„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)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (4)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 27.01.1913, Warsaw (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)
  
  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)
  
  Olbrycht Jan; 06.05.1886, Zahutyń (3)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (3)
  
  Pająk Wilibald; 15.12.1922, Katowice (3)
  
  Plaskura Władysław; 10.05.1905, Łazy (Orłowa, Czech Republic) (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)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (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)
  
  Dubicki Bogusław; 1910? (2)
  
  Dubiel Stanisław; 13.11.1910, Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Franaszewski Hieronim; 30.09.1904, Warsaw (2)
  
  Frankiewicz Janina; 13.08.1912, Wieliczka (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)
  
  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)
  
  Paczyński Józef; 29.01.1920, Wadowice (2)
  
  Panasiewicz Adam; 23.03.1898, Krystynopol (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Pietrzyk Jerzy; 1914? (2)
  
  Plaskura Józef; 23.01.1911, Brzeszcze (2)
  
  Plaskura Władysław; 10.05.1905, Łazy (now: Orłowa, Czech Republic) (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)
  
  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)
  
  Wolken Otto; 27.04.1903, Vien (Austria) (2)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now: Ukraine) (2)
  
  Wąsowicz Tadeusz; 29.07.1906, Limanowa (2)
  
  Zacharski Adam; 09.04.1899, Kraków (2)
  
  Łachecki Czesław; 13.09.1902, Nisko (podkarpackie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Adler Jermie; 21.03.1902, Solotwyno (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Adler Jermie; 21.03.1902, Sołotwyno (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Ajdelman Gania; 23.02.1924, Lubartów (lubelskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Alcan Louise; 17.02.1910, Paris (France) (1)
Subject
- Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (191)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (146)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (108)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (34)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (34)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (33)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (24)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (24)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (23)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (17)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (10)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (6)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (6)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (5)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (4)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (4)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (3)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (2)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Gliwice (2)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Sachsenhausen (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (2)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (2)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Białystok Ghetto (2)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Babice (1)
  
  Dispersed terror – the sub-camp of KL Auschwitz in Babice (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Polesie region (1)
  
  For show – Familienlager Theresienstadt (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Zamość Ghetto (1)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (1)
  
  Lebensraum – the Germanization of the Zamość region (1)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Majdanek (1)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Neuengamme (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Stutthof (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Tarnów Ghetto (1)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Lublin region (1)
  
  Third Reich – the Kielce region (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (427)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (356)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (352)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (350)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (212)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (207)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (107)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (80)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (74)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (67)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (65)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (62)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (55)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (54)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (51)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (49)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (49)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (45)
  
  KL Majdanek (43)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (43)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (42)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (36)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (35)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (31)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (28)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (26)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (25)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (25)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (25)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (23)
  
  Bochnia, train station (22)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (22)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (22)
  
  Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (22)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (21)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (21)
  
  Warsaw (21)
  
  Bydgoszcz (20)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (19)
  
  Rajsko, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (19)
  
  Łódź (18)
  
  Majdanek, German extermination camp (17)
  
  Lublin (16)
  
  Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (14)
  
  Kraków (14)
  
  Zamość, resettlement camp, Okrzei Street (13)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (11)
  
  KL Plaszow (11)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (10)
  
  Jawiszowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (10)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, SS-Stabsgebaude (10)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (10)
  
  KL Neuengamme (Germany) (10)
  
  Mechelen (Belgium), transit camp (10)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (10)
  
  Jaworzno, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (8)
  
  KL Mittelbau-Dora (Germany) (8)
  
  Paris (France) (8)
  
  Tarnów (8)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (8)
  
  Brussels (Belgium) (7)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (7)
  
  KL Ebensee (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) (7)
  
  KL Malchow (KL Ravensbrück subcamp, Germany) (7)
  
  Katowice (7)
  
  Nowy Wiśnicz (7)
  
  Pszczyna (7)
  
  Radom (7)
  
  Babice, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (6)
  
  Dresden (Germany) (6)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (6)
  
  KL Melk (Austria) (6)
  
  KL Stutthof (6)
  
  Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 (6)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (6)
  
  Wodzisław Śląski (6)
  
  Brzeszcze (5)
  
  Będzin (5)
  
  Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (5)
  
  Hamburg (Germany) (5)
  
  Harmęże, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (5)
  
  Jasło, temporary remand prison, Staszica Street 3 (5)
  
  Mysłowice (śląskie voivodeship) (5)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (5)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (5)
  
  Rajsko (Oświęcim district) (5)
  
