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

Main Page Indexes Crimes The hate campaigns\/propaganda

Witness (date and place of birth)
- Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 04.05.1918, Kraków (2)
  
  Lorentz Stanisław; 28.04.1899, Radom (2)
  
  Bałut Tadeusz; 14.08.1921, Żywiec (1)
  
  Biega Eugenia; 1906 (1)
  
  Blumenthal Nachman; 1901? (1)
  
  Bojm Mojżesz; 1902? (1)
  
  Bojm Mojżesz; 1903? (1)
  
  Brandt Janusz (1)
  
  Bresler Jerzy (1)
  
  Bąbińska (Dobrowolska-Jasiuk) Bogumiła; 1915 (1)
  
  Cyrankiewicz Józef; 23.04.1911, Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Czerniaków Felicja; 01.06.1883, Warsaw (1)
  
  Damięcki Dobiesław; 02.04.1899, Karniewek (1)
  
  Danielecki Stefan; 08.06.1908 (1)
  
  Domasik Stanisław; 1884, Witkowice (Oświęcim county) (1)
  
  Drabek Jaroslav; 06.04.1901, Chrudim (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (1)
  
  Dąbrowska (Lewandowska) Władysława; 1905 (1)
  
  Falk Ignacy; 1902? (1)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (1)
  
  Fiderkiewicz Alfred; 02.07.1886, Horodenka (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Fiderkiewicz Alfred; 2.07.1886, Horodenka (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Gamm Rudolf; 28.10.1884; Gdańsk (1)
  
  Garszyński Kazimierz; 1902? (1)
  
  Goldsztein Ludwika; 02.07.1916, Wierowna (Russia) (1)
  
  Gwiazdomorski Jan; 1898? (1)
  
  Góral Krystyna (1)
  
  Górka Lucjan; 13.12.1884, Nowy Sącz (1)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 13.11.1916, Kraków (1)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (1)
  
  Jesikiewicz Edmund; 1909? (1)
  
  Kania Stanisław; 1924? (1)
  
  Karpowicz Jakub (1)
  
  Kawecki Jerzy; 1913? (1)
  
  Kleina Bernard; 1913? (1)
  
  Klubiński Marian; 01.09.1899, Koprzywnica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Kordal Antoni (1)
  
  Korszun Konstanty; 1910 (1)
  
  Kościelniak Mieczysław; 28.01.1912, Kalisz (1)
  
  Kraus Otto; 07.09.1909, Klášterní Skalice (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Krawczyk Feliks; 1897? (1)
  
  Krzyżanowski Marian; 1882? (1)
  
  Kucharski Teofil; 06.02.1889, Jaszczew (1)
  
  Kulisz Józef; 13.09.1918, Bytom (1)
  
  Kulka Erich; 18.02.1911, Vsetín (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Kulka Otto; 1933? (1)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 1917? (1)
  
  Malanowski Eugeniusz; 08.07.1905, Warsaw (1)
  
  Mazanek Stefan; 1895 (1)
  
  Mańkowski Augustyn; 20.05.1890, Warsaw (1)
  
  Mańkowski Kazimierz; 02.03.1895 (1)
  
  Maślanko Mieczysław; 07.09.1903, Warsaw (1)
  
  Nicz Tadeusz; 1898? (1)
  
  Niewiarowicz Roman; 15.01.1902 (1)
  
  Obrycki Narcyz; 04.09.1896, Warszawa (1)
  
  Olbrycht Jan; 06.05.1886, Zahutyń (1)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (1)
  
  Orzeczek Władysław; 1897? (1)
  
  Paczyński Józef; 29.01.1920, Wadowice (1)
  
  Paczyński Józef; 29.01.1920, Łękawica (1)
  
  Penson Jakub; 23.04.1899, Płock (1)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (1)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 1911? (1)
  
  Płoski Stanisław; 04.12.1899, Bryansk (Russia) (1)
  
  Ratajczak Ignacy; 14.07.1903 (1)
  
  Rogalski Władysław; 1879? (1)
  
  Semkowicz Władysław; 08.05.1878, Lwów (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Seyfried Edmund; 15.02.1889, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Spus Helena (1)
  
  Stapf Adam; 01.08.1907, Tarnów (1)
  
  Stapf Adam; 1907? (1)
  
  Stoeger Samuel; 14.05.1911, Kraków (1)
  
  Stuhlbach Edward; 1910? (1)
  
