„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)
- Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (5)
  
  Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (5)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (5)
  
  Czardybon Bernard; 18.06.1901, Chorzów (4)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (4)
  
  Wolny Stefan; 30.10.1903, Kamieńskie (Ukraine) (4)
  
  Bas Ludwik; 18.12.1912, Kraków (3)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (3)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (3)
  
  Koczorowski Józef; 01.02.1919, Poznań (3)
  
  Kotlarski Mieczysław; 09.10.1913, Osieczna (wielkopolskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Kościuszko Janina; 17.05.1897, Chrzanów? (3)
  
  Krokowski Jan; 08.05.1921, Nowy Sącz (3)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (3)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 04.05.1918, Kraków (3)
  
  Mandelbaum Henryk; 15.12.1922, Olkusz (3)
  
  Nagraba Ludwik; 19.08.1910, Kraków (3)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (3)
  
  Pająk Wilibald; 15.12.1922, Katowice (3)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 27.01.1913, Warsaw (3)
  
  Plaskura Władysław; 10.05.1905, Łazy (Orłowa, Czech Republic) (3)
  
  Plaskura Władysław; 10.05.1905, Łazy (now: Orłowa, Czech Republic) (3)
  
  Rajzman Samuel; 1902, Węgrów (3)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć county) (3)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć district) (3)
  
  Staszkiewicz Bronisław; 18.07.1921, Żywiec (3)
  
  Taul Roman; 28.02.1917, Bytom (3)
  
  Tondos Władysław; 06.10.1900, Kalina Mała (3)
  
  Wrona Edward; 13.10.1913, Tuchów (3)
  
  Bartel Erwin; 02.03.1923, Oświęcim (2)
  
  Bartosiewicz Henryk; 1909? (2)
  
  Bloch Claude; 29.05.1910, Bourg-la-Reine (France) (2)
  
  Brudkowska Aglaida; 19.10.1914, Żytomierz (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Brudkowska Aglaida; 19.10.1914, Żytomierz (now: Ukraine) (2)
  
  Budziaszek Maria; 08.09.1920, Kraków (2)
  
  Denkiewicz Michał; 08.09.1893, Wierzba (2)
  
  Drabek Jaroslav; 06.04.1901, Chrudim (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Dubiel Stanisław; 13.11.1910, Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Franaszewski Hieronim; 30.09.1904, Warsaw (2)
  
  Frankiewicz Janina; 13.08.1912, Wieliczka (2)
  
  Gitler-Barski Józef; 03.03.1898, Warsaw (2)
  
  Gitler-Barski Józef; 3.03.1898, Warsaw (2)
  
  Gliński Bogdan; 08.12.1921, Sancygniów (2)
  
  Goliński Marian; 1904? (2)
  
  Grabczyński Jan; 21.05.1908, Tarnów (dolnośląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Głowa Stanisław; 15.09.1898, Igołomia (2)
  
  Habrajski Józef; 08.03.1915, Radzionków (2)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (2)
  
  Janssens Jean; 30.03.1904 Ougrée (Belgium) (2)
  
  Jeleń Piotr; 15.01.1921, Kraków (2)
  
  Jeleń Piotr; 1919? (2)
  
  Jędrusiak Michalina, 29.09.1906, Kraków (2)
  
  Kahl Tadeusz; 27.07.1908, Kraków (2)
  
  Kiczmachowski Edward; 29.07.1920, Strasburg (2)
  
  Kopta Marian; 08.12.1911, Kraków (2)
  
  Kowalczyk Janina; 10.03.1907, Golkowice (2)
  
  Kołodziejczyk Aleksander; 21.01.1914, Kraków (2)
  
  Kraus Otto; 07.09.1909, Klášterní Skalice (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Kucharek Stanisław; 1904? (2)
  
  Kukla Zbigniew; 11.08.1910, Kalwaria Zebrzydowska (2)
  
  Kulka Erich; 18.02.1911, Vsetín (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Lasok Aniela; 1922? (2)
  
  Lerczak Bolesław, 02.08.1912 (2)
  
  Liszka Edward; 25.07.1920, Kraków (2)
  
  Ludwig Józef Paweł; 03.07.1910, Sosnowiec (2)
  
  Materkowski Antoni; 14.06.1899, Koprzywnica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Mikołajski Zdzisław; 28.09.1913, Kraków (2)
  
  Moskowicz Norbert; 1922? (2)
  
  Nagraba Ludwik; 19.08.1911 (2)
  
  Nowak Jan; 23.09.1908, Kraków (2)
  
  Obrycki Narcyz; 04.09.1896, Warszawa (2)
  
