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

Main Page Indexes Perpetrators The State Protection Police \(Schutzpolizei, Schupo\)

Witness (date and place of birth)
- Kucharski Teofil; 06.02.1889, Jaszczew (3)
  
  Kruszyna Stanisław (2)
  
  Lechowski Maksymilian; 1900? (2)
  
  Bartonezz Irena; 03.10.1896 (1)
  
  Brener Liber; 08.11.1907, Turzysk (1)
  
  Bucior Ryszard (1)
  
  Cielecka Eleonora (1)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (1)
  
  Dąbrowski Wojciech; 22.04.1886, Białystok (1)
  
  Fastman Ludwik; 31.07.1899, Drohobycz (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Fronenberg Moszek; 04.04.1921, Puławy (1)
  
  Fudalewski Marcin; 1888? (1)
  
  Gamm Rudolf; 28.10.1884; Gdańsk (1)
  
  Gelade Eliasz; 1893? (1)
  
  Gelade Eliasz; 1894? (1)
  
  Jakubowski Stefan, 16.08.1902 (1)
  
  Karczewski Stanisław (1)
  
  Klecha Józef; 1903? (1)
  
  Koniecpoler Dawid; 1897? (1)
  
  Kopacz Franciszek; 31.12.1900, Słupia Nowa (1)
  
  Kosiński Wacław; 21.09.1882 (1)
  
  Kryńska Joanna Ewa; 19.09.1915, Charbin (1)
  
  Kręcina Józef; 09.02.1894, Kocierz (1)
  
  Kupfermann Joachim; 1910? (1)
  
  Laszczower Benjamin; 1906, Rzeszów (1)
  
  Lesikiewicz Zygmunt; 20.09.1911, Iłża (1)
  
  Lichocki Marian; 1900? (1)
  
  Listkiewicz Ludwik; 1889? (1)
  
  Materek Wacława; 02.05.1924, Michniów (1)
  
  Müller Filip; 1921? (1)
  
  Niedzielski Ludwik (1)
  
  Norenberg Zygmunt; 20.12.1906, Nowe Brzesko (1)
  
  Nożkin Sergiusz; 07.10.1917; Petrozavodsk (Russia) (1)
  
  Obara Jan; 1900? (1)
  
  Ostachowski Bogdan; 1925?, Wilno (now in Lithuania) (1)
  
  Owiński Tadeusz; 21.07.1904; Kołomyja (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Pacyk Kazimierz; 1918? (1)
  
  Patrys Jan; 1897? (1)
  
  Pieńkowski Stefan; 23.07.1883, Młynów (łódzkie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Płoski Stanisław; 04.12.1899, Briańsk (Russia) (1)
  
  Radwański Tadeusz; 13.02.1893, Białystok (1)
  
  Ratajczyk Józef; 10.03.1904, Warsaw (1)
  
  Ratajczyk Zdzisław Józef; 21.03.1927, Warsaw (1)
  
  Rychlik Czesław; 16.07.1908, Sokołów Podlaski (1)
  
  Sewerski Stefan; 1900? (1)
  
  Sikorski Stanisław; 15.04.1909, Warsaw (1)
  
  Skotnicki Jerzy; 12.02.1902, Łódź (1)
  
  Sobieniak Władysław; 1921? (1)
  
  Stanik Marian; 30.09.1915, Guzów (Orońsko district) (1)
  
  Starościak Franciszek (1)
  
  Stawiarz Władysław; 1908? (1)
  
  Stępień Stefen (1)
  
  Tomasik Marcin (1)
  
  Wieczorek Kazimierz; 1893? (1)
  
  Woźniewski Zbigniew; 09.04.1914, Nakło nad Notecią (1)
  
  Wągrowski Tadeusz; 12.06.1904, Warsaw (1)
  
  Zając Michał; 1913 (1)
  
  Zieliński Franciszek; 15.03.1897, Warsaw (1)
  
  Zientkiewicz Władysław; 1895? (1)
  
