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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Kotlarski Mieczysław; 09.10.1913, Osieczna (wielkopolskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Boratyński Stefan (Kluska); 13.06.1917, Kraków (2)
  
  Bryński Antoni; 18.01.1899, Radom (2)
  
  Gliński Bogdan; 08.12.1921, Sancygniów (2)
  
  Szczepanowski Jan; 1909? (2)
  
  Adwent Stefan; 1925? (1)
  
  Baron Zenek; 1926? (1)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (1)
  
  Borowski Edward; 13.11.1903, Warsaw (1)
  
  Bryński Antoni; 18.01.1899 (1)
  
  Błońska Stefania Maria; 14.04.1919, Warsaw (1)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Chojnacka Pelagia; 09.09.1899, Pakość (1)
  
  Czosnowska Zofia; 02.10.1904, Warsaw (1)
  
  Dubas Irena; 19.10.1914, Nowy Sącz (1)
  
  Duchnowski Jan; 22.10.1908, Podbiele (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Dürmayer Heinrich; 10.04.1905, Atzgersdorf (Austria) (1)
  
  Dębkowski Marian; 08.12.1912, Warsaw (1)
  
  Długosz Wiesława (1)
  
  Elbert Hori; 24.10.1924 (1)
  
  Elbert Hori; 24.10.1925 (1)
  
  Fiderkiewicz Alfred; 02.07.1886, Horodenka (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Fiderkiewicz Alfred; 2.07.1886, Horodenka (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Frączek Kazimierz; 15.12.1914, Tarnów (1)
  
  Gaczyńska Irena (1)
  
  Gawalewicz Adolf; 02.09.1916, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Gorlach Halina; 02.07.1908, Strzelno (kujawsko-pomorskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Gulba Franciszek; 10.10.1899, Żyglin (Miasteczko Śląskie) (1)
  
  Gwiazdomorski Jan; 04.02.1899, Kraków (1)
  
  Górski Antoni Stanisław; 18.08.1914, Warsaw (1)
  
  Halbreich Zygfryd; 13.11.1909, Dziedzice (śląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Horawia Aron; 1902? (1)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (1)
  
  Hrynkiewicz Janusz; 15.08.1924, Ciechocinek (1)
  
  Hrynkiewicz Janusz; 1924, Ciechocinek (1)
  
  Jakubowicz Mojsze; 15.05.1922, Poddębice (łódzkie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Juraszek Rozalia; 1910, Milewo (1)
  
  Juraszek Rozalia; 1911? (1)
  
  Kahl Tadeusz; 27.07.1908, Kraków (1)
  
  Kahl Tadeusz; 27.09.1908, Kraków (1)
  
  Kiczmachowski Edward; 1920? (1)
  
  Kiczmachowski Edward; 29.07.1920, Strasburg (1)
  
  Kondracka Alina; 1925; Warsaw (1)
  
  Kondracka Alina; 1925; Warsawa (1)
  
  Konieczka Antoni; 04.05.1920, Gniezno (1)
  
  Konieczka Antoni; 04.05.1921 (1)
  
  Kotlarski Mieczysław; 1913? (1)
  
  Kościelniak Mieczysław; 28.01.1912, Kalisz (1)
  
  Krasnoborodow Włodzimierz (1)
  
  Kraus Otto; 07.09.1909, Klášterní Skalice (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Krysa Kazimierz; 16.02.1900, Rejowiec (1)
  
  Krysa Kazimierz; 1900? (1)
  
  Kulka Erich; 18.02.1911, Vsetín (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Lehrer Karol; 13.03.1922, Oświęcim (1)
  
  Leonhard Bolesław (1)
  
  Lipiński Edward (1)
  
  Machałowski Jan; 22.02.1912, Warszawa (1)
  
  Majek Jan; 14.09.1907, Stare Zadybie (1)
  
  Majewski Jan; 1900? (1)
  
  Majka Jan; 1887? (1)
  
  Makowska Eleonora; 28.09.1904, Wilno (now in Lithuania) (1)
  
  Mikołajski Zdzisław; 28.09.1913, Kraków (1)
  
  Misztal Konstanty; 28.01.1920, Warsaw (1)
  
  Nagraba Ludwik; 19.08.1910, Kraków (1)
  
