“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)
- Bartoszko Kazimierz; 09.10.1898 (2)
  
  Lenczewski Tadeusz; 1913?, Rzędziany (2)
  
  Lewicki W. (2)
  
  Libkind-Lubodziecki Stanisław; 24.01.1879, Warsaw (2)
  
  Lipski Jan (2)
  
  Michalski Zbigniew (2)
  
  Mongiałło Wacław; 1910 (2)
  
  Nita Maria, 04.07.1919 (2)
  
  Nowak Jan (2)
  
  Puka Stanisław; 24.03.1921 (2)
  
  Tarkowski Bronisław; 1917.12.13 (2)
  
  Tomaszewski Zdzisław (2)
  
  Zdanowicz Michał; 1899.12.11 (2)
  
  Adamczyk Karol (1)
  
  Adamowicz Alfons; 15.12.1906, Białystok (1)
  
  Adamowicz Wiktor; 08.03.1903 (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)
  
  Aktanarowicz Mieczysław; 1923? (1)
  
  Alchimowicz Kazimierz; 1906 (1)
  
  Aleksandrów Władysław; 1919? (1)
  
  Aleksiejuk Mieczysław, 1908.05.03 (1)
  
  Ambros Florian; 1913? (1)
  
  Ambroziak Jan (1)
  
  Ambroziewicz Michał; 1904? (1)
  
  Andruszkiewicz Józef; 1893? (1)
  
  Andrzejewski Teodor; 1904? (1)
  
  Aniszkiewicz Józef; 1895? (1)
  
  Ankudowicz Władysław; 23.10.1923, Białystok (1)
  
  Anonymous (1)
  
  Antkowski Konstanty (1)
  
  Apelbaum Leib; 1921? (1)
  
  Aranowicz Jerma; 1907? (1)
  
  Arciszewski Franciszek; 02.11.1908, Łódź (1)
  
  Arciszewski Jan, 1907, Pińsk (1)
  
  Arociak (1)
  
  Atras Franciszek, 1900.10.08 (1)
  
  Augustowicz Bolesław; 1912 (1)
  
  Augustyn Bolesław; 1902 (1)
  
  Aunszlok Kazimierz (1)
  
  Awdziej Alfons; 15.02.1900 (1)
  
  Awienko Henryk; 1910? (1)
  
  Babiarz Paweł, 1900.07.06 (1)
  
  Badach Julian, 05.10.1918 Sulmice (1)
  
  Badurak Bronislaw, 1905 (1)
  
  Badurak Bronisław; 1905 (1)
  
  Baka Jan; 1896 (1)
  
  Bakun Wladyslaw, 1906 (1)
  
  Bakun Władysław; 1906 (1)
  
  Bakuła Antoni; 1899 (1)
  
  Bakuła Antoni; 1900 (1)
  
  Balawajder Franciszek (1)
  
  Balawender Antonina (1)
  
  Balcar Karol, 1915? (1)
  
  Balińska Janina; 19.03.1905, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Baliński Kazimierz, 1901 (1)
  
  Balter Berek; 15.01.1909 (1)
  
  Balter Berek; 15.01.1910 (1)
  
  Banach Jan; 1894? (1)
  
  Banasiewicz Józef (1)
  
  Banaszkiewicz Jan, 1894 (1)
  
  Banaś Jan; 1893 (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899 (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899?, Brynica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Barachowski Jan, 1900 (1)
  
  Baran Jan, 1906.02.04 (1)
  
  Baran Stanisław (1)
  
  Baranowski Antoni; 1905 (1)
  
  Baranowski Julian; 1902 (1)
  
  Baranowski Maksymilian (1)
  
  Barbachowski Wladyslaw; 1903 (1)
  
  Barczak Franciszek; 03.04.1913, Świeca (1)
  
  Barczykowski Jan 1914 (1)
  
  Barczykowski Jan; 05.01.1914, Spieczyny (1)
  
  Bardach Jakub; 1909 (1)
  
  Bardas Piotr; 1916, Görlitz (Germany) (1)
  
  Barna Teodor; 1900 (1)
  
  Baroni Jan; 1985 (1)
  
  Bartkiewicz Władysław; 1918?, Delatyn (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bartkiewicz Władysław; 1918?, Delatyn (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bartosiak Kazimierz; 1898 (1)
  
  Bartosiewicz Marcin, 1908 (1)
  
  Bartoszewicz Emilia; 09.11.1915 (1)
  
  Bartoszyński Józef; 1913 (1)
  
  Barwicki Władysław; 1898 (1)
  
  Baszker Fiyszel, 1899.08.06 (1)
  
