  Amnesty (5)
  
  Judenrat (5)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (5)
  
  Clandestine courses (4)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (4)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (4)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (4)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (4)
  
  Anders' Army (3)
  
  Polish culture in exile (3)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (3)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (3)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (3)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (2)
  
  Wola Massacre (2)
  
  Communist propaganda (1)
  
  Field health service (1)
  
  First deportation (1)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (1)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (1)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (1)
  
  the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (249)
  
  Account (20)
  
  Brief (14)
  
  Statement (2)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (2)
  
  Book excerpt (1)
  
  Exhumation report (1)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Ministry of Education in Warsaw (201)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (133)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (63)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (40)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (25)
  
  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 (17)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (5)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation – Institute of National Remembrance in Białystok (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Warsaw (2)
  
  District Court in Łomża 1945–1950 (2)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (1)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (1)
  
  Voivodeship Court in Łódź (1)
Testimony availability ^?
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  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (56)