  Nagraba Ludwik; 19.08.1911 (1)
  
  Nelken Halina; 11.09.1925 (1)
  
  Nelken Halina; 22.09.1925, Kraków (1)
  
  Neuman Józef; 1916?, Oświęcim (1)
  
  Nowogródzki Aleksander; 10.05.1913, Wilno (now in Lithuania) (1)
  
  Nowogródzki Aleksander; 1913? (1)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (1)
  
  Paradowska Józefa; 06.04.1897 (1)
  
  Paudyn Tadeusz; 16.12.1899, Radom (1)
  
  Pałasiński Zdzisław; 10.12.1919, Kraków (1)
  
  Pałasiński Zdzisław; 15.08.1921 (1)
  
  Piasecka Irena; 01.03.1895, Warsaw (1)
  
  Pielach Bolesław; 30.12.1907, Głuszczyzna (1)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 27.01.1913, Warsaw (1)
  
  Pomian-Grabiński Jan (1)
  
  Przerwa-Tetmajer Michał Jerzy; 12.10.1909, Kiev (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Quintet Marc; 10.01.1911 (1)
  
  Quintet Marc; 10.01.1912 (1)
  
  Rachwał Stanisława; 29.06.1906, Rudki (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Rajchstain Michał; 1897? (1)
  
  Ramuz Franciszka; 1894? (1)
  
  Rożek Stefania, 30.08.1917, Lwów (now:Ukraine) (1)
  
  Rożek Stefania; 30.08.1917, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Sadkowski Henryk Władysław; 28.11.1889, Zabrodzie (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Sewerski Stefan; 1900? (1)
  
  Skrętek Maria; 1911? (1)
  
  Sperber Karel; 1910, Tachov (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Sztander Bogusława (1)
  
  Tauber Henryk; 08.07.1917, Chrzanów (małopolskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Walas Józef; 23.02.1898, Bochnia (Bochnia district) (1)
  
  Weissblum Giza; 1917? (1)
  
  Wilanowski Kazimierz; 27.12.1914, Kraków (1)
  
  Wolman Jakub; 13.07.1914 (1)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Wąsowicz Tadeusz; 29.07.1906, Limanowa (1)
Subject
- Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (24)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (15)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (8)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (5)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (5)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (5)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (4)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (4)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (3)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (3)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (3)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (3)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Gliwice (2)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Buchenwald (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (2)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (2)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (2)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto (2)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (1)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (1)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (1)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Neuengamme (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Dachau (1)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Kraków (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Częstochowa region (1)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (1)
  
  Radom – daily terror (1)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Buchenwald (Germany) (90)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (44)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (43)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (37)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (37)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (29)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (24)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (22)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (20)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (19)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (17)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (14)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (12)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (12)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (12)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (10)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (10)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (9)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (8)
  
  KL Mittelbau-Dora (Germany) (8)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (8)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (8)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (7)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (7)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (6)
  
  KL Majdanek (6)
  
  Warsaw (6)
  
  Bochnia, train station (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (5)
  
  Kraków (5)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (5)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz IV (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (4)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (4)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (4)
  
  KL Neuengamme (Germany) (4)
  
  KL Stutthof (4)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (4)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (4)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (4)
  
  Radom, Gestapo Headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (4)
  
  Radom, Gestapo headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (4)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (4)
  
  Łódź (4)
  
  Bydgoszcz (3)
  
  Hamburg (Germany) (3)
  
  Jawiszowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (3)
  
  Leipzig (Germany), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Buchenwald, Germany) (3)
  
  Lublin (3)
  
  Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (3)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (3)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (3)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (3)
  
  Łódź, ghetto (3)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (2)
  
  Brussels (Belgium) (2)
  
  Brzeszcze (2)
  
  Buchenwald (Germany), German extermination camp (2)
  
  Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Będzin (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (2)
  
  KL Blechhammer (2)
  
  KL Malchow (KL Ravensbrück subcamp, Germany) (2)
  
  KL Melk (Austria) (2)
  
  KL Plaszow (2)
  
  Kielce (2)
  
  Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 (2)
  
  Leipzig (Germany) (2)
  
  Lipsk (Germany), labor camp (2)
  
  Opatów, Cememtery, Cmentarna Street (2)
  
