„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)
- Bartoszko Kazimierz; 09.10.1898 (2)
  
  Lenczewski Tadeusz; 1913?, Rzędziany (2)
  
  Lewicki W. (2)
  
  Libkind-Lubodziecki Stanisław; 24.01.1879, Warsaw (2)
  
  Lipski Jan (2)
  
  Michalski Zbigniew (2)
  
  Mongiałło Wacław; 1910 (2)
  
  Nowak Jan (2)
  
  Puka Stanisław; 24.03.1921 (2)
  
  Tarkowski Bronisław; 1917.12.13 (2)
  
  Tomaszewski Zdzisław (2)
  
  Zdanowicz Michał; 1899.12.11 (2)
  
  Adamczyk Karol (1)
  
  Adamowicz Alfons; 15.12.1906, Białystok (1)
  
  Adamowicz Wiktor; 08.03.1903 (1)
  
  Adamski Alojzy, 1908.06.30 (1)
  
  Adamski Antoni, 1894? (1)
  
  Adamski Antoni; 1894? (1)
  
  Adamusik Stanisław (1)
  
  Aftergut Bronisław; 1893? (1)
  
  Aksnowicz Alfons; 21.01.1920 (1)
  
  Aktanarowicz Mieczysław; 1923? (1)
  
  Alchimowicz Kazimierz; 1906 (1)
  
  Aleksandrów Władysław; 1919? (1)
  
  Aleksiejuk Mieczysław, 1908.05.03 (1)
  
  Ambros Florian; 1913? (1)
  
  Ambroziak Jan (1)
  
  Ambroziewicz Michał; 1904? (1)
  
  Andruszkiewicz Józef; 1893? (1)
  
  Andrzejewski Teodor; 1904? (1)
  
  Aniszkiewicz Józef; 1895? (1)
  
  Ankudowicz Władysław; 23.10.1923, Białystok (1)
  
  Anonymous (1)
  
  Antkowski Konstanty (1)
  
  Apelbaum Leib; 1921? (1)
  
  Aranowicz Jerma; 1907? (1)
  
  Arciszewski Franciszek; 02.11.1908, Łódź (1)
  
  Arciszewski Jan, 1907, Pińsk (1)
  
  Arociak (1)
  
  Atras Franciszek, 1900.10.08 (1)
  
  Augustowicz Bolesław; 1912 (1)
  
  Augustyn Bolesław; 1902 (1)
  
  Aunszlok Kazimierz (1)
  
  Awdziej Alfons; 15.02.1900 (1)
  
  Awienko Henryk; 1910? (1)
  
  Babiarz Paweł, 1900.07.06 (1)
  
  Badach Julian; 05.10.1918_Sulmice (1)
  
  Badach Julian; 1910 (1)
  
  Badurak Bronislaw, 1905 (1)
  
  Badurak Bronisław; 1905 (1)
  
  Baka Jan; 1896 (1)
  
  Bakun Wladyslaw, 1906 (1)
  
  Bakun Władysław; 1906 (1)
  
  Bakuła Antoni; 1899 (1)
  
  Bakuła Antoni; 1900 (1)
  
  Balawajder Franciszek (1)
  
  Balawender Antonina (1)
  
  Balcar Karol, 1915? (1)
  
  Balińska Janina; 19.03.1905, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Baliński Kazimierz, 1901 (1)
  
  Balter Berek; 15.01.1909 (1)
  
  Balter Berek; 15.01.1910 (1)
  
  Banach Jan; 1894? (1)
  
  Banasiewicz Józef (1)
  
  Banaszkiewicz Jan, 1894 (1)
  
  Banaś Jan; 1893 (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899 (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899?, Brynica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Barachowski Jan, 1900 (1)
  
  Baran Jan, 1906.02.04 (1)
  
  Baranowski Antoni; 1905 (1)
  
  Baranowski Julian; 1902 (1)
  
  Baranowski Maksymilian (1)
  
  Barbachowski Wladyslaw; 1903 (1)
  
  Barczak Franciszek; 03.04.1913, Świeca (1)
  
  Barczykowski Jan 1914 (1)
  
  Barczykowski Jan; 05.01.1914, Spieczyny (1)
  
  Bardach Jakub; 1909 (1)
  
  Bardas Piotr; 1916, Görlitz (Germany) (1)
  
  Barna Teodor; 1900 (1)
  
  Baroni Jan; 1985 (1)
  
  Bartkiewicz Władysław; 1918?, Delatyn (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bartkiewicz Władysław; 1918?, Delatyn (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bartosiak Kazimierz; 1898 (1)
  
  Bartosiewicz Marcin, 1908 (1)
  
