“Chronicles of Terror”. Base of testimonies of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor

Main Page Search phrase: [Crimes = Armored weapons]

Witness (date and place of birth)
- Anonymous (32)
  
  Al’ona, 1987 (2)
  
  Anastasiya, 1985 (2)
  
  Anastasiya, 1988 (2)
  
  Ol'ga, 1980 (2)
  
  Ol'ha (2)
  
  Ol’ha (2)
  
  Sieroszewski Władysław; 30.12.1900, Warsaw (2)
  
  Taran Stanisława; 03.03.1896 (2)
  
  Tetyana, 1985 (2)
  
  Vladimir (2)
  
  Włodarski Włodzimierz (Walczak Wacław); 03.01.1907, Warsaw (2)
  
  Aleksandr (1)
  
  Aleksandr, 1981 (1)
  
  Aleksandr, 2000 (1)
  
  Aleksandra, 1986 (1)
  
  Aleksandra, 2000 (1)
  
  Alena, 1988 (1)
  
  Anastasiya, 2001 (1)
  
  Andriy (1)
  
  Anna, 1984 (1)
  
  Anna, 1990 (1)
  
  Anna, 1997 (1)
  
  Artem, 1983 (1)
  
  Artem, 1985 (1)
  
  Biegański Eugeniusz; 05.01.1915, Poniewież (now in Lithuania) (1)
  
  Bielska (Mojejko) Jadwiga; 22.07.1922, Warsaw (1)
  
  Bogdanowicz Jan; 17.12.1894, Warsaw (1)
  
  Bogucki Józef (1)
  
  Bojar Michał; 19.09.1901, Krasne (1)
  
  Brodowska Zofia; 23.12.1916 (1)
  
  Broel-Plater (Skassa) Maria; 18.12.1913, Warsaw (1)
  
  Bujnowicz Zbigniew; 1920? (1)
  
  Błaszczyk Józef; 30.03.1923, Warsaw (1)
  
  Chmielewska Stefania; 22.03.1898, Płock (1)
  
  Czaplicki Józef; 1899? (1)
  
  Dar'ya, 1988 (1)
  
  Dar'ya, 2006 (1)
  
  Darina (1)
  
  Diana, 1993 (1)
  
  Dmitriy, 1982 (1)
  
  Dmitriy, 1984 (1)
  
  Dreyza Jerzy; 19.07.1902, Brzóstownia (1)
  
  Drozdowski Henryk Marian; 13.01.1895, Łódź (1)
  
  Dworski Roman; 23.09.1910 (1)
  
  Emma, 1958 (1)
  
  Evheniy (1)
  
  Feliks, 2004 (1)
  
  Fik Jadwiga; 22.01.1930, Uhrusk (1)
  
  Gabrylewicz Alina (1)
  
  Gajdowski Jan; 1901 (1)
  
  Gruszka Jan (1)
  
  Grzejszczak Henryk; 20.01.1907, Trzebień (Kozienice district) (1)
  
  Guzikowski Witold Marian; 19.08.1923, Warsaw (1)
  
  Górecki Roman; 31.08.1891, Sokule (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Górski Kazimierz; 11.07.1895, Łady (Sochaczew county) (1)
  
  Głowa Stanisław; 15.09.1898, Igołomia (1)
  
  Hanna, 1986 (1)
  
  Hennadiy, 1967 (1)
  
  Heorhiy, 1978 (1)
  
  Herubin Antoni; 17.01.1907, Warsaw (1)
  
  Huskowski Tadeusz; 02.01.1924, Warsaw (1)
  
  Il'ya, 1997 (1)
  
  Illya, 2004 (1)
  
  Inna, 1974 (1)
  
  Inna, 1978 (1)
  
  Irina (1)
  
  Irina, 1958 (1)
  
  Irina, 1962 (1)
  
  Irina, 1977 (1)
  
  Irina, 1981 (1)
  
  Iryna (1)
  
  Iryna, 1977 (1)
  
  Jagodzińska Maria; 05.12.1902, Staroźreby (1)
  
  Jaroszek Mieczysław Antoni; 22.06.1922, Warsaw (1)
  
  Kalisz Lucjan; 1908? (1)
  
  Karczewska Danuta; 30.03.1924 (1)
  
  Kaszubski Tadeusz; 13.03.1916 (1)
  
