„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)
- Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (3)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (2)
  
  Kowalczyk Janina; 10.03.1907, Golkowice (2)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (2)
  
  Niedojadło Eugeniusz; 21.11.1919, Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (2)
  
  Rajewski Ludwik; 16.12.1900, Łódź (2)
  
  Alcan Louise; 17.02.1910, Paris (France) (1)
  
  Anonim (1)
  
  Bartel Erwin; 02.03.1923, Oświęcim (1)
  
  Bas Ludwik; 18.12.1912, Kraków (1)
  
  Bednarska Władysława (1)
  
  Bloch Claude; 29.05.1910, Bourg-la-Reine (France) (1)
  
  Blum Albert; 1918? (1)
  
  Blumenfeld Abus; 20.07.1907, Klimontów (1)
  
  Borowski Edward; 13.11.1903, Warsaw (1)
  
  Braun Lejzor; 24.11.1920, Żuromin (1)
  
  Brewda Alina; 14.06.1905, Warsaw (1)
  
  Bury Adam; 26.11.1931, Zwierzyniec (1)
  
  Błotnicki Edward; 08.04.1888, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Cendecki J. (1)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Cohen Lily; 09.07.1921, Saloniki (Grecja) (1)
  
  Cohen Lily; 09.07.1921, Thessaloniki (Greece) (1)
  
  Cyrankiewicz Józef; 23.04.1911, Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Denisow Piotr; 1894? (1)
  
  Dragon Szlama; 19.03.1920, Żuromin (1)
  
  Dębkowski Marian; 08.12.1912, Warsaw (1)
  
  Falk Berthe; 27.08.1911 (1)
  
  Feinsilber Alter (Jankowski Stanisław); 23.10.1910, Stoczek Łukowski (1)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (1)
  
  Ferri Luigi; 09.09.1932, Mediolan (Italy) (1)
  
  Ferri Luigi; 09.09.1932, Mediolan (Włochy) (1)
  
  Fiderkiewicz Alfred; 02.07.1886, Horodenka (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Fiderkiewicz Alfred; 2.07.1886, Horodenka (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Furmański Icchok (Jacek); 10.04.1903, Warsaw (1)
  
  Gorgue Henri; 14.04.1907, Paris (France) (1)
  
  Gorgue Henri; 1906? (1)
  
  Gryta Marcin (1)
  
  Gutman Simon; 1923? (1)
  
  Głowa Stanisław; 15.09.1898, Igołomia (1)
  
  Hanuszek Tadeusz; 11.07.1922, Kraków (1)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 13.11.1916, Kraków (1)
  
  Hys Stanisław; 19.07.1910, Sobolew (1)
  
  Hys Stanisław; 19.07.1910, Sobolew (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Hélène Langevin; 25.05.1909, Fontenay-aux-Roses (France) (1)
  
  Karkoszka Stefan; 1923? (1)
  
  Karkoszka Stefan; 25.07.1923 (1)
  
  Kazimierski Franciszek; 14.04.1908 (1)
  
  Kazimierski Franciszek; 14.04.1908, Różan (1)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (1)
  
  Kinselewska Gustawa; 1913? (1)
  
  Kleinstein Mojżesz; 05.11.1927, Kielce (1)
  
  Koliński Tadeusz; 15.03.1925, Warsaw (1)
  
  Kowalczyk Janina; 1907? (1)
  
  Kościelniak Mieczysław; 28.01.1912, Kalisz (1)
  
  Kościuszko Janina; 17.05.1897, Chrzanów? (1)
  
  Kula Michał; 1913? (1)
  
  Lachman Edward; 21.07.1894, Łódź (1)
  
  Langbein Hermann; 18.05.1912, Vienna (Austria) (1)
  
  Langbein Hermann; 18.05.1912, Wiedeń (Austria) (1)
  
  Lechman Edward; 21.07.1894, Łódź (1)
  
  Leszczyński Eugeniusz; 17.09.1921, Poręba (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Lewin Jakub; 13.04.1903, Warsaw (1)
  
  Lewin Jakub; 1903? (1)
  
  Limousin Henri ;25.03.1893, Saint Le Noble (France) (1)
  
  Malinowski Władysław (1)
  
