„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)
- Krokowski Franciszek; 15.04.1915, Stara Wisła (2)
  
  Nita Maria, 04.07.1919 (2)
  
  Zdanowicz Michał; 1899.12.11 (2)
  
  Aksnowicz Alfons; 21.01.1920 (1)
  
  Aleksandrów Władysław; 1919? (1)
  
  Aleksiejuk Mieczysław, 1908.05.03 (1)
  
  Atras Franciszek, 1900.10.08 (1)
  
  Aunszlok Kazimierz (1)
  
  Bajorek Zygmunt; 1915? (1)
  
  Balawajder Franciszek (1)
  
  Baranowski Julian (1)
  
  Bartosiewicz Marcin, 1908 (1)
  
  Bartoszko Kazimierz; 09.10.1898 (1)
  
  Batory Nadzieja; 1923?, Płaszówka (now: Ukraine, Rivne Oblast) (1)
  
  Bazylewicz Aleksy, 1892 (1)
  
  Bazyliński Józef (1)
  
  Bednarczyk Jan (1)
  
  Bednarska Wanda; 16.06.1912, Suchedniów (1)
  
  Bednarz Marian (1)
  
  Bibik Stanisław (1)
  
  Bibiło Jadwiga; 11.07.1922, Nacewicze (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Bielska Emilia; 1911? (1)
  
  Bochnik Kasper, 1897 (1)
  
  Bodnar Mikołaj (1)
  
  Bohdziewicz Jan, 1891? (1)
  
  Bojarski Jan, 1899 (1)
  
  Bolimowska Wanda; 1923, Pomorzanka (dziś: Ukraina) (1)
  
  Bolimowska Wanda; 1923, Pomorzanka (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Borasińska Helena; 05.05.1898, Goszczyno (Płocki county) (1)
  
  Borasińska Jadwiga; 06.07.1925 Sutkowszczyzna (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Borasińska Jadwiga; 06.07.1925 Sutkowszczyzna (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Borejko Anton (1)
  
  Bryja Joachim (1)
  
  Buba Jadwiga; 1908 (1)
  
  Buczyński Michał; 28.09.1892 (1)
  
  Buczyński Tadeusz, 1923 (1)
  
  Bujko Henryk (1)
  
  Bukowiecka-Lipska Zofia; 1911 (1)
  
  Burzawa Franciszek, 22.11.1892 (1)
  
  Butrymowicz Jan (1)
  
  Byra Paweł, 1898 ? (1)
  
  Chamot Bolesław (1)
  
  Charytański Kazimierz; 1894.03.04 (1)
  
  Charytonowicz Kazimierz; 1921? (1)
  
  Chełchowski Jan (1)
  
  Chmara Józef, 1898.11.26 (1)
  
  Chmielewska Jadwiga (1)
  
  Chmielewska Władysława, 1918.01.25 (1)
  
  Chmielewski Daniel; 1897 (1)
  
  Chodorowski Jan, 1898 (1)
  
  Chodynicki Aleksander (1)
  
  Chojecka Maria; 11.03.1903 (1)
  
  Chojt Berko (1)
  
  Choma Piotr (1)
  
  Chomicz Franciszek; 1900 (1)
  
  Chudyk Piotr, 1922 (1)
  
  Chuzal Jan, 1899 (1)
  
  Chwiałkowska Zofia; 1919? (1)
  
  Chłus Szymon (1)
  
  Cieplik Marian; 24.02.1894 (1)
  
  Cierebiej Franciszek; 1897 (1)
  
  Ciesielski Franciszek; 1896 (1)
  
  Cudowska Leokadia; 15.04.1904, Rogowo (Białystok county) (1)
  
  Cudowska Leokadia; 15.04.1904, Rogowo (Białystok district) (1)
  
  Cybowicz Jan; 1891 (1)
  
  Cybulski Józef (1)
  
  Cyran Marian (1)
  
  Czapliński Jerzy (1)
  
  Czarnecki Kazimierz, 1918.05.06 (1)
  
  Czekaj Eugeniusz (1)
  
  Czeszko Aleksander, 1899 (1)
  
  Członkowski Stanisław (1)
  
  Darasz Jan; 1901? (1)
  
  Dawidowicz Włodzimierz (1)
  
  Dolińska Antonina; 26.09.1906 (1)
  
  Doliński Bohdan (1)
  
  Drozd Piotr, 1898 (1)
  
  Dąbrowski Jan Adam; 1913? (1)
  
  Fabjańczyk Jan, 1899 (1)
  
  Fajman Stefan, 1922.07.13 (1)
  
  Fałdyga Adam, 1893 (1)
  
  Feliksiak Jan, 1904 (1)
  
