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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Sendler Irena; 15.02.1910, Warszawa (4)
  
  Krzymiński Aleksander (3)
  
  Maławska-Primas Hanna (3)
  
  Raczkiewicz Zbysław; 04.09.1925, Pobołowice (3)
  
  Szewczak Helena; 28.02.1915, Marki (Wołomin county) (3)
  
  Ast Jadwiga; 24.01.1923, Żarnowiec (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Borowy Aleksander; 03.12.1898, Ostrów Mazowiecka (2)
  
  Brojanowska Jolanta (2)
  
  Chwistek Barbara (2)
  
  Dembiczak Danuta (2)
  
  Drozdowska-Rogowicz Wanda; 11.11.1906 (2)
  
  Drygulska Jadwiga (2)
  
  Filipak Olga (2)
  
  Gelade Eliasz; 1894? (2)
  
  Giedroyć Kazimierz; 29.09.1908, Grodno (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Glickson Jerry (2)
  
  Grzesiński Marian (2)
  
  Kalita Zofia (2)
  
  Karczewska-Bełczowska Barbara; 1930; Warsaw (2)
  
  Koziar Jan (2)
  
  Kuczewska Maria (2)
  
  Leonhard Bolesław (2)
  
  Lubkiewicz Stanisław; 18.10.1913, Sadowne (2)
  
  Martynuska Janina (2)
  
  Maślankiewicz Jan; 01.09.1916, Warsaw (2)
  
  Maślankiewicz Jan; 01.09.1916, Warszawa (2)
  
  Morawski Zdzisław; 11.01.1927, Mała Wieś (Grójec county) (2)
  
  Przygodzki Jacek (2)
  
  Roszkowski Paweł; 1927 (2)
  
  Ruszczyńska Bogusława; 1924 (2)
  
  Rysiński Mieczysław (2)
  
  Ryszewski Stanisław; 09.07.1917, Gromadzyn (2)
  
  Segiet Maria (2)
  
  Sulima Jan (2)
  
  Szostakiewicz Janina (2)
  
  Słuchoński Artur; 02.03.1898 (2)
  
  Wallisch Irena (2)
  
  Warszawer Zygmunt (2)
  
  Wodyńska Czesława (2)
  
  Włodek Kazimierz (2)
  
  Łańczak Władysław (2)
  
  Abramczyk Stanisław (1)
  
  Adamkiewicz Zbigniew (1)
  
  Adamski Piotr (1)
  
  Adler Jermie; 21.03.1902, Solotwyno (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Adler Jermie; 21.03.1902, Sołotwyno (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Andrzejczyk Edward Edmund; 18.08.1918, Słupia (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Anonymous (1)
  
  Atkins Janina (1)
  
  Augustyniak Regina; 01.06.1914, Sterdyń (1)
  
  Banach-Kielanowska Gabriela (1)
  
  Banaszewska-Pisarenko Jadwiga (1)
  
  Barański Jan; 1926? (1)
  
  Bargielska Zofia (1)
  
  Bańkowski Kazimierz (1)
  
  Belec Ewa (1)
  
  Beryt Irena (1)
  
  Białecki Jan; 1889? (1)
  
  Bielecki Andrzej; 24.11.1925, Radziejów (1)
  
  Bielska Krystyna (1)
  
  Biliński Jerzy; 1923, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Biliżanka-Bielińska Maria (1)
  
  Blajwajs Beno; 1919, Łódź (1)
  
  Bliźniański Włodzimierz (1)
  
  Bogucki Andrzej (1)
  
  Borkowska Cecylia; 20.04.1930, Stoczek (Stoczek commune) (1)
  
  Bożek Michał (1)
  
  Bresler Jerzy (1)
  
  Brodzik Maria; 01.12.1917, Warsaw (1)
  
  Brunarska Zofia; 27.05.1923 (1)
  
  Bruzda Bernard (1)
  
  Brzuszkiewicz Kazimierz (1)
  
  Buchsbajewa Nella (1)
  
  Burka Eustachy (1)
  
  Buła Jan; 26.08.1925, Mrzygród (1)
  
  Cechnicki Zbigniew; 1927 (1)
  
  Celej Stefan (1)
  
  Cera Stanisław (1)
  
  Chaciński Józef (1)
  
  Charliński Władysław (1)
  
  Chmielarski Wacław, 1927 (1)
  
  Chodera Marianna (1)
  
  Chrościcki Julian; 26.05.1892, Szymony (1)
  
  Chądzyńska-Czarnocka Maria (1)
  
  Cichy Jan (1)
  
  Cichy Wiesław (1)
  
  Cieszkowska Halina (1)
  
  Cyra Józef; 03.07.1909 (1)
  
  Czajka Teodozja; 29.05.1934 (1)
  
  Czajkowski Abram (1)
  
  Czarnecki Antoni (1)
  
  Czeluśniak Donat; 1924 (1)
  