  Mandelbaum Henryk; 15.12.1922, Olkusz (1)
  
  Mandelbaum Izrael; 16.11.1913, Lublin (1)
  
  Markowski Stefan; 17.06.1911, Maciejowice (1)
  
  Materkowski Antoni; 14.06.1899, Koprzywnica (1)
  
  Materkowski Antoni; 14.06.1899, Koprzywnica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Moskowicz Norbert; 1922? (1)
  
  Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (1)
  
  Nagraba Ludwik, 19.08.1910, Kraków (1)
  
  Nagraba Ludwik; 19.08.1910, Kraków (1)
  
  Niedojadło Eugeniusz, 21.11.1919, Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Olbrycht Jan; 06.05.1886, Zahutyń (1)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (1)
  
  Pająk Wilibald; 15.12.1922, Katowice (1)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina, 24.12.1900, Warszawa (1)
  
  Pleszowska Felicja; 28.06.1906, Warsaw (1)
  
  Pozimski Jerzy; 05.05.1913, Szarlej (Piekary Śląskie) (1)
  
  Rachwał Stanisława; 29.06.1906, Rudki (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Rosin Arnost; 1912? (1)
  
  Schlagintweit Willi; 05.06.1907 (1)
  
  Schlagintweit Willi; 05.06.1908 (1)
  
  Sehn Jan; 22.04.1909, Tuszów Mały (1)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 19.04.1920, Chorzów (1)
  
  Sosnowski Józef; 24.01.1905, Myszków (1)
  
  Sperber Karel; 1910, Tachov (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Stapf Adam; 01.08.1907, Tarnów (1)
  
  Stapf Adam; 1907? (1)
  
  Steinfeld Izrael; 1903 (1)
  
  Stoeger Samuel; 14.05.1911, Kraków (1)
  
  Stromberger Maria; 16.03.1898, Metnitz (Austria) (1)
  
  Szaynoka Wanda; 06.12.1898, Rubenka (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Szmaglewska Seweryna; 11.02.1916, Przygłów (1)
  
  Tauber Henryk; 08.07.1917, Chrzanów (małopolskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Tomaszewski Zbigniew Marian; 21.02.1916 (1)
Subject
- Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (24)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (22)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (14)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (10)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (10)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (9)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (5)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (4)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Gliwice (3)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (3)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Neuengamme (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (2)
  
  A mass extermination – KL Mauthausen-Gusen (1)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (1)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Ravensbrück branch in KL Malchow (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (1)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (1)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (1)
  
  Soldier's House, Fort VII, Żabikowo – the trail of death in Greater Poland (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (75)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (69)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (69)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (56)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (47)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (38)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (24)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (22)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (21)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (18)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (18)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (16)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (16)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (13)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (13)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (12)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (12)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (11)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (11)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (10)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (10)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (9)
  
  KL Majdanek (9)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (9)
  
  Bydgoszcz (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (8)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (7)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (7)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (7)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (7)
  
  Warsaw (7)
  
  Bochnia, train station (6)
  
  Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (6)
  
  Łódź (6)
  
  Lublin (5)
  
  Pszczyna (5)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (5)
  
  Jawiszowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (4)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (4)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (4)
  
  KL Melk (Austria) (4)
  
  Paris (France) (4)
  
  Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Compiègne (France), transit camp (3)
  
  Jasło, temporary remand prison, Staszica Street 3 (3)
  
  KL Malchow (KL Ravensbrück subcamp, Germany) (3)
  
  KL Melk (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) (3)
  
  KL Plaszow (3)
  
  KL Stutthof (3)
  
  Katowice (3)
  
  Kraków (3)
  
  Poznań (3)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (3)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (3)
  
  Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  Rajsko, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  Tarnów (3)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (3)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz I (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz IV (Gliwice IV - filia KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz IV (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (2)
  
  Brussels (Belgium) (2)
  
  Brzeszcze (2)
  
  Drancy (France) (2)
  
  Drancy (France), transit camp (2)
  
  Dresden (Germany) (2)
  
  Gorlice, Gestapo headquarters, Legionów Street 8 (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, SS-Stabsgebaude (2)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (2)
  
  KL Blechhammer (2)
  