  Bator Franciszek (1)
  
  Batory Nadzieja; 1923?, Płaszówka (now: Ukraine, Rivne Oblast) (1)
  
  Batura Józef; 1916 (1)
  
  Bauer Ludmiła; 28.01.1922 (1)
  
  Baumgarten Józefina (1)
  
  Bazylewicz Aleksy, 1892 (1)
  
  Bazyliński Józef (1)
  
  Bałajewicz Jadwiga; 1913 (1)
  
  Bałajewicz Jadwiga; 1914 (1)
  
  Bednarczyk Czesław (1)
Subject
- The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (393)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (339)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (227)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (197)
  
  In exile – Siberia (158)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (132)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (124)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (106)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (91)
  
  In exile – Ural (86)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (77)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (67)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (61)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (59)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (55)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (44)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (43)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (39)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (25)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (24)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (23)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (22)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (15)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (13)
  
  In exile – Povolzhye (10)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (9)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Republic of Mordovia (8)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ryazan Oblast (8)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (7)
  
  In exile – Mari El Republic (7)
  
  In exile – Far East (5)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Vologda Oblast (4)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Sverdlovsk Oblast (3)
  
  Deported – the Altai Krai (2)
  
  Deported – the Perm Krai (2)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (2)
  
  the Gulag Archipelago – the Republic of Karelia (2)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Archipełag Gułag - Powołże (1)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching classes – Volhynia (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Lesser Poland (1)
  
  Deported – the Novosibirsk Oblast (1)
  
  Deported – the Rostov Oblast (1)
  
  Deported – the Volgograd Oblast (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (1)
  
  In exile – Rostov Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Ryazan Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Volgograd Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Yaroslavl Oblast (1)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (1)
  
  Lebensraum – the Germanization of the Zamość region (1)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Kraków (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (1)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ivanovo Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Tambov Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Tver Oblast (1)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (1)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (1)
  
  the Gulag Archipelago – the Krasnoyarsk Krai (1)
  
  the Gulag Archipelago – the Ukraine (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (486)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (394)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (261)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (217)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (200)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (187)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (174)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (159)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (157)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (131)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (117)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (112)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (110)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (108)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (96)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (94)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (92)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (91)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (80)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (79)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (79)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (72)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (67)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (65)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (63)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (62)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (60)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (58)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (58)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (57)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (56)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (55)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (55)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (53)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (53)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (52)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (52)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (51)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (51)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (51)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (49)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (48)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (46)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (45)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (44)
  
  Ostashkov (Russia, Tver Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (44)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (43)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (42)
  
  Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia) (41)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (41)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (41)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (41)
  
  Łomża, prison, Legionów Avenue 36 (41)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (40)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (40)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (40)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (39)
  
  Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (38)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (38)
  
  Sevvostlag (Russia, Magadan Oblast) (38)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (38)
  
  Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (37)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (37)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (37)
  
  Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a (37)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (35)
  
  Białystok (34)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (34)
  
  Kermine (Navoiy, Uzbekistan) (33)
  
  Nakhodka (Russia, Primorsky Krai) (33)
  
  Połąga (now in Lithuania), internee camp (33)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no 2, Zamarstynowska Street 7/9 (32)
  
  Tehran (Iran) (32)
  
  Ukmergė (Lithuania), internee camp (32)
  
  Warsaw (32)
  
  Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (31)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (31)
  
  Kagan (Uzbekistan) (31)
  
  Przemyśl, prison, Rokitniańska Street 1 (31)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania), Łukiszki prison, Więzienna Street ( Lukiškių Street 6) (30)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (29)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (29)
  
  Bezymyanlag (Russia, Samara Oblast) (28)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (28)
  
  Tashlak (Toshloq, Uzbekistan) (28)
  
  Minsk (Belarus), "Wołodarka" prison, Waladarskaha Street 2 (27)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania) (27)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (now in Lithuania), internee camp (27)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (27)
  
  Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (26)
  
  Kherson (Ukraine), prison, Perekopska Street 10 (26)
  
  Kozelschyna (Ukraine, Poltava Oblast), transit camp (26)
  
  Przemyśl (26)
  
  Barnaul (Russia, Altai Krai) (25)
  
  Berezwecz (Głębokie, now in Belarus), NKVD prison (Basilian monastery), Sovetskaya Street 201 (25)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (25)
  
  Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) (25)
  
  Turtkul (Uzbekistan) (24)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison (Castle) (24)
  
  Kniazhpogost (Russia, Komi Republic) (23)
Victims
- The Poles (2547)
  
  Civilians (1956)
  
  The Civilian Population (1592)
  
