“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)
- Bazylewska Ludwika (30)
  
  Deja Stanisław; 23.04.1907, Kowala (23)
  
  Sulima Jan (11)
  
  Szczerbiński Jan (11)
  
  Anonymous (10)
  
  Bochen Stanisław; 1901? (9)
  
  Gałecki Wiktor; 1901? (8)
  
  Sobczański J. (7)
  
  Sowiński Władysław (7)
  
  Stawiarski Eugeniusz (7)
  
  Baćmaga Walenty, 11.02.1902, Zakrzów (6)
  
  Krakiewicz Feliks; 1873? (6)
  
  Rott Wiesław; 14.06.1914, Lublin (6)
  
  Grodzicki Kazimierz (5)
  
  Iwanicka Maria; 27.01.1913 (5)
  
  Kruszyna Stanisław (5)
  
  Kwiatkowski Jan; 1911? (5)
  
  Madej Józef (5)
  
  Mankiewicz Franciszek; 1898 (5)
  
  Zielonka Jan (5)
  
  Łukasiewicz Henryk (5)
  
  Korkosz Stanisław; 1904? (4)
  
  Korszla Jan; 1914? (4)
  
  Lizis Teofil (4)
  
  Sendecki Sylwester; 1903? (4)
  
  Skrzyniarz Adam (4)
  
  Szymanowski Jan (4)
  
  Tomasik Marcin (4)
  
  Dąbski Stefan; 26.12.1919, Joanin (3)
  
  Gozdur Stanisław; 11.11.1891, Wola Solecka (3)
  
  Grabosz Ludwika; 1879? (3)
  
  Kowalczyk Jan (3)
  
  Kruczyński Michał; 1895? (3)
  
  Kędzierski Adam; 1890? (3)
  
  Rajzman Samuel; 1902, Węgrów (3)
  
  Zarębski Kazimierz (3)
  
  Bech Leon; 24.03.1989, Wola (2)
  
  Bielewicz Marian; 19.08.1911, Warsaw (2)
  
  Bretsznajder Zofia; 1877? (2)
  
  Buraczyńska (Zeiske) Wojciecha; 22.04.1920, Warsaw (2)
  
  Cichosz Paweł; 1902? (2)
  
  Czaiński Stanisław; 1890? (2)
  
  Duda Aleksander (2)
  
  Falkiewicz Wacław (2)
  
  Frąk Genowefa; 1910? (2)
  
  Gałązka Maria; 1907? (2)
  
  Gil Piotr (2)
  
  Gil Piotr; 1897? (2)
  
  Gronczak Józef; 1898? (2)
  
  Głombiowska Jadwiga; 21.01.1915, Warszawa (2)
  
  Ignaciuk Aleksander (2)
  
  Jackowska Zofia; 1910? (2)
  
  Jackowski Marian; 1900? (2)
  
  Jarmosz Franciszek; 1902 (2)
  
  Jasionowska Danuta (2)
  
  Jasińska Zofia (2)
  
  Jastrzębska Eugenia; 1906? (2)
  
  Kaczanowski Jan; 1913?, Rytwiany (2)
  
  Kiełbowski Paweł; 1892? (2)
  
  Kosakiewicz Władysław; 18.09.1879 (2)
  
  Kucharek Stanisław; 1904? (2)
  
  Kulczyk Wanda Maria; 13.05.1922, Warsaw (2)
  
  Kwiatkowski Stanisław; 1917? (2)
  
  Kwiecień Andrzej (2)
  
  Lange Lucyna; 1897? (2)
  
  Lużyński Władysław; 1916? (2)
  
  Makowska Janina; 26.11.1906 (2)
  
  Marian Józefa; 04.03.1897 (2)
  
  Mas Anna; 1913? (2)
  
  Mazurek Aleksandra (2)
  
  Michalik Zdzisław; 07.09.1907 (2)
  
  Musiałowicz Józef (2)
  
  Musiałowicz Stanisław (2)
  
  Paradowska Józefa; 06.04.1897 (2)
  
