„Chronicles of Terror”. Base of testimonies of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor

Main Page Search phrase: [Location = Polska]

Witness (date and place of birth)
- Lorentz Stanisław; 28.04.1899, Radom (2)
  
  Adamski Alojzy, 1908.06.30 (1)
  
  Anlen Bronisław Elkana; 9.05.1907, Warsaw (1)
  
  Banbura Maria (1)
  
  Baszker Fiyszel, 1899.08.06 (1)
  
  Bednarczyk Jan (1)
  
  Brzeziński Bronisław; 20.07.1905, Warsaw (1)
  
  Chomczyk Leon; 02.10.1906, Piaski (Piotrków county) (1)
  
  Chyliński Aleksander, 1914.05.24 (1)
  
  Cieplewski Janusz (1)
  
  Cieszkowski Kazimierz; 1921? (1)
  
  Cugowski Karol; 30.01.1882 (1)
  
  Czapnicki Erwin (1)
  
  Damięcki Dobiesław; 02.04.1899, Karniewek (1)
  
  Dreyza Jerzy; 19.07.1902, Brzóstownia (1)
  
  Drogosz Natalia (1)
  
  Dryja-Wysocki Stanisław (1)
  
  Falk Ignacy; 1902? (1)
  
  Falska Helena; 1900? (1)
  
  Filipowicz Władysław, 1894.09.22 (1)
  
  Filipowski Andrzej, 1899 (1)
  
  Fronenberg Moszek; 04.04.1921, Puławy (1)
  
  Gałuszewski Kazimierz; 1899.03.04 (1)
  
  Gitler-Barski Józef; 03.03.1898, Warsaw (1)
  
  Goldebrg Jakub; 1899.10.14 (1)
  
  Grajnert Stanisław; 1899 (1)
  
  Górecki Tadeusz; 18.10.1919, Radomsko (1)
  
  Gładysz Franciszek; 21.04.1903 (1)
  
  Idzikowski Aleksander; 03.02.1927, Warsaw (1)
  
  Jamioł Agnieszka; 1881?, Galów (1)
  
  Jan Chwastek; 1900.01.06 (1)
  
  Józefczyk Wojciech; 1896.11.14 (1)
  
  Kalinko Józef; 27.01.1912, Augustów (podlaskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Kiniorska Władysława; 1913? (1)
  
  Kowalska Maria; 09.01.1920, Warsaw (1)
  
  Kowalska Maria; 1910? (1)
  
  Kuchta Jan (1)
  
  Kulawik Justyna; 1909? (1)
  
  Kura Helena; 02.02.1920, Brzesko (1)
  
  Lehr-Soławiński Tadeusz; 1890? (1)
  
  Litka Mieczysław; 28.03.1926 (1)
  
  Maron Irena (1)
  
  Małkiewicz Józef; 1899 (1)
  
  Milewczyk Władysław; 1901? (1)
  
  Młynarczyk Stanisława; 24.01.1904, Kielce (1)
  
  Niewiarowicz Roman; 15.01.1902 (1)
  
  Nowak Danuta; 21.01.1921 Kamieniec Litewski (Kamieniec, now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Nowak Danuta; 21.01.1921, Kamieniec Litewski (Kamieniec, now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Nowakowska Maria; 1906? (1)
  
  Nowakowska Maria; 1915? (1)
  
  Oryński Czesław (1)
  
  Orzechowska Anna; 1917? (1)
  
  Paszewski Zygmunt (1)
  
  Piełowski Gerard; 1906? (1)
  
  Pipka Małgorzata; 1885? (1)
  
  Pięta Eugeniusz (1)
  
  Ptak Stanisław; 1902? (1)
  
  Putkowska Janina Barbara; 15.09.1924, Warsaw (1)
  
  Rataj Tomasz (1)
  
  Rudnicki Henryk Michał; 25.06.1899, Grodno (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Rymkowski Michał Kazimierz; 15.09.1909 (1)
  
  Rzeszotarski Adam; 06.02.1903, Kutno (1)
  
  Sendecki Sylwester; 1903? (1)
  
  Szczepanik Irena; 18.03.1918, Warsaw (1)
  
  Targosz Franciszek; 07.09.1899, Kończyce? (1)
  
  Targosz Franciszek; 1898? (1)
  
  Tchórzewski Józef (1)
  
  Tyszka Bolesław; 1905.03.02 (1)
  
