„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)
- Berthoh Feliks (6)
  
  Kucharski Teofil; 06.02.1889, Jaszczew (3)
  
  Gelade Eliasz; 1894? (2)
  
  Kruszyna Stanisław (2)
  
  Lechowski Maksymilian; 1900? (2)
  
  Bartonezz Irena; 03.10.1896 (1)
  
  Brener Liber; 08.11.1907, Turzysk (1)
  
  Brylowski Józef, 1895? (1)
  
  Bucior Ryszard (1)
  
  Cielecka Eleonora (1)
  
  Duda Ignacy (1)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (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)
  
  Gelber Zeuma; 26.07.1907, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Hryć Wawrzyniec (1)
  
  Ignaciuk Aleksander (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)
  
  Kowalczyk Jan (1)
  
  Kryńska Joanna Ewa; 19.09.1915, Charbin (1)
  
  Kręcina Józef; 09.02.1894, Kocierz (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)
  
  Nożkin Sergiusz; 07.10.1917; Petrozavodsk (Russia) (1)
  
  Obara Jan; 1900? (1)
  
  Osak Andrzej (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)
  
  Protaś Józef (1)
  
  Przykucki Augustyn?, 02.03.1889 (1)
  
  Płoski Stanisław; 04.12.1899, Briańsk (Russia) (1)
  
  Płoski Stanisław; 04.12.1899, Bryansk (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)
  
  Sobieszak Jan (1)
  
  Sowa Józef (1)
  
  Stanik Marian; 30.09.1915, Guzów (Orońsko district) (1)
  
  Starościak Franciszek (1)
  
  Stawiarz Władysław; 1908? (1)
  
  Struczyk Bazyl (1)
  
  Struczyk Stanisław (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)
  
  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 Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (7)
  
  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)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Częstochowa Ghetto (2)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto (2)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (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)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Tarnów Ghetto (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (1)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Kraków (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Częstochowa region (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)
  
  Terror in the "incorporated lands" – the Łódź region (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 (9)
  
  KL Plaszow (6)
  
  Potulice (kujawsko-pomorskie voivodeship), forced labor camp (6)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (5)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (4)
  
  Warsaw (4)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (4)
  
  Bogoria (Staszów district) (3)
  
  Częstochowa (3)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (3)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (3)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (3)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (3)
  
  Opatów (3)
  
  Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (3)
  
  Piotrków Trybunalski, ghetto (3)
  
  Rudki (district of Kielce), "Staszic" National Ore Mine (3)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (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)
  
  Bliżyn, forced labor camp (2)
  
  Chlewiska (Szydłowiec district) (2)
  
  Częstochowa, Garibaldiego Street (2)
  
  Częstochowa, Ghetto (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)
  
  Gdańsk (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 Majdanek (2)
  
  Kościerzyna (2)
  
  Krosno (2)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Michniów (2)
  
  Milanówek (2)
  
  Parchocin (2)
  
  Piotrków Trybunalski, Manufaktura, Sulejowska Street 45 (2)
  
  Powsin (Warsaw) (2)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (2)
  
  Radom (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)
  
  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, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 (2)
  
  Warsaw, State Office of Physical Education and Military Training, Myśliwiecka Street (2)
  
  Warsaw, Wiejska Street (2)
  
  Świniary, parish cemetery (2)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (1)
  
  Bełżec, German extermination camp (1)
  
  Biłgoraj (lubelskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Bliżyn (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 15 (1)
  
  Częstochowa, Gruer's Pharmacy, 1 Maja Street 12 (1)
  
  Częstochowa, Nowy Rynek (Daszyńskiego Square) (1)
  
  Częstochowa, Rynek Warszawski (Bohaterów Getta Square) (1)
  
  Dresden (Germany) (1)
  
  Dęblin (1)
  
  Garbatka (Garbatka-Letnisko) (1)
  
  Gdynia (1)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (1)
  
  Gorlice, Gestapo headquarters, Legionów Street 8 (1)
  
  Gębice (Godów) (1)
  
  Hanover (Germany) (1)
  
  Inowrocław (1)
  
  Jasło (1)
Victims
- Civilians (77)
  
  The Poles (63)
  
  The Civilian Population (58)
  
  Women (43)
  
  The Jews (31)
  
  Children (29)
  
  The Inteligentsia (23)
  
  The elderly (16)
  
  The Elderly (13)
  
  The sick (13)
  
  The Sick (11)
  
  The Disabled (8)
  
  Prisoners of War (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) (83)
  
  SS (28)
  
  Military Police (16)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (15)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (8)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (8)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (6)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (6)
  
  Collaboration (4)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (4)
  
  Latvians (4)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (4)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (3)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (2)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (2)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (2)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (1)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (1)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (1)
  
  Waffen-SS (1)
Crimes
- Execution (62)
  
  Death by shooting (57)
  
  Deportation (32)
  
  Arrest (25)
  
  Beating (25)
  
  Forced labor (24)
  
  Robbery (22)
  
  Displacement (18)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (15)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (12)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (12)
  
  Biological extermination (11)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (10)
  
  Expulsion (9)
  
  Mass graves (9)
  
  Racial policy (8)
  
  Round-up (8)
  
  Cremation of corpses (7)
  
  Hanging (7)
  
  Administrative persecution (6)
  
  Burning people alive (6)
  
  Cremation (6)
  
  Economic exploitation (5)
  
  Gas chambers (5)
  
  Air raids (3)
  
  Artillery fire (3)
  
  Artillery shelling (3)
  
  Desacration of corpses (3)
  
  Medical experiments (3)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (3)
  
  Cattle wagons (2)
  
  Deportation/Exile (2)
  
  Judicial crime (2)
  
  Rape (2)
  
  "Dosing" (1)
  
  Armored weapons (1)
Place
- Ghetto (17)
  
  Labor camp (17)
  
  Concentration camp (13)
  
  Police headquarters/station (11)
  
  Prison (9)
  
  Transit camp (8)
  
  Extermination camp (6)
  
  Forced labor (5)
  
  Sewers (1)
Content
- Extermination of Jews (20)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (20)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (16)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (14)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (8)
  
  Rescue of Jews (8)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (6)
  
  Health service (5)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (4)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (4)
  
  Judenrat (4)
  
  Obliterating the traces (3)
  
  Polish Underground State (3)
  
  obliterating the traces (3)
  
  Central Welfare Council (2)
  
  Free City of Danzig (2)
  
  Wola Massacre (2)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (1)
  
  Called by name (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 (56)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (15)
  
  Account (2)
  
  Report (2)
  
  Summary (2)
  
  Brief (1)
  
  Photograph (1)
  
  Scene investigation report (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (18)
  
  District Court in Radom (13)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (12)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (10)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (7)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (6)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (4)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków (4)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Gdańsk (2)
  
  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)
Medium
- Text (83)
  
  Image (10)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (65)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (18)