„Chronicles of Terror”. Base of testimonies of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor

Main Page Indexes Perpetrators The Secret Police of Nazi Germany \(Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo\)

Witness (date and place of birth)
- Deja Stanisław; 23.04.1907, Kowala (21)
  
  Baćmaga Walenty, 11.02.1902, Zakrzów (6)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (4)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (4)
  
  Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (4)
  
  Wojcikowski Stanisław (4)
  
  Bochenek Marta; 19.09.1892 (3)
  
  Czardybon Bernard; 18.06.1901, Chorzów (3)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (3)
  
  Jamróz Halina; 1919? (3)
  
  Koczorowski Józef; 01.02.1919, Poznań (3)
  
  Kruk Józef; 01.01.1916, Serbinów (3)
  
  Makowska Genowefa; 1913?, Kielce (3)
  
  Mankiewicz Franciszek; 1898 (3)
  
  Maszczyk Antoni (3)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 27.01.1913, Warsaw (3)
  
  Rajewski Ludwik; 16.12.1900, Łódź (3)
  
  Skrzypek Jan (3)
  
  Stawiarski Eugeniusz (3)
  
  Taul Roman; 28.02.1917, Bytom (3)
  
  Anonim (2)
  
  Anonym (2)
  
  Banach Ludwig; 24.08.1917, Bydgoszcz (2)
  
  Banach Ludwik; 24.08.1918 (2)
  
  Bartel Erwin; 02.03.1923, Oświęcim (2)
  
  Bartkowicz Jan (2)
  
  Bocian Zygmunt; 23.10.1909, Warszawa (2)
  
  Borkowska Maria; 1887? (2)
  
  Bąk Antonina; 1902?, Puławy (lubelskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Chrościcki Julian; 26.05.1892, Szymony (2)
  
  Denkiewicz Michał; 08.09.1893, Wierzba (2)
  
  Drabek Jaroslav; 06.04.1901, Chrudim (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Drozdowski Henryk Marian; 13.01.1895, Łódź (2)
  
  Dąbski Stefan; 26.12.1919, Joanin (2)
  
  Falkiewicz Wacław (2)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (2)
  
  Fultyn Witold Józef; 1911? (2)
  
  Fultyn Witold Józef; 1913? (2)
  
  Garbarczyk Andrzej (2)
  
  Grabosz Ludwika; 1879? (2)
  
  Grabowski Kazimierz; 03.04.1909 (2)
  
  Grabowski Kazimierz; 03.04.1909, Płock (2)
  
  Grabowski Ludwik; 12.06./06.12.1882, Józefin (Halinów county) (2)
  
  Głowa Stanisław; 15.09.1898, Igołomia (2)
  
  Głuszak Józef; 27.10.1913, Koszyce Małe (2)
  
  Jackowski Marian; 1900? (2)
  
  Jamroż Halina; 1919? (2)
  
  Janikowski Jan Bronisław; 14.05.1888, Warsaw (2)
  
  Jaworski Józef; 23.09.1882 Wierzbica (Radom county) (2)
  
  Kahl Tadeusz; 27.07.1908, Kraków (2)
  
  Karcz Jan; 27.08.1915, Skalbmierz (2)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (2)
  
  Kiełbowski Paweł (2)
  
  Kiełbowski Paweł; 1892? (2)
  
  Kipa Emil Józef; 17.03.1886, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Kipa Emil Józef; 17.03.1886, Lwów (now: Ukraine) (2)
  
  Kleniewski Stanisław; 20.11.1901 (2)
  
  Klimkiewicz Stanisław; 1895? (2)
  
  Konca Stanisława; 1899?, Warsaw (2)
  
  Konca Stanisława; 1899?, Warszawa (2)
  
  Kopeć Maria; 14.08.1919, Puławy (2)
  
  Kraus Otto; 07.09.1909, Klášterní Skalice (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Kruk Jan; 09.03.1904, Serbinów (2)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (2)
  
  Kulczyk Wanda Maria; 13.05.1922, Warsaw (2)
  
  Kurkowski Jan; 08.09.1893 (2)
  
  Kwapiński Stanisław; 1908?, Karolin (Zwoleń county) (2)
  
  Lamcha Zygfryd; 1915?, Germany (2)
  
  Lamcha Zygfryd; 1915?, Niemcy (2)
  
  Loth Felicjan; 30.06.1914, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Loth Felicjan; 30.06.1914, Lwów (now: Ukraine) (2)
  
  Mas Anna; 1913? (2)
  
  Michelis Zygmunt; 17.03.1880, Bycz (kujawsko-pomorskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Miklaszewska Antonina (2)
  
  Nadrykowski Józef; 1893? (2)
  
  Odolska Wanda; 05.06.1909, Poltava (Ukraine) (2)
  
  Pająk Franciszek (2)
  
  Pająk Wilibald; 15.12.1922, Katowice (2)
  
  Palińska Kazimiera; 03.03.1883, Świr (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Paradowska Józefa; 06.04.1897 (2)
  
