„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 (236)
  
  Szulc C. (82)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (30)
  
  Deja Stanisław; 23.04.1907, Kowala (23)
  
  Sobierajska Irena (19)
  
  Sulima Jan (11)
  
  Szczerbiński Jan (11)
  
  Steinhauf Renata (10)
  
  Stopa F. (10)
  
  Bochen Stanisław; 1901? (9)
  
  Gałecki Wiktor; 1901? (9)
  
  Nowiński (9)
  
  Polak Wacław (8)
  
  Kostka Stanisław (7)
  
  Lewicki W. (7)
  
  Sobczański J. (7)
  
  Sowiński Władysław (7)
  
  Stawiarski Eugeniusz (7)
  
  Baćmaga Walenty, 11.02.1902, Zakrzów (6)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (6)
  
  Grodzicki Kazimierz (6)
  
  Krakiewicz Feliks; 1873? (6)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (6)
  
  Marcinkiewicz Stefan (6)
  
  Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (6)
  
  Rott Wiesław; 14.06.1914, Lublin (6)
  
  Russanowska B. (6)
  
  Szelest Kazimierz; 25.03.1917, Kraków (6)
  
  Iwanicka Maria; 27.01.1913 (5)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (5)
  
  Konferowicz Wacław; 13.05.1912, Ostrów Mazowiecka (5)
  
  Kruszyna Stanisław (5)
  
  Kwiatkowski Jan; 1911? (5)
  
  Madej Józef (5)
  
  Mankiewicz Franciszek; 1898 (5)
  
  Maroński Stanisław (5)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 27.01.1913, Warsaw (5)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (5)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (5)
  
  Sendecki Sylwester; 1903? (5)
  
  Zielonka Jan (5)
  
  Łukasiewicz Henryk (5)
  
  Anastasiya, 1985 (4)
  
  Czardybon Bernard; 18.06.1901, Chorzów (4)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (4)
  
  Gozdur Stanisław; 11.11.1891, Wola Solecka (4)
  
  Grabosz Ludwika; 1879? (4)
  
  Jamróz Halina; 1919? (4)
  
  Janiszek Piotr, 19.10.1902, Grabów Szlachecki (4)
  
  Klimkiewicz Stanisław; 1895? (4)
  
  Korkosz Stanisław; 1904? (4)
  
  Korszla Jan; 1914? (4)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 04.05.1918, Kraków (4)
  
  Lizis Teofil (4)
  
  Lorentz Stanisław; 28.04.1899, Radom (4)
  
  Nass Róża; 09.01.1907, Biała (Bielsko-Biała) (4)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (4)
  
  Rajewski Ludwik; 16.12.1900, Łódź (4)
  
  Rogalski Władysław; 1879? (4)
  
  Sendler Irena; 15.02.1910, Warszawa (4)
  
  Skrzyniarz Adam (4)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć county) (4)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć district) (4)
  
  Stoeger Samuel; 14.05.1911, Kraków (4)
  
  Szymanowski Jan (4)
  
  Tomasik Marcin (4)
  
  Wojcikowski Stanisław (4)
  
  Wolny Stefan; 30.10.1903, Kamieńskie (Ukraine) (4)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (4)
  
  Łącki Mikołaj; 30.10.1888, Loyew (Belarus) (4)
  
  Adler Rubin; 24.11.1909, Końskie (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Anna, 1986 (3)
  
  Anna, 1989 (3)
  
  Banach Ludwig; 24.08.1917, Bydgoszcz (3)
  
  Banach Ludwik; 24.08.1918 (3)
  
  Barzał Czesław; 09.10.1915, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Bas Ludwik; 18.12.1912, Kraków (3)
  
  Bech Leon; 24.03.1989, Wola (3)
  
  Bida Władysław; 1886? (3)
  
  Blinstrub Aniela; 1892? (3)
  
  Bochenek Marta; 19.09.1892 (3)
  
  Bogdanowicz Jan; 17.12.1894, Warsaw (3)
  
  Brach Jan; 1919? (3)
  
  Branny Paweł; 13.05.1888, Żuków Dolny (Český Těšín, Czech Republic) (3)
  
  Brzoskowski Jan (3)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Ciepliński Brunon (3)
  
  Denisow Piotr; 1894? (3)
  
  Duda Konrad; 02.02.1914, Wartogłowiec (Tychy) (3)
  
  Dudzik Stanisław, 28.08.1897, Turze (woj. mazowieckie) (3)
  
  Dąbrówka Zofia; 1892? (3)
  
