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

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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Puka Stanisław; 24.03.1921 (2)
  
  Abramowicz Bronisław; 1912 (1)
  
  Aftergut Bronisław; 1893? (1)
  
  Aleksandrów Władysław; 1919? (1)
  
  Andronowski Jan; 1922 (1)
  
  Arciszewski Franciszek; 02.11.1908 (1)
  
  Augustyn Bolesław; 1902 (1)
  
  Badach Julian; 1909 (1)
  
  Badach Julian; 1910 (1)
  
  Balter Berek; 15.01.1909 (1)
  
  Balter Berek; 15.01.1910 (1)
  
  Banasiewicz Józef (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899 (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899?, Brynica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Bartoszewicz Emilia; 09.11.1915 (1)
  
  Batory Nadzieja; 1923?, Płaszówka (now: Ukraine, Rivne Oblast) (1)
  
  Bednarczyk Czesław (1)
  
  Bednarska Wanda; 16.06.1912, Suchedniów (1)
  
  Bednarski Bronisław (1)
  
  Bełzki Jan; 1896, Potok Górny (1)
  
  Bibik Stanisław (1)
  
  Biel Ferdynand; 1898? (1)
  
  Bielska Emilia; 1911? (1)
  
  Biskup Marcin; 1909 (1)
  
  Bojarska Stefania; 1922 (1)
  
  Bojda Ferdynand; 1921? (1)
  
  Bojko Jan; 1920? (1)
  
  Bolimowska Wanda; 1923, Pomorzanka (dziś: Ukraina) (1)
  
  Bolimowska Wanda; 1923, Pomorzanka (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Borasińska Helena; 05.05.1898, Goszczyno (Płocki county) (1)
  
  Borasińska Jadwiga; 06.07.1925 Sutkowszczyzna (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Borasińska Jadwiga; 06.07.1925 Sutkowszczyzna (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Brzezicki Wacław; 1921? (1)
  
  Buba Jadwiga; 1908 (1)
  
  Budzyń Leokadia; 03.03.1924, Hallerowo (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bujko Wiktor (1)
  
  Burakiewicz Maria (1)
  
  Burdanowicz Leon; 1919 (1)
  
  Bzik Wacław; 1909? (1)
  
  Błażewicz Romuald (1)
  
  Celiński Czesław; 15.11.1900 (1)
  
  Charytonowicz Kazimierz; 1921? (1)
  
  Chmielewska Jadwiga (1)
  
  Chudzikiewicz Zdzisław; 03.03.1922, Lublin (1)
  
  Chwiałkowska Zofia; 1919? (1)
  
  Ciecierska Jadwiga; 1907? (1)
  
  Cieślak Jan; 1905 (1)
  
  Cybański Adam; 1907? (1)
  
  Cyganik Antoni; 1907? (1)
  
  Czarnocka Anna; 1906, Dawidowicze (Zabłudów county) (1)
  
  Czarnocka Anna; 1906, Dawidowicze (Zabłudów district) (1)
  
  Czekałowska Irena (1)
  
  Czosyk Elżbieta; 1916, Chorostków (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Czosyk Elżbieta; 1916, Chorostków (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Daszkiewicz Wanda (1)
  
  Drozdowicz Bolesław; 1913? (1)
  
  Duda Ferdynand (1)
  
  Durda Maria; 1906? (1)
  
  Dziekońska Stefania; 1921? (1)
  
  Dziem Weronika; 18.11.1925, Podhajce (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Długoborski Mieczysław Edward; 1887? (1)
  
  Falana Bolesława; 27.09.1907, Kluczyce (1)
  
  Feldman Irena 21.02.1909, Warsaw (1)
  
  Feldman Irena; 21.02.1909, Warsaw (1)
  
  Fenc Bolesław; 1902? (1)
  
  Feret Antoni; 1916? (1)
  
  Firlit Seweryna; 1924 (1)
  
  Fok Zofia; 16.02.1905, Winniki (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Fronkiewicz Janina (1)
  
