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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Anonymous (5)
  
  Iwanicka Maria; 27.01.1913 (5)
  
  Bogdanowicz Jan; 17.12.1894, Warsaw (3)
  
  Juszczyński Antoni Michał; 01.06.1884, Warsaw (3)
  
  Korganow Marek; 11.03.1931, Warsaw (3)
  
  Kucharski Teofil; 06.02.1889, Jaszczew (3)
  
  Kędzierski Adam; 1890? (3)
  
  Rott Wiesław; 14.06.1914, Lublin (3)
  
  Sieroszewski Władysław; 30.12.1900, Warsaw (3)
  
  Szlacheta Wacława; 23.09.1900, Warsaw (3)
  
  Weiss Marian Franciszek; 28.01.1899, Rzeszów (3)
  
  Włodarski Włodzimierz (Walczak Wacław); 03.01.1907, Warsaw (3)
  
  Bekier Zofia; 17.04.1882 (2)
  
  Bocian Zygmunt; 23.10.1909, Warszawa (2)
  
  Cegłowski Aleksander; 24.12.1904 (2)
  
  Donten Lubomir; 17.07.1903, Warsaw (2)
  
  Drozdowski Henryk Marian; 13.01.1895, Łódź (2)
  
  Duzy Stefania; 21.02.1908, Warszawa (2)
  
  Fultyn Witold Józef; 1913? (2)
  
  Gałka Wacława; 10.08.1908, Warsaw (2)
  
  Gołębiowski Juliusz; 1911? (2)
  
  Kamiński Roman Kazimierz; 09.07.1906, Warsaw (2)
  
  Karpiński Zdzisław; 18.09.1920, Ostrów Mazowiecka (2)
  
  Koprowicz Stanisława; 17.11.1908, Dobrzyń (Lipno county) (2)
  
  Kosakiewicz Władysław; 18.09.1879 (2)
  
  Kucharski Edward Marian; 18.06.1904, Warsaw (2)
  
  Lilienstern Stanisława Stefania; 11.11.1884, Glinojeck (2)
  
  Matuszczak Maria (2)
  
  Matysiak Aleksandra Julia; 04.03.1893, Koło (Warsaw) (2)
  
  Michalik Zdzisław; 07.09.1907 (2)
  
  Misiewicz Janina Eufrozyna Kazimiera; 12.12.1893, Solvychegodsk (Russia) (2)
  
  Niesłuchowska Anna; 12.03.1911 (2)
  
  Nowakowska Ewelina; 20.12.1924, Mała Wieś (Płock county) (2)
  
  Nowiński (2)
  
  Odolska Wanda; 05.06.1909, Poltava (Ukraine) (2)
  
  Olszewicz Bolesław, 5.01.1893, Warsaw (2)
  
  Palińska Kazimiera; 03.03.1883, Świr (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Przyłęcka Halina Maria; 01.05.1892, Płyćwia (2)
  
  Rajewski Ludwik; 16.12.1900, Łódź (2)
  
  Ratajczyk Józef; 10.03.1904, Warsaw (2)
  
  Ratajczyk Zdzisław Józef; 21.03.1927, Warsaw (2)
  
  Rogalska Stanisława; 14.11.1899 (2)
  
  Rostworowski Tomasz; 09.11.1904, Warsaw (2)
  
  Sobolewska Alicja Zofia; 13.11.1913, Warsaw (2)
  
  Suryn Maria Wanda; 27.08.1906, Korytków (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Taran Konstanty; 16.09.1892, Warsaw (2)
  
  Taran Stanisława; 03.03.1896 (2)
  
  Wiśniewska Halina; 03.02.1914 (2)
  
  Włodarski Włodzimierz; 03.01.1907, Warsaw (2)
  
  Ziemnicki Władysław; 28.01.1915 (2)
  
  Łatwiński Jan; 26.04.1902 (2)
  
  Łosińska Weronika Katarzyna; 30.04.1904 (2)
  
  Świtalska Gizella; 20.06.1909 (2)
  
  Żabicka Apolonia; 18.01.1889, Warsaw (2)
  
  Żelazowska Janina Czesława; 26.10.1908, Warsaw (2)
  
  "Jacek Dyzio" (1)
  
  Adamczewski Stanisław; 15.01.1903 (1)
  
  An anonymous letter to Polska Zbrojna [Armed Poland newspaper] (1)
  
  An anonymous letter to Polska Zbrojna [Armed Poland; newspaper] (1)
  
  Andrzejewski Seweryn; 15.11.1880, Telsze (Lithuania) (1)
  