  Suchodolska Janina; 1909? (1)
  
  Szyszko-Bohusz Adolf; 19.08.1883, Narva (Estonia) (1)
  
  Walas Jan; 23.06.1903 (1)
  
  Wolter Władysław; 05.02.1897, Kraków (1)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Wrona Edward; 13.10.1913, Tuchów (1)
  
  Węgrzyn Elżbieta, 1911? (1)
  
  Zając Michał; 1913 (1)
  
  Zapiór Tadeusz; 1899? (1)
  
  Zielski Jan; 10.05.1885, Storożyniec (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Zwijas Adolf; 1901? (1)
  
  Łącki Mikołaj; 30.10.1888, Loyew (Belarus) (1)
  
  Świderska Maria; 09.02.1905 (1)
Subject
- Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (16)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (11)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (9)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (8)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (5)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (4)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (3)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (3)
  
  Poles, Kashubs and Germans – the situation before the genocide (3)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (3)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (2)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  The city condemned to death (2)
  
  The persecuted church (2)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Gliwice (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (1)
  
  For show – Familienlager Theresienstadt (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (1)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (1)
  
  Kujawy region - the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Kujawy region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Lebensraum – the Germanization of the Zamość region (1)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (1)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Majdanek (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (1)
  
  Pruszków – the town of the displaced (1)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Terror in the "incorporated lands" – the Łódź region (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Częstochowa Ghetto (1)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (1)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (1)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Lesser Poland (1)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Lublin region (1)
  
  Third Reich – the Kielce region (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz I (25)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (23)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (22)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (18)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (17)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (14)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (12)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (11)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (9)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (9)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (8)
  
  Kraków (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (7)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (7)
  
  Warsaw (7)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (5)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (5)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (5)
  
  KL Plaszow (5)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (5)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (5)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (5)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (5)
  
  Radom (5)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (5)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (5)
  
  Bydgoszcz (4)
  
  Częstochowa (4)
  
  Gdańsk (4)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (4)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (4)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (4)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (4)
  
  Przemyśl (4)
  
  Łódź (4)
  
  Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (3)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (3)
  
  KL Majdanek (3)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (3)
  
  Lublin (3)
  
  Lublin, Lublin Castle, Zamkowa Street 9 (3)
  
  Nowy Wiśnicz (3)
  
  Palmiry (3)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (3)
  
  Warsaw, National Museum, Aleje Jerozolimskie 3 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Polish Theater, Karasia Street 2 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Royal Castle, Zamkowy Square 4 (3)
  
  Zamość (3)
  
  Zwierzyniec (Zwierzyniec commune), transit camp (3)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Sobibór (2)
  
  Jasło (2)
  
  Jasło, temporary remand prison, Staszica Street 3 (2)
  
  Jawiszowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (2)
  
  KL Blechhammer (2)
  
  KL Ebensee (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) (2)
  
  KL Melk (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) (2)
  
  Kielce (2)
  
  Kraków, Marshal Józef Piłsudski Retreat of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers, Łobzowska Street 3 (2)
  
  Nowy Wiśnicz, forced labor camp (2)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (2)
  
  Przemyśl, prison, Rokitniańska Street 1 (2)
  
  Puławy (2)
  
  Radom, Warszawska Street (2)
  
  Radomsko (2)
  
  Sandomierz (2)
  
  Sosnowiec (Śląskie Voivodeship) (2)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Tarnów (2)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Gęsiówka prison, Gęsia Street (Anielewicza Street)/ Zamenhofa Street (2)
  
  Warsaw, Komedia Theater, Kredytowa Street 14 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Krasiński Library, Okólnik Street 9 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Mokotów Prison, Rakowiecka Street 37 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Nalewki Street 9 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Polish Army Museum, Aleje Jerozolimskie 3 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Polish Army Museum, Jerozolimskie Avenue 3 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Royal Castle (2)
  
  Warsaw, Wiejska Street (2)
  
  Wrocław, prison, Kleczkowska Street 35 (2)
  
  Zamość, resettlement camp, Okrzei Street (2)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz I (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz IV (Gliwice IV - filia KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
  
  Babice, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Bełżec, German extermination camp (1)
  
  Biała Podlaska (1)
  
  Białystok, Sienkiewicza Street (1)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (1)
  
  Bliżyn, forced labor camp (1)
Victims
- The Poles (77)
  
  Civilians (76)
  
