“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)
- Lorentz Stanisław; 28.04.1899, Radom (2)
  
  Adamski Alojzy, 1908.06.30 (1)
  
  Anlen Bronisław Elkana; 9.05.1907, Warsaw (1)
  
  Banbura Maria (1)
  
  Baran Stanisław (1)
  
  Baszker Fiyszel, 1899.08.06 (1)
  
  Bednarczyk Jan (1)
  
  Bolbat Władysław (1)
  
  Brzeziński Bronisław; 20.07.1905, Warsaw (1)
  
  Chomczyk Leon; 02.10.1906, Piaski (Piotrków county) (1)
  
  Chyliński Aleksander, 1914.05.24 (1)
  
  Cieplewski Janusz (1)
  
  Cieszkowski Kazimierz; 1921? (1)
  
  Cugowski Karol; 30.01.1882 (1)
  
  Czapnicki Erwin (1)
  
  Damięcki Dobiesław; 02.04.1899, Karniewek (1)
  
  Dreyza Jerzy; 19.07.1902, Brzóstownia (1)
  
  Drogosz Natalia (1)
  
  Dryja-Wysocki Stanisław (1)
  
  Falk Ignacy; 1902? (1)
  
  Falska Helena; 1900? (1)
  
  Filipowicz Władysław, 1894.09.22 (1)
  
  Filipowski Andrzej, 1899 (1)
  
  Fronenberg Moszek; 04.04.1921, Puławy (1)
  
  Gałuszewski Kazimierz; 1899.03.04 (1)
  
  Gitler-Barski Józef; 03.03.1898, Warsaw (1)
  
  Goldebrg Jakub; 1899.10.14 (1)
  
  Grajnert Stanisław; 1899 (1)
  
  Górecki Tadeusz; 18.10.1919, Radomsko (1)
  
  Gładysz Franciszek; 21.04.1903 (1)
  
  Idzikowski Aleksander; 03.02.1927, Warsaw (1)
  
  Jamioł Agnieszka; 1881?, Galów (1)
  
  Jan Chwastek; 1900.01.06 (1)
  
  Józefczyk Wojciech; 1896.11.14 (1)
  
  Kalinko Józef; 27.01.1912, Augustów (podlaskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Kiniorska Władysława; 1913? (1)
  
  Kowalska Maria; 09.01.1920, Warsaw (1)
  
  Kowalska Maria; 1910? (1)
  
  Kuchta Jan (1)
  
  Kulawik Justyna; 1909? (1)
  
  Kura Helena; 02.02.1920, Brzesko (1)
  
  Lehr-Spławiński Tadeusz; 1890? (1)
  
  Litka Mieczysław; 28.03.1926 (1)
  
  Marcinkiewicz Stefan (1)
  
  Maron Irena (1)
  
  Małkiewicz Józef; 1899 (1)
  
  Milewczyk Władysław; 1901? (1)
  
  Młynarczyk Stanisława; 24.01.1904, Kielce (1)
  
  Niewiarowicz Roman; 15.01.1902 (1)
  
  Nowak Danuta; 21.01.1921 Kamieniec Litewski (Kamieniec, now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Nowak Danuta; 21.01.1921, Kamieniec Litewski (Kamieniec, now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Nowakowska Maria; 1906? (1)
  
  Nowakowska Maria; 1915? (1)
  
  Oryński Czesław (1)
  
  Orzechowska Anna; 1917? (1)
  
  Ostasiewicz Wacław, 1896 (1)
  
  Paszewski Zygmunt (1)
  
  Piełowski Gerard; 1906? (1)
  
  Pipka Małgorzata; 1885? (1)
  
  Pięta Eugeniusz (1)
  
  Ptak Stanisław; 1902? (1)
  
  Putkowska Janina Barbara; 15.09.1924, Warsaw (1)
  
  Racki Wawrzyniec, 1904 (1)
  
  Rataj Tomasz (1)
  
  Rudnicki Henryk Michał; 25.06.1899, Grodno (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Rymkowski Michał Kazimierz; 15.09.1909 (1)
  
  Rzeszotarski Adam; 06.02.1903, Kutno (1)
  
  Sendecki Sylwester; 1903? (1)
  
  Szczepanik Irena; 18.03.1918, Warsaw (1)
  
  Targosz Franciszek; 07.09.1899, Kończyce? (1)
  
  Targosz Franciszek; 1898? (1)
  
  Tchórzewski Józef (1)
  