  Zimmermann Maks; 1919?, Tarnów (1)
  
  Żurkowski Jerzy; 1924? (1)
Subject
- The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (13)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (12)
  
  The city condemned to death (7)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (5)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (2)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (2)
  
  Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages (2)
  
  Michniów – the extermination of the Polish countryside (2)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (2)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (2)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (2)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (2)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (2)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (1)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Częstochowa region (1)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (1)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (1)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Kraków (1)
  
  Poles, Kashubs and Germans – the situation before the genocide (1)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (1)
  
  Pruszków – the town of the displaced (1)
  
  Radom bathed in blood – the prison in the former convent buildings (1)
  
  Radom – daily terror (1)
  
  September Campaign (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Częstochowa Ghetto (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Radom Ghetto (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Tarnów Ghetto (1)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Lublin region (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (8)
  
  KL Plaszow (6)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (4)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (4)
  
  Bogoria (Staszów district) (3)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (3)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (3)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (3)
  
  Opatów (3)
  
  Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (3)
  
  Rudki (district of Kielce), "Staszic" National Ore Mine (3)
  
  Warsaw (3)
  
  Warsaw, Dworkowa Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, Ogródek Jordanowski [Jordan garden], Bagatela Street 2/4 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Ujazdowski Hospital, Jazdów Street 2 (3)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (2)
  
  Chlewiska (Szydłowiec district) (2)
  
  Częstochowa (2)
  
  Częstochowa, Jewish cemetery, Złota Street (2)
  
  Częstochowa, Krótka Street (2)
  
  Częstochowa, forced labor camp "Hasag Pelcery", 1 Maja Street (Filomatów Street 14) (2)
  
  Firlej (Radom) (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (2)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (2)
  
  KL Majdanek (2)
  
  Krosno (2)
  
  Michniów (2)
  
  Milanówek (2)
  
  Parchocin (2)
  
  Piotrków Trybunalski, Manufaktura, Sulejowska Street 45 (2)
  
  Piotrków Trybunalski, ghetto (2)
  
  Powsin (Warsaw) (2)
  
  Prokocim (Kraków) (2)
  
  Radom, Ghetto Glinice (2)
  
  Radom, Ghetto Śródmieście (2)
  
  Radom, Roman Catholic cemetery, Limanowskiego Street (2)
  
  Radom, Traugutta Street (2)
  
  Radom, Wałowa Street (2)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (2)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (2)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Starachowice (2)
  
  Warsaw, Bartycka Street 7 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Czerniakowska Street (2)
  
  Warsaw, Franciscan sisters' Home of Divine Providence, Chełmska Street 19 (2)
  
  Warsaw, General Inspectorate of the Armed Forces, al. Szucha 12/14 (2)
  
  Warsaw, General Inspectorate of the Armed Forces, aleja Szucha 12/14 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (2)
  
  Warsaw, Gościniec Street 53 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Litewska Street (2)
  
  Warsaw, Litewska Street 14 (2)
  
  Warsaw, National Office of Physical Education and Military Defence, Myśliwiecka Street (2)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 (2)
  
  Warsaw, State Office of Physical Education and Military Training, Myśliwiecka Street (2)
  
  Warsaw, Wiejska Street (2)
  
  Warsaw, Wolska Street (2)
  
  Świniary, parish cemetery (2)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (1)
  
  Bełżec, German extermination camp (1)
  
  Biłgoraj (lubelskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Bliżyn (1)
  
  Bliżyn, forced labor camp (1)
  
  Bochnia, train station (1)
  
  Bodzentyn (1)
  
  Bydgoszcz (1)
  
  Bór Kunowski (1)
  
  Chmielnik (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Ciszyca Górna (1)
  
  Czajków (Kępie Górne) (1)
  
  Czekarzewice (1)
  
  Czekarzewice Drugie (1)
  
  Czekarzewice Pierwsze (1)
  
  Częstochowa, "Luna" Cinema, aleja Kościuszki 7 (1)
  