  Wagner Janusz Bogumił; 31.03.1898, Orsha (Belarus) (1)
  
  Waluda Wawrzyniec (1)
  
  Wasilczyk Władysław (1)
  
  Wierzbiński Józef, 1899 (1)
  
  Wolszczak Genowefa; 1919? (1)
  
  Wutke Paweł; 1893 (1)
  
  Zakrzecki Szymon, 1894 (1)
  
  Ziara Władysława (1)
  
  Ziemiewicz Bohdan; 16.09.1907, Warsaw (1)
  
  Śliwicki Zygmunt; 14.03.1903, Sierakowice (łódzkie voivodeship) (1)
Subject
- The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (8)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (7)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (6)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (6)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (6)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (5)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (4)
  
  In exile – Siberia (4)
  
  The Free City of Danzig – erasing Polishness (4)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (4)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (4)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (3)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (3)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz (3)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (2)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (2)
  
  In exile – Ural (2)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (2)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (2)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  The city condemned to death (2)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (2)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (1)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Tarnów Ghetto (1)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (1)
  
  Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages (1)
  
  Michniów – the extermination of the Polish countryside (1)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Greater Poland (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (1)
  
  Prisoners of war – transit camps in Kielce (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (1)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Żoliborz (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Warsaw, Hotel Polski, Długa Street 29 (9)
  
  Skałka Polska (8)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (7)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (7)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship), Agricultural School, Wojska Polskiego Street 78 (7)
  
  Łopuszno (7)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) (5)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (4)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (4)
  
  Leokadiów (4)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (4)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (4)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (4)
  
  Warsaw, Pfeiffer Brothers' Tannery Factory, Okopowa Street 58/72 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Polish Security Printing Works, Sanguszki Street 1 (4)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (3)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (3)
  
  Hanover (Germany) (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (3)
  
  Kielce, Lipowa Street (Wojska Polskiego Street) (3)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (3)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (3)
  
  Vittel (France) (3)
  
  Warsaw (3)
  
  Warsaw, General Directorate of State Forests, Wawelska Street 52/54 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (3)
  
  Warsaw, Polish Theater, Karasia Street 2 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Traugutta Park (3)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (2)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (2)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (2)
  
  Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship), Gestapo headquarters, Rostka Street 2 (2)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (2)
  
  Gdynia (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (2)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (2)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (2)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (2)
  
  KL Majdanek (2)
  
  Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (2)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (2)
  
  Kielce, Sienkiewicza Street (2)
  
  Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 (2)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (2)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (2)
  
  Przemyśl, prison, Rokitniańska Street 1 (2)
  
  Radom (2)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (2)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (2)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (2)
  
  Tashlak (Toshloq, Uzbekistan) (2)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (2)
  
  Ukhto-Izhemsky Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (2)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (2)
  
  Warsaw, Church of the Mother of God, Queen of Poland, Gdańska Street 6A (2)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Umschlagplatz, Stawki Street 2/6 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Komedia Theater, Kredytowa Street 14 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Krasiński Library, Okólnik Street 9 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Leszno Street 6 (2)
  
  Warsaw, National Museum, Aleje Jerozolimskie 3 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Philips Poland S.A., Karolkowa Street 30 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Polish Army Museum, Aleje Jerozolimskie 3 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Polish Army Museum, Jerozolimskie Avenue 3 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Royal Castle (2)
  
  Warsaw, Royal Castle, Zamkowy Square 4 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Royal Hotel, Chmielna Street 31 (2)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Warszawa Zachodnia Station (2)
  
  Wisła (Cieszyn district), Castle of the President of the Republic of Poland, Zameczek Street 1 (2)
  
  Wodzisław Śląski (2)
  
  Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk, Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (2)
  
  Yertsevo (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (2)
  
  Łomża, prison, Legionów Avenue 36 (2)
  
  Abez (Russia, Komi Republic) (1)
  
  Aktobe (Kazakhstan) (1)
  
  Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (1)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (1)
  
  Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia) (1)
  
  Babin (now in Ukraine, Rivne Oblast), POW forced labor camp (1)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Beirut (Lebanon) (1)
  
  Biała (Bielsko-Biała) (1)
  
  Biała Podlaska (1)
  
  Białystok (1)
  
  Borszczów (now in Ukraine), barracks, Shukhevych Street 14 (1)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (1)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Bydgoszcz (1)
  
  Chełm (1)
  