  Czerenkiewicz Michał; 21.11.1911, Wołkowyja (1)
  
  Czerniakowska Jadwiga; 1929? (1)
  
  Czerniaków Felicja; 01.06.1883, Warsaw (1)
  
  Czyżewska Anna (1)
  
  Damięcki Dobiesław; 02.04.1899, Karniewek (1)
  
  Danilczyk Halina (1)
  
  Daszewski Maciej (1)
  
  Dawidowicz Wanda; 1923 (1)
Subject
- Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (130)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (71)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (59)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (40)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (31)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (22)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (20)
  
  The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews (20)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Kraków (19)
  
  Poles who saved Jews in the Kielce region (15)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Upper Silesia (13)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Częstochowa region (12)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Podlasie region (12)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (11)
  
  The Polish Righteous Among the Nations (11)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (9)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Volhynia (8)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Łódź region (7)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (7)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Nowogród region (6)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Wilno region (6)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Greater Poland (5)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Tarnopol region (5)
  
  Poles who saved Jews (5)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Kielce region (4)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (4)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (4)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (4)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (3)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (3)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (3)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Stanisławów region (3)
  
  The Polish diplomacy and its bid to help Jews (3)
  
  The city condemned to death (3)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – the Stanisławów area (3)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (2)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Tarnów Ghetto (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Pomerania (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Kujawy region (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Polesie region (2)
  
  Poles who saved Jews in Wilno (2)
  
  Radom – daily terror (2)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto (2)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Radom Ghetto (2)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – the Lublin region (2)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Mazovia (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Radom region (1)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Kłobuck Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the ghetto in Tłumacz (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto (1)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Bergen-Belsen (1)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Poles who saved Jews in Lwów (1)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Częstochowa Ghetto (1)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Lesser Poland (1)
  
  The persecuted church (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – uprising in Praga (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Warsaw (64)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (60)
  
  Radzymin (29)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (27)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (26)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (23)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (15)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (11)
  
  Kraków (10)
  
  Poznań (10)
  
  Częstochowa (9)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (9)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (9)
  
  Lublin (9)
  
  Radom (9)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (9)
  
  Zaręby Kościelne (9)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (8)
  
  Otwock (8)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (8)
  
  Wrocław (8)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (7)
  
  Jasienica (Ostrów Mazowiecka district) (7)
  
  KL Majdanek (7)
  
  KL Plaszow (7)
  
  Cezarów (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (6)
  
  Katowice (6)
  
  Piotrków Trybunalski, ghetto (6)
  
  Sadowne (Sadowne commune) (6)
  
  Szymanów (Sochaczew district), convent of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Szkolna Street 2 (6)
  
  Warsaw, All Saints' Church, Grzybowski Square 3/5 (6)
  
  Zamość (6)
  
  Łódź, ghetto (6)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (5)
  
  Jedlnia-Letnisko (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (5)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (5)
  
  KL Stutthof (5)
  
  Kielce (5)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (5)
  
  Lwów (Ukraine), ghetto (5)
  
  Otwock, ghetto (5)
  
  Paulinów (mazowieckie voivodenship) (5)
  
  Radom, Ghetto Glinice (5)
  
  Radom, Ghetto Śródmieście (5)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (5)
  
  Turkowice (Hrubieszów district), Monastery of the Protection of Our Lady (5)
  
  Warsaw, Father Boduen Children's Home, Nowogrodzka Street 75 (5)
  
  Warsaw, Father Boduen House, Nowogrodzka Street 75 (5)
  
  Warsaw, Leszno Street (5)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (4)
  
  Kosów Lacki (4)
  
  Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (4)
  
  Sterdyń (4)
  
  Słomniki (4)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (4)
  
  Warsaw, convent of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Kazimierzowska Street 59 (4)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania) (4)
  
  Wola Bukowska (4)
  
  Białystok (3)
  
  Bliżyn, forced labor camp (3)
  
  Borysław (Ukraine) (3)
  
  Czermna (małopolskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Częstochowa, Ghetto (3)
  
  Częstochowa, forced labor camp "Hasag Pelcery", 1 Maja Street (Filomatów Street 14) (3)
  
  Gdańsk (3)
  
  Gdynia (3)
  
  Grądziki (mazowieckie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Janów Podlaski (3)
  
  Jedlnia-Letnisko, Ogrodowa Street (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (3)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (3)
  
  Legionowo, ghetto (3)
  
  Mała Wieś (Grójec district) (3)
  
  Milanówek (3)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (3)
  
  Olesno (małopolskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Olkusz (3)
  
  Opatów (3)
  
  Pobołowice (3)
  
  Prague (Czech Republic) (3)
  
  Romanów (Biała Podlaska district) (3)
  
  Sanok (3)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna, forced labor camp "Hasag", Legionów Street 122 (3)
  
  Skurcza (3)
  