  Feret Ludwik, 1901.08.10 (1)
  
  Fieduszko Józef, 1899 (1)
  
  Fieglar Jakub, 1886 (1)
  
  Fijałkowska Stefania; 26.10.1906, Piątek (1)
  
  Forysz Piotr, 1901 (1)
  
  Frankiewicz Feliks, 1922 (1)
  
  Frenkiel Stanisław, 1918 (1)
  
  Friedenberg Stanisław; 1919? (1)
  
  Fudali Stefania (1)
  
  Gabryś Antonina; 17.06.1910, Lubatowa (Krosno county) (1)
  
  Gabryś Antonina; 17.06.1910, Lubatowa (Krosno district) (1)
  
  Gau Józef; 1897.05.05 (1)
  
  Gałka Jan; 1922? (1)
  
  Gałuszewski Kazimierz; 1899.03.04 (1)
  
  Glogier Zygmunt; 1898? (1)
  
  Gmitrzak Józef; 07.10.1921 (1)
  
  Gorczyca Stefania; 05.05.1904, Kamieńskie (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Gorczyński Zdzisław; 1924? (1)
  
  Kullanda Henryk (1)
Subject
- In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (117)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (102)
  
  In exile – Siberia (61)
  
  In exile – Ural (36)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (27)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (23)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (23)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (20)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (14)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (14)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (11)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (9)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (8)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (8)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (7)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (7)
  
  In exile – Povolzhye (6)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (6)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (4)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (3)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (2)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (2)
  
  Deported – the Altai Krai (2)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (2)
  
  In exile – Mari El Republic (2)
  
  Lebensborn – the Germanization of Polish children (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Republic of Mordovia (2)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (2)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (1)
  
  Deported – the Perm Krai (1)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Gliwice (1)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Majdanek (1)
  
  Radom – daily terror (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Guzar (Uzbekistan) (69)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (62)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (61)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (31)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (28)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (25)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (24)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (21)
  
  Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia) (17)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (17)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (16)
  
  Pavlodar (Kazakhstan) (16)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (16)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (15)
  
  Tehran (Iran) (14)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (13)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (12)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (12)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (11)
  
  Kermine (Navoiy, Uzbekistan) (11)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (10)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (9)
  
  Kitab (Uzbekistan) (9)
  
  Białystok (8)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (8)
  
  Kagan (Uzbekistan) (8)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (8)
  
  Semipalatinsk (Semey, Kazakhstan) (8)
  
  Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (7)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (7)
  
  Barnaul (Russia, Altai Krai) (7)
  
  Kazakhstan, Pavlodar Oblast (7)
  
  Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) (7)
  
  North Kazakhstan Region (Kazakhstan) (7)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (7)
  
  Tashlak (Toshloq, Uzbekistan) (7)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (7)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (6)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (6)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (6)
  
  Nukus (Uzbekistan) (6)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (6)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (6)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (6)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (5)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (5)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (5)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (5)
  
  Murashy (Russia, Kirov Oblast), train station (5)
  
  Noshul (Russia, Komi Republic) (5)
  
  Omsk (Russia, Omsk Oblast) (5)
  
  Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a (5)
  
  Poldnevitsa (Russia, Kostroma Oblast) (5)
  
  Przemyśl (5)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (5)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (5)
  
  Unzhlag (Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (5)
  
  Vologda (Russia, Vologda Oblast) (5)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (5)
  
  Vrevsky (Almazar, Uzbekistan) (5)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (5)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (5)
  
  Altai Krai (Russia) (4)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (4)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (4)
  
  Bryansk (Russia, Bryansk Oblast) (4)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (4)
  
  Czortków (now in Ukraine), prison, Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) (4)
  
  Farab (Turkmenistan) (4)
  
  Farab (Turkmenistan), train station (4)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (4)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (4)
  
  Kirov (Russia, Kirov Oblast) (4)
  
  Krzemieniec (Ukraine), NKVD prison, Sanatorijna Street 1 (4)
  
  Kulautuva (Lithuania), internment camp (4)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (4)
  
  Minsk (Belarus), "Wołodarka" prison, Waladarskaha Street 2 (4)
  
  Nukht-Ozero (Verkhovsky, Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (4)
  
  Onieglag corrective forced labor camp (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (4)
  
  Plesetsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (4)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (4)
  
  Sevvostlag (Russia, Magadan Oblast) (4)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (4)
  
  Syktyvkar (Russia, Komi Republic) (4)
  
  Szepetówka (Ukraine) (4)
  
  Taraz (Jambyl, Kazakhstan) (4)
  
  Vitiunino (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (4)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (4)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania) (4)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (4)
  
  Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk, Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (4)
  