  Opatów, Słowackiego Street 1 (2)
  
  Piotrków Trybunalski, Manufaktura, Sulejowska Street 45 (2)
  
  Piotrków Trybunalski, ghetto (2)
  
  Pszczyna (2)
  
  Radom, Moniuszki Street (2)
  
  Radom, Sienkiewicza Street (2)
  
  Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Rajsko, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Siemianowice Śląskie, Laurahütte industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Szydłowiec (Szydłowiec district) (2)
  
  Tarnów (2)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Czerniakowska Street (2)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (2)
  
  Wodzisław Śląski (2)
  
  Zamość, Gestapo headquarters, Kolegiacka Street 18 (2)
  
  Annaberg (Austria), forced labor camp (1)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz I (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz II (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz III (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
  
  Berdychiv (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bełżec, German extermination camp (1)
  
  Białystok (1)
Victims
- The Poles (87)
  
  Civilians (86)
  
  The Civilian Population (86)
  
  The Jews (61)
  
  Women (51)
  
  The Sick (40)
  
  The sick (40)
  
  The Inteligentsia (38)
  
  Russians/Soviets (34)
  
  Children (33)
  
  The Russians (32)
  
  Prisoners of War (24)
  
  Czechs (19)
  
  The elderly (17)
  
  The Elderly (17)
  
  Hungarians (16)
  
  Germans (14)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (14)
  
  Slovaks (10)
  
  The Communists (10)
  
  The French (10)
  
  The Dutch (9)
  
  Belgians (8)
  
  The Church (8)
  
  The Disabled (7)
  
  Greeks (5)
  
  Ukrainians (3)
  
  Americans (2)
  
  Italians (2)
  
  The British (2)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Norwegians (1)
  
  Romanians (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (69)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (32)
  
  Collaboration (12)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (11)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (10)
  
  Military Police (6)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (5)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (4)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (3)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (2)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (2)
  
  Denunciation (1)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Red Army (1)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (1)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (1)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Beating (69)
  
  Forced labor (66)
  
  Execution (64)
  
  Death by shooting (58)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (53)
  
  Deportation (52)
  
  Biological extermination (51)
  
  Arrest (50)
  
  Gas chambers (46)
  
  Cremation (42)
  
  Cremation of corpses (42)
  
  Robbery (30)
  
  Hanging (22)
  
  Cattle wagons (19)
  
  "Dosing" (18)
  
  Economic exploitation (15)
  
  Death marches (14)
  
  Medical experiments (14)
  
  Mass graves (11)
  
  Displacement (9)
  
  Expulsion (9)
  
  Round-up (8)
  
  Burning people alive (7)
  
  Desacration of corpses (7)
  
  Racial policy (7)
  
  Judicial crime (6)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (6)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (4)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (4)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (4)
  
  Rape (3)
  
  Air raids (2)
  
  Denationalization (2)
  
  Disarmament (2)
  
  Germanization (2)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (2)
  
  Administrative persecution (1)
  
  Armored weapons (1)
  
  Collectivization (1)
Place
- Concentration camp (78)
  
  Extermination camp (47)
  
  Prison (24)
  
  Labor camp (20)
  
  Police headquarters/station (13)
  
  Ghetto (9)
  
  Forced labor (6)
  
  Transit camp (3)
  
  Center for the Germanization of children (1)
Content
- Extermination of Jews (37)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (28)
  
  Health service (14)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (14)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (14)
  
  Obliterating the traces (11)
  
  obliterating the traces (11)
  
  Civil resistance (6)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (6)
  
  Rescue of Jews (5)
  
  Underground media (5)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (5)
  
  Aktion Zamość (4)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (4)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (3)
  
  Underground courts (3)
  
  Polish Underground State (2)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (1)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (1)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (1)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (1)
  
  Ochota Massacre (1)
  
  Operation "Tempest" (1)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (1)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (1)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (80)
  
  Brief (6)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (4)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (2)
  
  Account (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Supreme National Tribunal (57)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (9)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (7)
  
  District Court in Radom (5)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (5)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (5)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (3)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (2)
  
  Office of the District Authorities in Ostrów Mazowiecka (1)
  
  Voivodeship Court in Łódź (1)
Medium
- Text (95)
  
  Image (11)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (85)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (10)