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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (3)
  
  Rżewski Władysław, 07.01.1894 (3)
  
  Alscher Josef; 05.06.1894, Legnica (2)
  
  Dudek Władysław; 16.06.1920, Radogoszcz (2)
  
  Dudek Władysław; 1920? (2)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (2)
  
  Kowalczyk Janina; 10.03.1907, Golkowice (2)
  
  Olbrycht Jan; 06.05.1886, Zahutyń (2)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (2)
  
  Rajewski Ludwik; 16.12.1900, Łódź (2)
  
  Rżewski Władysław; 1894? (2)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Wrona Edward; 13.10.1913, Tuchów (2)
  
  Bakuła Antoni; 1899 (1)
  
  Bakuła Antoni; 1900 (1)
  
  Bartel Erwin; 02.03.1923, Oświęcim (1)
  
  Bartosiewicz Marcin, 1908 (1)
  
  Bicz Bolesław; 01.04.1889, Sporysz (Bielsk county) (1)
  
  Bobowski Leszek; 1910? (1)
  
  Brewda Alina; 14.06.1905, Warsaw (1)
  
  Brylowski Wiktor; 1904? (1)
  
  Budnik Michał, 1915.01.15 (1)
  
  Budziaszek Maria; 08.09.1920, Kraków (1)
  
  Bączkowska Anna; 1873?, Warsaw (1)
  
  Błotnicki Edward; 08.04.1888, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Chojecka Maria; 11.03.1903 (1)
  
  Cieśla Mozes, 1921 (1)
  
  Cieślik-Ciesielska Romualda; 07.02.1908, Grabiny (1)
  
  Cyrankiewicz Józef; 23.04.1911, Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Drabek Jan; 1901 (1)
  
  Dragon Szlama; 19.03.1920, Żuromin (1)
  
  Dryja-Wysocki Stanisław (1)
  
  Dubiel Stanisław; 13.11.1910, Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Dziad Franciszek; 1898 (1)
  
  Dürmayer Heinrich; 10.04.1905, Atzgersdorf (Austria) (1)
  
  Epsztejn Abraham, 1911 (1)
  
  Feinsilber Alter (Jankowski Stanisław); 23.10.1910, Stoczek Łukowski (1)
  
  Ferri Luigi; 09.09.1932, Mediolan (Italy) (1)
  
  Ferri Luigi; 09.09.1932, Mediolan (Włochy) (1)
  
  Fiderkiewicz Alfred; 02.07.1886, Horodenka (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Fiderkiewicz Alfred; 2.07.1886, Horodenka (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Fijakowski Błażej (1)
  
  Filipek Zygmunt; 1920? (1)
  
  Folitarczyk Bronisław, 1908 (1)
  
  Frenkiel Stanisław, 1918 (1)
  
  Garniewicz Stanisław; 1884 (1)
  
  Gierżadowicz Jan, 1907 (1)
  
  Gogolewski Roman; 1911 (1)
  
  Gołąb Jan, 1899 (1)
  
  Grabczyński Jan; 21.05.1908, Tarnów (dolnośląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Greif Wilhelm; 1899 (1)
  
  Gryckiewicz Józef (1)
  
  Gubała Jerzy, 1899? (1)
  
  Górka-Olbrychowska Wiesława (1)
  
  Górski Antoni Stanisław; 18.08.1914, Warsaw (1)
  
  Gągała Janina; 1921? (1)
  
  Halbreich Zygfryd; 13.11.1909, Dziedzice (śląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Hermanowski Stanisław; 1907 (1)
  
  Horzela Stefan; 17.08.1911, Żyglin (Miasteczko Śląskie) (1)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (1)
  
  Janczarski Teofil; 1884.04.28 (1)
  
  Jeleń Piotr; 15.01.1921, Kraków (1)
  
  Jeleń Piotr; 1919? (1)
  
  Kanicka Kamila; 04.12.1904 (1)
  
  Kanicka Kamila; 1905? (1)
  
  Karaś Witold; 1920? (1)
  
  Karcz Jan; 27.08.1915, Skalbmierz (1)
  
  Kaszlikowski Stanisław; 1909? (1)
  
  Kaszyński Jan; 19.11.1920, Warsaw (1)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (1)
  
  Klahr Febus; 1893? (1)
  
  Kleinstein Mojżesz; 05.11.1927, Kielce (1)
  
  Kowalczyk Janina; 1907? (1)
  
  Kościelniak Mieczysław; 28.01.1912, Kalisz (1)
  