  The Civilian Population (75)
  
  The Jews (55)
  
  Women (50)
  
  The Inteligentsia (46)
  
  Children (38)
  
  The Sick (30)
  
  The sick (30)
  
  Russians/Soviets (24)
  
  The Russians (24)
  
  The Elderly (22)
  
  The elderly (22)
  
  Prisoners of War (20)
  
  The Church (13)
  
  Czechs (12)
  
  Hungarians (11)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (11)
  
  The Communists (10)
  
  The French (10)
  
  Germans (8)
  
  Greeks (7)
  
  The Disabled (7)
  
  Belgians (6)
  
  The Dutch (6)
  
  Slovaks (4)
  
  Ukrainians (3)
  
  Italians (2)
  
  Romanians (2)
  
  The British (2)
  
  Americans (1)
  
  Belarusians (1)
  
  Deportees (1)
  
  Estonians (1)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (1)
  
  Landowners (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  Policemen (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (55)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (23)
  
  Collaboration (18)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (14)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (8)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (6)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (6)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (4)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (4)
  
  Denunciation (3)
  
  Military Police (3)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (3)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (3)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (3)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (3)
  
  Latvians (2)
  
  Waffen-SS (2)
  
  Assault Units (Sturmabteilung, SA) (1)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (1)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (1)
  
  Postal Protection (1)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (1)
  
  Red Army (1)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (1)
  
  Soviet Militia (1)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (1)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1)
Crimes
- The hate campaigns/propaganda (85)
  
  Beating (51)
  
  Biological extermination (51)
  
  Forced labor (51)
  
  Arrest (48)
  
  Execution (47)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (41)
  
  Death by shooting (41)
  
  Robbery (40)
  
  Deportation (33)
  
  Gas chambers (28)
  
  Cremation (27)
  
  Cremation of corpses (27)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (24)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (23)
  
  Hanging (22)
  
  Racial policy (22)
  
  Administrative persecution (17)
  
  Economic exploitation (17)
  
  Displacement (15)
  
  Expulsion (15)
  
  Medical experiments (15)
  
  "Dosing" (13)
  
  Round-up (12)
  
  Judicial crime (10)
  
  Mass graves (10)
  
  Espionage for the Third Reich (9)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (9)
  
  Desacration of corpses (8)
  
  Germanization (8)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (8)
  
  Cattle wagons (7)
  
  Deportation/Exile (7)
  
  Death marches (6)
  
  Punishment cell (6)
  
  Burning people alive (4)
  
  Rape (4)
  
  Air raids (3)
  
  Artillery fire (2)
  
  Artillery shelling (2)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (1)
  
  Roads of death (1)
  
  Sovietization (1)
Place
- Concentration camp (35)
  
  Prison (30)
  
  Extermination camp (29)
  
  Labor camp (16)
  
  Ghetto (14)
  
  Police headquarters/station (9)
  
  Transit camp (8)
  
  Forced labor (6)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (4)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (3)
  
  Kolkhoz (2)
  
  Mine (1)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (1)
  
  Siberia (1)
Content
- Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (37)
  
  Extermination of Jews (33)
  
  Health service (19)
  
  Civil resistance (16)
  
  Obliterating the traces (14)
  
  obliterating the traces (12)
  
  Aktion Zamość (8)
  
  Rescue of Jews (8)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (8)
  
  Central Welfare Council (7)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (7)
  
  Underground courts (7)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (6)
  
  Anders' Army (5)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (5)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (5)
  
  Underground culture and education (5)
  
  Underground media (5)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (4)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (4)
  
  Free City of Danzig (4)
  
  Judenrat (4)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (4)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (4)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (4)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (3)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (3)
  
  Polish Underground State (3)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (3)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (3)
  
  Communist propaganda (2)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (2)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (2)
  
  Polish culture in exile (2)
  
  Aktion T4 (1)
  
  Amnesty (1)
  
  Epidemics (1)
  
  Field health service (1)
  
  Pabst Plan (Pabst-Plan) (1)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (1)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (1)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
  
  the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (73)
  
  Account (2)
  
  Report (2)
  
  Summary (2)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (2)
  
  Book excerpt (1)
  
  Statement (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Supreme National Tribunal (57)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (8)
  
  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)
  
  District Court in Radom (4)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (3)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (2)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (1)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (1)
Medium
- Text (84)
  
  Image (8)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (62)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (23)