„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)
- Marcinkiewicz Stefan (4)
  
  Anonim (3)
  
  Anonym (3)
  
  Siedlecki Karol (3)
  
  Głowiak Stanisław; 10.02.1903, Podzwierzyniec (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Lenczewski Tadeusz; 1913?, Rzędziany (2)
  
  Lipski Jan (2)
  
  Lis Józef (2)
  
  Listkiewicz Ludwik; 1889? (2)
  
  Mongiałło Wacław; 1910 (2)
  
  Plaskura Władysław; 10.05.1905, Łazy (Orłowa, Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Plaskura Władysław; 10.05.1905, Łazy (now: Orłowa, Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Szczuciński (2)
  
  Kullanda Henryk (1)
  
  Adamczyk Jan; 1901? (1)
  
  Adamczyk Karol (1)
  
  Adamowicz Alfons; 15.12.1906, Białystok (1)
  
  Adamowicz Wiktor; 08.03.1903 (1)
  
  Adamski Antoni, 1894? (1)
  
  Adamusik Stanisław (1)
  
  Affek Piotr; 1905? (1)
  
  Aksnowicz Alfons; 21.01.1920 (1)
  
  Aktanarowicz Mieczysław; 1923? (1)
  
  Alchimowicz Kazimierz, 1906 (1)
  
  Ambros Florian; 1913? (1)
  
  Ambroziak Jan (1)
  
  Ambroziewicz Michał; 1904? (1)
  
  Amsta Norbert (1)
  
  Amsterdamski Saul (1)
  
  Andruszkiewicz Józef; 1893? (1)
  
  Andrzejewski Teodor; 1904? (1)
  
  Aniszkiewicz Józef; 1895? (1)
  
  Ankudowicz Władysław; 23.10.1923, Białystok (1)
  
  Antoniak Franciszek; 1901? (1)
  
  Apelbaum Leib; 1921? (1)
  
  Aranowicz Jerma; 1907? (1)
  
  Arciszewski Jan, 1907, Pińsk (1)
  
  Arociak (1)
  
  Augustowicz Bolesław; 1912 (1)
  
  Aunszlok Kazimierz (1)
  
  Awienko Henryk; 1910? (1)
  
  Babiarz Józef; 1909 (1)
  
  Babiarz Józef; 1910 (1)
  
  Babinski Henryk, 1911 (1)
  
  Badurak Brosnislaw, 1905 (1)
  
  Bakun Wladyslaw, 1906 (1)
  
  Bakuła Antoni; 1899 (1)
  
  Bakuła Antoni; 1900 (1)
  
  Balińska Janina; 19.03.1905, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Balter Berek; 15.01.1909 (1)
  
  Balter Berek; 15.01.1910 (1)
  
  Banach Jan; 1894? (1)
  
  Banasik Andrzej; 1926? (1)
  
  Banaszkiewicz Jan, 1894 (1)
  
  Baranowski Antoni; 1905 (1)
  
  Baranowski Julian, 1902 (1)
  
  Baranowski Maksymilian (1)
  
  Barbachowski Wladyslaw, 1903 (1)
  
  Barczak Franciszek; 1913? (1)
  
  Barczykowski Jan 1914 (1)
  
  Barczykowski Jan; 1914 (1)
  
  Bardach Jakub; 1909 (1)
  
  Bartkiewicz Władysław; 1918?, Delatyn (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bartkiewicz Władysław; 1918?, Delatyn (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bartonezz Irena; 03.10.1896 (1)
  
  Bartosiak Kazimierz, 1898 (1)
  
  Bartoszynski Jozef, 1913 (1)
  
  Barwicki Wladyslaw, 1898 (1)
  
  Batura Józef; 1916 (1)
  
  Bałajewicz Jadwiga; 1913 (1)
  
  Bałajewicz Jadwiga; 1914 (1)
  
  Bednarz Franciszek (1)
  
  Beker Wladyslaw, 1911 (1)
  
  Bekery Julian; 1908 (1)
  
  Bendowski Stefan, 1906 (1)
  
  Bereza Wladyslaw, 1899 (1)
  
  Bereziuk Marian, 1922 (1)
  
  Berkowicz Icko; 1906, Różana (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Bernat Stanisław; 23.04.1905 (1)
  
  Bernatowicz Jan, 1899 (1)
  
  Berner Aleksander; 04.03.1915, Landwarów (now in Lithuania) (1)
  
  Berner Aleksander; 04.03.1915, Landwarów (now in Lithuania) (1)
  
  Bezruczko Jan; 1899, Lachowce (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bełch Franciszek (1)
  
  Bialik Stefania; 1899? (1)
  
