“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)
- Baron Szymon; 1897, Tłumacz (now in Ukraina) (1)
  
  Blumenthal Nachman; 1901? (1)
  
  Brandt Janusz; 1905? (1)
  
  Chrościcki Julian; 26.05.1892, Szymony (1)
  
  Czuperska Anna; 10.07.1908, Bielcza (1)
  
  Falk Ignacy; Warsaw (1)
  
  Falk Ignacy; Warszawa (1)
  
  Grossbard (1)
  
  Halbreich Eugenia; 20.09.1919, Kraków (1)
  
  Holender H. (1)
  
  Hrad-Głowacka Zofia (1)
  
  Jędrzejowska Jadwiga; 1904? (1)
  
  Konopka Stanisław Józef; 24.05.1896, Pilzno (1)
  
  Kubalski Jan; 11.07.1901 (1)
  
  Malanowski Eugeniusz; 08.07.1905, Warsaw (1)
  
  Michalczak Janusz (1)
  
  Michałowicz Mieczysław Jan; 10.09.1876, Petersburg (Russia) (1)
  
  Przybyliński Adam; 04.01.1896, Płock (1)
  
  Rachwał Stanisława; 29.06.1906, Rudki (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Rechles Jaffa (1)
  
  Rodak Józef (1)
  
  Seyfried Edmund; 15.02.1889, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Wachowski Zygmunt; 1891? (1)
  
  Wesołowski Jerzy (1)
  
  Wniler Samuel, 12.11.1914, Wiedeń (Austria) (1)
  
  Wojno Tadeusz Jerzy; 20.03.1884, Warsaw (1)
  
  Wągrowski Tadeusz; 12.06.1904, Warsaw (1)
Subject
- Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (5)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (3)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (2)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Tarnów Ghetto (2)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (1)
  
  Lebensraum – the Germanization of the Zamość region (1)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (1)
  
  The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews (1)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – the Lublin region (1)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – the Stanisławów area (1)
  
  The persecuted church (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- German extermination camp of Bełżec (30)
  
  Bełżec, German extermination camp (14)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (12)
  
  KL Majdanek (12)
  
  KL Plaszow (9)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (7)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (5)
  
  Warsaw (5)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (4)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (4)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (4)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (4)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (3)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (3)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (3)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (3)
  
  Starachowice (3)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (2)
  
  Bochnia, train station (2)
  
  Bydgoszcz (2)
  
  Częstochowa (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Sobibór (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (2)
  
  KL Leitmeritz (subcamp of KL Flossenbürg, Czech Republic) (2)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (2)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (2)
  
  Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 (2)
  
  Poniatowa, German forced labor camp (2)
  
  Radom (2)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (2)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (2)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (2)
  
  Zwierzyniec (Zwierzyniec commune), transit camp (2)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (1)
  
  Biłgoraj (lubelskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Bohorodczany (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Borszczów (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Brody (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Brussels (Belgium) (1)
  
  Brzeszcze (1)
  
  Budzyń, German forced labor camp (1)
  
  Chełm (1)
  
  Czortków (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Drancy (France) (1)
  
  Drezdenko (1)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Dzierążnia (1)
  
  Firlej (Lubartów district) (1)
  
  Gliwice (1)
  
  Halicz (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Huta Pieniacka (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Jasło (1)
  
  Jelenia Góra (1)
  
  Jerusalem (Israel) (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Lagerhaus (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (1)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (1)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (1)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (1)
  
  KL Herzogenbusch (Netherlands) (1)
  
  KL Leitmeritz (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  KL Melk (Austria) (1)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Kabacki Forest (Warsaw) (1)
  
  Kałusz (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Kielce (1)
  
  Kołomyja (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Kraków (1)
  
  Kraków, Jewish Police Service prison, Józefińska Street 37 (1)
  
  Kraków, Sobieskiego Street 5 (1)
  
  Kraków, Wielicka Street (1)
  
  Kraków, Zakątek Street (1)
  
  Kraków, Zyblikiewicza Street (1)
  
  Krasne Potockie (1)
  
  Krasnobród (1)
  
  Leśniczówka (Kraśnik district) (1)
  
  London (Great Britain) (1)
  
  Lubartów, train station, Przemysłowa Street 3 (1)
  
  Lublin (1)
  
  Lublin, German forced labor camp, Chełmska Street (1)
  
  Lublin, German forced labor camp, Lipowa Street 7 (1)
  
  Lublin, Lublin Castle, Zamkowa Street 9 (1)
  
  Lwów (Ukraine), ghetto (1)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Majdanek, German extermination camp (1)
  
  Michniów (1)
  
  Myślenice (1)
  
  Nakło nad Notecią (1)
Victims
- Civilians (26)
  
  The Jews (25)
  
  The Poles (19)
  
  Women (19)
  
  The Civilian Population (17)
  
  Children (16)
  
  The elderly (11)
  
  The Inteligentsia (10)
  
  The sick (9)
  
  The Elderly (6)
  
  Russians/Soviets (5)
  
  The Russians (5)
  
  The Sick (5)
  
  The Church (3)
  
  Czechs (2)
  
  Prisoners of War (2)
  
  Slovaks (2)
  
  The Disabled (2)
  
  Belgians (1)
  
  Germans (1)
  
  Greeks (1)
  
  Hungarians (1)
  
  Italians (1)
  
  The Dutch (1)
  
  The French (1)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (1)
  
  Ukrainians (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (18)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (9)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (5)
  
  Latvians (4)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (4)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (4)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (4)
  
  Military Police (3)
  
  Collaboration (2)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (2)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (2)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (2)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (1)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (1)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (1)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Execution (21)
  
  Beating (20)
  
  Death by shooting (20)
  
  Robbery (16)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (14)
  
  Deportation (14)
  
  Forced labor (14)
  
  Arrest (10)
  
  Biological extermination (10)
  
  Economic exploitation (10)
  
  Mass graves (9)
  
  Racial policy (9)
  
  Round-up (9)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (9)
  
  Administrative persecution (8)
  
  Cattle wagons (7)
  
  Cremation of corpses (7)
  
  Displacement (7)
  
  Gas chambers (6)
  
  Hanging (6)
  
  Cremation (4)
  
  Desacration of corpses (4)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (3)
  
  Expulsion (3)
  
  Rape (3)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (3)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (3)
  
  Air raids (2)
  
  Burning people alive (2)
  
  Death marches (2)
  
  Medical experiments (2)
  
  "Dosing" (1)
  
  Germanization (1)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (1)
Place
- Concentration camp (11)
  
  Extermination camp (9)
  
  Prison (7)
  
  Ghetto (6)
  
  Police headquarters/station (5)
  
  Forced labor (4)
  
  Labor camp (4)
  
  Transit camp (3)
  
  Center for the Germanization of children (1)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (1)
Content
- Extermination of Jews (19)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (7)
  
  Health service (5)
  
  Rescue of Jews (5)
  
  Central Welfare Council (4)
  
  Judenrat (4)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (4)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (3)
  
  Polish Underground State (3)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (3)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (3)
  
  Aktion Zamość (2)
  
  Civil resistance (2)
  
  Obliterating the traces (2)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (2)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (2)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (2)
  
  obliterating the traces (2)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (1)
  
  Aid to Jews (1)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (1)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (1)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (1)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (1)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
  
  Underground culture and education (1)
  
  the Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (1)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (22)
  
  Account (6)
  
  Brief (2)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Supreme National Tribunal (10)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (4)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (4)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (4)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków (4)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland. Research and investigative files (1)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (1)
Medium
- Text (32)
  
  Image (5)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (24)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (8)