  Kaszubski Tadeusz; 13.03.1917 (1)
  
  Katerina, 1991 (1)
  
  Kateryna (1)
  
  Kateryna, 1978 (1)
  
  Kateryna, 1990 (1)
  
  Kateryna, 1995 (1)
  
  Kluczek Stanisław (1)
  
  Korganow Władysława; 1912? (1)
  
  Kowalski Edward; 14.03.1914, Sępólno Krajeńskie (1)
  
  Kozicki Jan; 13.01.1933, Trzeszczany (1)
  
  Krystyna, 1994 (1)
  
  Kryńska Joanna Ewa; 19.09.1915, Charbin (1)
  
  Kwaśniewski Władysław; 12.09.1909, Skierniewice (1)
  
  Kwiecińska Leokadia; 1899, Lublin (1)
  
  Lachowicz Stanisław (1)
  
  Larisa, 1955 (1)
  
  Lehrer Karol; 13.03.1922, Oświęcim (1)
  
  Lesya, 1979 (1)
  
  Lesya, 1984 (1)
  
  Leszczyńska Halina Irena; 13.04.1905, Warsaw (1)
  
  Lewak Adam; 03.09.1891, Pieniaki (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Lipowski Wojciech; 1902? (1)
Subject
- Mariupol Siege (32)
  
  Russian occupation – south Ukraine (29)
  
  Fighting for Kharkiv (26)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (19)
  
  Fighting for Kyiv (17)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz (16)
  
  Battle of Mykolaiv (11)
  
  Fighting in Sumy Oblast (11)
  
  Fighting in Donbas (2014 and/or 2022) (10)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Żoliborz (10)
  
  Fighting for Chernihiv (7)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (7)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (6)
  
  The city condemned to death (6)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (6)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (6)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (5)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (5)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (4)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (4)
  
  Russian occupation – Kharkiv Oblast (4)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (4)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (3)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (3)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (3)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town (3)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (2)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Volhynia (2)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (2)
  
  Russian missile terror (2)
  
  Russian occupation – Kyiv Oblast (2)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (2)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (2)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (2)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (1)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Kraków (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (1)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Trzebinia (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Zamość region (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (1)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Lublin region (1)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (1)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Stutthof (1)
  
  Pomiechówek Fort – the Mazovian torture complex (1)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (1)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  The persecuted church (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – uprising in Praga (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Mariupol (28)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (16)
  
  Kharkiv (13)
  
  Kherson (10)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (9)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 (9)
  
  Sumy (8)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (7)
  
  Warsaw, Wolska Street (7)
  
  Donetsk (6)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (6)
  
  Warsaw, Józef Piłsudski Academy of Physcial Education, Marymoncka Street 34 (6)
  
  Mykolaiv (5)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (5)
  
  Warsaw, Dembińskiego Street 2/4 (5)
  
  Warsaw, Górczewska Street (5)
  
  Warsaw, Młynarska Street (5)
  
  Warsaw, Ogród Saski [Saxon Garden] (5)
  
  Warsaw, Ursus factory, Wolska Street 55 (5)
  
  Warsaw, Wolski Hospital, Płocka Street 26 (5)
  
  Chernihiv (4)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (4)
  
  Lublin, Gestapo detention center, Uniwersytecka Street 1 (4)
  
  Mariupol, Drama Theater (4)
  
  Melitopol (4)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (4)
  
  Warsaw, Banacha Market Square, Grójecka Street 95 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Central Army Gas School, Gdańska Street 6 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Franaszek factory, Wolska Street 41/45 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Institute of Industrial Chemistry, Łączności Street 8 (Rydygiera Street 8) (4)
  
  Warsaw, St. Lawrence's church, Wolska Street 140A (4)
  
  Warsaw, St. Lazarus' Hospital, Leszno Street 127 (Leszno Street 15) (4)
  
  Warsaw, St. Stanislaus' Hospital, Wolska Street 37 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Złota Street 38 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Żelaznej Bramy Square (4)
  
  Balakliya (3)
  
  Berdyansk (3)
  
  Bielański Forest (Warsaw) (3)
  
  Irpin (3)
  
  Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (3)
  
  Kreminna (3)
  
  Kyiv (3)
  
  Lasek Bielański (Warsaw) (3)
  
  Nova Kakhovka (3)
  
  Pruszków (3)
  
