“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)
- Krzymiński Aleksander (3)
  
  Maławska-Primas Hanna (3)
  
  Ast Jadwiga; 24.01.1923, Żarnowiec (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Chwistek Barbara (2)
  
  Dembiczak Danuta (2)
  
  Drygulska Jadwiga (2)
  
  Filipak Olga (2)
  
  Giedroyć Kazimierz; 29.09.1908, Grodno (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Grzesiński Marian (2)
  
  Kalita Zofia (2)
  
  Kapała Stefan (2)
  
  Karczewska-Bełczowska Barbara; 1930; Warsaw (2)
  
  Kuchta Jan (2)
  
  Kuczewska Maria (2)
  
  Kulicki Władysław (2)
  
  Leonhard Bolesław (2)
  
  Maszczyk Antoni (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)
  
  Pacocha Leopold; 10.11.1898, Warsaw (2)
  
  Raczkiewicz Zbysław; 04.09.1925, Pobołowice (2)
  
  Ruszczyńska Bogusława; 1924 (2)
  
  Rysiński Mieczysław (2)
  
  Wallisch Irena (2)
  
  Wiksel Jerzy (2)
  
  Wodyńska Czesława (2)
  
  Włodek Kazimierz (2)
  
  Znamirowski Witold (2)
  
  Łańczak Władysław (2)
  
  "Jacek Dyzio" (1)
  
  Adamkiewicz Zbigniew (1)
  
  Alscher Josef; 05.06.1894, Legnica (1)
  
  Balcar Karol, 1915? (1)
  
  Banach-Kielanowska Gabriela (1)
  
  Bargielska Zofia (1)
  
  Bartkowicz Jan (1)
  
  Bazan Kunegunda (1)
  
  Bańkowski Kazimierz (1)
  
  Beliczyński (1)
  
  Beliczyński Marian; 23.06.1902, Michałów (Grójec county) (1)
  
  Beryt Irena (1)
  
  Bielecki Andrzej; 24.11.1925, Radziejów (1)
  
  Bielecki Edward (1)
  
  Bielska Krystyna (1)
  
  Biertumpfel Władysław (1)
  
  Bilski Antoni (1)
  
  Bocek Tadeusz (1)
  
  Bodziony Jakub; 24.05.1886, Świniarsk (1)
  
  Borkowska Stanisława; 1904? (1)
  
  Brodzik Maria; 01.12.1917, Warsaw (1)
  
  Bross Janusz (1)
  
  Brzuszkiewicz Kazimierz (1)
  
  Bucki Stanisław; 22.10.1899, Rożek (1)
  
  Bulska (1)
  
  Buła Jan; 26.08.1925, Mrzygród (1)
  
  Cechnicki Zbigniew; 1927 (1)
  
  Cera Stanisław (1)
  
  Ceregra Kazimierz; 29.07.1920, Mrozy (1)
  
  Chaciński Józef (1)
  
  Chamska Regina (1)
  
  Chmielarski Wacław, 1927 (1)
  
  Chodera Marianna (1)
  
  Chojnacka Pelagia; 09.09.1899, Pakość (1)
  
  Cichy Jan (1)
  
  Cichy Wiesław (1)
  
  Ciszewski Wacław (1)
  
  Cyrek Bogumiła (1)
  
  Czeluśniak Donat; 1924 (1)
  
  Czwojdziński Roman (1)
  
  Czyżewska Anna (1)
  
  Danilczyk Halina (1)
  
  Daszewski Maciej (1)
  
  Dawidowicz Wanda; 1923 (1)
  
  Dec Ignacy; 30.01.1896, Sokołów Małopolski (1)
  
  Dec-Soj Stanisława (1)
  
  Dembek Kazimiera (1)
  
  Dietrich Edward; 13.10.1900, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Dobrzańska-Jajszczyk Aleksandra (1)
  
  Dobrzańska-Jaszczyk Aleksandra (1)
  
  Dobrzycka Anna (1)
  
  Dobrzyński Czesław (1)
  
  Domanus Henryk (1)
  
  Domżalska Alina (1)
  
  Dorsz Augustyn; 09.08.1884, Hersztupowo (1)
  
  Dreyza Jerzy; 19.07.1902, Brzóstownia (1)
  
  Drożdż Zdzisław (1)
  
  Duda Konrad; 02.02.1914, Wartogłowiec (Tychy) (1)
  