  KL Ebensee (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) (2)
  
  KL Neuengamme (Germany) (2)
  
  Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 (2)
  
  Kraków, Marshal Józef Piłsudski Retreat of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers, Łobzowska Street 3 (2)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (2)
  
  Mechelen (Belgium), transit camp (2)
  
  Mława, Ghetto (2)
  
  Nowy Wiśnicz (2)
  
  Poręba (district of Pszczyna) (2)
  
  Rajsko (Oświęcim district) (2)
  
  Sochaczew (2)
  
  Zamość (2)
  
  AL Fünfteichen (Miłoszyce, dolnośląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz II (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz III (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
  
  Argelès-sur-Mer (France) (1)
  
  Babice, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Belfort (France), prison (1)
  
  Bereza Kartuska (Belarus) (1)
  
  Bełżec, German extermination camp (1)
  
  Białystok (1)
  
  Biłgoraj (lubelskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Bratislava (Slovakia) (1)
  
  Brno (Czech Republic), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
Victims
- The French (103)
  
  The Civilian Population (101)
  
  The Poles (97)
  
  The Jews (87)
  
  Women (72)
  
  Children (56)
  
  Russians/Soviets (55)
  
  The Russians (55)
  
  The Sick (54)
  
  The Inteligentsia (50)
  
  Prisoners of War (45)
  
  The Dutch (39)
  
  Hungarians (38)
  
  Belgians (37)
  
  Germans (37)
  
  Slovaks (37)
  
  Czechs (35)
  
  The Elderly (29)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (27)
  
  Greeks (26)
  
  The Communists (24)
  
  The Church (16)
  
  The Disabled (16)
  
  Italians (14)
  
  Americans (10)
  
  The British (7)
  
  Norwegians (6)
  
  Romanians (4)
  
  Ukrainians (4)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (2)
  
  Latvians (2)
  
  Lithuanians (2)
  
  Finns (1)
  
  Serbs (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (85)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (42)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (16)
  
  Collaboration (13)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (8)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (6)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (6)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (4)
  
  Waffen-SS (4)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (3)
  
  Denunciation (2)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (2)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (2)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (1)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  Military Police (1)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Forced Labour (84)
  
  Execution (82)
  
  Beatings (76)
  
  Gas chambers (76)
  
  Biological extermination (73)
  
  Shooting (70)
  
  Brutal Interrogation/Tortures (69)
  
  Cremation (64)
  
  Arrest (49)
  
  Deportation (44)
  
  Robbery (42)
  
  Hanging (37)
  
  Medical experiments (33)
  
  "Dosing" (25)
  
  Mass graves (24)
  
  Burning people alive (18)
  
  Cattle wagons (17)
  
  Death marches (17)
  
  Economic exploitation (17)
  
  Desacration of corpses (15)
  
  Racial policy (13)
  
  Round-up (13)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (10)
  
  Judicial crime (9)
  
  Expulsion (7)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (7)
  
  Germanization (5)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (4)
  
  Air raids (3)
  
  Deportation/Exile (3)
  
  Disarmament (3)
  
  Rape (3)
  
  Administrative persecution (2)
  
  Collectivization (1)
Place
- Concentration camp (92)
  
  Extermination camp (78)
  
  Prison (25)
  
  Labor camp (20)
  
  Police headquarters/station (11)
  
  Ghetto (9)
  
  Forced labor (7)
  
  Transit camp (7)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (5)
  
  Center for the Germanization of children (1)
Content
- Extermination of Jews (67)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (51)
  
  Obliterating the traces (33)
  
  obliterating the traces (31)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (25)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (24)
  
  Health service (22)
  
  Aktion Zamość (10)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (8)
  
  Civil resistance (7)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (7)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (4)
  
  Polish Underground State (4)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (3)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (3)
  
  Rescue of Jews (3)
  
  Underground media (3)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (2)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (2)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (2)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (2)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (2)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (1)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (1)
  
  Field health service (1)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (1)
  
  Underground courts (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (88)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (3)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (2)
  
  Account (1)
  
  Brief (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Supreme National Tribunal (87)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (6)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (4)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (2)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (2)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (1)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (100)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (3)