  Tyszka Bolesław; 1905.03.02 (1)
  
  Wagner Janusz Bogumił; 31.03.1898, Orsha (Belarus) (1)
  
  Waluda Wawrzyniec (1)
  
  Wasilczyk Władysław (1)
  
  Wierzbiński Józef, 1899 (1)
  
  Wolszczak Genowefa; 1919? (1)
  
  Wutke Paweł; 1893 (1)
  
  Zakrzecki Szymon, 1894 (1)
  
  Ziara Władysława (1)
  
  Ziemiewicz Bohdan; 16.09.1907, Warsaw (1)
  
  Śliwicki Zygmunt; 14.03.1903, Sierakowice (łódzkie voivodeship) (1)
Subject
- The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (19)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (18)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (11)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (8)
  
  In exile – Siberia (7)
  
  In exile – Ural (7)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (7)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (6)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (6)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (5)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (5)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (4)
  
  The Free City of Danzig – erasing Polishness (4)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (4)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (4)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (4)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (3)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz (3)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (2)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (2)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (2)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (2)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (2)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (2)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  The city condemned to death (2)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (2)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Tarnów Ghetto (1)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (1)
  
  Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages (1)
  
  Michniów – the extermination of the Polish countryside (1)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Greater Poland (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (1)
  
  Prisoners of war – transit camps in Kielce (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (1)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Żoliborz (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (16)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (13)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (12)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (12)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (10)
  
  Łomża, prison, Legionów Avenue 36 (10)
  
  Warsaw, Hotel Polski, Długa Street 29 (9)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (8)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (8)
  
  Skałka Polska (8)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (7)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (7)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship), Agricultural School, Wojska Polskiego Street 78 (7)
  
  Łopuszno (7)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (6)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (6)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (5)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (5)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (5)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (5)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (5)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (5)
  
  Warsaw (5)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) (5)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (4)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (4)
  
  Leokadiów (4)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (4)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (4)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (4)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (4)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (4)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (4)
  
  Warsaw, Pfeiffer Brothers' Tannery Factory, Okopowa Street 58/72 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Polish Security Printing Works, Sanguszki Street 1 (4)
  
  Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (3)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (3)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (3)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (3)
  
  Hanover (Germany) (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (3)
  
  Kielce, Lipowa Street (Wojska Polskiego Street) (3)
  
  Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) (3)
  
  Minsk (Belarus), NKVD remand center "Amerykanka", Hradsky Val Street 4 (3)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (3)
  
  Pavlodar (Kazakhstan) (3)
  
  Podwołoczyska (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (3)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (3)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (3)
  
  Turkistan (Kazakhstan) (3)
  
  Vittel (France) (3)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (3)
  
  Warsaw, General Directorate of State Forests, Wawelska Street 52/54 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (3)
  
  Warsaw, Polish Theater, Karasia Street 2 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Traugutta Park (3)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (3)
  
  Zaporizhia (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (3)
  
  Abez (Russia, Komi Republic) (2)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (2)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (2)
  
  Busk (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (2)
  
  Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship), Gestapo headquarters, Rostka Street 2 (2)
  
  Gdynia (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (2)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (2)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (2)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (2)
  
  KL Majdanek (2)
  
  Kagan (Uzbekistan) (2)
  
  Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (2)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (2)
  
  Kielce, Sienkiewicza Street (2)
  
  Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 (2)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (2)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (2)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (2)
  
  Olesko (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (2)
  
  Ostróg (now in Ukraine), transit camp (Barracks of the 19th Volhynian Uhlan Regiment) (2)
  
  Przemyśl, prison, Rokitniańska Street 1 (2)
  
  Pługów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (2)
  
  Radom (2)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (2)
  
  Rawa Ruska (Ukraine), NKVD prison (2)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (2)
  
  Siblag (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (2)
  
  Syktyvkar (Russia, Komi Republic) (2)
  
  Taraz (Jambyl, Kazakhstan) (2)
  
  Tashlak (Toshloq, Uzbekistan) (2)
  
  Turtkul (Uzbekistan) (2)
  
  Ukhto-Izhemsky Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (2)
  
  Ukmergė (Lithuania), internee camp (2)
  
  Viatlag (Russia, Kirov Oblast) (2)
  
  Vitebsk (Belarus), NKVD prison, Surazhska Street (Gagarina Street 2) (2)
  
  Warsaw, Church of the Mother of God, Queen of Poland, Gdańska Street 6A (2)
Victims
- The Poles (159)
  