  Dudek Eugeniusz (1)
  
  Dudek Stanisław; 09.09.1892, Poznań (1)
  
  Dudek Wanda (1)
  
  Dudkiewicz Jan (1)
  
  Dudwak Lidia (1)
  
  Dudziński (1)
  
  Działak Hanna (1)
  
  Dziedzic Małgorzata (1)
  
  Dąbrowa-Kostka Stanisława (1)
  
  Dąbrowski Antoni (1)
  
  Dąbrowski Jan (1)
  
  Essig Sam (1)
Subject
- The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (111)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (50)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (49)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (38)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (23)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (21)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Kraków (17)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (15)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (15)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (14)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Upper Silesia (13)
  
  Poles who saved Jews in the Kielce region (11)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Częstochowa region (9)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Podlasie region (9)
  
  The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews (7)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Łódź region (6)
  
  The Polish Righteous Among the Nations (6)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Volhynia (5)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Kielce region (4)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Nowogród region (4)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Tarnopol region (4)
  
  Poles who saved Jews (4)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (4)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (3)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Greater Poland (3)
  
  The city condemned to death (3)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (3)
  
  A mass extermination – KL Mauthausen-Gusen (2)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Stanisławów region (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Wilno region (2)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (2)
  
  Radom – daily terror (2)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town (2)
  
  Warsaw '44 – uprising in Praga (2)
  
  A mass extermination – KL Flossenbürg (1)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (1)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Budy (1)
  
  Dispersed terror – the sub-camp of KL Auschwitz in Wesoła (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Radom region (1)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the ghetto in Tłumacz (1)
  
  Kujawy region - the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Mauthausen-Gusen (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Pomerania (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Kujawy region (1)
  
  Poles who saved Jews in Wilno (1)
  
  Pomiechówek Fort – the Mazovian torture complex (1)
  
  Soldier's House, Fort VII, Żabikowo – the trail of death in Greater Poland (1)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (1)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (1)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  The tragedy of the Radom Arms Factory (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (1)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Warsaw (49)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (42)
  
  Ostashkov (Russia, Tver Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (41)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (29)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (20)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (20)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (20)
  
  Radzymin (18)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (14)
  
  Poznań (13)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (12)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (12)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (11)
  
  Lublin (11)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (11)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (10)
  
  Kraków (10)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (8)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (8)
  
  KL Majdanek (7)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (7)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (7)
  
  Częstochowa (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (6)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (6)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (6)
  
  Wrocław (6)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (6)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (6)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (5)
  
  Chełm (5)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (5)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (5)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (5)
  
  KL Stutthof (5)
  
  Katowice (5)
  
  Kielce (5)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (5)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (5)
  
  Skierniewice (5)
  
  Białystok (4)
  
  Czermna (małopolskie voivodeship) (4)
  
  Geneva (Switzerland) (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (4)
  
  Kalisz (4)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (4)
  
  Sosnowiec (Śląskie Voivodeship) (4)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (4)
  
  Zamość (4)
  
  Łódź (4)
  
  Łódź, ghetto (4)
  
  Biała Podlaska (3)
  
  Borysław (Ukraine) (3)
  
  Brody (Ukraine) (3)
  
  Gdańsk (3)
  
  Gdynia (3)
  
  Grodzisk Mazowiecki (3)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (3)
  
  KL Plaszow (3)
  
  Mała Wieś (Grójec district) (3)
  
  Olesno (małopolskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Olkusz (3)
  
  Piotrków Trybunalski, ghetto (3)
  
  Podwołoczyska (Ukraine) (3)
  
  Radom (3)
  
  Radom, Gestapo headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (3)
  
  Sadowne (Sadowne commune) (3)
  
  Sanok (3)
  
  Skurcza (3)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Szczecin (3)
  
  Warsaw, All Saints' Church, Grzybowski Square 3/5 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Miodowa Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, Ujazdowski Hospital, Jazdów Street 2 (3)
  
  Włodawa (3)
  
  Złoczów (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Altengrabow (Germany), Stalag XI A (2)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Białobrzegi (Białobrzegi district) (2)
  
  Białystok, Ghetto (2)
  
  Białystok, ghetto (2)
  
  Bielsko-Biała (2)
  
  Borszczów (Ukraine) (2)
  
  Borszczów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Bydgoszcz (2)
  
  Bytom (2)
  
  Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Czeladź, Zamurna Street (Pieńkowskiego Street) (2)
  
