“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)
- Anonymous (2)
  
  Bartoszko Kazimierz; 09.10.1898 (2)
  
  Lenczewski Tadeusz; 1913?, Rzędziany (2)
  
  Mongiałło Wacław; 1910 (2)
  
  Zdanowicz Michał; 1899.12.11 (2)
  
  "Hanna" (1)
  
  Adamowicz Alfons; 15.12.1906, Białystok (1)
  
  Adamowicz Wiktor; 08.03.1903 (1)
  
  Adamski Alojzy, 1908.06.30 (1)
  
  Adamski Antoni, 1894? (1)
  
  Adamski Antoni; 1894? (1)
  
  Adamusik Stanisław (1)
  
  Aftergut Bronisław; 1893? (1)
  
  Aksnowicz Alfons; 21.01.1920 (1)
  
  Amanowicz Kazimierz; 1922? (1)
  
  Ambroziak Jan (1)
  
  Ambroziewicz Michał; 1904? (1)
  
  Amsterdamski Saul (1)
  
  Andronowski Piotr; 1921? (1)
  
  Andruszkiewicz Józef; 1893? (1)
  
  Ankudowicz Władysław; 23.10.1923, Białystok (1)
  
  Arciszewski Jan, 1907, Pińsk (1)
  
  Atras Franciszek, 1900.10.08 (1)
  
  Aunszlok Kazimierz (1)
  
  Awdziej Alfons; 15.02.1900 (1)
  
  Awienko Henryk; 1910? (1)
  
  Babiarz Józef; 13.03.1909, Łańcut (1)
  
  Bajorek Zygmunt; 1915? (1)
  
  Baka Jan; 1896 (1)
  
  Bakuła Antoni; 1899 (1)
  
  Bakuła Antoni; 1900 (1)
  
  Balcar Karol, 1915? (1)
  
  Balińska Janina; 19.03.1905, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Balter Berek; 15.01.1909 (1)
  
  Balter Berek; 15.01.1910 (1)
  
  Banach Jan; 1894? (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899 (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899?, Brynica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Barachowski Jan, 1900 (1)
  
  Baranowska Władysława (1)
  
  Baranowski Julian; 1902 (1)
  
  Baranowski Maksymilian (1)
  
  Barna Teodor; 1900 (1)
  
  Barwicki Władysław; 1898 (1)
  
  Baszker Fiyszel, 1899.08.06 (1)
  
  Batura Józef; 1916 (1)
  
  Bauer Ludmiła; 28.01.1922 (1)
  
  Baumgarten Józefina (1)
  
  Bednarska Wanda; 16.06.1912, Suchedniów (1)
  
  Beker Władysław; 1911 (1)
  
  Bendowski Stefan; 1906 (1)
  
  Berkowicz Icko; 1906, Różana (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Bernacki Michal, 1898 (1)
  
  Bernatowicz Jan; 1899 (1)
  
  Bełzki Jan; 1896, Potok Górny (1)
  
  Białobocki Andrzej; 1900? (1)
  
  Białous Edward; 03.04.1914, Kantorówka (1)
  
  Bibik Stanisław (1)
  
  Biel Ferdynand; 1898? (1)
  
  Bielecki Andrzej; 1893, Podhorce (1)
  
  Bielski Emil, 1898 (1)
  
  Bier Maksymilian; 1892? (1)
  
  Biełooki Wiktor; 1900 (1)
  
  Biełous Włodzimierz; 1904 (1)
  
  Binduga Władysław; 1915 (1)
  
  Binkiewicz Władysław; 1899? (1)
  
  Biskup Piotr, 1900 (1)
  
  Biłyk Stefan (1)
  
  Blewąska Wincenty; 1900 (1)
  
  Bloch Ilia; 1912? (1)
  
  Bobela Marian; 1893, Rozdół (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bobowski Leszek; 1910? (1)
  
  Bobrzek Wladyslaw; 08.09.1899 (1)
  
  Bochenek Jan; 1898 (1)
  
  Bochno Michał, 1903? (1)
  
  Boguski Aleksander, 1900 (1)
  
  Bogusz Zygmunt, 1897? (1)
  
  Bohdziewicz Jan, 1891? (1)
  
  Bohotko Józef (1)
  
  Bojarski Jan, 1899 (1)
  
  Bojda Ferdynand; 1921? (1)
  
  Bojko Jan; 1920? (1)
  
  Bonchort Zygmunt, 1897? (1)
  
  Bondus Piotr, 1904? (1)
  
  Bongold Jakub; 1900 (1)
  
  Borger Ludwik; 1915? (1)
  