  Arkita Maria; 14.09.1914, Reducin (1)
  
  Asińska Eugenia; 26.01.1900, Siedlce (1)
  
  Badalska Wanda; 06.01.1916, Warsaw (1)
  
  Badmajeff Włodzimierz; 10.12.1884, Chita (Russia) (1)
  
  Bagińska Wanda; 24.02.1910, Sochaczew (1)
  
  Bajerowicz Janina (1)
  
  Bajerski Stanisław; 10.03.1910, Żychlin (1)
  
  Balias Dominik; 12.08.1906, Warsaw (1)
  
  Banasiak Józef; 25.10.1879, Studzianki (Rawa county) (1)
  
  Banasiewicz Feliks; 08.03.1888, Natalin (Grójec county) (1)
  
  Baran Ludwik; 1918? (1)
  
  Baran Michał; 05.08.1916, Warsaw (1)
  
  Barańska Danuta Władysława; 17.06.1922, Warsaw (1)
  
  Barcz Edward Antoni Leopold; 23.12.1911, Russia (1)
  
  Barełkowski Antoni; 18.04.1908 (1)
  
  Bargielska Zofia (1)
  
  Bartosiak Zofia (1)
  
  Barysz Józef; 01.11.1904, Warsaw (1)
  
  Bałaszkiewicz Józefa; 18.03.1916, Żarnów (Opoczno county) (1)
  
  Bańkowska Maria; 17.01.1916, Warsaw (1)
  
  Beliczyński (1)
  
  Beliczyński Marian; 23.06.1902, Michałów (Grójec county) (1)
  
  Belina Brzozowski Karol; 23.03.1917, Sokołówka (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Biegaj Aleksandra (1)
  
  Biegański Eugeniusz; 05.01.1915, Poniewież (now in Lithuania) (1)
  
  Bielec Tadeusz; 22.03.1920, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bielecka Julia; 10.01.1900, Dołkowce (Belarus) (1)
  
  Bielski Czesław; 29.09.1904, Kanigówek (1)
  
  Biernacki Stanisław; 1922? (1)
  
  Biertumpfel Władysław (1)
  
  Biska Helena; 22.05.1917, Warsaw (1)
  
  Blaźnik Helena; 24.02.1908, Drwalew (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Boch Adam; 24.02.1913, Płońsk (1)
  
  Bogus Stanisława; 03.06.1901, Tomczyce (łódzkie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Bolko Stefania; 01.09.1895, Łódź (1)
  
  Bombel Władysław; 25.11.1884 (1)
  
  Borkiewicz Adam Józef 17.03.1896, Bąkowa Góra (łódzkie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Borkiewicz Adam Józef; 17.03.1896, Bąkowa Góra (łódzkie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Borowiecki Antoni; 13.09.1904, Szymanów (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Bołdok Jarosław; 07.06.1905, Vladimir (Russia) (1)
Subject
- Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (156)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (143)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (132)
  
  The city condemned to death (121)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (110)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (98)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (74)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz (54)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town (42)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (39)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (37)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (29)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Żoliborz (27)
  
  Warsaw '44 – uprising in Praga (22)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (10)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Mazovia (10)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (9)
  
  The persecuted church (9)
  
  Pruszków – the town of the displaced (8)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (6)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (6)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (6)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (6)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (5)
  
  Soviets in German captivity (4)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Pomerania (3)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (3)
  
  Browar, Czerwoniak – the Ostrów death blocks (2)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (2)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (1)
  
  Closeness to the border – opportunity and oppression (1)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (1)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (1)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (1)
  
  Pomiechówek Fort – the Mazovian torture complex (1)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  September Campaign (1)
  
  Taken Captive (1)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (1)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Pruszków, Dulag 121 (187)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (62)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 (61)
  
  Warsaw, SS-Stauferkaserne, Rakowiecka Street 4 (45)
  
  Warsaw, aleja Szucha (44)
  
  Warsaw, Warszawa Zachodnia Station (34)
  
  Warsaw, Rakowiecka Street (30)
  
  Warsaw, St. Lazarus' Hospital, Leszno Street 127 (Leszno Street 15) (30)
  
  Warsaw, Długa Street 7 (29)
  
  Warsaw, Banacha Market Square, Grójecka Street 95 (26)
  
  Warsaw, Ogródek Jordanowski [Jordan garden], Bagatela Street 2/4 (26)
  
  Warsaw, Wolska Street (26)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's Church, Wolska Street 76 (25)
  
  Warsaw, Wolski Hospital, Płocka Street 26 (25)
  
  Warsaw, Karolkowa Street (24)
  
