„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)
- Aleksiejewicz Józef (1)
  
  Apelbaum Leib; 1921? (1)
  
  Atras Franciszek, 1900.10.08 (1)
  
  Augustowicz Bolesław; 1912 (1)
  
  Bakuła Antoni; 1899 (1)
  
  Bakuła Antoni; 1900 (1)
  
  Baranowski Antoni; 1905 (1)
  
  Baranowski Julian; 1902 (1)
  
  Barbachowski Wladyslaw; 1903 (1)
  
  Barczak Franciszek; 03.04.1913, Świeca (1)
  
  Barczykowski Jan 1914 (1)
  
  Barczykowski Jan; 05.01.1914, Spieczyny (1)
  
  Baumgarten Józefina (1)
  
  Bazylewicz Aleksy, 1892 (1)
  
  Bałajewicz Jadwiga; 1913 (1)
  
  Bałajewicz Jadwiga; 1914 (1)
  
  Beker Władysław; 1911 (1)
  
  Bereziuk Marian, 1922 (1)
  
  Blachuta Czesław; 1923? (1)
  
  Blewąska Wincenty; 1900 (1)
  
  Bobowski Leszek; 1910? (1)
  
  Bobrow Eugeniusz, 1906 (1)
  
  Bochno Michał, 1903? (1)
  
  Bojarski Jan, 1899 (1)
  
  Bondus Piotr, 1904? (1)
  
  Borger Ludwik; 1915? (1)
  
  Buczyński Michał; 28.09.1892 (1)
  
  Budzianowski Antoni; 1886 (1)
  
  Burda Augustyn, 1901? (1)
  
  Bławat Michał; 1896? (1)
  
  Capecki Franciszek; 1897 (1)
  
  Chmielewska Władysława, 1918.01.25 (1)
  
  Chodorowski Aleksander (1)
  
  Chowra Bolesław; 1904.10.24 (1)
  
  Chrzan Józef; 1890.11.08 (1)
  
  Cieślak Bolesław; 1907? (1)
  
  Csabak Leon, 1919 (1)
  
  Cybański Adam; 1907? (1)
  
  Cyganik Antoni; 27.03.1909, Chrzanów (1)
  
  Cygielman Szylem (1)
  
  Cyrański Józef; 1902? (1)
  
  Czabak Julian; 1897? (1)
  
  Czajkowski Aleksander (1)
  
  Czerniak Mieczysław; 1906? (1)
  
  Czyżewski Piotr, 1915 (1)
  
  Drabek Jan; 1901 (1)
  
  Dubiński Antoni; 1902 (1)
  
  Długoborski Mieczysław Edward; 1887? (1)
  
  Eichel Wincenty, 1911 (1)
  
  Eilsztein Dawid, 1909 (1)
  
  Ejgierd Stanisław, 1897 (1)
  
  Fajman Stefan, 1922.07.13 (1)
  
  Fieduszko Józef, 1899 (1)
  
  Fieglar Jakub, 1886 (1)
  
  Figa Mancel, 1900 (1)
  
  Figiel Helena; 04.10.1921, Obroszyn (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Filipowski Andrzej, 1899 (1)
  
  Filipowski Tomasz, 1899 (1)
  
  Focht Stanisław, 1897 (1)
  
  Fortuna Kazimierz; 1920? (1)
  
  Foryś Antoni; 1919 (1)
  
  Fostyk Jan; 1917? (1)
  
  Franusiak Kazimierz (1)
  
  Frenkiel Stanisław, 1896 (1)
  
  Furdyna K. (1)
  
  Furman Jan; 1913? (1)
  
  Gaczyński Zygmunt; 1901 (1)
  
  Galiński Jan, 1906 (1)
  
  Garbarz Szmul, 1902 (1)
  
  Garniewicz Stanisław; 1884 (1)
  
  Gmaj Józef, 1897 (1)
  
  Godlewski Izydor; 1919? (1)
  
  Golonka Jan; 1898? (1)
  
  Greif Wilhelm; 1899 (1)
  
  Grendo Bronisław; 06.07.1905 (1)
  
  Gryksztas Władysław; 1912, Odessa (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Górski Alfred (1)
  
  Gütig Eryk; 1912 (1)
  
  Głębowski Stanisław, 1897 (1)
  
  Halejko Piotr, 1902 (1)
  
  Handel Zygmunt (1)
  
  Hoffman Józef; 1912 (1)
  
  Hoffman Wincenty (1)
  
  Iwaśków Michał; 14.03.1914 (1)
  
  Jacewicz Stanisław (1)
  
  Jaciuk-Jaciukiewicz Helena; 1917? (1)
  