  Białobocki Andrzej; 1900? (1)
  
  Bielawski Stanisław (1)
  
  Bielecki Andrzej, 1893, Podhorce (1)
  
  Bielecki Lucjan, 1906 (1)
  
  Bielenia Maciej, 1899 (1)
  
  Bielonuzko Szymon, 1902 (1)
  
  Bielooki Wiktor, 1900 (1)
  
  Bielous Wlodzimierz, 1904 (1)
  
  Bier Maksymilian; 1892? (1)
  
  Biliński Ludwik; 1919? (1)
  
  Binduga Wladyslaw, 1915 (1)
  
  Binkiewicz Wladyslaw, 1899? (1)
  
  Birzański Sz. (1)
  
  Bis Teodor, 1901? (1)
  
  Biskup Stanisław; 1911? (1)
  
  Biskup Władysław; 1927? (1)
Subject
- The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (225)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (163)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (105)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (44)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (40)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (34)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (31)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (28)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (26)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (17)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (16)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (16)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (13)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (12)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (10)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (10)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (10)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (9)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (9)
  
  In exile – Siberia (8)
  
  In exile – Ural (8)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (8)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (8)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (6)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (6)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Republic of Mordovia (6)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (5)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (5)
  
  Lebensborn – the Germanization of Polish children (4)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (3)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (3)
  
  Radom – daily terror (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Sverdlovsk Oblast (3)
  
  The city condemned to death (3)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (3)
  
  In exile – Far East (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (2)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (2)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town (2)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (2)
  
  Archipełag Gułag - Powołże (1)
  
  Browar, Czerwoniak – the Ostrów death blocks (1)
  
  Firlej near Radom – the training ground of death (1)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Kłobuck Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Zamość Ghetto (1)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Mari El Republic (1)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Rostov Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (1)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (1)
  
  Lebensraum – the Germanization of the Zamość region (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (1)
  
  Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages (1)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (1)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (1)
  
  Resistance, documentation, solidarity – the underground activity at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (1)
  
  The Ostrów forests – mass executions (1)
  
  The tragedy of the Radom Arms Factory (1)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Żoliborz (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (156)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (150)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (123)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (73)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (68)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (60)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (55)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (54)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (52)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (51)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (47)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (46)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (45)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (44)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (43)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (42)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (38)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (36)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (36)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (36)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (34)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (33)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (30)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (30)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (29)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (29)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (29)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (28)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (27)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (26)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (26)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (25)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (25)
  
  Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (23)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (23)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (23)
  
  Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (22)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine) (22)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (22)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (22)
  
  Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (22)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (21)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (21)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (21)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (20)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (20)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (20)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine) (19)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no 2, Zamarstynowska Street 7/9 (18)
  
  Przemyśl (18)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (17)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (17)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (17)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (16)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (16)
  
  Nakhodka (Russia, Primorsky Krai) (16)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (16)
  
  Sevvostlag (Russia, Magadan Oblast) (16)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (16)
  
  Złoczów (now in Ukraine) (16)
  
  Kherson (Ukraine), prison, Perekopska Street 10 (15)
  
  Olesko (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (15)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (15)
  
  Łomża, prison, Legionów Avenue 36 (15)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (14)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (14)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (14)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (14)
  
  Lida (now in Belarus) (14)
  
  Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a (14)
  
  Ostróg (now in Ukraine), transit camp (Barracks of the 19th Volhynian Uhlan Regiment) (14)
  
  Ukhto-Izhemsky Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (14)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (now in Lithuania), internee camp (14)
  
  Angielówka (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (13)
  
  Białystok (13)
  
  Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (13)
  
  Kermine (Navoiy, Uzbekistan) (13)
  
  Kozelschyna (Ukraine, Poltava Oblast), transit camp (13)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (13)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (13)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (12)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (12)
  
  Kirov (Russia, Kirov Oblast) (12)
  
  Mościska (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (12)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (12)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD prison, Kirov Street 32 (12)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania) (12)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (11)
  
  Busko-Zdrój (11)
  
  Czerlany (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (11)
  
  Czortków (Ukraine) (11)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (11)
  
  Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (11)
  
  Ostra Góra (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (11)
  
  Przemyśl, prison, Rokitniańska Street 1 (11)
  
  Radziwiłłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (11)
  
  Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg, Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (11)
  
  Warsaw (11)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison (Castle) (11)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine), prison (Bridgettine Convent), Brygidek Street (Kafedralna Street 16) (11)
Victims
- The Poles (925)
  
  The Civilian Population (608)
  
  Prisoners of War (316)
  
  The Inteligentsia (296)
  
  The Jews (260)
  
  Ukrainians (253)
  