  Podgórski Antoni; 10.02.1890 (2)
  
  Podgórski Antoni; 10.02.1891 (2)
  
  Przybylski Leon; 1886?, Kielce (2)
  
  Płoski Stanisław; 04.12.1899, Briańsk (Russia) (2)
  
  Płoski Stanisław; 04.12.1899, Bryansk (Russia) (2)
  
  Rogala Józefa; 1897?, Lisów (Kielce county) (2)
  
  Serek Jan; 11.11.1889, Raszówka (Mniów) (2)
  
  Sikorski Piotr; 1899? (2)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć county) (2)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć district) (2)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 19.04.1920, Chorzów (2)
  
  Stuhr Oskar Tadeusz; 08.10.1891, Kraków (2)
  
  Sulima Jan (2)
  
  Szczepanik Emilia (2)
  
  Szczerbiński Jan (2)
  
  Szewczyk Józef; 1902?, Sycyna (mazowieckie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Słomka Tomasz; 18.11.1893, Chmielnik (2)
  
  Wielowiejska Anna Janina; 1906 (2)
  
  Wilczewski Władysław; 21.02.1892 (2)
Subject
- The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (147)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (98)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (78)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (64)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (54)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (44)
  
  Stadion Leśny, Słowik, Herby – execution sites in Kielce (41)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (40)
  
  The city condemned to death (40)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (33)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (32)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (29)
  
  The tragedy of the Radom Arms Factory (25)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (25)
  
  Radom – daily terror (20)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (19)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (17)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (17)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (17)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (17)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (13)
  
  Firlej near Radom – the training ground of death (12)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (12)
  
  The persecuted church (9)
  
  Radom bathed in blood – the prison in the former convent buildings (8)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (7)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (7)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Świętokrzyskie region (7)
  
  Warsaw '44 – uprising in Praga (7)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (6)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (6)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (6)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Radom region (6)
  
  Wawer Massacre '39 (6)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (5)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Neuengamme (5)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (5)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (5)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (4)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town (4)
  
  Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages (3)
  
  Pruszków – the town of the displaced (3)
  
  Soviets in German captivity (3)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Radom Ghetto (3)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Dachau (2)
  
  Pomiechówek Fort – the Mazovian torture complex (2)
  
  Treblinka – extermination camp (2)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Stutthof branch in Inowrocław (1)
  
  For show – Familienlager Theresienstadt (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Częstochowa region (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Radom region (1)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Radom Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Stopnica Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Kielce Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Wilno Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Zamość Ghetto (1)
  
  Katowice – daily terror (1)
  
  Kujawy region - the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Majdanek (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Sachsenhausen (1)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Prisoners of war – the Luckenwalde stalag (1)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Soviet prisoners of war in Beniaminów (1)
  
  The Częstochowa region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski Ghetto (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Sandomierz Ghetto (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz I (154)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (129)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (129)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (124)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (109)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (108)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (101)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (66)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (64)
  
  Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 (62)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (58)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (53)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (50)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (49)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (47)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (43)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (42)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (37)
  
  Radom (36)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (33)
  
  KL Majdanek (33)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (31)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (29)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (28)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (27)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (27)
  
  Warsaw (26)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (25)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (25)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (23)
  
  Kielce, the "Leśny" Stadium (23)
  
  Radom, Gestapo Headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (23)
  
  Radom, Gestapo headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (23)
  
  Warsaw, SS-Stauferkaserne, Rakowiecka Street 4 (23)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (22)
  
  Bochnia, train station (21)
  
  Bydgoszcz (21)
  
  Firlej (Radom), municipal cemetery, Ofiar Firleja Street 45 (21)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (20)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (20)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (19)
  
  Karolin (Zwoleń district) (19)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (19)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (18)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (17)
  
  Warsaw, Zbawiciela Square (17)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (16)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (16)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (16)
  
  Lublin, Lublin Castle, Zamkowa Street 9 (15)
  
  Warsaw, aleja Szucha (15)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) (15)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (14)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (14)
  
  Kraków (14)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (13)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (13)
  
  Rożki, train station (13)
  
  Warsaw, Marszałkowska Street (13)
  
  Łódź (13)
  
  Lublin, Gestapo detention center, Uniwersytecka Street 1 (12)
  
  Palmiry (12)
  
  Pogłodów (Mniów) (12)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (12)
  
  Warsaw, General Inspectorate of the Armed Forces, aleja Szucha 12/14 (12)
  
  Warsaw, Rakowiecka Street (12)
  
  Busko-Zdrój (11)
  
  Kielce, Gestapo Station, Seminaryjska Street 12 (11)
  
  Mechelen (Belgium), transit camp (11)
  
  Serbinów (11)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (11)
  
  Słowik (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship) (11)
  
  Warsaw, Mokotów Prison, Rakowiecka Street 37 (11)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 (11)
  
  Warsaw, Unii Lubelskiej Square (11)
  
  Kończyce (Radom), Kosowski Forest (10)
  