  The Inteligentsia (869)
  
  Deportees (835)
  
  Women (821)
  
  Ukrainians (702)
  
  The Jews (665)
  
  Children (612)
  
  Prisoners of War (602)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (537)
  
  Russians/Soviets (527)
  
  The sick (506)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (499)
  
  The Sick (460)
  
  The Russians (390)
  
  Policemen (380)
  
  Belarusians (366)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (328)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (227)
  
  The elderly (226)
  
  The Elderly (202)
  
  Internees (189)
  
  Border Guard (105)
  
  Lithuanians (105)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (99)
  
  Landowners (83)
  
  The Church (82)
  
  Germans (81)
  
  Border Protection Corps (77)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (57)
  
  Latvians (39)
  
  Estonians (33)
  
  Czechs (16)
  
  Romanians (15)
  
  Prison Guard (12)
  
  Hungarians (7)
  
  the Chinese (5)
  
  Finns (4)
  
  Scouts (3)
  
  Georgians (2)
  
  Slovaks (2)
  
  Americans (1)
  
  The British (1)
  
  The Communists (1)
Perpetrators
- People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (562)
  
  Red Army (393)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (257)
  
  Denunciation (251)
  
  Soviet Militia (209)
  
  Collaboration (137)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (103)
  
  Lithuanians (92)
  
  Collaborators (29)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (15)
  
  Latvians (9)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (9)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (5)
  
  SS (4)
  
  Administrative Police (2)
  
  Postal Protection (2)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (2)
  
  Military Police (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (1)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (2224)
  
  Biological extermination (2107)
  
  Arrest (1748)
  
  Deportation/Exile (1363)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (1051)
  
  Beating (915)
  
  Punishment cell (615)
  
  Judicial crime (607)
  
  Cattle wagons (551)
  
  Robbery (304)
  
  Disarmament (217)
  
  Execution (182)
  
  Death by shooting (180)
  
  Roads of death (118)
  
  Deportation (94)
  
  Sovietization (80)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (79)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (68)
  
  Air raids (62)
  
  Forced voting (41)
  
  Round-up (21)
  
  Desacration of corpses (20)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (19)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (16)
  
  Armored weapons (11)
  
  Collectivization (7)
  
  Mass graves (7)
  
  Denationalization (6)
  
  Displacement (6)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (6)
  
  Death marches (4)
  
  Cremation (3)
  
  Cremation of corpses (3)
  
  Expulsion (3)
  
  Artillery fire (2)
  
  Artillery shelling (2)
  
  Economic exploitation (2)
  
  Germanization (2)
  
  Rape (2)
  
  Burning people alive (1)
  
  Gas chambers (1)
  
  Racial policy (1)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (1)
  
  Ukrainianization (1)
Place
- Spetsposelok (special settlement) (622)
  
  Prison (609)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (561)
  
  Kolkhoz (510)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (401)
  
  NKVD custody suite (396)
  
  Transit camp (277)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (256)
  
  Mine (216)
  
  Internment camp (173)
  
  Sovkhoz (84)
  
  Siberia (9)
  
  Concentration camp (7)
  
  Orphanage – dietdom (7)
  
  Extermination camp (5)
  
  Ghetto (3)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (3)
  
  Forced labor (2)
  
  Police headquarters/station (2)
  
  Labor camp (1)
  
  Sewers (1)
Content
- Health service (1561)
  
  Anders' Army (807)
  
  Amnesty (679)
  
  First deportation (415)
  
  Epidemics (351)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (333)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (306)
  
  Communist propaganda (280)
  
  Polish culture in exile (236)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (119)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (108)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (103)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (89)
  
  Third deportation (76)
  
  Fourth deportation (63)
  
  Second deportation (46)
  
  Military hospital (30)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (20)
  
  Students' Army Corps (18)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (14)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (13)
  
  Civil resistance (11)
  
  Aid to Jews (6)
  
  Extermination of Jews (6)
  
  Underground culture and education (6)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (5)
  
  Partisan warfare (5)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (5)
  
  Polish Underground State (4)
  
  Judenrat (3)
  
  Rescue of Jews (3)
  
  Underground media (3)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (2)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (2)
  
  Aktion Zamość (1)
  
  Central Welfare Council (1)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1)
  
  the Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (1)
  
  the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
Object type
- Account (921)
  
  Brief (93)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (36)
  
  Statement (2)
  
  Press clipping (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 (2445)
  
  Katyn Museum (91)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (7)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (6)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (5)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (3)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (1)
  
  District Court in Radom (1)
Medium
- Text (2561)
  
  Image (52)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (2647)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (20)