  Furman Jan; 1913? (1)
  
  Gabryś Antonina; 17.06.1910, Lubatowa (Krosno county) (1)
  
  Gabryś Antonina; 17.06.1910, Lubatowa (Krosno district) (1)
  
  Gantek Władysław; 30.12.1896 (1)
  
  Garczyński Władysław (1)
  
  Garguliński Stanisław; 1911? (1)
  
  Gałka Jan; 1922? (1)
  
  Gieracha Antoni; 1916? (1)
  
  Giermuga Wojciech (1)
  
  Gochmański Andrzej (1)
  
  Goldberg Michał; 1913? (1)
  
  Gorczyca Stefania; 05.05.1904, Kamieńskie (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Gorczyński Zdzisław; 1924? (1)
  
  Gordziejko Władysław; 1922 (1)
  
  Gorłow Halina; 1924? (1)
  
  Gorłow Zofia; 1922? (1)
  
  Gołąb Maria; 08.09.1902 (1)
  
  Grac Maria; 24.03.1924, Starostaw (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Graybner Tadeusz; 13.03.1914 (1)
  
  Grodzińska Janina; 25.04.1923 (1)
  
  Grodzińska Olga; 15.11.1902 (1)
  
  Grudzień Stanisław; 1916? (1)
  
  Grudzińska Józefa; 20.03.1921, Zambrów (1)
  
  Gryksztas Władysław; 1912, Odessa (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Grymek Aleksander; 1914? (1)
  
  Grzybowski Klemens (1)
  
  Grzywa Kazimiera; 14.02.1923, Kraczkowa (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Gugała Władysław; 1923 (1)
  
  Gussmann Brunon; 1915? (1)
  
  Hajkiewicz Jan (1)
  
  Hnicka Janina; 1918? (1)
Subject
- In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (89)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (42)
  
  In exile – Siberia (42)
  
  In exile – Ural (29)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (18)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (15)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (12)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (11)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (7)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (4)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (3)
  
  In exile – Far East (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (2)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (2)
  
  In exile – Povolzhye (1)
  
  Na niezludzkiej ziemi-katorga, głód, choroby (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Republic of Mordovia (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Guzar (Uzbekistan) (44)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (34)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (32)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (25)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (23)
  
  Tehran (Iran) (20)
  
  Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia) (18)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (18)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (14)
  
  Kermine (Navoiy, Uzbekistan) (14)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (13)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (11)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (9)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (7)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (7)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (7)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (7)
  
  Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (6)
  
  Kitab (Uzbekistan) (6)
  
  Poldnevitsa (Russia, Kostroma Oblast) (6)
  
  Barnaul (Russia, Altai Krai) (5)
  
  British Mandate of Palestine (Israel) (5)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (5)
  
  Shahrisabz (Uzbekistan) (5)
  
  Łomża (5)
  
  Alma-Ata (Almaty, Kazakhstan) (4)
  
  Białystok (4)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (4)
  
  Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (4)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (4)
  
  Pavlodar (Kazakhstan) (4)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (4)
  
  Siblag (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (4)
  
  Stepanovka (Russia, Perm Krai) (4)
  
  Yagvel (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (4)
  
  Asino (Russia, Tomsk Oblast) (3)
  
  Bandar-e Pahlavi (Bandar-e Anzali, Iran) (3)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (3)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (3)
  
  Christoforovo (Russia, Kirov Oblast) (3)
  
  Kagan (Uzbekistan) (3)
  
  Kharitonovo (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (3)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (3)
  
  Kresty (Sosnovyi, Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (3)
  
  Krzemieniec (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Nieśwież (now in Belarus) (3)
  
  North Kazakhstan Region (Kazakhstan) (3)
  
  Nowogródek (now in Belarus) (3)
  
  Osh (Kyrgyzstan) (3)
  
  Plesetsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (3)
  
  Podhajce (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Rejtanów (now in Belarus), train station (3)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (3)
  