  Częstochowa, Dąbrowskiego Street 6 (1)
  
  Częstochowa, Garibaldiego Street (1)
  
  Częstochowa, Garibaldiego Street 15 (1)
  
  Częstochowa, Ghetto (1)
  
  Częstochowa, Gruer's Pharmacy, 1 Maja Street 12 (1)
  
  Częstochowa, Rynek Warszawski (Bohaterów Getta Square) (1)
  
  Dęblin (1)
  
  Garbatka (Garbatka-Letnisko) (1)
  
  Gdańsk (1)
  
  Gdynia (1)
  
  Gorlice, Gestapo headquarters, Legionów Street 8 (1)
  
  Gębice (Godów) (1)
  
  Hanover (Germany) (1)
  
  Inowrocław (1)
  
  Jasło (1)
  
  Jasło, temporary remand prison, Staszica Street 3 (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (1)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (1)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (1)
Victims
- The Civilian Population (59)
  
  The Poles (46)
  
  Women (30)
  
  The Jews (28)
  
  Children (20)
  
  The Inteligentsia (20)
  
  The Elderly (13)
  
  The Sick (12)
  
  Prisoners of War (7)
  
  The Disabled (7)
  
  The Communists (3)
  
  Germans (2)
  
  Greeks (2)
  
  Russians/Soviets (2)
  
  Slovaks (2)
  
  The Church (2)
  
  The Russians (2)
  
  Americans (1)
  
  Czechs (1)
  
  Hungarians (1)
  
  Norwegians (1)
  
  Romanians (1)
  
  The Dutch (1)
  
  The French (1)
Perpetrators
- The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (64)
  
  SS (23)
  
  Military Police (16)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (14)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (8)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (7)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (6)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (6)
  
  Latvians (4)
  
  Collaboration (3)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (3)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (3)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (2)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (2)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (2)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (1)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (1)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (1)
  
  Waffen-SS (1)
Crimes
- Execution (54)
  
  Shooting (51)
  
  Beatings (24)
  
  Arrest (23)
  
  Forced Labour (22)
  
  Deportation (21)
  
  Robbery (21)
  
  Brutal Interrogation/Tortures (14)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (11)
  
  Biological extermination (10)
  
  Expulsion (10)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (10)
  
  Round-up (8)
  
  Cremation (7)
  
  Hanging (7)
  
  Mass graves (7)
  
  Racial policy (7)
  
  Administrative persecution (5)
  
  Economic exploitation (5)
  
  Gas chambers (5)
  
  Artillery fire (3)
  
  Burning people alive (3)
  
  Medical experiments (3)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (3)
  
  Air raids (2)
  
  Cattle wagons (2)
  
  Deportation/Exile (2)
  
  Desacration of corpses (2)
  
  Judicial crime (2)
  
  Rape (2)
  
  "Dosing" (1)
  
  Armoured Weapon (1)
Place
- Ghetto (14)
  
  Concentration camp (13)
  
  Police headquarters/station (11)
  
  Labor camp (10)
  
  Prison (7)
  
  Extermination camp (5)
  
  Forced labor (5)
  
  Sewers (1)
  
  Transit camp (1)
Content
- Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (20)
  
  Extermination of Jews (18)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (15)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (14)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (7)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (6)
  
  Health service (5)
  
  Rescue of Jews (5)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (4)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (3)
  
  Judenrat (3)
  
  Obliterating the traces (3)
  
  Polish Underground State (3)
  
  obliterating the traces (3)
  
  Free City of Danzig (2)
  
  Wola Massacre (2)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (1)
  
  Central Welfare Council (1)
  
  Civil resistance (1)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (1)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (1)
  
  Field health service (1)
  
  National Armed Forces (1)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (1)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (1)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
  
  The Silent Unseen (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (57)
  
  Account (2)
  
  Brief (1)
  
  Photograph (1)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (18)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (12)
  
  District Court in Radom (12)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (9)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (4)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków (4)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (2)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Warsaw (1)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (54)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (10)