  Kościuszko Janina; 17.05.1897, Chrzanów? (1)
  
  Kraus Otto; 07.09.1909, Klášterní Skalice (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Kuhlemann Hermann; 22.10.1908, Barntrup (Germany) (1)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (1)
  
  Kula Michał; 1913? (1)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Lasok Aniela; 1922? (1)
  
  Lasok Aniela; 1923? (1)
  
  Liberman Dawid; 17.01.1912, Sosnowiec (1)
  
  Limousin Henri ;25.03.1893, Saint Le Noble (France) (1)
  
  Liszka Edward; 25.07.1920, Kraków (1)
  
  Litwink Jerzy Bernard; 19.08.1919, Warszawa (1)
  
  Lustbader Markus; 11.09.1905, Nowy Sącz (1)
  
  Machałowski Jan; 22.02.1912, Warszawa (1)
  
  Makowski Wacław; 1920? (1)
  
  Mandelbaum Izrael; 16.11.1913, Lublin (1)
  
  Marchewka Stanisław; 1893? (1)
  
  Marossanyi Wanda; 10.01.1918, Nowy Sącz (1)
  
  Martens Ryszard; 27.10.1922 (1)
  
  Masłowski Eugeniusz; 1924? (1)
  
  Materkowski Antoni; 14.06.1899, Koprzywnica (1)
  
  Materkowski Antoni; 14.06.1899, Koprzywnica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Matys Jan; 1899 (1)
  
  Michalski Jan; 01.04.1909 (1)
  
  Michalski Jan; 01.04.1909, Rzeszów (1)
Subject
- Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (32)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (19)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (19)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (19)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (12)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (12)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (8)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (7)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (6)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (6)
  
  A mass extermination – KL Flossenbürg (5)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (5)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (4)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (4)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (4)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (4)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (3)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (3)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (3)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Flossenbürg (3)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (3)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (2)
  
  A mass extermination – KL Mauthausen-Gusen (1)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Ural (1)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (1)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Neuengamme (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Sachsenhausen (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Greater Poland (1)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (1)
  
  The Intelligenzaktion in Pomerania – the Piaśnica massacre (1)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (1)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (1)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz I (72)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (67)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (63)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (47)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (43)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (42)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (28)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (26)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (24)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (23)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (21)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (21)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (21)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (18)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (17)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (17)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (14)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (14)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (13)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (12)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (12)
  
  Bochnia, train station (11)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (11)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (11)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (11)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (10)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (10)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (10)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (10)
  
  KL Majdanek (10)
  
  Warsaw (10)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (9)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (9)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (8)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (8)
  
  Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (8)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (8)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (7)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (7)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (7)
  
  Bydgoszcz (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (6)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (6)
  
  Kraków (6)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (6)
  
  Rajsko, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (6)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (6)
  
  Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (5)
  
  Jasło, temporary remand prison, Staszica Street 3 (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, SS-Stabsgebaude (5)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (5)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (5)
  
  Lublin (5)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (5)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (5)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (4)
  
  Brzeszcze (4)
  
  Czortków (now in Ukraine), prison, Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) (4)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (4)
  
  Jawiszowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (4)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (4)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (4)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (4)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (4)
  
  Nowy Wiśnicz (4)
  
  Pszczyna (4)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (4)
  
  Werba (Ukraine) (4)
  
  Łódź (4)
  
  Babin (now in Ukraine, Rivne Oblast), POW forced labor camp (3)
  
  Białystok (3)
  
  Czerlany (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (3)
  
  Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (3)
  
  Gorlice, Gestapo headquarters, Legionów Street 8 (3)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (3)
  
  Hamburg (Germany) (3)
  
  Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (3)
  
  KL Melk (Austria) (3)
  
  KL Neuengamme (Germany) (3)
  
  Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 (3)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (3)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (3)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (3)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (3)
  
  Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (3)
  
  Podliski Małe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (3)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (3)
  
  Radziwiłłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (3)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (3)
  
  Siemianowice Śląskie, Laurahütte industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (3)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (3)
  
  Tarnów (3)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Vienna (Austria) (3)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (3)
Victims
- Germans (184)
  
  The Poles (178)
  
  Civilians (155)
  
  The Civilian Population (153)
  
  The Jews (122)
  
  Women (90)
  
  The Inteligentsia (85)
  
  Russians/Soviets (81)
  
  The sick (78)
  
  The Russians (77)
  
  The Sick (75)
  
  Prisoners of War (71)
  
