“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)
- Kahl Tadeusz; 27.07.1908, Kraków (2)
  
  Rajewski Ludwik; 16.12.1900, Łódź (2)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Bader Henryk; 15.04.1920, Oświęcim (1)
  
  Balias Dominik; 12.08.1906, Warsaw (1)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (1)
  
  Cieślik-Ciesielska Romualda; 07.02.1908, Grabiny (1)
  
  Dawidowski Roman, 1884? (1)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (1)
  
  Gawalewicz Adolf; 02.09.1916, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Halbreich Zygfryd; 13.11.1909, Dziedzice (śląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Hanuszek Tadeusz; 11.07.1922, Kraków (1)
  
  Holender H. (1)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (1)
  
  Hrad-Głowacka Zofia (1)
  
  Juszczyński Antoni Michał; 01.06.1884, Warsaw (1)
  
  Kahl Tadeusz; 27.09.1908, Kraków (1)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (1)
  
  Koczorowski Józef; 01.02.1919, Poznań (1)
  
  Konopczyńska Jadwiga, 1888? (1)
  
  Kopta Marian; 08.12.1911, Kraków (1)
  
  Kucharski Teofil; 06.02.1889, Jaszczew (1)
  
  Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (1)
  
  Olbrycht Jan; 06.05.1886, Zahutyń (1)
  
  Plaskura Władysław; 10.05.1905, Łazy (Orłowa, Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Pleszowska Felicja; 28.07.1913, Warsaw (1)
  
  Rachwał Stanisława; 29.06.1906, Rudki (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Stuhr Oskar Tadeusz; 08.10.1891, Kraków (1)
  
  Tauber Henryk; 08.07.1917, Chrzanów (małopolskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Wolny Stefan; 30.10.1903, Kamieńskie (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Wolter Władysław, 05.02.1897, Vienna (Austria) (1)
  
  Wrona Edward; 13.10.1913, Tuchów (1)
  
  Wągrowski Tadeusz; 12.06.1904, Warsaw (1)
  
  Węgrzyn Elżbieta, 1911? (1)
Subject
- Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (13)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (9)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Tarnów Ghetto (6)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (4)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (4)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (4)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (3)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Lesser Poland (2)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (2)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Plaszow branch in Mielec (1)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (1)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Bergen-Belsen (1)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (1)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (1)
  
  The city condemned to death (1)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Żoliborz (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Plaszow (26)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (25)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (18)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (18)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (16)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (14)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (12)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (12)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (11)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (9)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (9)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (8)
  
  Bochnia, train station (7)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (7)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (6)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (6)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (6)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (6)
  
  Kraków (6)
  
  Bydgoszcz (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (5)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (4)
  
  KL Majdanek (4)
  
  Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 (4)
  
  Nowy Wiśnicz (4)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (4)
  
  Częstochowa (3)
  
  Jawiszowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (3)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  Starachowice (3)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz I (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz II (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz III (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz IV (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Bełżec, German extermination camp (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, SS-Stabsgebaude (2)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (2)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (2)
  
  KL Melk (Austria) (2)
  
  KL Mittelbau-Dora (Germany) (2)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Niemcy) (2)
  
  Poręba (district of Pszczyna) (2)
  
  Pszczyna (2)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (2)
  
  Babice, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (1)
  
  Bolesławiec, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Gross-Rosen) (1)
  
  Brussels (Belgium) (1)
  
  Brzeszcze (1)
  
  Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
  
  Drancy (France) (1)
  
  Dresden (Germany) (1)
  
  Drezdenko (1)
  
  Garwolin (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (1)
  
  Gmunden (Austria) (1)
  
  Gorlice, Gestapo headquarters, Legionów Street 8 (1)
  
  Grodzisk Mazowiecki (1)
  
  Grójec (1)
  
  Hajduki Wielkie (Chorzów), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
  
  Hamburg (Germany) (1)
  
  Jasło, temporary remand prison, Staszica Street 3 (1)
  
  Jaworzno, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
  
  Jeziorna (Konstancin-Jeziorna) (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Lagerhaus (1)
  
  KL Barth (subcamp of KL Ravensbrück, Germany) (1)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (1)
  
  KL Ebensee (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) (1)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (1)
  