  Czortków (now in Ukraine), Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) (1)
  
  Częstochowa (1)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (1)
  
  Eustachów (1)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (1)
  
  Gniewoszów (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
Victims
- The Poles (89)
  
  Civilians (85)
  
  The Civilian Population (72)
  
  Women (36)
  
  Children (29)
  
  The Jews (26)
  
  The Inteligentsia (22)
  
  Deportees (18)
  
  The sick (18)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (17)
  
  The Sick (15)
  
  Prisoners of War (11)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (8)
  
  The elderly (6)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (5)
  
  Policemen (5)
  
  The Elderly (5)
  
  Ukrainians (4)
  
  Belarusians (3)
  
  Border Guard (3)
  
  Russians/Soviets (3)
  
  Latvians (2)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (2)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (2)
  
  Slovaks (2)
  
  The Church (2)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (2)
  
  The elderly (1)
  
  Americans (1)
  
  Border Protection Corps (1)
  
  Estonians (1)
  
  Germans (1)
  
  Hungarians (1)
  
  Internees (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  Prison Guard (1)
  
  Romanians (1)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (1)
  
  The Russians (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (20)
  
  Military Police (13)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (11)
  
  Collaboration (9)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (9)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (8)
  
  Red Army (7)
  
  Soviet Militia (6)
  
  Denunciation (5)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (5)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (5)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (4)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (3)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (3)
  
  Collaborators (2)
  
  Latvians (2)
  
  The Russian National Liberation Army (RONA) (2)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (1)
Crimes
- Arrest (48)
  
  Biological extermination (41)
  
  Forced labor (41)
  
  Death by shooting (36)
  
  Beating (35)
  
  Execution (28)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (27)
  
  Robbery (22)
  
  Judicial crime (20)
  
  Deportation/Exile (18)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (16)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (16)
  
  Cattle wagons (13)
  
  Cremation (11)
  
  Cremation of corpses (11)
  
  Administrative persecution (8)
  
  Deportation (7)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (6)
  
  Displacement (5)
  
  Mass graves (5)
  
  Air raids (4)
  
  Armored weapons (4)
  
  Economic exploitation (4)
  
  Expulsion (4)
  
  Round-up (4)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (4)
  
  Artillery fire (3)
  
  Artillery shelling (3)
  
  Burning people alive (3)
  
  Forced voting (3)
  
  Gas chambers (3)
  
  Punishment cell (3)
  
  Racial policy (3)
  
  Rape (3)
  
  Death marches (2)
  
  Denationalization (2)
  
  Disarmament (2)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (2)
  
  Hanging (2)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (2)
  
  Roads of death (2)
  
  Sovietization (2)
  
  Germanization (1)
  
  Human shields (1)
Place
- Prison (25)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (15)
  
  Kolkhoz (12)
  
  NKVD custody suite (12)
  
  Mine (9)
  
  Ghetto (7)
  
  Concentration camp (6)
  
  Extermination camp (6)
  
  Transit camp (6)
  
  Police headquarters/station (5)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (3)
  
  Forced labor (2)
  
  Internment camp (1)
  
  Labor camp (1)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (1)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (1)
  
  Sovkhoz (1)
Content
- Warsaw Uprising (21)
  
  Health service (20)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (13)
  
  Extermination of Jews (11)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (7)
  
  Civil resistance (6)
  
  Rescue of Jews (6)
  
  First deportation (5)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (5)
  
  Amnesty (4)
  
  Free City of Danzig (4)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (4)
  
  Epidemics (3)
  
  Ochota Massacre (3)
  
  Third deportation (3)
  
  Underground courts (3)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (3)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (3)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (2)
  
  Central Welfare Council (2)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (2)
  
  Obliterating the traces (2)
  
  Polish Underground State (2)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (2)
  
  Underground culture and education (2)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (1)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (1)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (1)
  
  Judenrat (1)
  
  Pabst Plan (Pabst-Plan) (1)
  
  Polish culture in exile (1)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (1)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (1)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (1)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (1)
  
  Underground media (1)
  
  obliterating the traces (1)
  
  the Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (42)
  
  Account (27)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (15)
  
  Brief (3)
  
  Official memo (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 (35)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (16)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (13)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (10)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (7)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (6)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (3)
  
  District Court in Radom (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (1)
  
  Katyn Museum (1)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (1)
Medium
- Text (94)
  
  Image (12)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (88)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (14)