  Children (64)
  
  Ukrainians (53)
  
  The elderly (42)
  
  The Elderly (42)
  
  Czechs (38)
  
  The French (37)
  
  Hungarians (34)
  
  Belarusians (32)
  
  Slovaks (29)
  
  Belgians (23)
  
  The Dutch (22)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (20)
  
  The Communists (19)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (18)
  
  Greeks (17)
  
  The Church (17)
  
  The Disabled (17)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (16)
  
  Deportees (15)
  
  Policemen (14)
  
  Italians (13)
  
  Lithuanians (12)
  
  Latvians (9)
  
  Romanians (9)
  
  The British (8)
  
  Americans (7)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (6)
  
  Norwegians (6)
  
  Border Guard (5)
  
  Estonians (5)
  
  Internees (5)
  
  Landowners (4)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (4)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (4)
  
  Border Protection Corps (3)
  
  Finns (3)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (3)
  
  the Chinese (2)
  
  Serbs (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (99)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (36)
  
  Collaboration (21)
  
  Red Army (19)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (17)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (15)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (10)
  
  Denunciation (8)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (8)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (8)
  
  Soviet Militia (7)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (5)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (4)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (4)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (3)
  
  Lithuanians (2)
  
  Military Police (2)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (2)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (2)
  
  Waffen-SS (2)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (1)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (154)
  
  Biological extermination (145)
  
  Beating (113)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (110)
  
  Arrest (107)
  
  Execution (90)
  
  Death by shooting (80)
  
  Gas chambers (69)
  
  Robbery (59)
  
  Cremation (58)
  
  Cremation of corpses (58)
  
  Deportation (52)
  
  Deportation/Exile (38)
  
  Cattle wagons (35)
  
  Hanging (34)
  
  Medical experiments (32)
  
  "Dosing" (28)
  
  Judicial crime (23)
  
  Mass graves (23)
  
  Punishment cell (22)
  
  Disarmament (19)
  
  Desacration of corpses (17)
  
  Round-up (17)
  
  Death marches (12)
  
  Economic exploitation (12)
  
  Racial policy (12)
  
  Burning people alive (11)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (8)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (6)
  
  Displacement (5)
  
  Expulsion (5)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (5)
  
  Roads of death (5)
  
  Air raids (4)
  
  Rape (4)
  
  Administrative persecution (3)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (3)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (3)
  
  Sovietization (3)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (1)
  
  Germanization (1)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (1)
Place
- Concentration camp (98)
  
  Extermination camp (69)
  
  Prison (53)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (23)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (22)
  
  Labor camp (20)
  
  Transit camp (20)
  
  Police headquarters/station (15)
  
  Kolkhoz (14)
  
  NKVD custody suite (11)
  
  Mine (9)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (9)
  
  Ghetto (5)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (5)
  
  Internment camp (4)
  
  Sovkhoz (4)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (3)
  
  Forced labor (2)
  
  Center for the Germanization of children (1)
  
  Orphanage – dietdom (1)
Content
- Health service (72)
  
  Extermination of Jews (56)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (50)
  
  Obliterating the traces (31)
  
  obliterating the traces (28)
  
  Anders' Army (26)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (23)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (22)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (19)
  
  Amnesty (17)
  
  Civil resistance (16)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (14)
  
  Epidemics (13)
  
  Polish culture in exile (12)
  
  Aktion Zamość (9)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (8)
  
  First deportation (7)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (7)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (6)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (5)
  
  Rescue of Jews (5)
  
  Communist propaganda (4)
  
  Second deportation (4)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (3)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (2)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (2)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (2)
  
  Military hospital (2)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (2)
  
  Polish Underground State (2)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (2)
  
  Aktion T4 (1)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (1)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (1)
  
  Field health service (1)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (1)
  
  Judenrat (1)
  
  Operation "Tempest" (1)
  
  Partisan warfare (1)
  
  Students' Army Corps (1)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
  
  Third deportation (1)
  
  Underground courts (1)
  
  Underground culture and education (1)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (99)
  
  Account (22)
  
  Brief (5)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (4)
  
  Press clipping (2)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (2)
  
  Official memo (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Supreme National Tribunal (93)
  
  Independent Historical Office of the Command of the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union/Documentation Office of the Polish Army in the East (76)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (3)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (3)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (1)
  
  District Court in Radom (1)
  
  Katyn Museum (1)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (1)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (1)
Medium
- Text (184)
  
  Image (18)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (184)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (9)