  Civilians (137)
  
  The Civilian Population (72)
  
  Women (56)
  
  The Inteligentsia (54)
  
  The Jews (49)
  
  Children (46)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (40)
  
  Deportees (39)
  
  Prisoners of War (31)
  
  Ukrainians (24)
  
  The sick (23)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (21)
  
  Russians/Soviets (16)
  
  The Sick (15)
  
  Belarusians (13)
  
  Policemen (12)
  
  The elderly (12)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (9)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (8)
  
  Border Guard (6)
  
  The Church (6)
  
  The Elderly (5)
  
  Internees (4)
  
  Germans (3)
  
  Latvians (3)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (3)
  
  Estonians (2)
  
  Lithuanians (2)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (2)
  
  Slovaks (2)
  
  Americans (1)
  
  Border Protection Corps (1)
  
  Hungarians (1)
  
  Prison Guard (1)
  
  Romanians (1)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (1)
  
  The Russians (1)
Perpetrators
- Red Army (28)
  
  SS (20)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (15)
  
  Military Police (13)
  
  Denunciation (11)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (11)
  
  Collaboration (9)
  
  Soviet Militia (9)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (8)
  
  Collaborators (7)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (7)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (5)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (4)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (3)
  
  Latvians (3)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (3)
  
  Lithuanians (2)
  
  The Russian National Liberation Army (RONA) (2)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (107)
  
  Biological extermination (100)
  
  Arrest (92)
  
  Beating (60)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (49)
  
  Deportation/Exile (39)
  
  Death by shooting (38)
  
  Judicial crime (37)
  
  Execution (32)
  
  Robbery (22)
  
  Cattle wagons (20)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (16)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (16)
  
  Punishment cell (13)
  
  Cremation (11)
  
  Cremation of corpses (11)
  
  Disarmament (9)
  
  Administrative persecution (8)
  
  Air raids (7)
  
  Deportation (7)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (7)
  
  Forced voting (6)
  
  Round-up (6)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (6)
  
  Displacement (5)
  
  Mass graves (5)
  
  Armored weapons (4)
  
  Economic exploitation (4)
  
  Expulsion (4)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (4)
  
  Artillery fire (3)
  
  Artillery shelling (3)
  
  Burning people alive (3)
  
  Gas chambers (3)
  
  Racial policy (3)
  
  Rape (3)
  
  Sovietization (3)
  
  Death marches (2)
  
  Denationalization (2)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (2)
  
  Hanging (2)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (2)
  
  Roads of death (2)
  
  Desacration of corpses (1)
  
  Germanization (1)
  
  Human shields (1)
Place
- Spetsposelok (special settlement) (33)
  
  Kolkhoz (27)
  
  NKVD custody suite (27)
  
  Prison (25)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (20)
  
  Mine (17)
  
  Transit camp (17)
  
  Ghetto (7)
  
  Concentration camp (6)
  
  Extermination camp (6)
  
  Internment camp (5)
  
  Police headquarters/station (5)
  
  Sovkhoz (3)
  
  Forced labor (2)
  
  Labor camp (1)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (1)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (1)
Content
- Health service (74)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (21)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (14)
  
  Epidemics (12)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (12)
  
  Extermination of Jews (11)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (10)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (7)
  
  Civil resistance (6)
  
  Rescue of Jews (6)
  
  First deportation (5)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (5)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (5)
  
  Amnesty (4)
  
  Free City of Danzig (4)
  
  Ochota Massacre (3)
  
  Third deportation (3)
  
  Underground courts (3)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (3)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (3)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (3)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (2)
  
  Central Welfare Council (2)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (2)
  
  Military hospital (2)
  
  Obliterating the traces (2)
  
  Polish Underground State (2)
  
  Underground culture and education (2)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (1)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (1)
  
  Judenrat (1)
  
  Pabst Plan (Pabst-Plan) (1)
  
  Polish culture in exile (1)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (1)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (1)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (1)
  
  Students' Army Corps (1)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (1)
  
  Underground media (1)
  
  obliterating the traces (1)
  
  the Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (1)
Object type
- Account (61)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (42)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (15)
  
  Brief (3)
  
  Official memo (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 (105)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (16)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (13)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (10)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (7)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (6)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (3)
  
  District Court in Radom (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (1)
  
  Katyn Museum (1)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (1)
Medium
- Text (164)
  
  Image (12)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (161)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (11)