  Janczarski Teofil; 1884.04.28 (1)
  
  Janczewski Benedykt; 1897 (1)
  
  Jankowski Roman; 07.08.1901 (1)
  
  Janowicz Marian; 14.08.1901 (1)
  
  Januchowski Antoni; 1900 (1)
  
  Jaworski Władysław; 1916? (1)
  
  Jaworski Zygmunt; 1913? (1)
  
  Jurys Olga, 23.12.1915, Rymanów (1)
  
  Juszczyk Mieczysław; 15.08.1905, Łódź (1)
  
  Kamiński Roman; 1913? (1)
  
  Kardasz Adam (1)
  
  Kaszkowiak Stanisław; 1902 (1)
  
  Komar Franciszek; 1911? (1)
  
  Korszun Konstanty; 1910 (1)
Subject
- The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (61)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (31)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (22)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (20)
  
  In exile – Siberia (17)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (16)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (14)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (10)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (9)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (8)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (6)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (6)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (6)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (5)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (5)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (5)
  
  In exile – Far East (3)
  
  In exile – Ural (3)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (3)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (2)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Republic of Mordovia (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Sverdlovsk Oblast (2)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (1)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (1)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Babice (1)
  
  Dispersed terror – the sub-camp of KL Auschwitz in Babice (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Pomerania (1)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (1)
  
  In exile – Mari El Republic (1)
  
  In exile – Povolzhye (1)
  
  Lebensraum – the Germanization of the Zamość region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (1)
  
  Pomiechówek Fort – the Mazovian torture complex (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (1)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (1)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Lublin region (1)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  the Gulag Archipelago – the Republic of Karelia (1)
  
  the Gulag Archipelago – the Ukraine (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (55)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (52)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (35)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (31)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (27)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (24)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (22)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (21)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (20)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (19)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (17)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (16)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (14)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (14)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (13)
  
  Warsaw (13)
  
  Nakhodka (Russia, Primorsky Krai) (12)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (12)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (12)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (12)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (11)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (11)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (10)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (10)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (9)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (9)
  
  Kherson (Ukraine), prison, Perekopska Street 10 (9)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (9)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (9)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (9)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (8)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (8)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no 2, Zamarstynowska Street 7/9 (8)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (8)
  
  Turtkul (Uzbekistan) (8)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (8)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison (Castle) (8)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (7)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (7)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (7)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (7)
  
  Rawa Ruska (Ukraine), NKVD prison (7)
  
  Równe (Ukraine), prison, 3 Maja Street (Soborna Street 16) (7)
  
  Sevvostlag (Russia, Magadan Oblast) (7)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (6)
  
  Chardzhou (Türkmenabat, Turkmenistan) (6)
  
  Czortków (Ukraine) (6)
  
  Czortków (now in Ukraine), prison, Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) (6)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (6)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (6)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (6)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (6)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (6)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (6)
  
  Vladivostok (Russia, Primorsky Krai) (6)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (5)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (5)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (5)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (5)
  
  Dnipropetrovsk (Dnipro, Ukraine), NKVD Headquarters, Chkalov Street (Sviatoslav Chorobroho Street 23) (5)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (5)
  
  Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (5)
  
  Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (5)
  
  Kermine (Navoiy, Uzbekistan) (5)
  
  Kołomyja (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, aleja Wolności (Lesi Ukrainki Street 32) (5)
  
  Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) (5)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (5)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (5)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (5)
  
  Naryan-Mar (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (5)
  
  Odessa (Ukraine), NKVD prison, Lustdorfskaya Doroga 9 (5)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (5)
  
  Przemyśl, prison, Rokitniańska Street 1 (5)
  
  Tashlak (Toshloq, Uzbekistan) (5)
  
  Vrevsky (Almazar, Uzbekistan) (5)
  
  Worochta (now in Ukraine) (5)
  
  Yertsevo (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (5)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (5)
  
  Abez (Russia, Komi Republic) (4)
  
  Berdychiv (Ukraine), Carmelite monastery (NKVD prison), Soborna Street (4)
  
  Bezymyanlag (Russia, Samara Oblast) (4)
  
  Białystok (4)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (4)
  
  Kirovohrad (Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine), NKVD prison, Kuropyatnikova Street 50 (4)
  
  Kniazhpogost (Russia, Komi Republic) (4)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine), prison, Kolejowa Street (Nezalezhnosti Street) (4)
  
  Kołomyja (now in Ukraine) (4)
  
  Lida (now in Belarus), "Kamionka" prison, Leninskaya Street 29 (4)
  
  Lwów (Ukraine), prison, Jachowicza Street 5 (Kuczery Street 5) (4)
  
  Magadan (Russia, Magadan Oblast) (4)
  