  Borkowski Bronisław; 12.03.1912 (1)
  
  Borkowski Edward; 1892? (1)
  
  Boroch Michał; ? (1)
  
  Borowski Bolesław (1)
  
  Borys Piotr, 1901 (1)
  
  Borysiuk Mateusz; 1903? (1)
  
  Boryń Franciszek; 1898 (1)
  
  Brunstein Stanislaw; 27.10.1914 (1)
  
  Bryning Sylwester; 1898 (1)
  
  Brzozowski Jan; 1895? (1)
  
  Brzozowski Stefan; 1900? (1)
  
  Brzuszkiewicz Jan (1)
  
  Buben Wincenty (1)
  
  Buchwalter Fryderyk, 1912 (1)
  
  Kullanda Henryk (1)
Subject
- The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (196)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (160)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (92)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (69)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (66)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (64)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (54)
  
  In exile – Siberia (41)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (34)
  
  In exile – Ural (34)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (29)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (19)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (17)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (17)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (16)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (16)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (12)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (10)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (10)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (9)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (9)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (9)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (7)
  
  In exile – Mari El Republic (5)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (5)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ryazan Oblast (5)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (3)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Republic of Mordovia (3)
  
  The tragedy of the Radom Arms Factory (3)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (2)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (2)
  
  Deported – the Altai Krai (2)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (2)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  Allied assistance from the air (1)
  
  Archipełag Gułag - Powołże (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Nowogródek region (1)
  
  Deported – the Perm Krai (1)
  
  Deported – the Volgograd Oblast (1)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Stutthof branch in Inowrocław (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (1)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (1)
  
  Firlej near Radom – the training ground of death (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (1)
  
  In exile – Far East (1)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Povolzhye (1)
  
  In exile – Volgograd Oblast (1)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (1)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Majdanek (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Greater Poland (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Sverdlovsk Oblast (1)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (1)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (1)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Radom region (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (1)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (1)
  
  the Gulag Archipelago – the Krasnoyarsk Krai (1)
  
  the Gulag Archipelago – the Republic of Karelia (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (197)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (148)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (133)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (89)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (89)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (86)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (82)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (65)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (64)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (62)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (56)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (53)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (50)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (47)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (42)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (37)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (35)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (34)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (34)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (33)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (32)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (31)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (31)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (30)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (30)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (28)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (28)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (27)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (27)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (27)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (27)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (25)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (25)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (25)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (24)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (24)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (22)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (22)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (21)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (21)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (21)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (21)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (21)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (20)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (20)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (19)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (19)
  
  Olesko (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (19)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (18)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (18)
  
  Połąga (now in Lithuania), internee camp (18)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (18)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (now in Lithuania), internee camp (18)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (17)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (17)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (17)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (17)
  
  Białystok (16)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (16)
  
  Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (16)
  
  Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (16)
  
  Przemyśl, prison, Rokitniańska Street 1 (16)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (16)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (15)
  
  Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (15)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (15)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (15)
  
  Łomża, prison, Legionów Avenue 36 (15)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (14)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (14)
  
  Kniazhpogost (Russia, Komi Republic) (14)
  
  Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) (14)
  
  Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a (14)
  
  Radziwiłłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (14)
  
  Sevvostlag (Russia, Magadan Oblast) (14)
  
  Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (14)
  
  Kagan (Uzbekistan) (13)
  
  Kozelschyna (Ukraine, Poltava Oblast), transit camp (13)
  
  Podwołoczyska (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (13)
  
  Ukmergė (Lithuania), internee camp (13)
  
  Warsaw (13)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania) (13)
  
  Czortków (now in Ukraine), prison, Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) (12)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (12)
  
  Kalvarija (Lithuania), internment camp (12)
  
  Lida (now in Belarus) (12)
  
  Pavlodar (Kazakhstan) (12)
  
  Pińsk (now in Belarus), NKVD prison no 29, Brzeska/Poleska Street (12)
  
  Podliski Małe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (12)
  
  Przemyśl (12)
  
  Zborów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (12)
  
  Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (11)
  
  Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia) (11)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (11)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (11)
  
  Kermine (Navoiy, Uzbekistan) (11)
  
  Kherson (Ukraine), prison, Perekopska Street 10 (11)
  
  Mołodeczno (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Wielki Gościniec Street 52 (11)
  
  Nukus (Uzbekistan) (11)
  
  Ostróg (now in Ukraine), transit camp (Barracks of the 19th Volhynian Uhlan Regiment) (11)
Victims
- The Poles (1057)
  
  Civilians (774)
  
  The Civilian Population (733)
  
  Women (358)
  