  Sloviansk (3)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (3)
  
  Warsaw, Bednarska Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, Bielański Forest (3)
  
  Warsaw, Chłodna Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, Dormitory, Akademicka Street 5 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Działdowska Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, Długa Street 7 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Hale Mirowskie [trade halls] (3)
  
  Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, Krechowiecka Street 6 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Marii Kazimiery Street 23 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Mickiewicza Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, Pole Mokotowskie (3)
  
  Warsaw, SS-Stauferkaserne, Rakowiecka Street 4 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Seminary Church, Krakowskie Przedmieście Street 52/54 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Sokołowska Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, St. Lawrence's Church, Wolska Street 140A (3)
  
  Warsaw, Trębacka Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, Wilsona Square (3)
  
  Warsaw, Zbawiciela Square (3)
  
  Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (3)
  
  Andriivka (2)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (2)
  
  Beryslav (2)
  
  Bielany airport (Warsaw) (2)
  
  Enerhodar (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  Hola Prystan (2)
  
  Hostomel (2)
  
  Jelonki (Warsaw) (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (2)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (2)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (2)
  
  KL Majdanek (2)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (2)
  
  Kakhovka (2)
  
  Kampinos Forest (2)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (2)
  
  Lublin, Lublin Castle, Zamkowa Street 9 (2)
  
  Lysychansk (2)
  
  Mariupol, Azovstal (2)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (2)
  
  Oleksandrivka (2)
  
  Oleshky (2)
  
  Podkowa Leśna (2)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Rybalche (2)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (2)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (2)
  
  Snihurivka (2)
  
  Sochaczew (2)
  
  Stanislav (2)
Oblast
- Donetsk (45)
  
  Kherson (40)
  
  Kharkiv (31)
  
  Zaporizhia (23)
  
  Kyiv (18)
  
  Luhansk (11)
  
  Mykolaiv (11)
  
  Sumy (11)
  
  Kyiv Oblast (9)
  
  Chernihiv (8)
  
  Mikołajowski (4)
Raion
- Mariupol (32)
  
  Kharkiv (22)
  
  Kherson (18)
  
  Bucha (11)
  
  Mykolaiv (9)
  
  Sumy (9)
  
  Kakhovka (8)
  
  Donetsk (6)
  
  Henichesk (5)
  
  Severodonetsk (5)
  
  Vasylivka (5)
  
  Chernihiv (4)
  
  Izium (4)
  
  Kramatorsk (4)
  
  Melitopol (4)
  
  Berdyansk (3)
  
  Beryslav (3)
  
  Kiev (3)
  
  Kyiv (3)
  
  Mikołajów (3)
  
  Skadovsk (3)
  
  Brovary (2)
  
  Polohy (2)
  
  Сhuhuiv (2)
  
  Bakhmut (1)
  
  Bashtanka (1)
  
  Boryspil (1)
  
  Chuhuiv (1)
  
  Horlivka (1)
  
  Kupyansk (1)
  
  Oleszky (1)
  
  Volnovakha (1)
  
  Vyshhorod (1)
Victims
- Civilians (308)
  
  Women (237)
  
  Ukrainians (200)
  
  Children (173)
  
  The Civilian Population (110)
  
  The Poles (110)
  
  The elderly (70)
  
  The sick (60)
  
  The Sick (39)
  
  The Elderly (24)
  
  Prisoners of War (23)
  
  The Church (23)
  
  The Inteligentsia (19)
  
  The Jews (16)
  
  Belarusians (5)
  
  Russians/Soviets (5)
  
  The Russians (5)
  
  Deportees (4)
  
  The Disabled (4)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (4)
  
  Border Guard (3)
  
  Internees (3)
  
  Policemen (3)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (3)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (3)
  
  Belgians (2)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (2)
  
  Border Protection Corps (1)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (1)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (1)
  
  Greeks (1)
  
  Hungarians (1)
  
  Internally displaced persons (1)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (1)
  
  The British (1)
  
  The Communists (1)
Perpetrators
- Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (188)
  
  SS (45)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (29)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (27)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (23)
  
  Donetsk People’s Militia (all military formations of so-called separatist republics DNR and LNR) (17)
  
  Kadyrovites (17)
  
  Collaborators (15)
  
  Military Police (14)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (11)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (11)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (10)
  
  Collaboration (9)
  
  Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (9)
  