  Semipalatinsk (Semey, Kazakhstan) (3)
  
  Taraz (Jambyl, Kazakhstan) (3)
  
  Tashlak (Toshloq, Uzbekistan) (3)
  
  Tomsk (Russia, Tomsk Oblast) (3)
  
  Unzhlag (Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (3)
  
  Vodopad (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (3)
  
  Vostochnoye (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (3)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Aldansky District (Russia, Yakutia) (2)
  
  Altai Krai (Russia) (2)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), train station (2)
  
  Bubnów (Ukraine), train station (2)
  
  Chernoye (Kazakhstan, Pavlodar Oblast) (2)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (2)
  
  Churga (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (2)
  
  Czortków (now in Ukraine), prison, Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) (2)
  
  Darovatka (Russia, Kostroma Oblast) (2)
  
  Dzhambul (Taraz, Kazakhstan) (2)
  
  Gyrkashor (Russia, Komi Republic) (2)
  
  Iksa (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (2)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (2)
  
  Karaganda (Kazakhstan) (2)
  
  Kazakhstan, Akmolinsk Oblast (2)
  
  Kazakhstan, Pavlodar Oblast (2)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine) (2)
  
  Kobryń (now in Belarus), prison, Sovietskaya Street 65 (2)
  
  Krasnoyarsk (Russia, Krasnoyarsk Krai) (2)
  
  Krzemieniec (Ukraine), train station (2)
  
  Kuybyshev (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (2)
  
  Kuybyshev (Samara, Russia, Samara Oblast) (2)
  
  Lida (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Lupya (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (2)
  
  Medvezhyegorsk (Russia, Republic of Karelia) (2)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (2)
  
  Nizhnyaya Striga (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (2)
  
  Noshul (Russia, Komi Republic) (2)
  
  Nukht-Ozero (Verkhovsky, Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (2)
  
  Petropavlovsk (Kazakhstan) (2)
  
  Radziwiłłów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast (2)
  
  Saratov (Russia, Saratov Oblast) (2)
  
  Shoksha (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (2)
  
  Sokol (Russia, Vologda Oblast) (2)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (2)
  
  Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg, Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (2)
  
  Syktyvkar (Russia, Komi Republic) (2)
Victims
- The Poles (294)
  
  The Civilian Population (271)
  
  Deportees (258)
  
  Women (208)
  
  Children (148)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (97)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (96)
  
  Ukrainians (80)
  
  The Sick (77)
  
  The Elderly (66)
  
  The Inteligentsia (64)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (58)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (39)
  
  Belarusians (36)
  
  The Jews (34)
  
  The Russians (33)
  
  Policemen (9)
  
  Prisoners of War (9)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (8)
  
  Landowners (5)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (5)
  
  Lithuanians (4)
  
  The Church (3)
  
  Border Protection Corps (1)
  
  Germans (1)
Perpetrators
- People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (139)
  
  Soviet Militia (24)
  
  Denunciation (19)
  
  Collaboration (16)
  
  Red Army (10)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (2)
  
  Administrative Police (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (1)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (1)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (1)
Crimes
- Forced Labour (281)
  
  Deportation/Exile (278)
  
  Biological extermination (234)
  
  Arrest (150)
  
  Cattle wagons (88)
  
  Beatings (47)
  
  Brutal Interrogation/Tortures (44)
  
  Punishment cell (44)
  
  Judicial crime (29)
  
  Sovietization (29)
  
  Deportation (19)
  
  Robbery (15)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (11)
  
  Execution (6)
  
  Forced voting (5)
  
  Shooting (5)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (4)
  
  Roads of death (3)
  
  Desacration of corpses (2)
  
  Armoured Weapon (1)
  
  Disarmament (1)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (1)
  
  Rape (1)
  
  Round-up (1)
Place
- Spetsposelok (special settlement) (296)
  
  Kolkhoz (77)
  
  Prison (33)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (24)
  
  Mine (12)
  
  Sovkhoz (9)
  
  NKVD custody suite (3)
  
