„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)
- Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (2)
  
  Liszka Edward; 25.07.1920, Kraków (2)
  
  Stuhr Oskar Tadeusz; 08.10.1891, Kraków (2)
  
  Alscher Josef; 05.06.1894, Legnica (1)
  
  Bartonezz Irena; 03.10.1896 (1)
  
  Borto Stefan; 1912? (1)
  
  Bucki Jan; 1883? (1)
  
  Błotnicki Edward; 08.04.1888, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Dobroczek Wacław; 20.11.1918, Brzezin (1)
  
  Emmerling Maria; 1899? (1)
  
  Falkowska Janina; 11.03.1914, Warszawa (1)
  
  Filipowicz Teodor; 1891? (1)
  
  Geiger Joanna (1)
  
  Goraj Ludwik (1)
  
  Grabowski Ludwik; 12.06./06.12.1882, Józefin (Halinów county) (1)
  
  Grulkowski Wincenty (1)
  
  Głuszak Józef; 27.10.1913, Koszyce Małe (1)
  
  Halbreich Eugenia; 20.09.1919, Kraków (1)
  
  Jabłoński Stanisław; 31.05.1904, Kraków (1)
  
  Jaszek Janina; 11.03.1936, Kocudza (1)
  
  Jaworski Mieczysław (1)
  
  Kandybowicz Bolesław, 1898? (1)
  
  Kask Roman; 08.06.1908, Warszawa (1)
  
  Kinel Stefan; 20.12.1912 (1)
  
  Koczanowicz Stanisław; 05.05.1921, Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Koczorowski Józef; 01.02.1919, Poznań (1)
  
  Koniecpoler Dawid; 1898?, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Krzywda-Pogorzelski Jan Wiktor; 8.03.1904, Iłża (1)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Kwiatkowski Mikołaj; 1.05.1906; Gródek (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 04.05.1918, Kraków (1)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 1917? (1)
  
  Lipska Janina; 06.07.1920 (1)
  
  Lipska Janina; 06.07.1921 (1)
  
  Litwink Jerzy Bernard; 19.08.1919, Warszawa (1)
  
  Ludwig Józef Paweł, 1910? (1)
  
  Ludwig Józef Paweł; 03.07.1910, Sosnowiec (1)
  
  Machałowski Jan; 22.02.1912, Warszawa (1)
  
  Mansfeld Géza; 26.02.1882, Budapest (Hungary) (1)
  
  Maszczyk Antoni (1)
  
  Mazanek Stefan; 1895 (1)
  
  Mańkowski Augustyn; 20.05.1890, Warsaw (1)
  
  Mikołajski Zdzisław; 28.09.1913, Kraków (1)
  
  Mroczkowski Marcin; 1902? (1)
  
  Mączka Zofia; 30.11.1905, Kraków (1)
  
  Neuman Teodor Bronisław; 14.01.1904, Owsorok (Russia) (1)
  
  Nowacki Tadeusz; 1.04.1919, Ostrów Mazowiecka (1)
  
  Nowacki Witold Antoni; 16.06.1917, Ostrów Mazowiecka (1)
  
  Pieńkoś Władysław; 16.10.1912, Udrzyn (1)
  
  Pisowacka Józefa; 1905? (1)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (1)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (1)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 1911? (1)
  
  Rosnowska Teresa (1)
  
  Rutkowska Klotylda; 10.05.1908, Nieśwież (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Selke Mieczysław; 14.09.1913, Ruchna (woj. mazowieckie) (1)
  
  Setner Józef; 25.11.1908, Niepołomice (1)
  
  Seyfried Edmund; 15.02.1889, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Smoleński Stanisław; 03.11.1908, Petersburg (Rosja) (1)
  
  Szczepanik Emilia (1)
  
  Szczepanowski Jan; 1909? (1)
  
  Szewczyk Jan; 15.02.1921, Nowy Sącz (1)
  
  Wagner Rózia (1)
  
  Wiatrak Franciszek; 1887?, Suchedniów (1)
  
  Wieczorek Marian; 19.10.1921, Nowy Sącz (1)
  
  Wolter Władysław; 05.02.1897, Kraków (1)
  
  Węgrzyn Elżbieta, 1911? (1)
  
  Zając Michał; 08.09.1912 (1)
  
  Ziora Władysław; 27.07.1900, Własna (1)
  
  Znojek Aleksander; 01.02.1902, Chęciny (1)
  
  Zuzula Maria; 1881? (1)
  
  Łazarz Marian; 1922? (1)
  
  Łukawski Zdzisław; 29.08.1910, Warszawa (1)
  
  Śmiglarski Szczepan; 12.12.1910, Domanowice (1)
Subject
- Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (13)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (7)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (7)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (6)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (6)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (5)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Sachsenhausen (4)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (4)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (3)
  
  Browar, Czerwoniak – the Ostrów death blocks (2)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (2)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (2)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Warsaw (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (1)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (1)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (1)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (1)
  
  Radom – daily terror (1)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (1)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (1)
  
  Taken Captive (1)
  
  The city condemned to death (1)
  
  The persecuted church (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz I (26)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (26)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (22)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (20)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (18)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (18)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (18)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (16)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (13)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (11)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (10)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (9)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (9)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (9)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (8)
  
  Warsaw (7)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (6)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (6)
  
  Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (5)
  
  Jawiszowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (5)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (5)
  
  Schwerin (Germany) (5)
  
  Częstochowa (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (4)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (4)
  
  KL Plaszow (4)
  
