„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)
  
  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)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, 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)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (29)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (28)
  
  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 (10)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (9)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (4)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (4)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (3)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (3)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (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)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (2)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Białystok Ghetto (2)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (2)
  
  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)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Radom Ghetto (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)
  
  Third Reich – the Kielce region (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (443)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (363)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (329)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (320)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (194)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (191)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (96)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (70)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (66)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (57)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (57)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (55)
  
  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 (39)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (39)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (37)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (36)
  
  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 Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (23)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (23)
  
  Bochnia, train station (22)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (22)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (20)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (20)
  
  Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (20)
  
  Bydgoszcz (19)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (19)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (17)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (17)
  
  Rajsko, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (17)
  
  Warsaw (17)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (15)
  
  Łódź (15)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (13)
  
  Kraków (13)
  
  Zamość, resettlement camp, Okrzei Street (12)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (11)
  
  Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (10)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, SS-Stabsgebaude (10)
  
  KL Plaszow (10)
  
  Mechelen (Belgium), transit camp (10)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (9)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (9)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (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 Malchow (KL Ravensbrück subcamp, Germany) (7)
  
  KL Mittelbau-Dora (Germany) (7)
  
  Katowice (7)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (7)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (7)
  
  Bełżec, German extermination camp (6)
  
  Dresden (Germany) (6)
  
  Harmęże, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (6)
  
  KL Neuengamme (Germany) (6)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (6)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (6)
  
  Paris (France) (6)
  
  Radom (6)
  
  Tarnów (6)
  
  Wodzisław Śląski (6)
  
  Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (5)
  
  Częstochowa (5)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (5)
  
  KL Stutthof (5)
  
  Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 (5)
  
  Mysłowice (śląskie voivodeship) (5)
  
  Pszczyna (5)
  
  Rajsko (Oświęcim district) (5)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (5)
  
  Sosnowiec (Śląskie Voivodeship) (5)
  
  Babice, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  Bliżyn, forced labor camp (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)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz I (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  Berlin, Moabit prison, Lehrter Strasse 5 (3)
  
  Hamburg (Germany) (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Lagerhaus (3)
  
  KL Barth (subcamp of KL Ravensbrück, Germany) (3)
  
  KL Leitmeritz (subcamp of KL Flossenbürg, Czech Republic) (3)
Victims
- Civilians (459)
  
  The Civilian Population (455)
  
  The Poles (421)
  
  The Jews (356)
  
  Women (314)
  
  The sick (208)
  
  The Sick (206)
  
  Children (185)
  
  The Inteligentsia (168)
  
  Russians/Soviets (145)
  
  The Russians (142)
  
  The elderly (112)
  
  Prisoners of War (112)
  
  The Elderly (110)
  
  Hungarians (103)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (74)
  
  Czechs (72)
  
  The French (69)
  
  Germans (64)
  
  Slovaks (62)
  
  Belgians (47)
  
  The Dutch (47)
  
  Greeks (40)
  
  The Communists (34)
  
  The Church (33)
  
  The Disabled (30)
  
  Italians (19)
  
  Americans (11)
  
  Norwegians (10)
  
  The British (9)
  
  Ukrainians (6)
  
  Romanians (5)
  
  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) (130)
  
  Collaboration (43)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (27)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (24)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (20)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (15)
  
  Military Police (14)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (9)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (5)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (5)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (4)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (4)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (4)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (4)
  
  Waffen-SS (4)
  
  Denunciation (3)
  
  Latvians (3)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (3)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (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 (359)
  
  Forced labor (316)
  
  Execution (313)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (299)
  
  Cremation of corpses (261)
  
  Cremation (259)
  
  Biological extermination (249)
  
  Death by shooting (248)
  
  Arrest (165)
  
  Deportation (163)
  
  Robbery (156)
  
  Hanging (118)
  
  Medical experiments (96)
  
  "Dosing" (78)
  
  Cattle wagons (61)
  
  Mass graves (54)
  
  Economic exploitation (49)
  
  Burning people alive (44)
  
  Desacration of corpses (43)
  
  Death marches (39)
  
  Racial policy (37)
  
  Displacement (29)
  
  Expulsion (28)
  
  Round-up (26)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (26)
  
  Judicial crime (24)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (21)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (16)
  
  Rape (16)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (16)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (10)
  
  Administrative persecution (9)
  
  Germanization (9)
  
  Disarmament (8)
  
  Collectivization (6)
  
  Air raids (4)
  
  Deportation/Exile (4)
  
  Armored weapons (2)
  
  Artillery fire (1)
  
  Artillery shelling (1)
Place
- Extermination camp (445)
  
  Concentration camp (426)
  
  Prison (93)
  
  Labor camp (63)
  
  Ghetto (29)
  
  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 (271)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (116)
  
  Obliterating the traces (79)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (76)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (75)
  
  obliterating the traces (75)
  
  Health service (67)
  
  Aktion Zamość (36)
  
  Civil resistance (28)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (18)
  
  Rescue of Jews (13)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (12)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (9)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (8)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (7)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (6)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (6)
  
  Underground media (6)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (5)
  
  Central Welfare Council (5)
  
  Polish Underground State (5)
  
  Aktion T4 (3)
  
  Called by name (3)
  
  Judenrat (3)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (3)
  
  Underground courts (3)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (3)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (2)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (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)
  
  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)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (427)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (14)
  
  Brief (12)
  
  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)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (4)
  
  District Court in Radom (4)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (2)
  
  Katyn Museum (2)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (2)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków (2)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (1)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (1)
Medium
- Text (464)
  
  Image (91)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (446)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (18)