“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)
- Lenczewski Tadeusz; 1913?, Rzędziany (2)
  
  Mongiałło Wacław; 1910 (2)
  
  Zdanowicz Michał; 1899.12.11 (2)
  
  Adamowicz Alfons; 15.12.1906, Białystok (1)
  
  Adamski Alojzy, 1908.06.30 (1)
  
  Adamski Antoni, 1894? (1)
  
  Adamski Antoni; 1894? (1)
  
  Adamusik Stanisław (1)
  
  Aftergut Bronisław; 1893? (1)
  
  Aksnowicz Alfons; 21.01.1920 (1)
  
  Amanowicz Kazimierz; 1922? (1)
  
  Ambroziak Jan (1)
  
  Amsterdamski Saul (1)
  
  Andronowski Piotr; 1921? (1)
  
  Andruszkiewicz Józef; 1893? (1)
  
  Ankudowicz Władysław; 23.10.1923, Białystok (1)
  
  Anonymous (1)
  
  Arciszewski Jan, 1907, Pińsk (1)
  
  Atras Franciszek, 1900.10.08 (1)
  
  Aunszlok Kazimierz (1)
  
  Awdziej Alfons; 15.02.1900 (1)
  
  Awienko Henryk; 1910? (1)
  
  Babiarz Józef; 13.03.1909, Łańcut (1)
  
  Baka Jan; 1896 (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)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899 (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899?, Brynica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Barachowski Jan, 1900 (1)
  
  Baranowska Władysława (1)
  
  Baranowski Julian; 1902 (1)
  
  Baranowski Maksymilian (1)
  
  Barna Teodor; 1900 (1)
  
  Bartoszko Kazimierz; 09.10.1898 (1)
  
  Barwicki Władysław; 1898 (1)
  
  Baszker Fiyszel, 1899.08.06 (1)
  
  Batura Józef; 1916 (1)
  
  Bauer Ludmiła; 28.01.1922 (1)
  
  Baumgarten Józefina (1)
  
  Bednarska Wanda; 16.06.1912, Suchedniów (1)
  
  Beker Władysław; 1911 (1)
  
  Bendowski Stefan; 1906 (1)
  
  Berkowicz Icko; 1906, Różana (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Bernacki Michal, 1898 (1)
  
  Bernatowicz Jan; 1899 (1)
  
  Bełzki Jan; 1896, Potok Górny (1)
  
  Białobocki Andrzej; 1900? (1)
  
  Białous Edward; 03.04.1914, Kantorówka (1)
  
  Bibik Stanisław (1)
  
  Biel Ferdynand; 1898? (1)
  
  Bielecki Andrzej; 1893, Podhorce (1)
  
  Bielski Emil, 1898 (1)
  
  Bier Maksymilian; 1892? (1)
  
  Biełooki Wiktor; 1900 (1)
  
  Biełous Włodzimierz; 1904 (1)
  
  Binduga Władysław; 1915 (1)
  
  Binkiewicz Władysław; 1899? (1)
  
  Biskup Piotr, 1900 (1)
  
  Biłyk Stefan (1)
  
  Blewąska Wincenty; 1900 (1)
  
  Bloch Ilia; 1912? (1)
  
  Bobela Marian; 1893, Rozdół (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bobowski Leszek; 1910? (1)
  
  Bobrzek Wladyslaw; 08.09.1899 (1)
  
  Bochenek Jan; 1898 (1)
  
  Bochno Michał, 1903? (1)
  
  Boguski Aleksander, 1900 (1)
  
  Bogusz Zygmunt, 1897? (1)
  
  Bohdziewicz Jan, 1891? (1)
  
  Bohotko Józef (1)
  
  Bojarski Jan, 1899 (1)
  
  Bojda Ferdynand; 1921? (1)
  
  Bojko Jan; 1920? (1)
  
  Bonchort Zygmunt, 1897? (1)
  
  Bondus Piotr, 1904? (1)
  
  Bongold Jakub; 1900 (1)
  
  Borger Ludwik; 1915? (1)
  
  Borkowski Bronisław; 12.03.1912 (1)
  
  Borkowski Edward; 1892? (1)
  
  Boroch Michał; ? (1)
  
  Borowski Bolesław (1)
  