  Częstochowa, Ghetto (2)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Dąbrowa Tarnowska (2)
  
  Firlej (Lubartów district) (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Sobibór (2)
  
  Gliwice (2)
  
  Gołąbki (Warsaw) (2)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Gross-Born (Kłomino), Oflag II D (2)
  
  Grójec (2)
Victims
- The Poles (336)
  
  Civilians (335)
  
  The Civilian Population (334)
  
  The Jews (283)
  
  Women (190)
  
  The Inteligentsia (139)
  
  Prisoners of War (99)
  
  Children (96)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (46)
  
  Policemen (41)
  
  The Sick (21)
  
  The sick (21)
  
  Deportees (13)
  
  Russians/Soviets (12)
  
  The Russians (12)
  
  The elderly (11)
  
  The Elderly (11)
  
  The Church (10)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (7)
  
  Germans (5)
  
  Border Guard (4)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (3)
  
  The Communists (3)
  
  Ukrainians (3)
  
  Americans (2)
  
  Czechs (2)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (2)
  
  Greeks (2)
  
  Hungarians (2)
  
  The British (2)
  
  The Disabled (2)
  
  The Dutch (2)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (2)
  
  Belarusians (1)
  
  Belgians (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  Prison Guard (1)
  
  The French (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (43)
  
  Military Police (20)
  
  Collaboration (14)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (13)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (10)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (10)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (8)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (7)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (7)
  
  Security Office (6)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (5)
  
  Red Army (4)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (3)
  
  Denunciation (3)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (3)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (3)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (2)
  
  Lithuanians (2)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (2)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (2)
  
  Soviet Militia (2)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (2)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (2)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (1)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (1)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (1)
Crimes
- Execution (138)
  
  Death by shooting (84)
  
  Arrest (74)
  
  Deportation (60)
  
  Forced labor (57)
  
  Beating (52)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (38)
  
  Biological extermination (36)
  
  Displacement (25)
  
  Expulsion (25)
  
  Robbery (24)
  
  Administrative persecution (21)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (19)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (19)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (19)
  
  Round-up (14)
  
  Racial policy (13)
  
  Mass graves (11)
  
  Air raids (10)
  
  Hanging (10)
  
  Burning people alive (7)
  
  Cremation (7)
  
  Cremation of corpses (7)
  
  Gas chambers (6)
  
  Cattle wagons (5)
  
  Economic exploitation (5)
  
  "Dosing" (3)
  
  Death marches (3)
  
  Disarmament (3)
  
  Medical experiments (3)
  
  Rape (3)
  
  Armored weapons (2)
  
  Desacration of corpses (2)
  
  Judicial crime (2)
  
  Human shields (1)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (1)
Place
- NKVD camp for POWs (98)
  
  Ghetto (79)
  
  Concentration camp (68)
  
  Prison (28)
  
  Labor camp (23)
  
  Extermination camp (21)
  
  Transit camp (18)
  
  Forced labor (15)
  
  Police headquarters/station (12)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (10)
  
  Sewers (3)
  
  Internment camp (1)
Content
- Rescue of Jews (290)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (91)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (53)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (46)
  
  Extermination of Jews (23)
  
  Polish Underground State (23)
  
  Civil resistance (14)
  
  Underground culture and education (10)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (10)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (9)
  
  Central Welfare Council (7)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (7)
  
  Health service (5)
  
  Obliterating the traces (5)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (5)
  
  Underground courts (5)
  
  obliterating the traces (5)
  
  the Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (5)
  
  Called by name (4)
  
  Operation "Tempest" (4)
  
  the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (4)
  
  Underground media (3)
  
  Clandestine courses (2)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (2)
  
  National Armed Forces (2)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (2)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (2)
  
  Anders' Army (1)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (1)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (1)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (1)
  
  Field health service (1)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (1)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (1)
  
  Judenrat (1)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (1)
  
  Polish culture in exile (1)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (1)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (1)
  
  The Silent Unseen (1)
  
  Wola Massacre (1)
Object type
- Brief (475)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (47)
  
  Statement (2)
  
  Account (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (298)
  
  Katyn Museum (111)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (34)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (14)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (7)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (4)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland 1949–1984 (3)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (1)
  
  District Court in Radom (1)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (1)
  
  Voivodeship Court in Łódź (1)
Medium
- Text (475)
  
  Image (20)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (261)
  
  Full content available online (214)