  The Russians (227)
  
  Women (209)
  
  The Sick (186)
  
  Belarusians (150)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (138)
  
  Children (104)
  
  Policemen (95)
  
  Deportees (88)
  
  The Elderly (68)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (44)
  
  The Church (44)
  
  Internees (39)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (39)
  
  Germans (32)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (32)
  
  Border Guard (31)
  
  Lithuanians (30)
  
  Border Protection Corps (29)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (25)
  
  Landowners (22)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (20)
  
  Czechs (15)
  
  Latvians (15)
  
  Estonians (11)
  
  Hungarians (10)
  
  Romanians (10)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (8)
  
  the Chinese (6)
  
  The Communists (5)
  
  Finns (4)
  
  Slovaks (4)
  
  Greeks (3)
  
  Prison Guard (3)
  
  The French (3)
  
  Americans (2)
  
  Italians (2)
  
  The British (2)
  
  Belgians (1)
  
  Scouts (1)
  
  The Disabled (1)
  
  The Dutch (1)
Perpetrators
- People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (350)
  
  Red Army (81)
  
  Collaboration (72)
  
  Soviet Militia (56)
  
  Denunciation (49)
  
  Military Police (41)
  
  SS (32)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (31)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (29)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (17)
  
  Lithuanians (10)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (10)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (10)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (9)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (7)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (7)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (6)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (5)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (5)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (5)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (3)
  
  Administrative Police (2)
  
  Postal Protection (2)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (1)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Forced Labour (831)
  
  Biological extermination (705)
  
  Arrest (640)
  
  Deportation/Exile (520)
  
  Beatings (415)
  
  Brutal Interrogation/Tortures (406)
  
  Punishment cell (264)
  
  Judicial crime (184)
  
  Cattle wagons (182)
  
  Execution (164)
  
  Robbery (147)
  
  Shooting (146)
  
  Deportation (121)
  
  Disarmament (101)
  
  Roads of death (89)
  
  Round-up (47)
  
  Expulsion (28)
  
  Economic exploitation (27)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (24)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (23)
  
  Air raids (20)
  
  Cremation (18)
  
  Mass graves (14)
  
  Death marches (12)
  
  Gas chambers (12)
  
  Administrative persecution (11)
  
  Burning people alive (10)
  
  Desacration of corpses (10)
  
  Medical experiments (10)
  
  Racial policy (10)
  
  Sovietization (10)
  
  Germanization (9)
  
  Armoured Weapon (8)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (8)
  
  Hanging (8)
  
  Forced voting (7)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (7)
  
  "Dosing" (6)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (6)
  
  Rape (4)
  
  Artillery fire (1)
  
  Collectivization (1)
  
  Displacement (1)
  
  Human shields (1)
Place
- (Soviet) forced-labor camp (595)
  
  Prison (374)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (257)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (158)
  
  Transit camp (141)
  
  Forced labor (124)
  
  Kolkhoz (116)
  
  Mine (58)
  
  Concentration camp (46)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (39)
  
  Internment camp (35)
  
  NKVD custody suite (25)
  
  Labor camp (18)
  
  Sovkhoz (18)
  
  Extermination camp (17)
  
  Police headquarters/station (14)
  
  Ghetto (10)
  
  Siberia (4)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (2)
  
  Orphanage – dietdom (1)
  
  Robbery (1)
Content
- Anders' Army (492)
  
  Health service (425)
  
  Amnesty (268)
  
  Communist propaganda (162)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (123)
  
  Epidemics (121)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (112)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (98)
  
  Polish culture in exile (89)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (87)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (39)
  
  First deportation (31)
  
  Extermination of Jews (22)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (21)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (20)
  
  Third deportation (20)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (17)
  
  Second deportation (16)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (12)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (12)
  
  obliterating the traces (11)
  
  Civil resistance (10)
  
  Fourth deportation (8)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (8)
  
  Aktion Zamość (7)
  
  Military hospital (7)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (6)
  
  Central Welfare Council (5)
  
  Clandestine courses (4)
  
  Students' Army Corps (4)
  
  Underground culture and education (4)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (3)
  
  Rescue of Jews (3)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (3)
  
  Underground media (3)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (3)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (2)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (2)
  
  Polish Underground State (2)
  
  Aid to Jews (1)
  
  Field health service (1)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (1)
  
  Judenrat (1)
  
  the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
Object type
- Account (172)
  
  Testimony (113)
  
  Brief (4)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Independent Historical Office of the Command of the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union/Documentation Office of the Polish Army in the East (814)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (56)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (24)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (16)
  
  District Court in Radom (9)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (1)
  
  Voivodeship Court in Łódź (1)