“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)
- Czardybon Bernard; 18.06.1901, Chorzów (2)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (2)
  
  Kahl Tadeusz; 27.07.1908, Kraków (2)
  
  Musiałowicz Stanisław (2)
  
  Sperber Karel; 1910, Tachov (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Wolken Otto; 27.04.1903, Vien (Austria) (2)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Wąsowicz Tadeusz; 29.07.1906, Limanowa (2)
  
  Anonymous (1)
  
  Bader Henryk; 15.04.1920, Oświęcim (1)
  
  Barabasz Alfred; 16.06.1913, Karwina (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Bartosiewicz Henryk; 1909? (1)
  
  Bałut Tadeusz; 14.08.1921, Żywiec (1)
  
  Bernhard Ferdynand; 03.04.1919, Liberec (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Bicz Bolesław; 01.04.1889, Sporysz (Bielsk county) (1)
  
  Bratro Zofia; 14.02.1906, Dębica (1)
  
  Brewda Alina; 14.06.1905, Warsaw (1)
  
  Brol Franciszek; 01.11.1919, Hajduki Wielkie (Chorzów) (1)
  
  Bronfeld Bolesław; 03.11.1913, Lublin (1)
  
  Brunvoll Kirsten; 1898 (1)
  
  Burczak Ludwika; 1923? (1)
  
  Byczyk Grzegorz (1)
  
  Bączkowska Anna; 1873?, Warsaw (1)
  
  Błotnicki Edward; 08.04.1888, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Błądzińska Ewa (1)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Chorak Jan (1)
  
  Chorzewa Jan (1)
  
  Cieślik-Ciesielska Romualda; 07.02.1908, Grabiny (1)
  
  Cyba Eugeniusz; 07.12.1921, Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Donnerstag Hildegarda; 08.02.1915 (1)
  
  Dragon Szlama; 19.03.1920, Żuromin (1)
  
  Drzymała Teodor; 02.11.1912, Opole (1)
  
  Dubicki Bogusław; 1910? (1)
  
  Dubiel Stanisław; 13.11.1910, Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Duda Aleksander (1)
  
  Dybus Marian; 13.08.1921, Bochnia (1)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (1)
  
  Dziura Emilia; 29.08.1905, Góra Grabowiec (1)
  
  Dąbrowska Stanisława (1)
  
  Dębkowski Marian; 08.12.1912, Warsaw (1)
  
  Edward Kubista; 1873 (1)
  
  Epstein Bertold; 01.04.1890, Pilzno (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Feinberg Kai; 1921, Oslo (1)
  
  Feliks Kulinowski; 1891 (1)
  
  Fiderkiewicz Alfred; 02.07.1886, Horodenka (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Fiderkiewicz Alfred; 2.07.1886, Horodenka (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Filipowicz Teodor; 1891? (1)
  
  Franciszek Kołaczek; 1885 (1)
  
  Franciszke Rembiesa; 1887 (1)
  
  Frankowski Stanisław; 04.01.1911, Drużkowna (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Frączek Kazimierz; 15.12.1914, Tarnów (1)
  
  Galewski Alfred; 06.01.1899, Charlottenburg (Berlin, Germany) (1)
  
  Gawalewicz Adolf; 02.09.1916, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Gałecki Stanisław (1)
  
  Golec Irena (1)
  
  Gorlach Halina; 02.07.1908, Strzelno (kujawsko-pomorskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Grabczyński Jan; 21.05.1908, Tarnów (dolnośląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Grabowski Kazimierz; 03.04.1909, Płock (1)
  
  Gruszecka Aniela; 1902? (1)
  
  Grzyb Apolonia; 01.05.1893, Uchanie (1)
  
  Głowa Stanisław; 15.09.1898, Igołomia (1)
  
  Głowacki Czesław; 1921? (1)
  
  Głowacki Czesław; 20.07.1918 (1)
  
  Głuszak Józef; 27.10.1913, Koszyce Małe (1)
  
  Halbreich Zygfryd; 13.11.1909, Dziedzice (śląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Hanuszek Tadeusz; 11.07.1922, Kraków (1)
  
  Horczak Krystyna; 23.03.1914, Warsaw (1)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (1)
  
  Hukaluk Jan (1)
  