  Łomża (4)
  
  Akmolinsk (Astana, Kazakhstan) (3)
  
  Asino (Russia, Tomsk Oblast) (3)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (3)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD remand center, Fralankowa Street 50 (3)
  
  Berezwecz (Głębokie, now in Belarus), NKVD prison (Basilian monastery), Sovetskaya Street 201 (3)
  
  Christoforovo (Russia, Kirov Oblast) (3)
Victims
- Families of "enemies of the people" (544)
  
  The Poles (544)
  
  Civilians (525)
  
  Deportees (481)
  
  The Civilian Population (460)
  
  Women (437)
  
  Children (352)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (182)
  
  The Inteligentsia (154)
  
  The sick (141)
  
  The elderly (138)
  
  The Sick (131)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (128)
  
  The Elderly (127)
  
  Ukrainians (122)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (115)
  
  The Jews (85)
  
  Russians/Soviets (79)
  
  Policemen (78)
  
  The Russians (60)
  
  Belarusians (57)
  
  Prisoners of War (42)
  
  Landowners (22)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (20)
  
  Germans (17)
  
  Internees (16)
  
  The Church (15)
  
  Lithuanians (14)
  
  Border Guard (13)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (11)
  
  Border Protection Corps (6)
  
  Latvians (5)
  
  Estonians (3)
  
  Americans (2)
  
  Czechs (2)
  
  Hungarians (2)
  
  The French (2)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (2)
  
  Belgians (1)
  
  Prison Guard (1)
  
  Slovaks (1)
  
  The Dutch (1)
Perpetrators
- NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (151)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (101)
  
  Soviet Militia (101)
  
  Denunciation (66)
  
  Red Army (49)
  
  Collaboration (29)
  
  Lithuanians (17)
  
  SS (9)
  
  Collaborators (8)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (3)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (2)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (2)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (2)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (2)
  
  Administrative Police (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Military Police (1)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (1)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (527)
  
  Deportation/Exile (500)
  
  Biological extermination (475)
  
  Arrest (332)
  
  Cattle wagons (179)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (131)
  
  Beating (108)
  
  Judicial crime (103)
  
  Robbery (89)
  
  Punishment cell (78)
  
  Sovietization (34)
  
  Deportation (23)
  
  Death by shooting (20)
  
  Execution (15)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (14)
  
  Forced voting (12)
  
  Desacration of corpses (9)
  
  Roads of death (9)
  
  Disarmament (8)
  
  Air raids (7)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (7)
  
  Collectivization (6)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (5)
  
  Cremation (4)
  
  Cremation of corpses (4)
  
  Gas chambers (4)
  
  Hanging (4)
  
  Administrative persecution (2)
  
  Mass graves (2)
  
  Racial policy (2)
  
  "Dosing" (1)
  
  Armored weapons (1)
  
  Artillery fire (1)
  
  Artillery shelling (1)
  
  Death marches (1)
  
  Displacement (1)
  
  Expulsion (1)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (1)
  
  Medical experiments (1)
  
  Rape (1)
  
  Round-up (1)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (1)
Place
- Spetsposelok (special settlement) (326)
  
  Kolkhoz (182)
  
  Prison (71)
  
  Sovkhoz (57)
  
  NKVD custody suite (53)
  
  Mine (45)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (41)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (17)
  
  Transit camp (16)
  
  Internment camp (15)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (9)
  
  Concentration camp (8)
  
  Extermination camp (4)
  
  Labor camp (3)
  
  Orphanage – dietdom (3)
  
  Police headquarters/station (2)
  
  Siberia (2)
  
  Forced labor (1)
  
  Ghetto (1)
Content
- Health service (332)
  
  First deportation (251)
  
  Amnesty (187)
  
  Anders' Army (160)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (97)
  
  Epidemics (86)
  
  Polish culture in exile (74)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (61)
  
  Communist propaganda (60)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (60)
  
  Second deportation (54)
  
  Fourth deportation (27)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (24)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (20)
  
  Third deportation (19)
  
  Military hospital (13)
  
  Students' Army Corps (11)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (9)
  
  Civil resistance (4)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (4)
  
  Aid to Jews (3)
  
  Extermination of Jews (3)
  
  Obliterating the traces (3)
  
  obliterating the traces (3)
  
  Judenrat (2)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (2)
  
  Underground culture and education (2)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (1)
  
  Aktion Zamość (1)
  
  Partisan warfare (1)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (1)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (1)
Object type
- Account (271)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (13)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Independent Historical Office of the Command of the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union/Documentation Office of the Polish Army in the East (532)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (7)
  
  District Court in Radom (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (1)
Medium
- Text (544)
  
  Image (11)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (533)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (10)