  Olbrycht Jan; 06.05.1886, Zahutyń (2)
  
  Paczyński Józef; 29.01.1920, Wadowice (2)
  
  Panasiewicz Adam; 23.03.1898, Krystynopol (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Panasiewicz Adam; 23.03.1898, Krystynopol (now: Ukraine) (2)
  
  Pietrzyk Jerzy; 1914? (2)
  
  Plaskura Józef; 23.01.1911, Brzeszcze (2)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Rumunia) (2)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 1911? (2)
  
  Prawer Seweryn; 1903? (2)
  
  Prząda Marian; 12.09.1920, Kraków (2)
  
  Rablin Andrzej; 01.01.1914, Kraków (2)
  
  Rajchman Jechiel (Romanowski Henryk); 06.1914, Łódź (2)
  
  Rajewski Ludwik; 16.12.1900, Łódź (2)
  
  Rychlik Czesław; 01.06.1909, Wąwoźnica (2)
  
  Skotnicki Jerzy; 12.02.1902, Łódź (2)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 19.04.1920, Chorzów (2)
  
  Smużewski Zygmunt; 17.05.1919, Stanisławowo (2)
  
  Sosnowska Izabella; 23.08.1914, Kraków (2)
  
  Stapf Adam; 01.08.1907, Tarnów (2)
  
  Stryj Franciszek; 05.01.1912, Ruda Śląska (2)
  
  Szewczyk Jan; 15.02.1921, Nowy Sącz (2)
  
  Szuszkiewicz Roman; 1907? (2)
  
  Weszke Wacław; 05.09.1904, Melburg (Austria) (2)
  
  Wiernik Jankiel (Smarzyński Jan); 1889, Biała Podlaska (2)
  
  Wolken Otto; 27.04.1903, Vien (Austria) (2)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now: Ukraine) (2)
  
  Wąsowicz Tadeusz; 29.07.1906, Limanowa (2)
Subject
- Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (186)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (110)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (34)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (33)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (32)
  
  Treblinka – extermination camp (32)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (25)
  
  Resistance, documentation, solidarity – the underground activity at Auschwitz-Birkenau (23)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (23)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (16)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (10)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (9)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (8)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Lublin region (7)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (7)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (5)
  
  Kulmhof – extermination camp (3)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (3)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (3)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (3)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Gliwice (2)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (2)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (2)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Babice (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Polesie region (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Zamość region (1)
  
  For show – Familienlager Theresienstadt (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Zamość Ghetto (1)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (1)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Majdanek (1)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Neuengamme (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Stutthof (1)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Greater Poland (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Upper Silesia (1)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (1)
  
  The Polish Righteous Among the Nations (1)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (1)
  
  The city condemned to death (1)
  
  The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews (1)
  
  Third Reich – the Kielce region (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (437)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (429)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (353)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (344)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (213)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (202)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (107)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (78)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (74)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (61)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (58)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (55)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (54)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (53)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (51)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (50)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (49)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (47)
  
  KL Majdanek (44)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (44)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (42)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (38)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (36)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (33)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (32)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (31)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (28)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (26)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (25)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (25)
  
  Warsaw (24)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (23)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (23)
  
  Bochnia, train station (22)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (22)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (21)
  
  Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (21)
  
  Rajsko, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (20)
  
  Łódź (20)
  
  Bydgoszcz (19)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (18)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (18)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (18)
  
  Majdanek, German extermination camp (17)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (17)
  
  Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (14)
  
  Kraków (11)
  
  Jawiszowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (10)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, SS-Stabsgebaude (10)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (10)
  
  Lublin (10)
  
  Mechelen (Belgium), transit camp (10)
  
  Zamość, relocation camp, Okrzei Street (10)
  
  Zamość, resettlement camp, Okrzei Street (10)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (9)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (9)
  
  German extermination camp of Sobibór (8)
  
  Jaworzno, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (8)
  
  KL Melk (Austria) (8)
  
  Brussels (Belgium) (7)
  
  KL Malchow (KL Ravensbrück subcamp, Germany) (7)
  
  KL Mittelbau-Dora (Germany) (7)
  
  KL Neuengamme (Germany) (7)
  
  Katowice (7)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (7)
  
  Nowy Wiśnicz (7)
  
  Paris (France) (7)
  
  Pszczyna (7)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (7)
  
  Tarnów (7)
  
  Treblinka, train station (7)
  
  Babice, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (6)
  
  Częstochowa, Ghetto (6)
  
  Dresden (Germany) (6)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (6)
  
  KL Ebensee (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) (6)
  
