„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)
- Zdanowicz Michał; 1899.12.11 (2)
  
  Adamowicz Alfons; 15.12.1906, Białystok (1)
  
  Alchimowicz Kazimierz; 1906 (1)
  
  Aniszkiewicz Józef; 1895? (1)
  
  Beliczyński (1)
  
  Beliczyński Marian; 23.06.1902, Michałów (Grójec county) (1)
  
  Berkowicz Icko; 1906, Różana (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Białobocki Andrzej; 1900? (1)
  
  Bińczak Bolesław; 11.10.1899, Dąbrówka (1)
  
  Bocek Tadeusz (1)
  
  Bohotko Józef (1)
  
  Bojar Michał; 19.09.1901, Krasne (1)
  
  Burjan Antoni (1)
  
  Bączkowski (1)
  
  Błaszczyk Zygmunt (1)
  
  Chodor Jan (1)
  
  Chojecka Maria; 11.03.1903 (1)
  
  Chyliński Julian; 1898? (1)
  
  Cichno Jan; 1900? (1)
  
  Cichowski Julian; 1900? (1)
  
  Czabućko Michał; 03.08.1898, Kruciłowicze (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Czaplicki Stanisław, 1902.02.06 (1)
  
  Czyż Henryk (1)
  
  Daszkiewicz Wanda (1)
  
  Dawidowski Franciszek (1)
  
  Dec Ignacy; 30.01.1896, Sokołów Małopolski (1)
  
  Dec-Soj Stanisława (1)
  
  Demidok Wiktor; 1912 (1)
  
  Deręgowski Antoni (1)
  
  Dmuchowski Leonard; 1898 (1)
  
  Dobrzańska-Jajszczyk Aleksandra (1)
  
  Doliński Bohdan (1)
  
  Dopierała Wincenty; 1908 (1)
  
  Dreszler Bernard, 1894 (1)
  
  Dudek Wanda (1)
  
  Dudziński (1)
  
  Działak Hanna (1)
  
  Dąbrowski Jan (1)
  
  Ejzensztajn Jankiel, 1908 (1)
  
  Esman Wladysław (1)
  
  Faberski Mikołaj (1)
  
  Fabiszewski Henryk; 10.02.1894 (1)
  
  Fałdyga Adam, 1893 (1)
  
  Feldman Tyburcjusz, 1895 (1)
  
  Ficek Władysław, 1898.05.21 (1)
  
  Fijakowski Błażej (1)
  
  Filipowicz Władysław, 1894.09.22 (1)
  
  Folitarczyk Bronisław, 1908 (1)
  
  Frelka Stefan; 16.12.1901 Skrzetusz (1)
  
  Gajewski Marian; 15.08.1896 (1)
  
  Gaudurski Szczepan, 1895 (1)
  
  Gielwert Edward; 1899? (1)
  
  Glejzer Władysław; 1889 (1)
  
  Godlewski Józef, 1899 (1)
  
  Gorczyca Stanisław; 06.02.1900 (1)
  
  Gołuzd Stanisław (1)
  
  Grot Józef; 11.01.1897 (1)
  
  Gulczyński Czesław; 1901? (1)
  
  Gwoźdź-Biernacka Elżbieta (1)
  
  Górecki Apolinary, 1898 (1)
  
  Główczyk Jan, 1894 (1)
  
  Halama Rudolf; 27.06.1900, Sibica (Cieszyn, Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Halama Tadeusz (1)
  
  Hamuda Czesław (1)
  
  Hauptman Karol (1)
  
  Helgard Fritz; 1913? (1)
  
  Hoffman Felicjan; 1909? (1)
  
  Jackiewicz Irena (1)
  
  Jackowski Eugeniusz; 12.12.1901 (1)
  
  Jakubowski Joachim; 1897 (1)
  
  Jalowacz Ignacy; 1899 (1)
  
  Janicki Marian; 1914? (1)
  
  Januchowski Antoni; 1900 (1)
  