  Borys Piotr, 1901 (1)
  
  Borysiuk Mateusz; 1903? (1)
  
  Boryń Franciszek; 1898 (1)
  
  Brunstein Stanislaw; 27.10.1914 (1)
  
  Bryning Sylwester; 1898 (1)
  
  Brzozowski Jan; 1895? (1)
  
  Brzozowski Stefan; 1900? (1)
  
  Brzuszkiewicz Jan (1)
  
  Buben Wincenty (1)
  
  Buchwalter Fryderyk, 1912 (1)
  
  Buczkowski Franciszek (1)
  
  Buczynski Zbigniew; 1923? (1)
  
  Buczyński Michał; 28.09.1892 (1)
  
  Budzianowski Antoni; 1886 (1)
  
  Bujko Wiktor (1)
  
  Kullanda Henryk (1)
Subject
- The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (177)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (146)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (82)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (65)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (64)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (58)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (49)
  
  In exile – Siberia (37)
  
  In exile – Ural (32)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (31)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (27)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (19)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (17)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (16)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (16)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (15)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (10)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (9)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (9)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (8)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (7)
  
  In exile – Mari El Republic (5)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (5)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ryazan Oblast (4)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Republic of Mordovia (3)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (2)
  
  Deported – the Altai Krai (2)
  
  Allied assistance from the air (1)
  
  Archipełag Gułag - Powołże (1)
  
  Deported – the Perm Krai (1)
  
  Deported – the Volgograd Oblast (1)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Stutthof branch in Inowrocław (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (1)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (1)
  
  Firlej near Radom – the training ground of death (1)
  
  In exile – Far East (1)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Povolzhye (1)
  
  In exile – Volgograd Oblast (1)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (1)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Majdanek (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Sverdlovsk Oblast (1)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (1)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (1)
  
  the Gulag Archipelago – the Krasnoyarsk Krai (1)
  
  the Gulag Archipelago – the Republic of Karelia (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (187)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (134)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (120)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (81)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (80)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (74)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (71)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (58)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (57)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (56)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (51)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (47)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (46)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (43)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (38)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (34)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (32)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (31)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (30)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (29)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (29)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (27)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (27)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (26)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (26)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (25)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (24)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (24)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (24)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (24)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (23)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (23)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (22)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (21)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (21)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (21)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (21)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (20)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (20)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (20)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (20)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (19)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (19)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (18)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (18)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (18)
  
  Olesko (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (18)
  
  Połąga (now in Lithuania), internee camp (17)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (17)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (now in Lithuania), internee camp (17)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (16)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (16)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (16)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (16)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (16)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (16)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (15)
  
  Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (15)
  
  Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (15)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (15)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (15)
  
  Łomża, prison, Legionów Avenue 36 (15)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (14)
  
  Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (14)
  
  Przemyśl, prison, Rokitniańska Street 1 (14)
  
  Białystok (13)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (13)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (13)
  
  Kniazhpogost (Russia, Komi Republic) (13)
  
  Sevvostlag (Russia, Magadan Oblast) (13)
  
  Ukmergė (Lithuania), internee camp (13)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania) (13)
  
  Czortków (now in Ukraine), prison, Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) (12)
  
  Kagan (Uzbekistan) (12)
  
  Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) (12)
  
  Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a (12)
  
  Pińsk (now in Belarus), NKVD prison no 29, Brzeska/Poleska Street (12)
  
  Podwołoczyska (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (12)
  
  Przemyśl (12)
  
  Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (12)
  
  Kermine (Navoiy, Uzbekistan) (11)
  
  Ostróg (now in Ukraine), transit camp (Barracks of the 19th Volhynian Uhlan Regiment) (11)
  
  Radziwiłłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (11)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (11)
  
  Zborów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (11)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (10)
  
  Czerlany (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (10)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (10)
  
  Kalvarija (Lithuania), internment camp (10)
  
  Kozelschyna (Ukraine, Poltava Oblast), transit camp (10)
  
  Lida (now in Belarus) (10)
  
  Mołodeczno (now in Belarus) (10)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (10)
  
  Nowogródek (now in Belarus) (10)
  
  Pavlodar (Kazakhstan) (10)
  
  Podliski Małe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (10)
  