  Dąbski Stefan; 26.12.1919, Joanin (3)
  
  Fastman Ludwik; 31.07.1899, Drohobycz (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Filipowska (Freund) Ilza; 14.01.1902, Wrocław (3)
  
  Gil Piotr; 1897? (3)
  
  Grabczyński Jan; 21.05.1908, Tarnów (dolnośląskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Gronczak Józef; 1898? (3)
  
  Głowa Stanisław; 15.09.1898, Igołomia (3)
  
  Hanna, 1986 (3)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (3)
  
  Kullanda Henryk (1)
Subject
- The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (772)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (586)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (530)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (477)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (431)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (411)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (357)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (352)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (336)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (313)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (297)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (263)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (253)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (240)
  
  In exile – Siberia (203)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (190)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (186)
  
  The city condemned to death (174)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (162)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (161)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (161)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (157)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (156)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (146)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (140)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (136)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (131)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (130)
  
  Fighting for Kharkiv (129)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (123)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (112)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (112)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (110)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (110)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (110)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (107)
  
  Russian missile terror (102)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (102)
  
  In exile – Ural (101)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Mazovia (101)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (97)
  
  Russian occupation – south Ukraine (96)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (93)
  
  The tragedy of the Radom Arms Factory (91)
  
  Upper Silesia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (87)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (82)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (78)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (75)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (75)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Pomerania (73)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (72)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (71)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (70)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (67)
  
  Mariupol Siege (66)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (66)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (65)
  
  Fighting in Donbas (2014 and/or 2022) (63)
  
  Fighting for Kyiv (62)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (60)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (57)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (56)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Upper Silesia (56)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz (55)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (54)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (54)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (54)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (53)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (52)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (50)
  
  Stadion Leśny, Słowik, Herby – execution sites in Kielce (46)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (45)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (44)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town (44)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (44)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (42)
  
  Evacuation to Poland (41)
  
  The persecuted church (41)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Świętokrzyskie region (41)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (41)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (41)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (40)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Lublin region (39)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (39)
  
  Battle of Mykolaiv (38)
  
  Terror in the "incorporated lands" – the Łódź region (38)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Lublin region (38)
  
  Firlej near Radom – the training ground of death (37)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (37)
  
  Lebensraum – deportations from Lesser Poland (35)
  
  Treblinka – extermination camp (35)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (33)
  
  Radom – daily terror (33)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (33)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (33)
  
  Warsaw '44 – uprising in Praga (33)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (31)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (28)
  
  Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages (27)
  
  Michniów – the extermination of the Polish countryside (27)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz I (554)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (496)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (460)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (443)
  
  Warsaw (420)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (402)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (364)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (345)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (343)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (300)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (237)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (220)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (220)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (207)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (205)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (175)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (169)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (168)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (168)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (161)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (155)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (146)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (140)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (138)
  
  KL Majdanek (134)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (129)
  
  Kielce (127)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (120)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (120)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (106)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (105)
  
  Lublin (102)
  
  Radom (98)
  
  Siedlce (98)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (97)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (97)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (97)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (95)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (93)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (93)
  
  KL Plaszow (92)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (90)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (90)
  
  Kharkiv (90)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (89)
  
  Kraków (88)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (88)
  
  Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 (84)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka (84)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (81)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (79)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (79)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (79)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (78)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (75)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (75)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (73)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (72)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (72)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (72)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (70)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (69)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (69)
  
  Busko-Zdrój (68)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (68)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (67)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 (67)
  
  KL Stutthof (65)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (63)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (63)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (63)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (63)
  
  Mariupol (61)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (60)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (58)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (58)
  
  Firlej (Radom), municipal cemetery, Ofiar Firleja Street 45 (57)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (57)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (56)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (55)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (55)
  
  Starachowice (54)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (54)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) (54)
  
  Radom, Arms Factory "Łucznik", Poniatowskiego Street (1905 Street 1/9) (53)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (53)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (53)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (53)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (52)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (51)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (51)
  
  Bydgoszcz (50)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (50)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (49)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (49)
  
  Bochnia, train station (48)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (48)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (47)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (46)
  
  Białystok (46)
Oblast
- Kharkiv (148)
  
  Donetsk (112)
  
  Kherson (96)
  
  Zaporizhia (80)
  
  Kyiv (73)
  
  Dnipropetrovsk (47)
  
  Luhansk (44)
  
  Mykolaiv (40)
  
  Kyiv Oblast (33)
  
  Mikołajowski (27)
  