  Bartoszewicz Emilia; 09.11.1915 (1)
  
  Bartoszyński Józef; 1913 (1)
  
  Barwicki Władysław; 1898 (1)
  
  Baszker Fiyszel, 1899.08.06 (1)
  
  Bator Franciszek (1)
  
  Batory Nadzieja; 1923?, Płaszówka (now: Ukraine, Rivne Oblast) (1)
  
  Batura Józef; 1916 (1)
  
  Bauer Ludmiła; 28.01.1922 (1)
  
  Baumgarten Józefina (1)
  
  Bazylewicz Aleksy, 1892 (1)
  
  Bazyliński Józef (1)
  
  Bałajewicz Jadwiga; 1913 (1)
  
  Bałajewicz Jadwiga; 1914 (1)
  
  Bednarczyk Czesław (1)
  
  Bednarczyk Jan (1)
Subject
- The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (340)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (288)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (198)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (194)
  
  In exile – Siberia (135)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (127)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (106)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (93)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (91)
  
  In exile – Ural (74)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (67)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (61)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (56)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (55)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (48)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (37)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (30)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (30)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (22)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (20)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (18)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (17)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (14)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (11)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (8)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ryazan Oblast (8)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (7)
  
  In exile – Povolzhye (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Republic of Mordovia (7)
  
  In exile – Mari El Republic (6)
  
  In exile – Far East (5)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Sverdlovsk Oblast (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Vologda Oblast (3)
  
  Deported – the Altai Krai (2)
  
  Deported – the Perm Krai (2)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (2)
  
  the Gulag Archipelago – the Republic of Karelia (2)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Archipełag Gułag - Powołże (1)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching classes – Volhynia (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Lesser Poland (1)
  
  Deported – the Novosibirsk Oblast (1)
  
  Deported – the Rostov Oblast (1)
  
  Deported – the Volgograd Oblast (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (1)
  
  In exile – Rostov Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Ryazan Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Volgograd Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Yaroslavl Oblast (1)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (1)
  
  Lebensraum – the Germanization of the Zamość region (1)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Kraków (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (1)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ivanovo Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Tambov Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Tver Oblast (1)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (1)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (1)
  
  the Gulag Archipelago – the Krasnoyarsk Krai (1)
  
  the Gulag Archipelago – the Ukraine (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (416)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (355)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (228)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (197)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (189)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (172)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (164)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (136)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (129)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (108)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (103)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (101)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (98)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (96)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (90)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (84)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (83)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (81)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (73)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (72)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (71)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (67)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (60)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (57)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (57)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (54)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (53)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (52)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (50)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (49)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (48)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (48)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (47)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (47)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (47)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (47)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (47)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (46)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (46)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (44)
  
  Ostashkov (Russia, Tver Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (44)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (43)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (42)
  
  Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia) (41)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (41)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (41)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (41)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (39)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (39)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (37)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (37)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (36)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (36)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (36)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (35)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (35)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (35)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (35)
  
  Białystok (34)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (34)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (34)
  
  Kermine (Navoiy, Uzbekistan) (33)
  
  Sevvostlag (Russia, Magadan Oblast) (33)
  
  Tehran (Iran) (32)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (32)
  
  Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (31)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (31)
  
  Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a (31)
  
  Ukmergė (Lithuania), internee camp (31)
  
  Łomża, prison, Legionów Avenue 36 (31)
  
  Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (30)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no 2, Zamarstynowska Street 7/9 (30)
  
  Warsaw (30)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (29)
  
  Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (29)
  
  Połąga (now in Lithuania), internee camp (29)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (29)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (28)
  
  Nakhodka (Russia, Primorsky Krai) (28)
  
  Przemyśl, prison, Rokitniańska Street 1 (27)
  
  Tashlak (Toshloq, Uzbekistan) (27)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania) (27)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania), Łukiszki prison, Więzienna Street ( Lukiškių Street 6) (27)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (now in Lithuania), internee camp (27)
  
  Kherson (Ukraine), prison, Perekopska Street 10 (26)
  
  Przemyśl (26)
  
  Kagan (Uzbekistan) (25)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (25)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (25)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (25)
  
  Barnaul (Russia, Altai Krai) (23)
  
  Kniazhpogost (Russia, Komi Republic) (23)
  
  Kozelschyna (Ukraine, Poltava Oblast), transit camp (23)
  
  Minsk (Belarus), "Wołodarka" prison, Waladarskaha Street 2 (23)
  
  Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg, Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (23)
  
  Ukhto-Izhemsky Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (23)
  
  Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) (22)
  
  Nizhny Tagil (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (22)
  
  Pińsk (now in Belarus), NKVD prison no 29, Brzeska/Poleska Street (22)
  