  Równe (Ukraine), prison, 3 Maja Street (Soborna Street 16) (10)
  
  Tehran (Iran) (10)
  
  Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia) (9)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (9)
Victims
- The Poles (942)
  
  Civilians (690)
  
  The Civilian Population (675)
  
  Women (328)
  
  The Inteligentsia (302)
  
  Deportees (293)
  
  The Jews (281)
  
  Ukrainians (278)
  
  Prisoners of War (265)
  
  Children (250)
  
  The sick (239)
  
  The Sick (232)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (195)
  
  Russians/Soviets (188)
  
  The Russians (170)
  
  Belarusians (166)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (166)
  
  Policemen (146)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (116)
  
  The elderly (94)
  
  The Elderly (92)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (76)
  
  Internees (73)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (42)
  
  Border Guard (38)
  
  The Church (37)
  
  Germans (34)
  
  Lithuanians (33)
  
  Landowners (30)
  
  Border Protection Corps (29)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (26)
  
  Estonians (11)
  
  Latvians (7)
  
  Romanians (7)
  
  Czechs (5)
  
  Hungarians (5)
  
  Prison Guard (4)
  
  Finns (3)
  
  Scouts (2)
  
  Slovaks (1)
  
  The British (1)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (230)
  
  Red Army (184)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (102)
  
  Denunciation (101)
  
  Soviet Militia (79)
  
  Collaboration (65)
  
  Lithuanians (39)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (39)
  
  SS (5)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (5)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (4)
  
  Collaborators (3)
  
  Military Police (3)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (3)
  
  Administrative Police (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Postal Protection (1)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (863)
  
  Biological extermination (839)
  
  Arrest (655)
  
  Deportation/Exile (532)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (401)
  
  Beating (346)
  
  Judicial crime (246)
  
  Punishment cell (245)
  
  Cattle wagons (229)
  
  Robbery (138)
  
  Disarmament (130)
  
  Death by shooting (99)
  
  Execution (80)
  
  Roads of death (77)
  
  Deportation (27)
  
  Sovietization (26)
  
  Air raids (23)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (23)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (21)
  
  Forced voting (13)
  
  Desacration of corpses (11)
  
  Round-up (10)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (9)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (9)
  
  Cremation (7)
  
  Cremation of corpses (7)
  
  Armored weapons (6)
  
  Mass graves (4)
  
  Collectivization (3)
  
  Gas chambers (3)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (3)
  
  Administrative persecution (2)
  
  Displacement (2)
  
  Economic exploitation (2)
  
  Expulsion (2)
  
  Burning people alive (1)
  
  Denationalization (1)
  
  Racial policy (1)
  
  Rape (1)
Place
- (Soviet) forced-labor camp (219)
  
  Prison (210)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (206)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (202)
  
  Kolkhoz (196)
  
  NKVD custody suite (164)
  
  Transit camp (137)
  
  Mine (89)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (80)
  
  Internment camp (70)
  
  Sovkhoz (41)
  
  Concentration camp (6)
  
  Siberia (5)
  
  Extermination camp (3)
  
  Labor camp (3)
  
  Orphanage – dietdom (3)
  
  Police headquarters/station (1)
  
  Sewers (1)
Content
- Health service (586)
  
  Anders' Army (331)
  
  Amnesty (328)
  
  First deportation (144)
  
  Epidemics (139)
  
  Communist propaganda (134)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (134)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (133)
  
  Polish culture in exile (119)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (49)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (46)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (44)
  
  Second deportation (39)
  
  Third deportation (33)
  
  Fourth deportation (24)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (23)
  
  Military hospital (17)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (12)
  
  Students' Army Corps (6)
  
  Civil resistance (5)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (5)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (4)
  
  Obliterating the traces (3)
  
  Partisan warfare (3)
  
  Polish Underground State (3)
  
  obliterating the traces (3)
  
  Extermination of Jews (2)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (2)
  
  Underground culture and education (2)
  
  Aid to Jews (1)
  
  Aktion Zamość (1)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (1)
  
  Clandestine courses (1)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (1)
  
  Underground media (1)
Object type
- Account (340)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (18)
  
  Book excerpt (1)
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 (933)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (5)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (2)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (2)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (1)
Medium
- Text (945)
  
  Image (29)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (914)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (28)