  The Inteligentsia (343)
  
  Deportees (321)
  
  The Jews (305)
  
  Ukrainians (300)
  
  Prisoners of War (299)
  
  Children (274)
  
  The sick (256)
  
  The Sick (242)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (220)
  
  Russians/Soviets (209)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (185)
  
  The Russians (183)
  
  Belarusians (174)
  
  Policemen (167)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (129)
  
  The elderly (101)
  
  The Elderly (97)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (83)
  
  Internees (80)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (45)
  
  Border Guard (44)
  
  Lithuanians (39)
  
  The Church (39)
  
  Germans (37)
  
  Landowners (32)
  
  Border Protection Corps (31)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (27)
  
  Estonians (11)
  
  Latvians (7)
  
  Romanians (7)
  
  Czechs (6)
  
  Hungarians (6)
  
  Prison Guard (6)
  
  Finns (3)
  
  Scouts (2)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (2)
  
  Slovaks (1)
  
  The British (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (252)
  
  Red Army (203)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (118)
  
  Denunciation (109)
  
  Soviet Militia (90)
  
  Collaboration (72)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (43)
  
  Lithuanians (41)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (10)
  
  SS (8)
  
  Collaborators (7)
  
  Military Police (7)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (4)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (3)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (2)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (2)
  
  Administrative Police (1)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (1)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Postal Protection (1)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (1)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (941)
  
  Biological extermination (909)
  
  Arrest (723)
  
  Deportation/Exile (571)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (440)
  
  Beating (384)
  
  Judicial crime (268)
  
  Punishment cell (263)
  
  Cattle wagons (246)
  
  Robbery (150)
  
  Disarmament (137)
  
  Death by shooting (117)
  
  Execution (95)
  
  Roads of death (81)
  
  Deportation (34)
  
  Air raids (32)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (27)
  
  Sovietization (27)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (24)
  
  Forced voting (15)
  
  Desacration of corpses (13)
  
  Round-up (13)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (10)
  
  Cremation (9)
  
  Cremation of corpses (9)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (9)
  
  Armored weapons (6)
  
  Mass graves (6)
  
  Hanging (5)
  
  Displacement (4)
  
  Expulsion (4)
  
  Gas chambers (4)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (4)
  
  Collectivization (3)
  
  Denationalization (3)
  
  Administrative persecution (2)
  
  Artillery fire (2)
  
  Artillery shelling (2)
  
  Economic exploitation (2)
  
  Rape (2)
  
  Burning people alive (1)
  
  Death marches (1)
  
  Medical experiments (1)
  
  Racial policy (1)
Place
- Prison (241)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (230)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (222)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (218)
  
  Kolkhoz (210)
  
  NKVD custody suite (176)
  
  Transit camp (151)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (101)
  
  Mine (97)
  
  Internment camp (75)
  
  Sovkhoz (45)
  
  Concentration camp (10)
  
  Extermination camp (6)
  
  Labor camp (5)
  
  Siberia (5)
  
  Orphanage – dietdom (3)
  
  Police headquarters/station (3)
  
  Forced labor (1)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (1)
  
  Sewers (1)
Content
- Health service (638)
  
  Anders' Army (354)
  
  Amnesty (344)
  
  Epidemics (150)
  
  First deportation (147)
  
  Communist propaganda (143)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (142)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (142)
  
  Polish culture in exile (130)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (53)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (53)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (46)
  
  Second deportation (41)
  
  Third deportation (36)
  
  Fourth deportation (25)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (24)
  
  Military hospital (17)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (13)
  
  Students' Army Corps (7)
  
  Civil resistance (6)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (6)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (6)
  
  Polish Underground State (4)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (3)
  
  Extermination of Jews (3)
  
  Obliterating the traces (3)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (3)
  
  Partisan warfare (3)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (3)
  
  obliterating the traces (3)
  
  Underground culture and education (2)
  
  Aid to Jews (1)
  
  Aktion Zamość (1)
  
  Clandestine courses (1)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (1)
  
  Rescue of Jews (1)
  
  Underground media (1)
  
  Wola Massacre (1)
Object type
- Account (377)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (33)
  
  Brief (12)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (3)
  
  Book excerpt (2)
  
  Home Army report (1)
  
  Official memo (1)
  
  Statement (1)
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 (1017)
  
  Katyn Museum (12)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (7)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (7)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (6)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (4)
  
  District Court in Radom (3)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (2)
  
  Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Special Criminal Court in Warsaw. Agency in Białystok (2)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (1)
  
  District Court in Łomża (1)
Medium
- Text (1062)
  
  Image (31)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (1072)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (36)