  Jankowska Weronika; 1912? (1)
  
  Józef Merker; 1876 (1)
  
  Jęczalik Władysław; 1869? (1)
  
  Kahl Tadeusz; 27.09.1908, Kraków (1)
  
  Kaszyński Jan; 19.11.1920, Warsaw (1)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (1)
  
  Klamdel Jadwiga; 1912? (1)
  
  Kleinstein Mojżesz; 05.11.1927, Kielce (1)
  
  Kluczny Władysław; 24.05.1902, Środula (Sosnowiec) (1)
  
  Koczorowski Józef; 01.02.1919, Poznań (1)
  
  Kopta Marian; 08.12.1911, Kraków (1)
  
  Kordek Ryszard; 18.0.04.1921, Ząbkowice (1)
  
  Korganow Marek; 11.03.1931, Warsaw (1)
  
  Kowalski Mieczysław; 15.04.1910, Dniepr (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Kołaczek Franciszek; 1885? (1)
  
  Kołodziejczyk Edward (1)
  
  Krokowski Jan; 08.05.1921, Nowy Sącz (1)
  
  Kruszewska Eugenia; 10.02.1900, Dańczypol (1)
  
  Kryńska Stanisława (1)
  
  Kubisty Edward; 1871? (1)
  
  Kukla Zbigniew; 11.08.1910, Kalwaria Zebrzydowska (1)
  
  Kulinowski Feliks; 1891? (1)
  
  Lasok Aniela; 1922? (1)
  
  Lasok Erna; 1915? (1)
  
  Lehrer Karol; 13.03.1922, Oświęcim (1)
  
  Limousin Henri ;25.03.1893, Saint Le Noble (France) (1)
  
  Mandelbaum Henryk; 15.12.1922, Olkusz (1)
  
  Mansfeld Géza; 26.02.1882, Budapest (Hungary) (1)
  
  Markowski Stefan; 17.06.1911, Maciejowice (1)
  
  Materkowski Antoni; 14.06.1899, Koprzywnica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
Subject
- Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (57)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (28)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (15)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (13)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (9)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (8)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (7)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (6)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (5)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Tarnów Ghetto (5)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (4)
  
  The city condemned to death (2)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Lesser Poland (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Tarnów Ghetto (1)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (1)
  
  Lebensraum – the Germanization of the Zamość region (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (1)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz I (103)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (94)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (90)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (60)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (56)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (44)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (38)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (30)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (28)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (27)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (23)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (20)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (19)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (16)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (16)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (16)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (16)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (14)
  
  Zamość, resettlement camp, Okrzei Street (14)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (13)
  
  KL Majdanek (13)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (13)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (12)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (12)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (11)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (11)
  
  KL Plaszow (11)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (10)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (10)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (10)
  
  Bydgoszcz (9)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (9)
  
  Lublin (9)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (8)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (8)
  
  Bochnia, train station (7)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (7)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (6)
  
  Jawiszowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (5)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (5)
  
  Warsaw (5)
  
  Łódź (5)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (4)
  
  Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 (4)
  
  Nowy Wiśnicz (4)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (4)
  
  Oświęcim (4)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (4)
  
  Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  Brussels (Belgium) (3)
  
  Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  Jaworzno, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, SS-Stabsgebaude (3)
  
  KL Mittelbau-Dora (Germany) (3)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Niemcy) (3)
  
  Pszczyna (3)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (3)
  
  Sitaniec (3)
  
  Starachowice (3)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), Gestapo headquarters, Urszulańska Street 18 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (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)
  
  Babice, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Bełżec, German extermination camp (2)
  
  Brzeszcze (2)
  
  Bytom, Gestapo Headquarters, Gustav-Freytagstrasse (Oświęcimska Street 11) (2)
  
  Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Dańczypol (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (2)
  
  Hamburg (Germany) (2)
  
  Hrubieszów (2)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (2)
  
  KL Melk (Austria) (2)
  
  Kraków (2)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (2)
  
  Lublin, Zamek Lubelski, ul. Zamkowa 9 (2)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no. 1, Łąckiego Street (Bandery Street 1) (2)
  
  Nowy Sącz (2)
  
  Nowy Sącz, correctional facility and temporary remand prison, Pijarska Street 1 (2)
  
  Oslo (Norway) (2)
  