  Skórnice (3)
  
  Stary Lubotyń (3)
  
  Szczecin (3)
  
  Tarnów, ghetto (3)
  
  Tel-Aviv (Israel) (3)
  
  Tomaszów Mazowiecki (3)
  
  Warsaw, Hotel Polski, Długa Street 29 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Solna Street 5 (Jana Pawła II Avenue) (3)
  
  Warsaw, Żelazna Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, Żurawia Street (3)
  
  Wilno (Lithuania), ghetto (3)
  
  Wola Mielecka (3)
Victims
- Civilians (561)
  
  The Civilian Population (555)
  
  The Jews (553)
  
  The Poles (387)
  
  Women (355)
  
  Children (200)
  
  The Inteligentsia (82)
  
  The elderly (29)
  
  The sick (29)
  
  The Sick (26)
  
  Prisoners of War (24)
  
  The Elderly (24)
  
  The Church (14)
  
  Russians/Soviets (13)
  
  The Russians (11)
  
  Germans (5)
  
  The Communists (4)
  
  Americans (3)
  
  Belgians (3)
  
  Czechs (3)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (3)
  
  Slovaks (3)
  
  The Disabled (3)
  
  The French (3)
  
  Ukrainians (3)
  
  Deportees (2)
  
  Hungarians (2)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (2)
  
  Belarusians (1)
  
  Italians (1)
  
  Landowners (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (1)
  
  The British (1)
  
  The Dutch (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (48)
  
  Military Police (45)
  
  Collaboration (37)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (17)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (17)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (14)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (12)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (10)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (8)
  
  Security Office (7)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (7)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (7)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (7)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (6)
  
  Latvians (4)
  
  Lithuanians (4)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (4)
  
  Denunciation (2)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (2)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (2)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (2)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (2)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (2)
  
  Waffen-SS (2)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (1)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (1)
  
  Red Army (1)
  
  Soviet Militia (1)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (1)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (1)
Crimes
- Execution (241)
  
  Death by shooting (194)
  
  Arrest (141)
  
  Deportation (96)
  
  Forced labor (96)
  
  Beating (74)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (56)
  
  Robbery (51)
  
  Displacement (50)
  
  Biological extermination (46)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (45)
  
  Expulsion (45)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (44)
  
  Administrative persecution (43)
  
  Racial policy (38)
  
  Round-up (36)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (34)
  
  Mass graves (30)
  
  Economic exploitation (15)
  
  Air raids (13)
  
  Cremation of corpses (13)
  
  Hanging (13)
  
  Cremation (12)
  
  Burning people alive (11)
  
  Gas chambers (11)
  
  Cattle wagons (10)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (8)
  
  Judicial crime (6)
  
  Death marches (4)
  
  Desacration of corpses (4)
  
  Disarmament (3)
  
  Medical experiments (3)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (2)
  
  Rape (2)
  
  Denationalization (1)
Place
- Ghetto (172)
  
  Concentration camp (66)
  
  Prison (39)
  
  Extermination camp (31)
  
  Labor camp (31)
  
  Forced labor (27)
  
  Police headquarters/station (25)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (12)
  
  Transit camp (11)
  
  Sewers (3)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (2)
  
  Internment camp (1)
Content
- Rescue of Jews (610)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (146)
  
  Extermination of Jews (100)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (72)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (69)
  
  Called by name (65)
  
  Polish Underground State (32)
  
  Civil resistance (24)
  
  Underground culture and education (21)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (19)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (18)
  
  Central Welfare Council (15)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (14)
  
  Judenrat (14)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (14)
  
  Health service (11)
  
  the Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (11)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (10)
  
  Obliterating the traces (8)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (6)
  
  Underground courts (6)
  
  obliterating the traces (6)
  
  National Armed Forces (5)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (4)
  
  Operation "Tempest" (4)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (4)
  
  the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (4)
  
  Clandestine courses (3)
  
  Underground media (3)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (2)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (2)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (2)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (2)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (2)
  
  The Silent Unseen (2)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (2)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (1)
  
  Aid to Jews (1)
  
  Anders' Army (1)
  
  Field health service (1)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (1)
  
  Polish culture in exile (1)
  
  Wola Massacre (1)
Object type
- Brief (290)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (154)
  
  Account (70)
  
  Statement (68)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (8)
  
  Interview (3)
  
  Book excerpt (2)
  
  Exhumation report (1)
  
  Official memo (1)
  
  Press clipping (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (454)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (24)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland 1949–1984 (17)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (14)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (13)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Białystok (11)
  
  District Court in Radom (10)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes – Institute of National Remembrance in Białystok (4)
  
  District Court in Łomża (4)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (4)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (4)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland. Research and investigative files (3)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation – Institute of National Remembrance in Białystok (3)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (3)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (1)
Medium
- Text (608)
  
  Image (53)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (461)
  
  Full content available online (149)