„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)
- Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (6)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (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)
  
  Wolny Stefan; 30.10.1903, Kamieńskie (Ukraine) (4)
  
  Bas Ludwik; 18.12.1912, Kraków (3)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (3)
  
  Koczorowski Józef; 01.02.1919, Poznań (3)
  
  Kotlarski Mieczysław; 09.10.1913, Osieczna (wielkopolskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Kościuszko Janina; 17.05.1897, Chrzanów? (3)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (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)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (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)
  
  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)
  
  Dubiel Stanisław; 13.11.1910, Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (2)
  
  Frankiewicz Janina; 13.08.1912, Wieliczka (2)
  
  Gliński Bogdan; 08.12.1921, Sancygniów (2)
  
  Goliński Marian; 1904? (2)
  
  Habrajski Józef; 08.03.1915, Radzionków (2)
  
  Janssens Jean; 30.03.1904 Ougrée (Belgium) (2)
  
  Jeleń Piotr; 15.01.1921, Kraków (2)
  
  Jeleń Piotr; 1919? (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)
  
  Krokowski Jan; 08.05.1921, Nowy Sącz (2)
  
  Kukla Zbigniew; 11.08.1910, Kalwaria Zebrzydowska (2)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 04.05.1918, Kraków (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)
  
  Obrycki Narcyz; 04.09.1896, Warszawa (2)
  
  Plaskura Józef; 23.01.1911, Brzeszcze (2)
  
  Plaskura Władysław; 10.05.1905, Łazy (Orłowa, Czech Republic) (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)
  
  Tondos Władysław; 06.10.1900, Kalina Mała (2)
  
  Wolken Otto; 27.04.1903, Vien (Austria) (2)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Wąsowicz Tadeusz; 29.07.1906, Limanowa (2)
  
  Łachecki Czesław; 13.09.1902, Nisko (podkarpackie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Adamus Józef; 1898? (1)
  
  Ajdelman Gania; 23.02.1924, Lubartów (lubelskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Alcan Louise; 17.02.1910, Paris (France) (1)
  
  Balcar Karol, 1915? (1)
  
  Banach Ludwig; 24.08.1917, Bydgoszcz (1)
  
  Banach Ludwik; 24.08.1918 (1)
  
  Barabasz Alfred; 16.06.1913, Karwina (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Baum Zygmunt; 11.10.1926, Będzin (1)
  
  Bed Elisabeth; 12.03.1905, Amsterdam (Holandia) (1)
  
  Bed Elisabeth; 12.03.1905, Amsterdam (The Nederlands) (1)
  
  Benedetti de Leonardo; 15.09.1898, Turyn (Italy) (1)
  
  Benedetti de Leonardo; 15.09.1898, Turyn (Włochy) (1)
  
  Bergson Mieczysław; 14.12.1911, Ciechanów (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Bernhard Ferdynand; 03.04.1919, Liberec (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Białota Włodzimierz; 09.02.1921, Tarnów (1)
  
  Biejat Edmund; 1891? (1)
  
  Bloch Claudette; 1910, Bourg-la-Reine (France) (1)
  
  Blum Albert; 1918? (1)
Subject
- Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (171)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (132)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (104)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (31)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (29)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (29)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (23)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (21)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (19)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (10)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (9)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (8)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (5)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (4)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (3)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (3)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (3)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (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)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (2)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Białystok Ghetto (2)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (2)
  
  Clandestine teaching classes – the Kielce region (1)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Babice (1)
  
  Dispersed terror – the sub-camp of KL Auschwitz in Babice (1)
  
  For show – Familienlager Theresienstadt (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Tarnów Ghetto (1)
  
  The Polish Righteous Among the Nations (1)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Mazovia (1)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Lublin region (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (443)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (364)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (330)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (321)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (194)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (192)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (96)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (71)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (66)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (64)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (58)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (56)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (49)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (48)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (48)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (47)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (41)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (40)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (38)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (37)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (33)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (31)
  
  KL Majdanek (30)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (29)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (26)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (25)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (24)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (23)
  
  Bochnia, train station (22)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (22)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (21)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (20)
  
  Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (20)
  
  Bydgoszcz (19)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (19)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (18)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (18)
  
  Rajsko, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (17)
  
  Warsaw (17)
  
  Łódź (16)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (13)
  
  Kraków (13)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (12)
  
  Zamość, resettlement camp, Okrzei Street (12)
  
  Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (10)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (10)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (10)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, SS-Stabsgebaude (10)
  
  KL Plaszow (10)
  
  Mechelen (Belgium), transit camp (10)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (9)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (9)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (9)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (8)
  
  Jawiszowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (8)
  
  Lublin (8)
  
  Brussels (Belgium) (7)
  
  Będzin (7)
  
  Jaworzno, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (7)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (7)
  
  KL Malchow (KL Ravensbrück subcamp, Germany) (7)
  
  KL Mittelbau-Dora (Germany) (7)
  
  Katowice (7)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (7)
  
  Bełżec, German extermination camp (6)
  
  Dresden (Germany) (6)
  
  Harmęże, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (6)
  
  KL Neuengamme (Germany) (6)
  