  KL Herzogenbusch (Netherlands) (1)
  
  KL Leitmeritz (subcamp of KL Flossenbürg, Czech Republic) (1)
  
  KL Melk (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) (1)
  
  KL Neuengamme (Germany) (1)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  KL Wiener Neustadt (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) (1)
  
  Karczew (mazowieckie voivodeship), labor camp (1)
  
  Kielce (1)
  
  Kielce, "Henryków" factory, Młynarska Street 133 (Mielczarskiego Street) (1)
  
  Kielce, forced labor camp "Henryków", Młynarska Street 133 (Mielczarskiego Street) (1)
  
  Komorów (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Kraków, Enamel Factory of Oskar Schindler (subcamp of KL Płaszów), Lipowa Street 4 (1)
  
  Kraków, Gramatyka Street 51 (1)
  
  Kraków, Jewish Police Service prison, Józefińska Street 37 (1)
  
  Kraków, Kopernika Street (1)
  
  Kraków, Nowowiejska Street (1)
  
  Kraków, Pędzichów Street 11 (Dietla Street 11) (1)
  
  Kraków, Sobieskiego Street 5 (1)
Victims
- Civilians (61)
  
  The Jews (50)
  
  The Poles (42)
  
  Women (39)
  
  The Civilian Population (30)
  
  Children (27)
  
  The Inteligentsia (22)
  
  Russians/Soviets (18)
  
  The elderly (16)
  
  The Russians (15)
  
  The sick (15)
  
  Prisoners of War (14)
  
  Germans (13)
  
  Czechs (12)
  
  The Sick (12)
  
  The French (11)
  
  The Elderly (10)
  
  Hungarians (7)
  
  Slovaks (7)
  
  Belgians (6)
  
  The Disabled (6)
  
  The Dutch (6)
  
  Greeks (5)
  
  The Church (5)
  
  Italians (4)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (4)
  
  Romanians (3)
  
  The Communists (3)
  
  Americans (2)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  Norwegians (1)
  
  Ukrainians (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (45)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (16)
  
  Collaboration (6)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (6)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (5)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (3)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (3)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (2)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (2)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (2)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (1)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (1)
  
  Waffen-SS (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Death by shooting (48)
  
  Execution (46)
  
  Forced labor (45)
  
  Deportation (43)
  
  Beating (37)
  
  Robbery (28)
  
  Arrest (26)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (26)
  
  Biological extermination (22)
  
  Cremation of corpses (19)
  
  Gas chambers (16)
  
  Hanging (16)
  
  Cremation (15)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (15)
  
  "Dosing" (8)
  
  Medical experiments (8)
  
  Round-up (8)
  
  Desacration of corpses (7)
  
  Displacement (7)
  
  Economic exploitation (7)
  
  Mass graves (7)
  
  Racial policy (6)
  
  Cattle wagons (5)
  
  Burning people alive (4)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (4)
  
  Judicial crime (4)
  
  Administrative persecution (3)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (3)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (3)
  
  Death marches (2)
  
  Germanization (2)
  
  Rape (2)
  
  Artillery fire (1)
  
  Artillery shelling (1)
  
  Expulsion (1)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (1)
Place
- Concentration camp (26)
  
  Prison (20)
  
  Extermination camp (17)
  
  Labor camp (7)
  
  Police headquarters/station (6)
  
  Forced labor (3)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (2)
  
  Center for the Germanization of children (1)
  
  Ghetto (1)
Content
- Extermination of Jews (33)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (11)
  
  Obliterating the traces (10)
  
  obliterating the traces (9)
  
  Health service (7)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (7)
  
  Civil resistance (6)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (6)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (6)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (5)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (4)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (3)
  
  Aktion Zamość (2)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (2)
  
  Judenrat (2)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (1)
  
  Central Welfare Council (1)
  
  Field health service (1)
  
  Polish Underground State (1)
  
  Rescue of Jews (1)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (1)
  
  Underground culture and education (1)
  
  Underground media (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (51)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (6)
  
  Account (3)
  
  Press clipping (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Supreme National Tribunal (24)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków (24)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (3)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Gdańsk 1945–1949 (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (1)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (1)
Medium
- Text (63)
  
  Image (6)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (60)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (3)