  Lida (now in Belarus) (21)
Victims
- The Poles (2223)
  
  Civilians (1700)
  
  The Civilian Population (1592)
  
  Deportees (733)
  
  The Inteligentsia (733)
  
  Women (729)
  
  Ukrainians (582)
  
  The Jews (553)
  
  Prisoners of War (544)
  
  Children (535)
  
  The sick (483)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (466)
  
  The Sick (460)
  
  Russians/Soviets (458)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (399)
  
  The Russians (390)
  
  Policemen (337)
  
  Belarusians (304)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (289)
  
  The elderly (206)
  
  The Elderly (202)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (190)
  
  Internees (164)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (95)
  
  Border Guard (94)
  
  Lithuanians (92)
  
  The Church (75)
  
  Landowners (74)
  
  Border Protection Corps (70)
  
  Germans (65)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (53)
  
  Latvians (34)
  
  Estonians (30)
  
  Czechs (16)
  
  Romanians (15)
  
  Prison Guard (11)
  
  Hungarians (7)
  
  the Chinese (5)
  
  Finns (4)
  
  Scouts (3)
  
  Georgians (2)
  
  Slovaks (2)
  
  Americans (1)
  
  The British (1)
  
  The Communists (1)
Perpetrators
- People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (562)
  
  Red Army (328)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (227)
  
  Denunciation (199)
  
  Soviet Militia (178)
  
  Collaboration (137)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (93)
  
  Lithuanians (80)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (15)
  
  Collaborators (9)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (9)
  
  Latvians (8)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (5)
  
  SS (4)
  
  Administrative Police (2)
  
  Postal Protection (2)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (2)
  
  Military Police (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (1)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (1925)
  
  Biological extermination (1847)
  
  Arrest (1525)
  
  Deportation/Exile (1264)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (906)
  
  Beating (788)
  
  Punishment cell (540)
  
  Judicial crime (522)
  
  Cattle wagons (516)
  
  Robbery (304)
  
  Disarmament (208)
  
  Execution (174)
  
  Death by shooting (161)
  
  Roads of death (118)
  
  Deportation (94)
  
  Sovietization (73)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (71)
  
  Air raids (57)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (56)
  
  Forced voting (30)
  
  Desacration of corpses (19)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (19)
  
  Round-up (17)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (16)
  
  Armored weapons (11)
  
  Mass graves (7)
  
  Collectivization (6)
  
  Denationalization (6)
  
  Displacement (6)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (6)
  
  Death marches (4)
  
  Cremation (3)
  
  Cremation of corpses (3)
  
  Expulsion (3)
  
  Artillery fire (2)
  
  Artillery shelling (2)
  
  Economic exploitation (2)
  
  Germanization (2)
  
  Rape (2)
  
  Burning people alive (1)
  
  Gas chambers (1)
  
  Racial policy (1)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (1)
  
  Ukrainianization (1)
Place
- Prison (609)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (561)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (543)
  
  Kolkhoz (450)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (343)
  
  NKVD custody suite (329)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (256)
  
  Transit camp (244)
  
  Mine (183)
  
  Internment camp (147)
  
  Sovkhoz (71)
  
  Siberia (9)
  
  Concentration camp (7)
  
  Orphanage – dietdom (7)
  
  Extermination camp (4)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (3)
  
  Forced labor (2)
  
  Ghetto (2)
  
  Police headquarters/station (2)
  
  Labor camp (1)
  
  Sewers (1)
Content
- Health service (1294)
  
  Anders' Army (807)
  
  Amnesty (679)
  
  First deportation (415)
  
  Epidemics (314)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (301)
  
  Communist propaganda (280)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (259)
  
  Polish culture in exile (236)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (106)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (104)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (103)
  
  Third deportation (76)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (68)
  
  Fourth deportation (63)
  
  Second deportation (46)
  
  Military hospital (28)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (20)
  
  Students' Army Corps (15)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (14)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (13)
  
  Civil resistance (11)
  
  Aid to Jews (6)
  
  Underground culture and education (6)
  
  Extermination of Jews (5)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (5)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (4)
  
  Partisan warfare (4)
  
  Polish Underground State (4)
  
  Rescue of Jews (3)
  
  Underground media (3)
  
  Judenrat (2)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (2)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (2)
  
  Aktion Zamość (1)
  
  Central Welfare Council (1)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (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
- Account (801)
  
  Brief (93)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (36)
  
  Statement (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 (2121)
  
  Katyn Museum (91)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (7)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (6)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (5)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (3)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (1)
  
  District Court in Radom (1)
Medium
- Text (2237)
  
  Image (52)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (2291)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (52)