  Juralewicz Marian; 1913? (1)
  
  Karpowicz Alfons; 16.09.1904 (1)
  
  Kaszlikowski Stanisław; 1909? (1)
  
  Kazimierczak Józef; 06.12.1897 (1)
  
  Kaźmierczak Zofia (1)
  
  Kobylarz Tadeusz, 1913? (1)
  
  Kostro Wiktor; 1913 (1)
  
  Kowalski Ludwik; 1901? (1)
  
  Kujawa Florian; 1913? (1)
  
  Kulikowski Witold; 1899? (1)
  
  Künstler Stanisław (1)
  
  Latawiec Ludwik; 1897 (1)
  
  Lech Konstanty; 1902.03.02 (1)
  
  Lenczowski Bolesław (1)
  
  Leonherel Czesław (1)
  
  Ley Waldemar; 1915? (1)
  
  Libkind-Lubodziecki Stanisław; 24.01.1879, Warsaw (1)
  
  Machciński Tomasz Adam; 01.01.1899, Czermin (Rypin county) (1)
  
  Machnacz Eliasz; 1900 (1)
  
  Malinowski Nicefor (1)
  
  Maniak Stefan; 1900? (1)
  
  Marcheńska Wanda (1)
  
  Marcheński Wawrzyniec; 22.07.1898, Karszewo (1)
  
  Markiewicz Piotr; 1898? (1)
  
  Martenka Sylwester; 14.12.1890, Rzadków (1)
  
  Matuszewski Alojzy; 1898 (1)
  
  Matys Jan; 1899 (1)
Subject
- Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (91)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (51)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (42)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (4)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (2)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (2)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Ural (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Vologda Oblast (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (228)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (68)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (63)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (44)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (41)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (33)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (33)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (30)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (27)
  
  Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (26)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (24)
  
  Ukmergė (Lithuania), internee camp (24)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (22)
  
  Połąga (now in Lithuania), internee camp (22)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (18)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (now in Lithuania), internee camp (18)
  
  Kalvarija (Lithuania), internment camp (16)
  
  Ulbroka (Latvia), internee camp (13)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (12)
  
  Vladimir (Russia, Vladimir Oblast) (12)
  
  Wojtkuszki (Lithuania), internment camp (11)
  
  Kola Penninsula (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (9)
  
  Kulautuva (Lithuania), internment camp (9)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (9)
  
  Stołpce (now in Belarus) (9)
  
  Kollag (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (8)
  
  Mołodeczno (now in Belarus) (8)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (8)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (7)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast) (7)
  
  Czerlany (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (6)
  
  Nowogródek (now in Belarus) (6)
  
  Nowojelnia (now in Belarus) (6)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (6)
  
  Tuligłowy (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (6)
  
  Warsaw (6)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (5)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (5)
  
  Lida (now in Belarus) (5)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (5)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (5)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (5)
  
  Putyvl (Ukraine), NKVD camp for POWs (Sofronievsky Monastery) (5)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (5)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania) (5)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (4)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (4)
  
  Gródek Jagielloński (Gródek, now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (4)
  
  Kalisz (4)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (4)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (4)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine) (4)
  
  Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (3)
  
  Kniazhpogost (Russia, Komi Republic) (3)
  
  Lilaste (Latvia), internment camp (3)
  
  Litene (Latvia), internment camp (3)
  
  Moscow (Russia), "Butyrka" NKVD prison, Novoslobodskaya Street 45c5 (3)
  
  Skierniewice (3)
  
  Smolensk (Russia, Smolensk Oblast) (3)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (3)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (3)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (3)
  
  Yaroslavl (Russia, Yaroslavl Oblast) (3)
  
  Złoczów (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Babynino (Russia, Kaluga Oblast, Babyninsky District) (2)
  
  Biała Podlaska (2)
  
  British Mandate of Palestine (Israel) (2)
  
  Brody (Ukraine) (2)
  