  Kraków (4)
  
  Lublin (4)
  
  Nowy Sącz, correctional facility and temporary remand prison, Pijarska Street 1 (4)
  
  Opatów, Słowackiego Street 1 (4)
  
  Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (3)
  
  Jasło, temporary remand prison, Staszica Street 3 (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (3)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (3)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (3)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Neubrandenburg (Germany), forced labour camp (KL Ravensbrück subcamp) (3)
  
  Nowy Sącz (3)
  
  Nowy Wiśnicz (3)
  
  Nowy Wiśnicz, forced labor camp (3)
  
  Pińczów, prison, 3-go Maja Street (3)
  
  Rajsko, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  Tarnów (3)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz III (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Babice, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Bochnia, train station (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (2)
  
  Gorlice, Gestapo headquarters, Legionów Street 8 (2)
  
  Harmęże, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Jaworzno, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (2)
  
  KL Ebensee (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) (2)
  
  KL Melk (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) (2)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 (2)
  
  Lubliniec, Prison, Jana III Sobieskiego Street 6 (2)
  
  Międzybrodzie Bialskie, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (2)
  
  Przemyśl (2)
  
  Radom (2)
  
  Starachowice (2)
  
  Słupia, forced labor camp (2)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (2)
  
  Łódź (2)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz I (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz II (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz IV (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
  
  Babice (Oświęcim district) (1)
  
  Berlin, Moabit prison, Lehrter Strasse 5 (1)
  
  Bełżec, German extermination camp (1)
  
  Białystok (1)
  
  Blechhammer, forced labor camp (1)
  
  Bochnia (1)
  
  Brzeg, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Gross-Rosen) (1)
  
  Brzeszcze (1)
  
  Busko-Zdrój (1)
  
  Bydgoszcz (1)
  
  Chełm (1)
  
  Chrabków (1)
  
  Częstochowa, Ghetto (1)
  
  Dubiecko (1)
  
  Duisburg (Germany) (1)
  
  Garwolin (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  German extermination camp of Sobibór (1)
  
  Gmunden (Austria) (1)
  
  Gorlice (1)
  
  Grodzisk Mazowiecki (1)
  
  Grójec (1)
  
  Hannover (Germany), labor camp (1)
  
  Hohenlychen (Germany) (1)
  
  Hrubieszów (1)
Victims
- The Poles (74)
  
  Civilians (73)
  
  The Civilian Population (67)
  
  Women (43)
  
  The Jews (38)
  
  The Inteligentsia (27)
  
  The sick (23)
  
  Children (22)
  
  The Sick (22)
  
  The elderly (17)
  
  Russians/Soviets (16)
  
  Prisoners of War (15)
  
  The Elderly (15)
  
  The Russians (15)
  
  Germans (12)
  
  Hungarians (7)
  
  The Church (7)
  
  The French (6)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (6)
  
  The Communists (5)
  
  The Dutch (5)
  
  Czechs (4)
  
  Belgians (3)
  
  Romanians (3)
  
  Slovaks (3)
  
  Greeks (2)
  
  Norwegians (2)
  
  The British (2)
  
  The Disabled (2)
  
  Ukrainians (2)
  
  Americans (1)
  
  Italians (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (49)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (22)
  
  Collaboration (11)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (8)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (5)
  
  Military Police (5)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (5)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (3)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (3)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (2)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (1)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (1)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (1)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (1)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (1)
Crimes
- Beating (60)
  
  Forced labor (60)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (58)
  
  Arrest (56)
  
  Deportation (48)
  
  Execution (46)
  
  Death by shooting (41)
  
  Biological extermination (38)
  
  Robbery (27)
  
  Hanging (22)
  
  Gas chambers (21)
  
  Cremation of corpses (20)
  
  Cremation (18)
  
  Economic exploitation (17)
  
  Medical experiments (15)
  
  Death marches (14)
  
  Round-up (13)
  
  Racial policy (10)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (9)
  
  "Dosing" (8)
  
  Cattle wagons (8)
  
  Administrative persecution (7)
  
  Desacration of corpses (7)
  
  Displacement (7)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (6)
  
  Mass graves (6)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (5)
  
  Burning people alive (4)
  
  Expulsion (4)
  
  Judicial crime (4)
  
  Rape (3)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (3)
  
  Germanization (2)
  
  Air raids (1)
  
  Denationalization (1)
  
  Disarmament (1)
Place
- Labor camp (70)
  
  Prison (52)
  
  Concentration camp (31)
  
  Police headquarters/station (27)
  
  Extermination camp (20)
  
  Forced labor (10)
  
  Ghetto (4)
  
  Transit camp (3)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (2)
Content
- Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (30)
  
  Extermination of Jews (25)
  
  Civil resistance (9)
  
  Obliterating the traces (9)
  
  obliterating the traces (7)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (5)
  
  Health service (5)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (5)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (5)
  
  Aktion Zamość (4)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (4)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (4)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (3)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (3)
  
  Rescue of Jews (3)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (3)
  
  Underground media (3)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (2)
  
  Central Welfare Council (2)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (2)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (2)
  
  Judenrat (2)
  
  Polish Underground State (2)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (1)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (1)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (1)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (63)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (6)
  
  Brief (3)
  
  Account (1)
  
  Book excerpt (1)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Supreme National Tribunal (34)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (10)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (3)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (3)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland. Research and investigative files (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (2)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (2)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków (2)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (1)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (1)
Medium
- Text (76)
  
  Image (10)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (50)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (26)