„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)
- Anonymous (22)
  
  Szulc C. (7)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (4)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (4)
  
  Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (4)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 27.01.1913, Warsaw (4)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (4)
  
  Barzał Czesław; 09.10.1915, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Czardybon Bernard; 18.06.1901, Chorzów (3)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (3)
  
  Koczorowski Józef; 01.02.1919, Poznań (3)
  
  Konferowicz Wacław; 13.05.1912, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Kopta Marian; 08.12.1911, Kraków (3)
  
  Krokowski Jan; 08.05.1921, Nowy Sącz (3)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (3)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Maciejowski Adolf; 09.02.1910, Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Maliszewski Stefan; 23.05.1912, Warsaw (3)
  
  Maszczyk Antoni (3)
  
  Nowiński (3)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (3)
  
  Rżewski Władysław, 07.01.1894 (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)
  
  Wrona Edward; 13.10.1913, Tuchów (3)
  
  Al’ona, 1987 (2)
  
  Banach Ludwig; 24.08.1917, Bydgoszcz (2)
  
  Banach Ludwik; 24.08.1918 (2)
  
  Bartosiewicz Henryk; 1909? (2)
  
  Bartoszko Kazimierz; 09.10.1898 (2)
  
  Bicz Bolesław; 01.04.1889, Sporysz (Bielsk county) (2)
  
  Bloch Claude; 29.05.1910, Bourg-la-Reine (France) (2)
  
  Bryński Antoni; 18.01.1899, Radom (2)
  
  Budziaszek Maria; 08.09.1920, Kraków (2)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Chrościcki Julian; 26.05.1892, Szymony (2)
  
  Denkiewicz Michał; 08.09.1893, Wierzba (2)
  
  Drabek Jaroslav; 06.04.1901, Chrudim (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Dubas Irena; 19.10.1914, Nowy Sącz (2)
  
  Dudek Władysław; 16.06.1920, Radogoszcz (2)
  
  Dudek Władysław; 1920? (2)
  
  Filipowska (Freund) Ilza; 14.01.1902, Wrocław (2)
  
  Frankiewicz Janina; 13.08.1912, Wieliczka (2)
  
  Garbarczyk Andrzej (2)
  
  Gliński Bogdan; 08.12.1921, Sancygniów (2)
  
  Głowa Stanisław; 15.09.1898, Igołomia (2)
  
  Hanuszek Tadeusz; 11.07.1922, Kraków (2)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (2)
  
  Hys Stanisław; 19.07.1910, Sobolew (mazowieckie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Izbicki Michał; 05.02.1919, Janów (2)
  
  Jankowska Weronika; 1912? (2)
  
  Jaworska Bogna; 28.04.1925, Blachownia (2)
  
  Jędrusiak Michalina, 29.09.1906, Kraków (2)
  
  Kadłubowski Romuald; 27.02.1896, Słucz (2)
  
  Kahl Tadeusz; 27.07.1908, Kraków (2)
  
  Kaszyński Jan; 19.11.1920, Warsaw (2)
  
  Kiczmachowski Edward; 29.07.1920, Strasburg (2)
  
  Koczanowicz Stanisław; 05.05.1921, Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Korecki Stanisław; 06.03.1914, Wola Gręboszowska (2)
  
  Kotlarski Mieczysław; 09.10.1913, Osieczna (wielkopolskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Kołodziejczyk Aleksander; 21.01.1914, Kraków (2)
  
  Kościuszko Janina; 17.05.1897, Chrzanów? (2)
  
  Kraus Otto; 07.09.1909, Klášterní Skalice (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Kulesza Stanisław; 07.03.1907, Ponikiew Mała (2)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 04.05.1918, Kraków (2)
  
  Lasok Aniela; 1922? (2)
  
  Lechowski Maksymilian; 1900? (2)
  
  Lerczak Bolesław, 02.08.1912 (2)
  
  Liszka Edward; 25.07.1920, Kraków (2)
  
  Loth Felicjan; 30.06.1914, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Loth Felicjan; 30.06.1914, Lwów (now: Ukraine) (2)
  
  Ludwig Józef Paweł; 03.07.1910, Sosnowiec (2)
  
  Materkowski Antoni; 14.06.1899, Koprzywnica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Mikoda Bolesław; 14.05.1925, Bielsk (2)
  
  Mikołajski Zdzisław; 28.09.1913, Kraków (2)
  
  Misztal Konstanty; 28.01.1920, Warsaw (2)
  
  Mączka Zofia; 30.11.1905, Kraków (2)
  
  Nadrykowski Józef; 1893? (2)
  
  Nass Róża; 09.01.1907, Biała (Bielsko-Biała) (2)
  
  Niedojadło Eugeniusz; 21.11.1919, Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Olbrycht Jan; 06.05.1886, Zahutyń (2)
  
  Paczyński Józef; 29.01.1920, Wadowice (2)
  
  Pająk Franciszek (2)
  
  Palińska Kazimiera; 03.03.1883, Świr (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Paudyn Tadeusz; 16.12.1899, Radom (2)
  