  Bryansk (Russia, Bryansk Oblast) (2)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Busk (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (2)
  
  Chełm (2)
  
  Częstochowa (2)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (2)
  
  Geneva (Switzerland) (2)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (2)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Kozelschyna (Ukraine, Poltava Oblast), transit camp (2)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (2)
  
  Lublin (2)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), NKVD prison, Radisheva Street 32 (2)
  
  Nieśwież (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Olita (Lithuania), internee camp (2)
  
  Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (2)
  
  Omeliany (Velyka Omeliana, Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (2)
  
  Ostra Góra (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (2)
  
  Oszmiana (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Podwołoczyska (Ukraine) (2)
  
  Podwołoczyska (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (2)
  
  Poznań (2)
  
  Przemyśl (2)
  
  Różana (Belarus) (2)
  
  Różana (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (2)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (2)
  
  Skniłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (2)
  
  Sokółka (podlaskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Sosenki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (2)
  
  Tehran (Iran) (2)
Victims
- The Poles (218)
  
  Prisoners of War (157)
  
  The Inteligentsia (120)
  
  Policemen (118)
  
  Internees (115)
  
  Border Guard (71)
  
  Civilians (56)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (54)
  
  The Civilian Population (51)
  
  Border Protection Corps (33)
  
  The Jews (28)
  
  The sick (26)
  
  The Sick (24)
  
  Belarusians (23)
  
  Deportees (23)
  
  Women (18)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (17)
  
  Ukrainians (17)
  
  Children (9)
  
  The Church (8)
  
  Germans (7)
  
  The elderly (6)
  
  The Elderly (6)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (6)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (5)
  
  Russians/Soviets (5)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (4)
  
  The Russians (4)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (3)
  
  Prison Guard (3)
  
  Lithuanians (2)
  
  Americans (1)
  
  Landowners (1)
Perpetrators
- People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (57)
  
  Red Army (56)
  
  Lithuanians (47)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (33)
  
  Denunciation (15)
  
  Collaboration (13)
  
  Latvians (6)
  
  Soviet Militia (4)
  
  Collaborators (2)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (2)
  
  Administrative Police (1)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (1)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (154)
  
  Biological extermination (143)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (87)
  
  Arrest (79)
  
  Deportation/Exile (77)
  
  Cattle wagons (61)
  
  Beating (49)
  
  Disarmament (35)
  
  Execution (34)
  
  Punishment cell (29)
  
  Robbery (18)
  
  Roads of death (17)
  
  Judicial crime (15)
  
  Death by shooting (14)
  
  Deportation (10)
  
  Air raids (5)
  
  Armored weapons (4)
  
  Death marches (2)
  
  Desacration of corpses (1)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (1)
  
  Racial policy (1)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (1)
Place
- NKVD camp for POWs (115)
  
  Internment camp (107)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (97)
  
  Transit camp (46)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (17)
  
  Mine (16)
  
  Prison (12)
  
  Kolkhoz (10)
  
  NKVD custody suite (5)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (4)
  
  Concentration camp (1)
  
  Extermination camp (1)
  
  Forced labor (1)
  
  Sovkhoz (1)
Content
- Health service (119)
  
  Anders' Army (64)
  
  Amnesty (49)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (49)
  
  Polish culture in exile (41)
  
  Communist propaganda (32)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (28)
  
  Epidemics (19)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (6)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (4)
  
  Second deportation (3)
  
  First deportation (2)
  
  Fourth deportation (2)
  
  Students' Army Corps (2)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (2)
  
  Underground culture and education (2)
  
  Civil resistance (1)
  
  Judenrat (1)
  
  Partisan warfare (1)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
  
  Third deportation (1)
  
  Underground media (1)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (1)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (1)
Object type
- Account (70)
  
  Brief (42)
  
  Statement (2)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (2)
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 (178)
  
  Katyn Museum (42)
Medium
- Text (220)
  
  Image (9)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (222)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (6)