  Piegat Stanisław; 26.09.1891 (2)
  
  Protaś Józef (2)
  
  Rafalski Mieczysław; 1908? (2)
  
  Rajchman Jechiel (Romanowski Henryk); 06.1914, Łódź (2)
  
  Rajski Karol; 1897? (2)
  
  Rogalski Władysław; 1879? (2)
  
  Rzeszot Maria; 1911? (2)
  
  Sotomski Henryk (2)
  
  Spustek Franciszek, 1903 (2)
  
  Stępień Stefen (2)
  
  Sz.[...] M.[...] (2)
  
  Szlezyngier Aurelia; 1917? (2)
  
  Szyszko-Bohusz Adolf; 19.08.1883, Narva (Estonia) (2)
  
  Wielowiejska Anna Janina; 1906 (2)
  
  Zając Zofia (2)
  
  Łatwiński Jan; 26.04.1902 (2)
  
  Łosińska Weronika Katarzyna; 30.04.1904 (2)
  
  Łozicka Józefa; 1891? (2)
  
  Łukawski Władysław (2)
  
  Ścisło Andrzej (2)
  
  Żelazowska Janina Czesława; 26.10.1908 (2)
  
  Adamczyk Stanisław; 1922? (1)
  
  Adamska Halina; 27.02.1903 (1)
  
  Adler Stanisław; 08.02.1901, Warsaw (1)
  
  Bakalarz Aleksander; 1905? (1)
  
  Barszcz Aleksander (1)
Subject
- The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (86)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (73)
  
  The tragedy of the Radom Arms Factory (63)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (56)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (51)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (44)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (43)
  
  Treblinka – extermination camp (32)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (31)
  
  Firlej near Radom – the training ground of death (31)
  
  The city condemned to death (27)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (24)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (23)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (22)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Lublin region (19)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (17)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (17)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (14)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (13)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (11)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (11)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (10)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (10)
  
  Wawer Massacre '39 (10)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Radom region (9)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Mazovia (9)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (9)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (8)
  
  Warsaw '44 – uprising in Praga (8)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (6)
  
  Prisoners of war – transit camps in Kielce (6)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Świętokrzyskie region (6)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz (6)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (5)
  
  Stadion Leśny, Słowik, Herby – execution sites in Kielce (5)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (4)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (4)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (3)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (3)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (3)
  
  Soldier's House, Fort VII, Żabikowo – the trail of death in Greater Poland (3)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (3)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Żoliborz (3)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Volhynia (2)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (2)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (2)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (2)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Zawichost Ghetto (2)
  
  Lebensraum – the Germanization of the Zamość region (2)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (2)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  Radom bathed in blood – the prison in the former convent buildings (2)
  
  Taken Captive (2)
  
  The persecuted church (2)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Radom region (2)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (2)
  
  A mass extermination – KL Flossenbürg (1)
  
  Allied assistance from the air (1)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Libiąż (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death - the Lipsko Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Chmielnik Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Kielce Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Sandomierz Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Staszów Ghetto (1)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (1)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Flossenbürg (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Buchenwald (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (1)
  
  Pomiechówek Fort – the Mazovian torture complex (1)
  
  Prisoners of war – the Luckenwalde stalag (1)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (1)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Soviets in German captivity (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Sandomierz Ghetto (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Staszów Ghetto (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Zwoleń Ghetto (1)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – the Lublin region (1)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Warsaw (89)
  
  Firlej (Radom), municipal cemetery, Ofiar Firleja Street 45 (49)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (39)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (36)
  
  Radom, Arms Factory "Łucznik", Poniatowskiego Street (1905 Street 1/9) (36)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (32)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (32)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (32)
  
  Radom (28)
  
  Rożki, train station (26)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (25)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (23)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (20)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (19)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (18)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (18)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (17)
  
  Radom, Kielecka Street (16)
  
  Warsaw, Wolski Hospital, Płocka Street 26 (16)
  
  Suchedniów (15)
  
  Lublin (14)
  