  Majdanek, German extermination camp (6)
  
  Paris (France) (6)
  
  Tarnów (6)
  
  Wodzisław Śląski (6)
  
  Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (5)
  
  KL Stutthof (5)
  
  Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 (5)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (5)
  
  Mysłowice (śląskie voivodeship) (5)
  
  Pszczyna (5)
  
  Radom (5)
  
  Rajsko (Oświęcim district) (5)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (5)
  
  Sosnowiec (Śląskie Voivodeship) (5)
  
  Babice, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  Brzeszcze (4)
  
  Goleszów, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  Jasło, temporary remand prison, Staszica Street 3 (4)
  
  KL Ebensee (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) (4)
  
  KL Melk (Austria) (4)
  
  Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 (4)
  
  Międzybrodzie Bialskie, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  Staszów (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship) (4)
  
  Staszów (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (4)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (4)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (4)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz I (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  Berlin, Moabit prison, Lehrter Strasse 5 (3)
  
  Bliżyn, forced labor camp (3)
  
  Częstochowa (3)
  
  Hamburg (Germany) (3)
Victims
- Civilians (461)
  
  The Civilian Population (457)
  
  The Poles (423)
  
  The Jews (357)
  
  Women (314)
  
  The sick (208)
  
  The Sick (206)
  
  Children (186)
  
  The Inteligentsia (170)
  
  Russians/Soviets (146)
  
  The Russians (143)
  
  Prisoners of War (113)
  
  The elderly (111)
  
  The Elderly (109)
  
  Hungarians (103)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (75)
  
  Czechs (73)
  
  The French (69)
  
  Germans (63)
  
  Slovaks (62)
  
  Belgians (47)
  
  The Dutch (47)
  
  Greeks (40)
  
  The Communists (34)
  
  The Church (33)
  
  The Disabled (29)
  
  Italians (19)
  
  Americans (12)
  
  Norwegians (10)
  
  The British (9)
  
  Romanians (6)
  
  Ukrainians (6)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (4)
  
  Latvians (2)
  
  Lithuanians (2)
  
  Serbs (2)
  
  Bulgarians (1)
  
  Policemen (1)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (428)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (134)
  
  Collaboration (45)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (30)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (25)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (21)
  
  Military Police (15)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (14)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (9)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (5)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (5)
  
  Waffen-SS (5)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (4)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (4)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (4)
  
  Denunciation (3)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (3)
  
  Latvians (3)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (2)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (2)
  
  Red Army (2)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (2)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (2)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (1)
  
  Postal Protection (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Gas chambers (388)
  
  Beating (360)
  
  Forced labor (318)
  
  Execution (315)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (302)
  
  Cremation of corpses (262)
  
  Cremation (260)
  
  Biological extermination (249)
  
  Death by shooting (249)
  
  Arrest (170)
  
  Deportation (161)
  
  Robbery (155)
  
  Hanging (119)
  
  Medical experiments (97)
  
  "Dosing" (80)
  
  Cattle wagons (60)
  
  Mass graves (54)
  
  Economic exploitation (48)
  
  Burning people alive (44)
  
  Desacration of corpses (43)
  
  Death marches (39)
  
  Racial policy (36)
  
  Displacement (29)
  
  Expulsion (28)
  
  Round-up (26)
  
  Judicial crime (24)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (24)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (17)
  
  Rape (16)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (14)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (14)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (10)
  
  Germanization (9)
  
  Disarmament (8)
  
  Administrative persecution (7)
  
  Collectivization (6)
  
  Deportation/Exile (4)
  
  Air raids (3)
  
  Armored weapons (3)
  
  Artillery fire (1)
  
  Artillery shelling (1)
  
  Denationalization (1)
Place
- Extermination camp (447)
  
  Concentration camp (433)
  
  Prison (96)
  
  Labor camp (63)
  
  Ghetto (28)
  
  Transit camp (27)
  
  Police headquarters/station (25)
  
  Forced labor (16)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (4)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (2)
  
  Center for the Germanization of children (1)
  
  Internment camp (1)
  
  NKVD custody suite (1)
Content
- Extermination of Jews (270)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (118)
  
  Obliterating the traces (78)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (76)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (75)
  
  obliterating the traces (74)
  
  Health service (66)
  
  Aktion Zamość (36)
  
  Civil resistance (28)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (18)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (13)
  
  Rescue of Jews (12)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (10)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (8)
  
  Underground media (8)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (7)
  
  Polish Underground State (7)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (6)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (6)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (5)
  
  Central Welfare Council (4)
  
  Underground courts (4)
  
  Aktion T4 (3)
  
  Judenrat (3)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (3)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (3)
  
  Called by name (2)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (2)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (2)
  
  Underground culture and education (2)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (2)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (1)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (1)
  
  Field health service (1)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (1)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (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 (429)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (14)
  
  Brief (13)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (12)
  
  Account (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Supreme National Tribunal (412)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (11)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (9)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (7)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (5)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (3)
  
  Katyn Museum (2)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków (2)
  
  District Court in Radom (1)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (1)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (1)
Medium
- Text (468)
  
  Image (92)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (450)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (18)