  Radom, Arms Factory "Łucznik", Poniatowskiego Street (1905 Street 1/9) (10)
  
  Radom, prison (benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (10)
  
  Warsaw, Aleje Ujazdowskie (10)
  
  Warsaw, Litewska Street (10)
  
  Bełżec, German extermination camp (9)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (9)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (9)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (9)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (9)
  
  KL Neuengamme (Germany) (9)
  
  Kielce (9)
  
  Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 (9)
  
  Lublin (9)
  
  Sandomierz (9)
  
  Sydół (9)
  
  Warsaw, Puławska Street (9)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's Church, Wolska Street 76 (9)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (8)
  
  Brussels (Belgium) (8)
  
  Busko-Zdrój, Gestapo headquarters, 3 Maja Avenue 7 (Batorego Street/ Mickiewicza Avenue) (8)
  
  Kielce, St. Adalbert's Church, Św. Wojciecha Square 9 (8)
  
  Leokadiów (8)
  
  Radom, Warszawska Street (8)
  
  Warsaw, 7th Blue Police Station, Krochmalna Street 56 (8)
Victims
- The Poles (878)
  
  The Civilian Population (839)
  
  Women (411)
  
  The Jews (286)
  
  Children (203)
  
  The Inteligentsia (180)
  
  The Sick (157)
  
  The Elderly (106)
  
  The Russians (106)
  
  Prisoners of War (94)
  
  The Church (83)
  
  Hungarians (50)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (46)
  
  Czechs (42)
  
  The French (42)
  
  Germans (36)
  
  Belgians (34)
  
  The Dutch (34)
  
  Slovaks (30)
  
  Greeks (28)
  
  The Communists (27)
  
  The Disabled (23)
  
  Italians (11)
  
  Americans (8)
  
  Norwegians (6)
  
  Romanians (5)
  
  The British (5)
  
  Ukrainians (3)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (2)
  
  Deportees (1)
  
  Finns (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  Serbs (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (980)
  
  SS (353)
  
  Military Police (216)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (98)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (98)
  
  Collaboration (95)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (52)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (40)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (18)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (15)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (14)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (11)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (9)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (8)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (7)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (6)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (6)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (6)
  
  Latvians (5)
  
  Denunciation (3)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (3)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (3)
  
  Waffen-SS (3)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (2)
  
  Red Army (2)
  
  Assault Units (Sturmabteilung, SA) (1)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  Postal Protection (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Execution (739)
  
  Shooting (655)
  
  Arrest (541)
  
  Beatings (407)
  
  Brutal Interrogation/Tortures (314)
  
  Forced Labour (306)
  
  Deportation (244)
  
  Cremation (218)
  
  Robbery (205)
  
  Biological extermination (186)
  
  Mass graves (154)
  
  Gas chambers (146)
  
  Hanging (138)
  
  Expulsion (95)
  
  Medical experiments (91)
  
  Round-up (88)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (81)
  
  Economic exploitation (65)
  
  Racial policy (64)
  
  Burning people alive (63)
  
  "Dosing" (56)
  
  Judicial crime (45)
  
  Administrative persecution (43)
  
  Cattle wagons (39)
  
  Death marches (34)
  
  Rape (32)
  
  Armoured Weapon (27)
  
  Desacration of corpses (23)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (23)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (23)
  
  Human shields (16)
  
  Germanization (12)
  
  Air raids (7)
  
  Deportation/Exile (6)
  
  Disarmament (6)
  
  Artillery fire (5)
  
  Displacement (1)
  
  Sovietization (1)
Place
- Prison (354)
  
  Concentration camp (343)
  
  Police headquarters/station (174)
  
  Extermination camp (144)
  
  Ghetto (66)
  
  Labor camp (58)
  
  Transit camp (50)
  
  Forced labor (29)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (9)
Content
- Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (308)
  
  Extermination of Jews (175)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (146)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (118)
  
  obliterating the traces (78)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (67)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (64)
  
  Health service (54)
  
  Civil resistance (36)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (34)
  
  Polish Underground State (27)
  
  Underground media (27)
  
  Underground courts (24)
  
  Aktion Zamość (17)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (15)
  
  Wola Massacre (14)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (11)
  
  Clandestine courses (10)
  
  Rescue of Jews (10)
  
  Underground culture and education (10)
  
  Central Welfare Council (8)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (8)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (7)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (7)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (7)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (6)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (5)
  
  Field health service (5)
  
  Judenrat (5)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (4)
  
  Verbrennungskommando (3)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (2)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (2)
  
  Aktion T4 (1)
  
  Operation "Tempest" (1)
  
  Pabst Plan (Pabst-Plan) (1)
Object type
- Testimony from judicial/criminal proceedings (927)
  
  Account (37)
  
  Brief (12)
  
  Report (3)
  
  Book excerpt (1)
  
  Home Army report (1)
  
  Photograph (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (352)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (291)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (283)
  
  District Court in Radom (72)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (46)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (7)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (6)
  
  Voivodeship Court in Łódź (6)