  KL Plaszow (6)
  
  KL Stutthof (6)
  
  Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 (6)
  
  Wodzisław Śląski (6)
  
  Brzeszcze (5)
  
  Będzin (5)
  
  Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (5)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (5)
  
  Hamburg (Germany) (5)
  
  Harmęże, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (5)
  
  Jasło, temporary remand prison, Staszica Street 3 (5)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (5)
  
  Mysłowice (śląskie voivodeship) (5)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (5)
  
  Rajsko (Oświęcim district) (5)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (5)
  
  Sosnowiec (Śląskie Voivodeship) (5)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (5)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz IV (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  Białystok, Ghetto (4)
  
  Białystok, ghetto (4)
  
  Goleszów, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  KL Melk (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) (4)
  
  Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 (4)
Victims
- The Civilian Population (524)
  
  The Poles (493)
  
  The Jews (429)
  
  Women (356)
  
  The Sick (230)
  
  Children (226)
  
  The Inteligentsia (182)
  
  The Russians (163)
  
  Prisoners of War (127)
  
  Hungarians (113)
  
  The Elderly (113)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (83)
  
  The French (77)
  
  Czechs (75)
  
  Slovaks (72)
  
  Germans (69)
  
  Belgians (55)
  
  The Dutch (54)
  
  Greeks (47)
  
  The Church (37)
  
  The Communists (35)
  
  The Disabled (31)
  
  Italians (20)
  
  Americans (15)
  
  Norwegians (12)
  
  The British (9)
  
  Romanians (7)
  
  Ukrainians (6)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (4)
  
  Latvians (2)
  
  Lithuanians (2)
  
  Serbs (2)
  
  Policemen (1)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (463)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (147)
  
  Collaboration (53)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (52)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (28)
  
  Military Police (25)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (21)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (16)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (9)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (7)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (5)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (4)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (4)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (4)
  
  Waffen-SS (4)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (3)
  
  Latvians (3)
  
  Lithuanians (3)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (2)
  
  Denunciation (2)
  
  Red Army (2)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (2)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (2)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (1)
  
  Postal Protection (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Gas chambers (451)
  
  Beatings (408)
  
  Execution (369)
  
  Forced Labour (359)
  
  Brutal Interrogation/Tortures (329)
  
  Cremation (319)
  
  Shooting (286)
  
  Biological extermination (272)
  
  Arrest (190)
  
  Deportation (186)
  
  Robbery (186)
  
  Hanging (123)
  
  Medical experiments (104)
  
  "Dosing" (93)
  
  Mass graves (86)
  
  Racial policy (73)
  
  Cattle wagons (66)
  
  Burning people alive (57)
  
  Economic exploitation (51)
  
  Death marches (43)
  
  Desacration of corpses (42)
  
  Round-up (36)
  
  Expulsion (30)
  
  Judicial crime (26)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (24)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (22)
  
  Rape (17)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (15)
  
  Administrative persecution (12)
  
  Disarmament (9)
  
  Germanization (8)
  
  Air raids (7)
  
  Collectivization (6)
  
  Armoured Weapon (3)
  
  Deportation/Exile (3)
  
  Artillery fire (1)
Place
- Extermination camp (545)
  
  Concentration camp (483)
  
  Prison (105)
  
  Labor camp (64)
  
  Ghetto (41)
  
  Police headquarters/station (28)
  
  Transit camp (25)
  
  Forced labor (20)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (4)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (2)
  
  Internment camp (1)
  
  NKVD custody suite (1)
Content
- Extermination of Jews (336)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (146)
  
  obliterating the traces (88)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (84)
  
  Health service (70)
  
  Aktion Zamość (37)
  
  Civil resistance (36)
  
  Rescue of Jews (29)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (18)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (15)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (13)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (11)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (10)
  
  Polish Underground State (9)
  
  Underground media (9)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (6)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (5)
  
  Underground courts (5)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (4)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (3)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (3)
  
  Aktion T4 (2)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (2)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (2)
  
  Judenrat (2)
  
  Obliterating the traces (2)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (2)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (2)
  
  Underground culture and education (2)
  
  the Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (2)
  
  Aid to Jews (1)
  
  Central Welfare Council (1)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (1)
  
  Field health service (1)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (1)
  
  Operation "Tempest" (1)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (1)
Object type
- Testimony from judicial/criminal proceedings (517)
  
  Brief (21)
  
  Statement (3)
  
  Account (2)
  
  Scene investigation report (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Supreme National Tribunal (480)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (16)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (15)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (12)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (4)
  
  District Court in Radom (1)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (1)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (552)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (18)