  Plaskura Władysław; 10.05.1905, Łazy (Orłowa, Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Podgórski Antoni; 10.02.1890 (2)
  
  Podgórski Jan; 17.12.1901, Kraków (2)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (2)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 1911? (2)
  
  Pozimski Jerzy; 05.05.1913, Szarlej (Piekary Śląskie) (2)
  
  Prawer Seweryn; 1903? (2)
  
  Prząda Marian; 12.09.1920, Kraków (2)
  
  Puka Stanisław; 24.03.1921 (2)
  
  Rablin Andrzej; 01.01.1914, Kraków (2)
  
  Rajewski Ludwik; 16.12.1900, Łódź (2)
  
  Ratajczak Ignacy; 14.07.1903 (2)
  
  Reyman Jan; 21.10.1902, Kraków (2)
  
  Roszkowska Halina; 24.02.1911, Lublin (2)
Subject
- Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (261)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (238)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (222)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (126)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (114)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (93)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (89)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (80)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (72)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (68)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (52)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (45)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (44)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (44)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (42)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (39)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (38)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (35)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (34)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (29)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (27)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (25)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (24)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (24)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (23)
  
  A genocide conducted by Ukrainian Nationalists – Volhynia (22)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (21)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (19)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (17)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (17)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (17)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (16)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (16)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (16)
  
  Russian occupation – south Ukraine (15)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (14)
  
  Radom bathed in blood – the prison in the former convent buildings (13)
  
  Soldier's House, Fort VII, Żabikowo – the trail of death in Greater Poland (13)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (13)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (13)
  
  In exile – Siberia (12)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (12)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (12)
  
  Radom – daily terror (11)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (11)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (11)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (11)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (10)
  
  Browar, Czerwoniak – the Ostrów death blocks (9)
  
  In exile – Ural (9)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (9)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Sachsenhausen (9)
  
  Stadion Leśny, Słowik, Herby – execution sites in Kielce (9)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (9)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (8)
  
  Fighting in Donbas (2014 and/or 2022) (8)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (8)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (8)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (8)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (8)
  
  The persecuted church (8)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (7)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (7)
  
  Mariupol Siege (7)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Majdanek (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ryazan Oblast (7)
  
  A mass extermination – KL Flossenbürg (6)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Gliwice (6)
  
  Fighting for Kharkiv (6)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (6)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (6)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (6)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – the Stanisławów area (6)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Lublin region (6)
  
  Treblinka – extermination camp (6)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (5)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (5)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (5)
  
  Fighting for Kyiv (4)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (4)
  
  Lebensraum – the Germanization of the Zamość region (4)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Flossenbürg (4)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Częstochowa region (4)
  
  Pomiechówek Fort – the Mazovian torture complex (4)
  
  Russian occupation – Kharkiv Oblast (4)
  
  Soviets in German captivity (4)
  
  The city condemned to death (4)
  
  The tragedy of the Radom Arms Factory (4)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (4)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (3)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (3)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Neuengamme (3)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (3)
  
  The Free City of Danzig – erasing Polishness (3)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Radom region (3)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (3)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (3)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (3)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (3)
  
  A mass extermination – KL Mauthausen-Gusen (2)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz I (362)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (303)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (292)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (248)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (218)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (206)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (191)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (181)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (147)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (108)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (97)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (95)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (94)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (92)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (90)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (89)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (87)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (85)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (84)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (74)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (72)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (67)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (63)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (61)
  
  KL Majdanek (60)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (60)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (56)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (55)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (55)
  
  Warsaw (54)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (51)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (49)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (46)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (46)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (46)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (45)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (44)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (44)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (43)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (42)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (41)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (40)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (40)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (40)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (39)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (39)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (37)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (35)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (35)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (34)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (34)
  
  KL Plaszow (34)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (34)
  
  Bochnia, train station (33)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (33)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (32)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (31)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (31)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (30)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (30)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (30)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (30)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (29)
  
  Radom, Gestapo headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (29)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (27)
  
  Bydgoszcz (27)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (27)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (27)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (27)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (27)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (26)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (26)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (26)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (26)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no 2, Zamarstynowska Street 7/9 (26)
  
  Nakhodka (Russia, Primorsky Krai) (26)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (26)
  
  Sevvostlag (Russia, Magadan Oblast) (26)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (25)
  
  Kraków (25)
  
  Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (25)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (25)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (24)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (24)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (23)
  
  Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a (23)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (22)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (22)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania), Łukiszki prison, Więzienna Street ( Lukiškių Street 6) (22)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (21)
  
  Lublin (21)
  
  Przemyśl (21)
  
  Rajsko, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (21)
  
  Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (20)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (20)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (20)
  
  Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 (20)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (20)
  
  Minsk (Belarus), "Wołodarka" prison, Waladarskaha Street 2 (20)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (20)
Oblast
- Zaporizhia (13)
  
  Donetsk (11)
  
  Kherson (11)
  
  Kharkiv (10)
  
  Luhansk (6)
  
  Kyiv (4)
  
  Kyiv Oblast (2)
  
  Sumy (2)
  
  Mykolaiv (1)
Raion
- Mariupol (7)
  
  Kherson (5)
  