  Poręba (district of Pszczyna) (2)
  
  Poznań (2)
  
  Pustków, forced labor camp (2)
  
  Rajsko (Oświęcim district) (2)
  
  Rogatka (Chełm district) (2)
  
  Sosnowiec (Śląskie Voivodeship) (2)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Tarnów, Gestapo Headquarters, Urszulańska Street 18 (2)
  
  Uchanie (2)
  
  Warsaw, General Inspectorate of the Armed Forces, al. Szucha 12/14 (2)
  
  Warsaw, General Inspectorate of the Armed Forces, aleja Szucha 12/14 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (2)
  
  Warsaw, Marszałkowska Street 33 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Uhlan Barracks, Szwoleżerów Street 7a (2)
Victims
- Civilians (166)
  
  The Poles (148)
  
  The Civilian Population (143)
  
  Women (115)
  
  The Jews (114)
  
  Children (73)
  
  The sick (68)
  
  The Sick (63)
  
  The Inteligentsia (51)
  
  Russians/Soviets (47)
  
  The Russians (45)
  
  The elderly (43)
  
  Germans (41)
  
  Hungarians (41)
  
  The Elderly (37)
  
  Prisoners of War (36)
  
  Czechs (28)
  
  The French (28)
  
  Slovaks (24)
  
  The Dutch (23)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (23)
  
  Belgians (16)
  
  Greeks (16)
  
  The Church (16)
  
  The Disabled (12)
  
  Italians (11)
  
  The Communists (10)
  
  Norwegians (8)
  
  Americans (6)
  
  The British (4)
  
  Ukrainians (4)
  
  Latvians (2)
  
  Lithuanians (2)
  
  Romanians (2)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (1)
  
  Serbs (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (134)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (55)
  
  Collaboration (23)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (12)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (10)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (10)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (9)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (6)
  
  Latvians (3)
  
  Military Police (3)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (3)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (2)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (2)
  
  Waffen-SS (2)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (1)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (1)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (1)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (1)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (1)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (1)
  
  The Navy of Nazi Germany (Kriegsmarine) (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (119)
  
  Execution (111)
  
  Beating (108)
  
  Gas chambers (101)
  
  Biological extermination (97)
  
  Cremation of corpses (93)
  
  Deportation (91)
  
  Cremation (89)
  
  Death by shooting (89)
  
  Arrest (88)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (84)
  
  Robbery (50)
  
  Medical experiments (37)
  
  Mass graves (35)
  
  "Dosing" (34)
  
  Hanging (34)
  
  Desacration of corpses (25)
  
  Displacement (23)
  
  Cattle wagons (22)
  
  Judicial crime (20)
  
  Expulsion (18)
  
  Burning people alive (16)
  
  Death marches (14)
  
  Economic exploitation (14)
  
  Round-up (14)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (9)
  
  Racial policy (8)
  
  Rape (6)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (6)
  
  Disarmament (4)
  
  Administrative persecution (3)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (3)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (3)
  
  Armored weapons (2)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (2)
  
  Air raids (1)
  
  Collectivization (1)
  
  Germanization (1)
Place
- Concentration camp (138)
  
  Extermination camp (104)
  
  Prison (45)
  
  Police headquarters/station (20)
  
  Transit camp (18)
  
  Labor camp (16)
  
  Forced labor (10)
  
  Ghetto (7)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (3)
  
  Center for the Germanization of children (1)
Content
- Extermination of Jews (84)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (42)
  
  Obliterating the traces (31)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (30)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (29)
  
  obliterating the traces (28)
  
  Health service (24)
  
  Aktion Zamość (20)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (13)
  
  Civil resistance (10)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (9)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (9)
  
  Polish Underground State (5)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (5)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (4)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (3)
  
  Rescue of Jews (3)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (3)
  
  Underground media (3)
  
  Judenrat (2)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (1)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (1)
  
  Field health service (1)
  
  Ochota Massacre (1)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (1)
  
  Underground culture and education (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (108)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (38)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (15)
  
  Account (2)
  
  Press clipping (1)
  
  Scene investigation report (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Supreme National Tribunal (121)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków (11)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (10)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (10)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (2)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (2)
Medium
- Text (168)
  
  Image (24)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (165)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (3)