  Orphanage – dietdom (3)
  
  Siberia (3)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (2)
  
  Transit camp (2)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (1)
  
  Police headquarters/station (1)
Content
- Anders' Army (220)
  
  First deportation (167)
  
  Health service (153)
  
  Amnesty (132)
  
  Communist propaganda (88)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (52)
  
  Epidemics (49)
  
  Polish culture in exile (41)
  
  Second deportation (41)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (41)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (25)
  
  Third deportation (21)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (9)
  
  Fourth deportation (8)
  
  Military hospital (8)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (7)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (6)
  
  Students' Army Corps (5)
  
  Civil resistance (4)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (3)
  
  Aid to Jews (2)
  
  Underground culture and education (2)
  
  Clandestine courses (1)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (1)
  
  the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
Object type
- Account (79)
  
  Testimony (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 (296)

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Garczyński Władysław

In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast

1940.02.10-1942

Ułanówka (Ukraine) Bubnów (Ukraine), train station Sarny (Ukraine), train station Ivaksha (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast)

Bojda Ferdynand 1921?

A race against time – the road to Anders' Army

1940.02.10-1943

Gyrkashor (Russia, Komi Republic) Tashlak (Toshloq, Uzbekistan) Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Andijan (Uzbekistan) Sulukta (Kyrgyzstan)

Biskup Marcin 1909

In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast

1940.02.10-1942.02.06

Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia)

Bibik Stanisław

In exile – Central Asia

1939.09.01-1942.03

Lachowicze (Belarus) Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) Tavolzhanka (Kazakhstan, Akmolinsk Oblast)

Młodzianowski Gabriel

In exile – Siberia

1940.02.10-1941.08

Gramtucha (Mayskoye, Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast)

Mazurkiewicz Józef 1904

In exile – Komi Republic

1930.09.19-1941.10.21

Krzemieniec (now in Ukraine) Noshul (Russia, Komi Republic) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Urbanowski Winigiusz 1913

In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

1940.02.10-1942.02.08

Guzar (Uzbekistan) Bukhara (Uzbekistan)

Kurek Leopold 25.10.1929

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

1939.09-1943

Kitab (Uzbekistan) Gruszów (Ukraine) Parchacz (Ukraine) Guzar (Uzbekistan) Kiev (Ukraine)

Koch Wacław 1901

In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast

1940.02.10-1941.10.09

Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia) Mikulicze (Ukraine) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Bubnów (Ukraine), train station

Klech Jakub 1903

In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast

1940.02.10-1943

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Kępka Jan

1940.02.10-1942.04.30

Baranowicze (now in Belarus)

Kąkol Andrzej

In exile – Komi Republic

1940.02.10-1942.08

Komi Republic (Russia)

Hajkiewicz Jan

In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast

1940.02.10-1943

Karolinowo (Belarus) Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Ziabki (Belarus) Ust-Zaruba (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast)

Gochmański Andrzej

In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

1940.02.18-1941.10

Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (Russia, Gorky Oblast) Farab (Kazakhstan)

Szepelski Stanisław 1900

In exile – Kostroma Oblast

1940.02.10-1942.02.08

Poldnevitsa (Russia, Kostroma Oblast) Lugovoy (Kazakhstan)

Sokalski J.

In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast

1940.02.11-1943

Łomża Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia)

Smoliński Jan 1913?

A race against time – the road to Anders' Army

1939-1943

Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Tashkent (Uzbekistan)

Skiba Franciszek 1897

In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast

1939.09.29-1943

Berezwecz (Głębokie, now in Belarus), NKVD prison (Basilian monastery), Sovetskaya Street 201 Kresty (Sosnovyi, Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast)

Sarkowski Feliks

A race against time – the road to Anders' Army

1939.09.17-1941.08.01

Brześć (now in Belarus) Asino (Russia, Tomsk Oblast)

Samsel Antoni 1909

In exile – Ural

1940.02.10-1941.08.10

Guzar (Uzbekistan)

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