  Minsk (Belarus), NKVD remand center "Amerykanka", Hradsky Val Street 4 (4)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (4)
  
  Nukus (Uzbekistan) (4)
  
  Omsk (Russia, Omsk Oblast) (4)
  
  Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a (4)
Victims
- Civilians (282)
  
  The Jews (282)
  
  Ukrainians (281)
  
  The Poles (276)
  
  The Civilian Population (257)
  
  The Inteligentsia (129)
  
  Russians/Soviets (112)
  
  The Russians (92)
  
  Women (85)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (84)
  
  The sick (80)
  
  The Sick (79)
  
  Belarusians (69)
  
  Children (66)
  
  Deportees (60)
  
  Policemen (44)
  
  Prisoners of War (44)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (30)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (24)
  
  Lithuanians (23)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (22)
  
  The Church (22)
  
  The elderly (21)
  
  Germans (21)
  
  The Elderly (21)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (14)
  
  Landowners (14)
  
  Czechs (12)
  
  Hungarians (11)
  
  Latvians (10)
  
  Border Protection Corps (7)
  
  Romanians (7)
  
  Slovaks (6)
  
  Estonians (5)
  
  Internees (5)
  
  The Disabled (5)
  
  The French (4)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (4)
  
  Border Guard (3)
  
  Italians (3)
  
  Americans (2)
  
  Belgians (2)
  
  Prison Guard (2)
  
  The British (2)
  
  The Dutch (2)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (2)
  
  Finns (1)
  
  Georgians (1)
  
  Greeks (1)
  
  Norwegians (1)
  
  Scouts (1)
  
  The Communists (1)
Perpetrators
- People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (65)
  
  Denunciation (44)
  
  Soviet Militia (33)
  
  Red Army (32)
  
  Collaboration (28)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (20)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (18)
  
  SS (8)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (5)
  
  Lithuanians (4)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (3)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (2)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (2)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (2)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (247)
  
  Biological extermination (245)
  
  Arrest (237)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (162)
  
  Beating (140)
  
  Deportation/Exile (136)
  
  Judicial crime (90)
  
  Punishment cell (88)
  
  Robbery (50)
  
  Cattle wagons (48)
  
  Death by shooting (42)
  
  Execution (41)
  
  Disarmament (16)
  
  Roads of death (15)
  
  Deportation (12)
  
  Sovietization (11)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (10)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (9)
  
  Round-up (9)
  
  Air raids (7)
  
  Cremation of corpses (7)
  
  Mass graves (7)
  
  Cremation (6)
  
  Death marches (5)
  
  Gas chambers (5)
  
  Medical experiments (5)
  
  "Dosing" (4)
  
  Desacration of corpses (4)
  
  Economic exploitation (3)
  
  Forced voting (3)
  
  Hanging (3)
  
  Racial policy (3)
  
  Administrative persecution (2)
  
  Displacement (2)
  
  Expulsion (2)
  
  Germanization (2)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (2)
  
  Rape (2)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (2)
  
  Armored weapons (1)
  
  Burning people alive (1)
  
  Denationalization (1)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (1)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (1)
Place
- Prison (102)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (80)
  
  NKVD custody suite (71)
  
  Kolkhoz (60)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (43)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (27)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (20)
  
  Mine (17)
  
  Transit camp (17)
  
  Sovkhoz (15)
  
  Concentration camp (9)
  
  Extermination camp (6)
  
  Internment camp (4)
  
  Forced labor (2)
  
  Ghetto (2)
  
  Labor camp (2)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (2)
  
  Police headquarters/station (2)
  
  Center for the Germanization of children (1)
  
  Sewers (1)
  
  Siberia (1)
Content
- Health service (198)
  
  Anders' Army (96)
  
  Amnesty (83)
  
  Epidemics (45)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (37)
  
  Polish culture in exile (35)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (34)
  
  Communist propaganda (31)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (29)
  
  Third deportation (15)
  
  First deportation (14)
  
  Extermination of Jews (12)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (10)
  
  Second deportation (10)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (10)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (9)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (6)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (4)
  
  Civil resistance (3)
  
  Obliterating the traces (3)
  
  Polish Underground State (3)
  
  Rescue of Jews (3)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (3)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (3)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (3)
  
  obliterating the traces (3)
  
  Aktion Zamość (2)
  
  Fourth deportation (2)
  
  Military hospital (2)
  
  Students' Army Corps (2)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (2)
  
  Aid to Jews (1)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (1)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1)
Object type
- Account (68)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (13)
  
  Brief (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 (262)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (8)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (7)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (3)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (2)
Medium
- Text (284)
  
  Image (6)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (280)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (26)