„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)
- Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (3)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (2)
  
  Kotlarski Mieczysław; 09.10.1913, Osieczna (wielkopolskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Kowalczyk Janina; 10.03.1907, Golkowice (2)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (2)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Anonymous (1)
  
  Augustynowicz Stanisława (1)
  
  Bartosiewicz Henryk; 1909? (1)
  
  Brener Liber; 08.11.1907, Turzysk (1)
  
  Brewda Alina; 14.06.1905, Warsaw (1)
  
  Brzezicka Stanisława; 27.05.1897, Lipa (1)
  
  Cecot Katarzyna; 28.09.1892, Chałupki (1)
  
  Cunder Milan; 1908? (1)
  
  Cyrankiewicz Józef; 23.04.1911, Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Dubiel Stanisław; 13.11.1910, Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (1)
  
  Dürmayer Heinrich; 10.04.1905, Atzgersdorf (Austria) (1)
  
  Fiderkiewicz Alfred; 02.07.1886, Horodenka (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Fiderkiewicz Alfred; 2.07.1886, Horodenka (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Gelernter Matylda; 1908, Bolechów (now in Ukraina) (1)
  
  Gil Piotr; 1897? (1)
  
  Gliński Bogdan; 08.12.1921, Sancygniów (1)
  
  Gorgue Henri; 14.04.1907, Paris (France) (1)
  
  Gorgue Henri; 1906? (1)
  
  Górka-Olbrychowska Wiesława (1)
  
  Hanuszek Tadeusz; 11.07.1922, Kraków (1)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 13.11.1916, Kraków (1)
  
  Janssens Jean; 30.03.1904 Ougrée (Belgium) (1)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (1)
  
  Kleinstein Mojżesz; 05.11.1927, Kielce (1)
  
  Koper Tadeusz (1)
  
  Kosiński Wacław; 21.09.1882 (1)
  
  Kowalczyk Janina; 1907? (1)
  
  Krokowski Jan; 08.05.1921, Nowy Sącz (1)
  
  Kuhlemann Hermann; 22.10.1908, Barntrup (Germany) (1)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (1)
  
  Kula Michał; 1913? (1)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 04.05.1918, Kraków (1)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 1917? (1)
  
  Langbein Hermann; 18.05.1912, Vienna (Austria) (1)
  
  Langbein Hermann; 18.05.1912, Wiedeń (Austria) (1)
  
  Lasocka-Estreicher Teresa; 22.02.1905, Monasterzyska (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Liersch Henryk; 11.12.1908, Poznań (1)
  
  Machałowski Jan; 22.02.1912, Warszawa (1)
  
  Markowski Stefan; 17.06.1911, Maciejowice (1)
  
  Morawski Zdzisław; 11.01.1927, Mała Wieś (Grójec county) (1)
  
  Myszkowski Franciszek Tadeusz; 1913? (1)
  
  Mączka Zofia; 30.11.1905, Kraków (1)
  
  Obara Jan; 1900? (1)
  
  Olbrychowska Waleria, 1899 (1)
  
  Olbrychowski Bolesław (1)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina, 24.12.1900, Warszawa (1)
  
  Polak Wacław (1)
  
  Schlagintweit Willi; 05.06.1907 (1)
  
  Schlagintweit Willi; 05.06.1908 (1)
  
  Seremek Antoni; 1902? (1)
  
  Skory Roman (1)
  
  Srokowska-Tomkowicz Maria; 1899? (1)
  
  Stapf Adam; 01.08.1907, Tarnów (1)
  
  Stapf Adam; 1907? (1)
  
  Walasek Tomasz; 1903? (1)
  
  Wawerko Stanisław (1)
  
  Wojciechowski Leon; 12.01.1894, Warsaw (1)
  
  Wojdan Stefania; 28.04.1889, Kielce (1)
  
  Wolman Jakub; 13.07.1914 (1)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Zacharski Adam; 09.04.1899, Kraków (1)
  
  Zacharski Adam; 1898? (1)
  
  Ścisło Józef; 20.01.1909, Strzyżowice (śląskie voivodeship) (1)
Subject
- Resistance movement in Auschwitz (11)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (10)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (8)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (7)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (7)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (6)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (6)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (4)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (4)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (2)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (2)
  
  A mass extermination – KL Mauthausen-Gusen (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Pomerania (1)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (1)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Neuengamme (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (1)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (1)
  
  Radom – daily terror (1)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (1)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Częstochowa Ghetto (1)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (1)
  
  The Ostrów forests – mass executions (1)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  The city condemned to death (1)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – the Stanisławów area (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz I (37)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (34)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (33)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (29)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (26)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (17)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (12)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (12)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (12)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (10)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (10)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (10)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (10)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (9)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (8)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (7)
  
  KL Majdanek (7)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (6)
  
  Kraków (6)
  
  Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (5)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (5)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (5)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (5)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (4)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (4)
  
  Katowice (4)
  
  Lublin (4)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (4)
  
  Tarnów (4)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (4)
  
  Warsaw (4)
  
  Brzeszcze (3)
  
  Busko-Zdrój (3)
  
  Bydgoszcz (3)
  
  Będzin (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (3)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (3)
  
  KL Neuengamme (Germany) (3)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (3)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (3)
  
  Łódź (3)
  
  Bochnia, train station (2)
  
  Dresden (Germany) (2)
  
  Jasło, temporary remand prison, Staszica Street 3 (2)
  
  Jawiszowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (2)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (2)
  
  Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 (2)
  
  Kraków, Marshal Józef Piłsudski Retreat of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers, Łobzowska Street 3 (2)
  
  Przemyśl (2)
  
  Radomsko (2)
  
  Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Sosnowiec (Śląskie Voivodeship) (2)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Vienna (Austria) (2)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (2)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (2)
  
  Warzyce (Jasło), penal institution, Warzyce 467 (2)
  
  Babice, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
  
  Bedlno (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Beirut (Lebanon) (1)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (1)
  
  Bern (Switzerland) (1)
  
  Bliżyn (1)
  
  Bochnia (1)
  
  Bratislava (Slovakia) (1)
  
  Bronna Góra (Belarus) (1)
  
  Bór Kunowski (1)
  
  Chmielnik (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Chroberz (1)
  
  Częstochowa, Ghetto (1)
  
  Częstochowa, Jewish cemetery, Złota Street (1)
  
  Częstochowa, Krótka Street (1)
  
  Częstochowa, Rynek Warszawski (Bohaterów Getta Square) (1)
  
  Częstochowa, forced labor camp "Hasag Pelcery", 1 Maja Street (Filomatów Street 14) (1)
  
  Dubiecko (1)
  
  Dubiecko, investigation prison, Przemyska Street 6 (1)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (1)
  
  Gorlice, Gestapo headquarters, Legionów Street 8 (1)
  
  Grodzisk Mazowiecki (1)
  
  Guty-Bujno (1)
  
  Gębice (Godów) (1)
  
  Hamburg (Germany) (1)
  
  Huy (Belgium), citadel (1)
  
  Jarosław (1)
  
  Jarząbki (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Jawiszowice (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (1)
  
  KL Barth (subcamp of KL Ravensbrück, Germany) (1)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (1)
  
  KL Ebensee (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) (1)
  
  KL Hersbruck (subcamp of KL Flossenbürg, Germany) (1)
  
  KL Lieberose (subcamp of KL Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg, Germany) (1)
  
  KL Melk (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) (1)
  
  KL Nohra (Germany) (1)
Victims
- The Communists (67)
  
  Civilians (64)
  
  The Poles (62)
  
  The Civilian Population (61)
  
  The Jews (46)
  
  Women (46)
  
  The Inteligentsia (37)
  
  The sick (31)
  
  Russians/Soviets (30)
  
  The Sick (30)
  
  The Russians (29)
  
  Children (25)
  
  The French (24)
  
  Prisoners of War (20)
  
  The elderly (20)
  
  Germans (19)
  
  The Elderly (19)
  
  Czechs (18)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (14)
  
  Hungarians (13)
  
  The Church (10)
  
  Belgians (9)
  
  Slovaks (9)
  
  The Dutch (8)
  
  Greeks (7)
  
  Americans (4)
  
  The British (4)
  
  The Disabled (4)
  
  Italians (3)
  
  Policemen (1)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (1)
  
  Romanians (1)
  
  Ukrainians (1)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (51)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (27)
  
  Collaboration (13)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (10)
  
  Military Police (8)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (5)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (4)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (3)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (3)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (3)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (3)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (3)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (2)
  
  Waffen-SS (2)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (1)
  
  Denunciation (1)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (1)
Crimes
- Execution (54)
  
  Forced labor (49)
  
  Death by shooting (42)
  
  Beating (41)
  
  Gas chambers (38)
  
  Arrest (37)
  
  Biological extermination (36)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (34)
  
  Cremation (31)
  
  Cremation of corpses (31)
  
  Deportation (30)
  
  Hanging (22)
  
  Medical experiments (18)
  
  Robbery (17)
  
  "Dosing" (15)
  
  Economic exploitation (14)
  
  Racial policy (13)
  
  Mass graves (11)
  
  Cattle wagons (10)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (10)
  
  Desacration of corpses (9)
  
  Round-up (9)
  
  Burning people alive (7)
  
  Judicial crime (5)
  
  Administrative persecution (4)
  
  Death marches (4)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (4)
  
  Displacement (3)
  
  Expulsion (3)
  
  Germanization (3)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (3)
  
  Air raids (2)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (2)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (2)
  
  Armored weapons (1)
  
  Deportation/Exile (1)
  
  Disarmament (1)
  
  Rape (1)
Place
- Concentration camp (51)
  
  Extermination camp (35)
  
  Prison (19)
  
  Labor camp (11)
  
  Forced labor (7)
  
  Ghetto (5)
  
  Police headquarters/station (5)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (1)
  
  Transit camp (1)
Content
- Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (41)
  
  Extermination of Jews (36)
  
  Health service (19)
  
  Obliterating the traces (16)
  
  obliterating the traces (15)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (11)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (11)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (7)
  
  Aktion Zamość (6)
  
  Civil resistance (6)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (6)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (6)
  
  Polish Underground State (5)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (4)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (4)
  
  Rescue of Jews (4)
  
  Underground media (4)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (2)
  
  Judenrat (2)
  
  Central Welfare Council (1)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (1)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (1)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (1)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (1)
  
  Operation "Tempest" (1)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (1)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
  
  Underground courts (1)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (62)
  
  Brief (3)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (2)
  
  Account (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Supreme National Tribunal (42)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (8)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (4)
  
  District Court in Radom (3)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (3)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland. Research and investigative files (1)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation – Institute of National Remembrance in Białystok (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (1)
  
  Katyn Museum (1)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (1)
Medium
- Text (67)
  
  Image (8)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (61)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (6)