  Separatists (9)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (7)
  
  Russian diversionary groups (7)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (7)
  
  Rosgvardiya [National Guard of Russia] (4)
  
  Red Army (3)
  
  The Russian National Liberation Army (RONA) (3)
  
  Denunciation (2)
  
  Soviet Militia (2)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (1)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (1)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1)
  
  Waffen-SS (1)
Crimes
- Armored weapons (315)
  
  Destruction of civilian infrastructure (172)
  
  Death by shooting (162)
  
  Artillery shelling (145)
  
  Air raids (132)
  
  Humanitarian catastrophe (128)
  
  Robbery (123)
  
  Missile attack (110)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (102)
  
  Execution (79)
  
  Beating (68)
  
  Limiting freedom of movement (60)
  
  Arrest (57)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (50)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (47)
  
  Forced labor (47)
  
  Persecution of Ukrainian identity/Russification (45)
  
  Human shields (36)
  
  Deportation (32)
  
  Biological extermination (26)
  
  Displacement (25)
  
  Cremation of corpses (24)
  
  Cremation (22)
  
  Rape (22)
  
  Expulsion (19)
  
  Artillery fire (14)
  
  Burning people alive (14)
  
  Confiscation (13)
  
  Economic exploitation (13)
  
  Pacification (13)
  
  Forced passportization (12)
  
  Mass graves (11)
  
  Round-up (11)
  
  Medical experiments (9)
  
  Hanging (8)
  
  Minefields (8)
  
  White phosphorus weapons (8)
  
  Deportation/Exile (7)
  
  Forced mobilization (7)
  
  Gas chambers (6)
  
  "Dosing" (4)
  
  Cattle wagons (4)
  
  Denationalization (4)
  
  Judicial crime (4)
  
  Punishment cell (4)
  
  Racial policy (4)
  
  Roads of death (4)
  
  Death marches (3)
  
  Disarmament (3)
  
  Desacration of corpses (1)
  
  Scorched-earth policy (1)
  
  Sovietization (1)
Place
- Checkpoint (78)
  
  Filtration camp (24)
  
  Prison (24)
  
  Transit camp (23)
  
  Concentration camp (17)
  
  Police headquarters/station (12)
  
  Extermination camp (4)
  
  Forced labor (4)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (4)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (4)
  
  Ghetto (3)
  
  Internment camp (3)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (3)
  
  Sewers (3)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (2)
  
  Border post (2)
  
  Kolkhoz (1)
  
  Labor camp (1)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (1)
Content
- Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022) (185)
  
  Evacuation from war zone/occupied territories (76)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (69)
  
  Russian occupation/Occupation terror (60)
  
  Urban warfare (54)
  
  Armed Forces of Ukraine (28)
  
  Health service (22)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (17)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (17)
  
  Wola Massacre (16)
  
  Pseudoreferendums in occupied territories (13)
  
  Russian propaganda/disinformation (12)
  
  Field health service (11)
  
  Extermination of Jews (9)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (8)
  
  War in Donbas (2014) (8)
  
  “Donetsk People’s Republic” (6)
  
  Anders' Army (5)
  
  Communist propaganda (5)
  
  Ochota Massacre (5)
  
  Polish Underground State (5)
  
  Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces (5)
  
  Departure from Ukraine (4)
  
  Polish culture in exile (4)
  
  Amnesty (3)
  
  Obliterating the traces (3)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (3)
  
  Underground culture and education (3)
  
  Underground media (3)
  
  obliterating the traces (3)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (2)
  
  Civil resistance (2)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (2)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (2)
  
  Verbrennungskommando (2)
  
  “Luhansk People’s Republic” (2)
  
  Bucha Massacre (1)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (1)
  
  Epidemics (1)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (1)
  
  First deportation (1)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (1)
  
  Security Service of Ukraine (1)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
  
  Underground courts (1)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
Object type
- Questionnaire (193)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (71)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (42)
  
  Account (9)
  
  Interview (3)
  
  Brief (2)
  
  Report (2)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Lemkin Center (196)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (47)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (32)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (14)
  
  Independent Historical Office of the Command of the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union/Documentation Office of the Polish Army in the East (12)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (8)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (4)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (1)
  
  District Court in Radom (1)
Medium
- Text (312)
  
  Image (25)
  
  Film (3)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (198)
  
  Full content available online (117)