  Sosnowiec (Śląskie Voivodeship) (5)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (5)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (5)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz I (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz IV (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  Bliżyn, forced labor camp (4)
  
  Goleszów, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  KL Barth (subcamp of KL Ravensbrück, Germany) (4)
  
  KL Melk (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) (4)
  
  Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 (4)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (4)
  
  Międzybrodzie Bialskie, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  Nowy Sącz (4)
  
  Berlin, Moabit prison, Lehrter Strasse 5 (3)
Victims
- Civilians (520)
  
  The Civilian Population (514)
  
  The Poles (478)
  
  The Jews (396)
  
  Women (343)
  
  The sick (235)
  
  The Sick (232)
  
  Children (211)
  
  The Inteligentsia (192)
  
  Russians/Soviets (168)
  
  The Russians (161)
  
  Prisoners of War (128)
  
  Hungarians (113)
  
  The elderly (113)
  
  The Elderly (111)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (84)
  
  The French (77)
  
  Czechs (76)
  
  Slovaks (72)
  
  Germans (69)
  
  Belgians (55)
  
  The Dutch (55)
  
  Greeks (47)
  
  The Church (41)
  
  The Communists (36)
  
  The Disabled (31)
  
  Italians (22)
  
  Americans (15)
  
  Norwegians (12)
  
  The British (9)
  
  Romanians (7)
  
  Ukrainians (6)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (4)
  
  Latvians (2)
  
  Lithuanians (2)
  
  Serbs (2)
  
  Bulgarians (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (491)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (144)
  
  Collaboration (53)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (29)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (23)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (23)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (15)
  
  Military Police (14)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (9)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (5)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (5)
  
  Waffen-SS (5)
  
  Latvians (4)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (4)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (4)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (3)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (3)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (3)
  
  Denunciation (2)
  
  Lithuanians (2)
  
  Red Army (2)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (2)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (1)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (1)
  
  Postal Protection (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Gas chambers (438)
  
  Beating (410)
  
  Forced labor (366)
  
  Execution (356)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (341)
  
  Cremation of corpses (301)
  
  Cremation (299)
  
  Death by shooting (286)
  
  Biological extermination (282)
  
  Arrest (192)
  
  Deportation (192)
  
  Robbery (172)
  
  Hanging (128)
  
  Medical experiments (106)
  
  "Dosing" (97)
  
  Cattle wagons (63)
  
  Mass graves (63)
  
  Economic exploitation (58)
  
  Burning people alive (55)
  
  Desacration of corpses (44)
  
  Death marches (43)
  
  Racial policy (42)
  
  Displacement (34)
  
  Expulsion (32)
  
  Round-up (31)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (28)
  
  Judicial crime (26)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (24)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (17)
  
  Rape (17)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (16)
  
  Administrative persecution (9)
  
  Disarmament (9)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (9)
  
  Germanization (8)
  
  Collectivization (6)
  
  Air raids (4)
  
  Armored weapons (4)
  
  Deportation/Exile (2)
  
  Artillery fire (1)
  
  Artillery shelling (1)
  
  Denationalization (1)
Place
- Extermination camp (525)
  
  Concentration camp (491)
  
  Prison (110)
  
  Labor camp (68)
  
  Ghetto (33)
  
  Police headquarters/station (30)
  
  Transit camp (29)
  
  Forced labor (21)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (4)
  
  Center for the Germanization of children (1)
  
  Internment camp (1)
  
  NKVD custody suite (1)
Content
- Extermination of Jews (298)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (140)
  
  Obliterating the traces (91)
  
  obliterating the traces (87)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (85)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (84)
  
  Health service (75)
  
  Aktion Zamość (40)
  
  Civil resistance (35)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (16)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (14)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (12)
  
  Rescue of Jews (12)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (11)
  
  Polish Underground State (10)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (9)
  
  Underground media (9)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (7)
  
  Judenrat (6)
  
  Underground courts (6)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (5)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (5)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (4)
  
  Central Welfare Council (4)
  
  Aktion T4 (3)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (3)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (3)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (3)
  
  Called by name (2)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (2)
  
  Underground culture and education (2)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (1)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (1)
  
  Field health service (1)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (1)
  
  Operation "Tempest" (1)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (1)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
  
  the Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (482)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (19)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (14)
  
  Brief (10)
  
  Account (1)
  
  Book excerpt (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Supreme National Tribunal (462)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (13)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (10)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (9)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (8)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (4)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (3)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków (3)
  
  District Court in Radom (1)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (1)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (1)
Medium
- Text (530)
  
  Image (102)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (504)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (26)