  Warsaw, Litewska Street (24)
  
  Warsaw, Zbawiciela Square (24)
  
  Warsaw, Marszałkowska Street (23)
  
  Warsaw, Dworkowa Street (22)
  
  Warsaw, General Inspectorate of the Armed Forces, aleja Szucha 12/14 (22)
  
  Warsaw, Józef Piłsudski Academy of Physcial Education, Marymoncka Street 34 (22)
  
  Warsaw (21)
  
  Warsaw, Aleje Ujazdowskie (20)
  
  Warsaw, Sowiński Park (20)
  
  Warsaw, St. Stanislaus' Hospital, Wolska Street 37 (20)
  
  Warsaw, Puławska Street (19)
  
  Warsaw, St. Lawrence's church, Wolska Street 140A (19)
  
  Warsaw, Unii Lubelskiej Square (19)
  
  Warsaw, Chłodna Street (18)
  
  Warsaw, Narbutta Street (18)
  
  Pruszków (17)
  
  Warsaw, Anca Pharmacy, Marszałkowska Street 21 (17)
  
  Warsaw, Franaszek factory, Wolska Street 41/45 (17)
  
  Warsaw, Górczewska Street (17)
  
  Warsaw, Młynarska Street (17)
  
  Warsaw, Ogród Saski [Saxon Garden] (17)
  
  Warsaw, Seminary Church, Krakowskie Przedmieście Street 52/54 (17)
  
  Warsaw, General Inspectorate of the Armed Forces, al. Szucha 12/14 (16)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (16)
  
  Warsaw, Karol and Maria Children's Hospital, Leszno Street 136 (Leszno Street 30) (16)
  
  Warsaw, Mokotów Fort (16)
  
  Warsaw, Mokotów Prison, Rakowiecka Street 37 (16)
  
  Warsaw, St. Hyacinth's church, Freta Street 10 (16)
  
  Warsaw, Ursus factory, Wolska Street 55 (16)
  
  Warsaw, Czerniakowska Street (15)
  
  Warsaw, Pole Mokotowskie (15)
  
  Warsaw, Płocka Street (15)
  
  Warsaw, Dembińskiego Street 2/4 (14)
  
  Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście Street (14)
  
  Warsaw, Wolska Street 129 (14)
  
  Warsaw, Złota Street 38 (14)
  
  Warsaw, aleja Niepodległości (14)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (13)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (13)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (13)
  
  Warsaw, Działdowska Street (13)
  
  Warsaw, Hale Mirowskie [trade halls] (13)
  
  Warsaw, Litewska Street 14 (13)
  
  Warsaw, Senatorska Street (13)
  
  Warsaw, Belwederska Street (12)
  
  Warsaw, Górczewska Street/ Zagłoby Street (Górczewska Street 32) (12)
  
  Warsaw, St. John of God's Hospital, Bonifraterska Street 12 (12)
  
  Warsaw, Zamkowy Square (12)
  
  Warsaw, Żelaznej Bramy Square (12)
  
  Warsaw, Dworkowa Street 3 (11)
  
  Warsaw, Grand Theatre, Teatralny Square 1 (11)
  
  Warsaw, Madalińskiego Street (11)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (10)
  
  Warsaw, Bem Fort (10)
  
  Warsaw, Elektoralna Street (10)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (10)
  
  Warsaw, Jesuit Monastery, Rakowiecka Street 61 (10)
  
  Warsaw, Kazimierzowska Street (10)
  
  Warsaw, Krochmalna Street (10)
  
  Warsaw, Piusa XI Street (Piękna Street) (10)
  
  Warsaw, Sokołowska Street 5 (10)
  
  Warsaw, St. Lawrence's Church, Wolska Street 140A (10)
  
  Warsaw, Wolska Street 122/124 (10)
  
  Warsaw, railway workshops, Moczydło Street (Górczewska Street 53) (10)
  
  Warsaw, Żelaznej Bramy Square/ Ptasia Street (10)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (9)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (9)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (9)
  
  Milanówek (9)
  
  Służewiec Race Course (Warsaw) (9)
  
  Warsaw, Church of the Holiest Saviour, Marszałkowska Street 37 (9)
  
  Warsaw, Mariensztat Street (9)
  
  Warsaw, Marszałkowska Street 33 (9)
  
  Warsaw, Okopowa Street (9)
  
  Warsaw, Orthodox cemetery, Wolska Street 138/140 (9)
  
  Warsaw, Trębacka Street (9)
  
  Włochy (Warsaw) (9)
  
  Jelonki (Warsaw) (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (8)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (8)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (8)
  