  Warsaw, Anca Pharmacy, Marszałkowska Street 21 (14)
  
  Kończyce (Radom), Kosowski Forest (13)
  
  Radom, Warszawska Street (13)
  
  Kraków (12)
  
  Lublin, Lublin Castle, Zamkowa Street 9 (12)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (11)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (11)
  
  Warsaw, Marszałkowska Street (11)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (10)
  
  Warsaw, St. Lazarus' Hospital, Leszno Street 127 (Leszno Street 15) (10)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (9)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (9)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (9)
  
  Lublin, Gestapo detention center, Uniwersytecka Street 1 (9)
  
  Michniów (9)
  
  Wincentów (Radom) (9)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (8)
  
  Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 (8)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (8)
  
  Warsaw, Ogródek Jordanowski [Jordan garden], Bagatela Street 2/4 (8)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 (8)
  
  Warsaw, St. Lawrence's church, Wolska Street 140A (8)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (7)
  
  Treblinka, train station (7)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (7)
  
  Warsaw, Górczewska Street (7)
  
  Warsaw, Gęsiówka prison, Gęsia Street (Anielewicza Street)/ Zamenhofa Street (7)
  
  Warsaw, Sowiński Park (7)
  
  Warsaw, Ursus factory, Wolska Street 55 (7)
  
  Anin (Warsaw), Poprzeczna II Street 3 (6)
  
  Jelonki (Warsaw) (6)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (6)
  
  Milejowice (Zakrzew commune), Milejowicki Forest (6)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (6)
  
  Warsaw, Działdowska Street (6)
  
  Warsaw, Franaszek factory, Wolska Street 41/45 (6)
  
  Warsaw, Karol and Maria Children's Hospital, Leszno Street 136 (Leszno Street 30) (6)
  
  Warsaw, Krochmalna Street 90 (6)
  
  Warsaw, Płocka Street (6)
  
  Warsaw, Wolska Street (6)
  
  Warsaw, Wolska Street 122/124 (6)
  
  Bieliny (district of Kielce) (5)
  
  Częstochowa, Ghetto (5)
  
  Hrubieszów (5)
  
  KL Majdanek (5)
  
  Mechelen (Belgium), transit camp (5)
  
  Palmiry (5)
  
  Radom, Gestapo headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (5)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (5)
  
  Warsaw, Aleje Jerozolimskie (5)
  
  Warsaw, Bema Street 54 (5)
  
  Warsaw, Elekcyjna Street 4 (5)
  
  Warsaw, Elekcyjna Street 8 (5)
  
  Warsaw, Górczewska Street 14 (5)
  
  Warsaw, Litewska Street 14 (5)
  
  Warsaw, Rakowiecka Street (5)
  
  Warsaw, Zbawiciela Square (5)
  
  Warsaw, aleja Szucha (5)
  
  Białystok, Ghetto (4)
  
  Białystok, ghetto (4)
  
  Daleszyce (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (4)
  
  KL Ebensee (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) (4)
  
  KL Neuengamme (Germany) (4)
  
  Kielce, the "Leśny" Stadium (4)
  
  Osuchowskie Woods (4)
  
  Radom, Public Elementary School no. 18, Ofiar Firleja Street 14 (4)
  
  Sandomierz (4)
  
  Starachowice (4)
  
  Warsaw, 7th Blue Police Station, Krochmalna Street 56 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Church of the Holiest Saviour, Marszałkowska Street 37 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Dembińskiego Street 2/4 (4)
  
  Warsaw, General Inspectorate of the Armed Forces, al. Szucha 12/14 (4)
  
  Warsaw, General Inspectorate of the Armed Forces, aleja Szucha 12/14 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Gley factory, Kraśnicka Street 2 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Górczewska Street/ Zagłoby Street (Górczewska Street 32) (4)
Victims
- Civilians (711)
  
  The Poles (675)
  
  The Civilian Population (607)
  
  Women (302)
  
  The Jews (186)
  
  Children (180)
  
  The sick (84)
  
  The Sick (80)
  