  Chernihiv (21)
  
  Sumy (20)
  
  Zhytomyr (14)
  
  Odesa (8)
  
  Lviv (7)
  
  Poltava (5)
  
  Rivne (5)
  
  Volyn (5)
  
  Ivano-Frankivsk (1)
Raion
- Kharkiv (110)
  
  Mariupol (66)
  
  Kherson (37)
  
  Kyiv (33)
  
  Mykolaiv (33)
  
  Kiev (32)
  
  Kakhovka (29)
  
  Bucha (24)
  
  Severodonetsk (23)
  
  Mikołajów (22)
  
  Nikopol (22)
  
  Chernihiv (16)
  
  Kramatorsk (15)
  
  Zaporizhia (15)
  
  Melitopol (14)
  
  Donetsk (13)
  
  Polohy (13)
  
  Sumy (13)
  
  Berdyansk (12)
  
  Izium (12)
  
  Vasylivka (11)
  
  Zhytomyr (11)
  
  Dnipro (10)
  
  Beryslav (9)
  
  Henichesk (9)
  
  Pokrovsk (8)
  
  Skadovsk (8)
  
  Svatove (7)
  
  Chuhuiv (6)
  
  Odesa (6)
  
  Bakhmut (5)
  
  Brovary (5)
  
  Rivne (5)
  
  Bohoduhiv (4)
  
  Fastiv (4)
  
  Kamianske (4)
  
  Pawlohrad (4)
  
  Volnovakha (4)
  
  Bashtanka (3)
  
  Kupyansk (3)
  
  Lutsk (3)
  
  Vyshhorod (3)
  
  Сhuhuiv (3)
  
  Bila Tserkva (2)
  
  Boryspil (2)
  
  Horlivka (2)
  
  Kremenchuk (2)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (2)
  
  Shchastia (2)
  
  Bilokurakyne (1)
  
  Ivano-Frankivsk (1)
  
  Kamin-Kashyrskyi (1)
  
  Markivka (1)
  
  Novoiavorivsk (1)
  
  Novomoskovsk (1)
  
  Oleszky (1)
  
  Pervomaisk (1)
  
  Podilsk (1)
  
  Rozivka (1)
  
  Schastia (1)
  
  Volyn (1)
  
  Voznesensk (1)
  
  Yavoriv (1)
Victims
- Civilians (9172)
  
  The Poles (8746)
  
  The Civilian Population (7799)
  
  Women (4073)
  
  Children (3411)
  
  The Jews (2545)
  
  The Inteligentsia (1617)
  
  Ukrainians (1476)
  
  The sick (1335)
  
  Prisoners of War (1226)
  
  The Sick (1213)
  
  Deportees (923)
  
  The elderly (921)
  
  Russians/Soviets (904)
  
  The Russians (769)
  
  The Elderly (731)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (540)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (522)
  
  Policemen (404)
  
  Belarusians (391)
  
  The Church (359)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (327)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (218)
  
  Germans (184)
  
  Internees (169)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (136)
  
  Hungarians (133)
  
  Czechs (124)
  
  The French (111)
  
  Border Guard (108)
  
  Lithuanians (106)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (104)
  
  Landowners (84)
  
  Slovaks (81)
  
  Belgians (74)
  
  Border Protection Corps (73)
  
  The Disabled (70)
  
  The Dutch (70)
  
  The Communists (67)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (61)
  
  Greeks (55)
  
  Latvians (39)
  
  Estonians (32)
  
  Italians (30)
  
  Romanians (24)
  
  Americans (23)
  
  The British (20)
  
  Internally displaced persons (15)
  
  Norwegians (14)
  
  Prison Guard (12)
  
  Finns (7)
  
  the Chinese (7)
  
  Azerbaijanis (3)
  
  Georgians (3)
  
  Scouts (3)
  
  Serbs (3)
  
  Bulgarians (2)
  
  Crimean Tatars (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (1730)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (971)
  
  Military Police (963)
  
  Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (710)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (673)
  
  Collaboration (509)
  
  Red Army (479)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (467)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (307)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (282)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (247)
  
  Denunciation (235)
  
  Soviet Militia (220)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (144)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (119)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (98)
  
  Lithuanians (93)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (81)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (64)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (61)
  
  Collaborators (60)
  
  Donetsk People’s Militia (all military formations of so-called separatist republics DNR and LNR) (53)
  
  Kadyrovites (40)
  
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  SS-Totenkopfverbände (15)
  
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  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (13)
  
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  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (11)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (10)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (9)
  