  Warsaw, Bednarska Street (8)
  
  Warsaw, Grójecka Street (8)
  
  Warsaw, Leszno Street (8)
  
  Warsaw, Marii Kazimiery Street 29 (8)
Victims
- Civilians (831)
  
  The Civilian Population (785)
  
  The Poles (696)
  
  Women (457)
  
  Children (257)
  
  The sick (221)
  
  The Sick (215)
  
  The Church (119)
  
  The elderly (100)
  
  The Elderly (95)
  
  Prisoners of War (81)
  
  The Inteligentsia (64)
  
  The Jews (61)
  
  Russians/Soviets (22)
  
  The Russians (15)
  
  The Disabled (12)
  
  Germans (10)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (10)
  
  Hungarians (9)
  
  The French (9)
  
  Czechs (8)
  
  Belgians (7)
  
  Greeks (7)
  
  Slovaks (7)
  
  The Dutch (7)
  
  Italians (5)
  
  The Communists (4)
  
  Romanians (3)
  
  Americans (2)
  
  The British (2)
  
  Ukrainians (2)
  
  Norwegians (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (306)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (285)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (128)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (103)
  
  Military Police (80)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (57)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (36)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (33)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (32)
  
  The Russian National Liberation Army (RONA) (23)
  
  Collaboration (17)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (12)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (4)
  
  Waffen-SS (4)
  
  Technical Support (Technische Nothilfe) (3)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (3)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (2)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (2)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (2)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (1)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (1)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Death by shooting (547)
  
  Execution (514)
  
  Robbery (265)
  
  Displacement (254)
  
  Expulsion (250)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (213)
  
  Forced labor (190)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (186)
  
  Cremation of corpses (149)
  
  Cremation (146)
  
  Beating (133)
  
  Arrest (104)
  
  Rape (103)
  
  Mass graves (92)
  
  Burning people alive (75)
  
  Armored weapons (65)
  
  Deportation (65)
  
  Human shields (59)
  
  Air raids (45)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (44)
  
  Artillery shelling (37)
  
  Artillery fire (36)
  
  Biological extermination (36)
  
  Gas chambers (16)
  
  Hanging (16)
  
  Racial policy (16)
  
  Round-up (15)
  
  Cattle wagons (9)
  
  Economic exploitation (9)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (9)
  
  Medical experiments (8)
  
  "Dosing" (6)
  
  Desacration of corpses (5)
  
  Death marches (4)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (4)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (3)
  
  Judicial crime (3)
  
  Administrative persecution (2)
  
  Denationalization (1)
  
  Germanization (1)
Place
- Transit camp (149)
  
  Prison (63)
  
  Police headquarters/station (56)
  
  Concentration camp (34)
  
  Forced labor (17)
  
  Sewers (17)
  
  Extermination camp (15)
  
  Labor camp (12)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (12)
  
  Ghetto (8)
  
  Center for the Germanization of children (1)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (1)
  
  NKVD custody suite (1)
  
  Robbery (1)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (1)
Content
- Warsaw Uprising (820)
  
  Wola Massacre (130)
  
  Health service (77)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (56)
  
  Field health service (50)
  
  Ochota Massacre (37)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (30)
  
  Extermination of Jews (28)
  
  Polish Underground State (15)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (10)
  
  Verbrennungskommando (8)
  
  Central Welfare Council (7)
  
  Civil resistance (6)
  
  Underground courts (6)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (5)
  
  Obliterating the traces (5)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (5)
  
  Rescue of Jews (4)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (4)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (4)
  
  obliterating the traces (4)
  
  Aktion Zamość (3)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (2)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (2)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (2)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (2)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (2)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (1)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (1)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (1)
  
  Underground media (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (733)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (600)
  
  Account (24)
  
  Photograph (24)
  
  Brief (14)
  
  Scene investigation report (7)
  
  Report (6)
  
  Official memo (5)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (3)
  
  Statement (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (563)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (266)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (17)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland. Research and investigative files (6)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (6)
  
  District Court in Łomża (5)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland 1949–1984 (3)
  
  Voivodeship Court in Łódź (3)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (2)
  
  A collection of copies of witness interview reports and accounts of former prisoners of Ravensbrück and other camps, written down at the Polish Research Institute in Lund. (1)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (1)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland. Research and investigative files; Polish Military Mission (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes – Institute of National Remembrance in Kraków (1)
  
  Katyn Museum (1)
  
  Magistrates’ Court in Bydgoszcz (1)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (1)
Medium
- Text (918)
  
  Image (182)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (859)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (61)