  Vasylivka (5)
  
  Kharkiv (4)
  
  Bucha (3)
  
  Kakhovka (3)
  
  Svatove (3)
  
  Berdyansk (2)
  
  Beryslav (2)
  
  Donetsk (2)
  
  Izium (2)
  
  Kramatorsk (2)
  
  Kupyansk (2)
  
  Melitopol (2)
  
  Severodonetsk (2)
  
  Сhuhuiv (2)
  
  Kiev (1)
  
  Kyiv (1)
  
  Markivka (1)
  
  Mykolaiv (1)
  
  Polohy (1)
  
  Romny (1)
  
  Skadovsk (1)
  
  Zaporizhia (1)
Victims
- The Poles (2102)
  
  Civilians (1989)
  
  The Civilian Population (1803)
  
  Women (919)
  
  The Jews (849)
  
  The Inteligentsia (689)
  
  Children (564)
  
  The sick (553)
  
  The Sick (523)
  
  Russians/Soviets (493)
  
  The Russians (424)
  
  Prisoners of War (406)
  
  Ukrainians (391)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (278)
  
  The elderly (267)
  
  The Elderly (237)
  
  Policemen (194)
  
  Deportees (189)
  
  Belarusians (151)
  
  The Church (129)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (122)
  
  Germans (110)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (96)
  
  Hungarians (93)
  
  Internees (91)
  
  Czechs (87)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (83)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (77)
  
  The French (69)
  
  Lithuanians (65)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (61)
  
  Border Guard (58)
  
  Landowners (54)
  
  Slovaks (53)
  
  Belgians (48)
  
  The Dutch (45)
  
  Border Protection Corps (43)
  
  Greeks (41)
  
  The Disabled (40)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (38)
  
  The Communists (36)
  
  Latvians (28)
  
  Estonians (20)
  
  Romanians (18)
  
  Italians (17)
  
  Americans (12)
  
  Norwegians (12)
  
  The British (11)
  
  Prison Guard (7)
  
  Finns (5)
  
  the Chinese (4)
  
  Georgians (2)
  
  Serbs (2)
  
  Scouts (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (694)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (311)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (262)
  
  Collaboration (197)
  
  Denunciation (131)
  
  Red Army (129)
  
  Military Police (124)
  
  Soviet Militia (101)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (91)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (83)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (67)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (66)
  
  Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (54)
  
  Lithuanians (49)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (46)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (37)
  
  Collaborators (22)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (20)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (17)
  
  Donetsk People’s Militia (all military formations of so-called separatist republics DNR and LNR) (14)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (14)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (12)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (12)
  
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  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Brutal interrogation/Tortures (2226)
  
  Beating (1701)
  
  Forced labor (1487)
  
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  Biological extermination (1353)
  
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  Judicial crime (415)
  
  Punishment cell (381)
  
  Gas chambers (342)
  
  Cattle wagons (324)
  
  Cremation of corpses (311)
  
  Cremation (296)
  
  Hanging (216)
  
  Mass graves (139)
  
  Medical experiments (133)
  
  Economic exploitation (129)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (112)
  
  Round-up (108)
  
  "Dosing" (103)
  
  Disarmament (103)
  
  Burning people alive (87)
  
  Displacement (82)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (76)
  
  Racial policy (73)
  
  Desacration of corpses (72)
  
  Expulsion (67)
  
  Roads of death (66)
  
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  Armored weapons (56)
  
  Destruction of civilian infrastructure (41)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (41)
  
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  The liquidation of ghetto (39)
  
  Artillery shelling (38)
  
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Content
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  Polish culture in exile (121)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (98)
  
  Obliterating the traces (90)
  
  First deportation (87)
  
  obliterating the traces (86)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (59)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (58)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (57)
  
  Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022) (56)
  
  Civil resistance (55)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (52)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (48)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (39)
  
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  Evacuation from war zone/occupied territories (27)
  
  Underground media (27)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (25)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (24)
  
  Polish Underground State (19)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (18)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (17)
  
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  Judenrat (14)
  
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  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (13)
  
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  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (12)
  
  Central Welfare Council (11)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (8)
  
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  Urban warfare (8)
  
  Armed Forces of Ukraine (7)
  
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  Sonderaktion Krakau (7)
  
  Called by name (5)
  
  War in Donbas (2014) (5)
  
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  Free City of Danzig (4)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (4)
  
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  Wola Massacre (3)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (3)
  
  Bucha Massacre (2)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (2)
  
  “Donetsk People’s Republic” (2)
  
  “Luhansk People’s Republic” (2)
  
  Aid to Jews (1)
  
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  the Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (1)
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  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (93)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (82)
  
  Lemkin Center (57)
  
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  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland. Research and investigative files (24)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (23)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (17)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (15)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (14)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków (13)
  
  Provincial Office of Internal Affairs in Katowice (12)
  
  District Court in Łomża (8)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (4)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland 1949–1984 (3)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (3)
  
  Office of the District Authorities in Ostrów Mazowiecka (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation – Institute of National Remembrance in Białystok (1)
  
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Testimony availability ^?
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  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (273)