  The elderly (64)
  
  The Elderly (59)
  
  Prisoners of War (50)
  
  The Inteligentsia (43)
  
  Russians/Soviets (40)
  
  The Church (29)
  
  The Russians (22)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (14)
  
  Ukrainians (10)
  
  Belgians (8)
  
  Hungarians (7)
  
  Germans (6)
  
  The Disabled (6)
  
  Czechs (5)
  
  The French (5)
  
  Slovaks (4)
  
  The Communists (3)
  
  Greeks (2)
  
  The Dutch (2)
  
  Deportees (1)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (1)
  
  Italians (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (184)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (184)
  
  Military Police (157)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (92)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (33)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (28)
  
  Collaboration (18)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (10)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (10)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (5)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (4)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (3)
  
  Lithuanians (3)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (2)
  
  Latvians (2)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (2)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (2)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (1)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (1)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (1)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (1)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (1)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (1)
  
  Technical Support (Technische Nothilfe) (1)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (1)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (1)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (1)
  
  Waffen-SS (1)
Crimes
- Execution (608)
  
  Death by shooting (512)
  
  Mass graves (198)
  
  Cremation of corpses (180)
  
  Arrest (179)
  
  Cremation (175)
  
  Forced labor (161)
  
  Beating (147)
  
  Deportation (125)
  
  Hanging (97)
  
  Robbery (84)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (82)
  
  Biological extermination (77)
  
  Displacement (67)
  
  Expulsion (65)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (49)
  
  Gas chambers (48)
  
  Burning people alive (45)
  
  Racial policy (45)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (41)
  
  Round-up (36)
  
  Economic exploitation (29)
  
  Medical experiments (29)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (19)
  
  "Dosing" (18)
  
  Armored weapons (16)
  
  Rape (16)
  
  Death marches (15)
  
  Air raids (10)
  
  Cattle wagons (10)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (10)
  
  Artillery fire (9)
  
  Artillery shelling (9)
  
  Human shields (8)
  
  Administrative persecution (7)
  
  Judicial crime (7)
  
  Denationalization (5)
  
  Germanization (4)
  
  Desacration of corpses (3)
  
  Disarmament (2)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (2)
  
  Collectivization (1)
  
  Deportation/Exile (1)
Place
- Prison (125)
  
  Concentration camp (72)
  
  Extermination camp (59)
  
  Police headquarters/station (56)
  
  Labor camp (44)
  
  Transit camp (44)
  
  Ghetto (28)
  
  Forced labor (24)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (8)
  
  Sewers (1)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (1)
Content
- Warsaw Uprising (149)
  
  Extermination of Jews (130)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (129)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (78)
  
  Wola Massacre (57)
  
  Obliterating the traces (42)
  
  obliterating the traces (40)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (29)
  
  Health service (14)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (11)
  
  Civil resistance (7)
  
  Polish Underground State (7)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (5)
  
  Rescue of Jews (5)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (5)
  
  Underground media (5)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (4)
  
  Ochota Massacre (4)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (4)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (3)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (3)
  
  Underground culture and education (3)
  
  Aktion Zamość (2)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (2)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (2)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (2)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (1)
  
  Central Welfare Council (1)
  
  Clandestine courses (1)
  
  Field health service (1)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (1)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (1)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (1)
  
  Judenrat (1)
  
  Underground courts (1)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (508)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (68)
  
  Account (21)
  
  Scene investigation report (5)
  
  Press clipping (4)
  
  Report (4)
  
  Book excerpt (2)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (2)
  
  Brief (1)
  
  Statement (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (255)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (166)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (128)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (115)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (60)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (59)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (49)
  
  District Court in Radom (17)
  
  A collection of copies of witness interview reports and accounts of former prisoners of Ravensbrück and other camps, written down at the Polish Research Institute in Lund. (1)
  
  Inspectorate of Schools in Radom (1)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland 1949–1984 (1)
  
  Voivodeship Court in Łódź (1)
Medium
- Text (895)
  
  Image (96)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (694)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (201)