  Rosgvardiya [National Guard of Russia] (8)
  
  Security Office (8)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (8)
  
  Administrative Police (5)
  
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  OMON/SOBR [Special Purpose Mobile Unit/Special Rapid Response Unit] (1)
  
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Crimes
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  Biological extermination (3075)
  
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  Mass graves (888)
  
  Cremation of corpses (809)
  
  Cremation (774)
  
  Cattle wagons (755)
  
  Judicial crime (678)
  
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  "Dosing" (134)
  
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  Human shields (106)
  
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  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (60)
  
  Germanization (56)
  
  Pacification (38)
  
  Forced voting (34)
  
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  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (19)
  
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Content
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  Communist propaganda (328)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (328)
  
  Polish culture in exile (287)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (241)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (239)
  
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  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (214)
  
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  obliterating the traces (193)
  
  Russian occupation/Occupation terror (166)
  
  Civil resistance (139)
  
  Wola Massacre (139)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (127)
  
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  Polish Underground State (89)
  
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  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (86)
  
  Third deportation (80)
  
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  Called by name (66)
  
  Armed Forces of Ukraine (63)
  
  Aktion Zamość (62)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (61)
  
  Underground media (60)
  
  Central Welfare Council (58)
  
  Field health service (57)
  
  Underground culture and education (54)
  
  Underground courts (51)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (50)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (43)
  
  Military hospital (38)
  
  Free City of Danzig (37)
  
  Ochota Massacre (37)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (36)
  
  Judenrat (34)
  
  War in Donbas (2014) (32)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (31)
  
  Russian propaganda/disinformation (31)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (30)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (30)
  
  Pseudoreferendums in occupied territories (27)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (24)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (21)
  
  Students' Army Corps (20)
  
  Clandestine courses (18)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (18)
  
  Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces (18)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (17)
  
  “Donetsk People’s Republic” (17)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (15)
  
  the Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (13)
  
  “Luhansk People’s Republic” (13)
  
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  National Armed Forces (7)
  
  Operation "Tempest" (7)
  
  the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (7)
  
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  Bucha Massacre (4)
  
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  Irpin Massacre (3)
  
  Security Service of Ukraine (3)
  
  The Silent Unseen (3)
  
  Blue Police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (1)
  
  Border provocations in 1939 (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching classes (1)
  
  Izyum Massacre (1)
  
  Kidnapping (and Germanization) of Polish children (1)
  
  National Guard of Ukraine (1)
  
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  Supreme National Tribunal (1489)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (1428)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (1304)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (987)
  
  Lemkin Center (728)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (546)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (480)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (385)
  
  District Court in Radom (280)
  
  District Court in Łomża (114)
  
  Katyn Museum (112)
  
  Provincial Court for the Capital City of Warsaw 1951–1975 (105)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków (105)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Katowice (80)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (75)
  
  Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Appellate Court in Warsaw (70)
  
  Provincial Court for the Province of Warsaw in Warsaw 1951–1975 (68)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland. Research and investigative files (58)
  
  Public Prosecutor’s Office at the District Court in Warsaw (47)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland 1949–1984 (38)
  
  Provincial Court for the Capital City of Warsaw (35)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation – Institute of National Remembrance in Białystok (21)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (18)
  
  Provincial Office of Internal Affairs in Katowice (14)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (14)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Białystok (12)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Warsaw (12)
  
  District Court in Łomża 1945–1950 (11)
  
  Provincial Court for the Capital City of Warsaw 1951–1980 (11)
  
  County Public Prosecutor’s Office in Pułtusk (10)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (10)
  
  Inspectorate of Schools in Radom (10)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Gdańsk (9)
  
  Voivodeship Court in Łódź (9)
  
  Office of the District Authorities in Ostrów Mazowiecka (8)
  
  Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Special Criminal Court in Warsaw. Agency in Białystok (8)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Gdańsk 1945–1949 (6)
  
  Magistrates’ Court in Bydgoszcz (5)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes – Institute of National Remembrance in Białystok (4)
  
  Provincial Office of Internal Affairs in Wrocław [1945] 1983–1990 (3)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków 1945–1949 (2)
  
  A collection of copies of witness interview reports and accounts of former prisoners of Ravensbrück and other camps, written down at the Polish Research Institute in Lund. (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes – Institute of National Remembrance in Kraków (1)
  
  District Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Warsaw (1)
  
  Magistrates’ Court in Włocławek (1)
  
  Magistrates’ Court in Łomża (1)
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