„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)
- Anonim (4)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (2)
  
  Gozdur Stanisław; 11.11.1891, Wola Solecka (2)
  
  Lizis Teofil (2)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Balias Dominik; 12.08.1906, Warsaw (1)
  
  Banasik Stefania; 1927? (1)
  
  Barysz Józef; 01.11.1904, Warsaw (1)
  
  Barzał Czesław; 09.10.1915, Ostrów Mazowiecka (1)
  
  Barzycki Aleksander; 1894? (1)
  
  Bassalik Kazimierz; 12.06.1879, Brzezie (Pleszew county) (1)
  
  Bańkowska Maria; 17.01.1916, Warsaw (1)
  
  Bednarczyk Bartłomiej; 1911? (1)
  
  Belica Marianna; 1904? (1)
  
  Benrat Roman; 25.08.1878, Słuszczyn (1)
  
  Bida Antoni; 08.04.1897, Ostrów Krupski (1)
  
  Bielec Tadeusz; 22.03.1920, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bielecka Julia; 10.01.1900, Dołkowce (Belarus) (1)
  
  Biska Helena; 22.05.1917, Warsaw (1)
  
  Biskup Jan; 1913? (1)
  
  Biskup Stanisław; 1911? (1)
  
  Biskup Władysław; 1927? (1)
  
  Bolko Stefania; 01.09.1895, Łódź (1)
  
  Bożymowski Stefan; 22.08.1906, Warsaw (1)
  
  Brandeburski Andrzej; 06.12.1924, Warsaw (1)
  
  Brandt Janusz (1)
  
  Brandt Janusz; 1905? (1)
  
  Budzowicz Franciszek; 1900, Sosnowiec (1)
  
  Bączkowska Anna; 1873?, Warsaw (1)
  
  Bębeniec Wincenty (1)
  
  Cender Wincenty; 01.01.1894, Lipsko (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Chmiel Stanisław (1)
  
  Chmielnicka Anna; 10.04.1910, Wiśniówek (Lipsko district) (1)
  
  Chodyczko Kazimiera; 25.12.1905, Wohyń (Radzyń county) (1)
  
  Chojnecka Marianna; 1888?, Brzechów (1)
  
  Chądzyńska-Czarnocka Maria (1)
  
  Cielecki Edmund; 07.10.1888, Stefanowo (wielkopolskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Cieślak Karol; 22.04.1933, Łuków (1)
  
  Ciszewski Cezariusz; 25.06.1902, Warsaw (1)
  
  Cybulska Zofia (1)
  
  Cypel Henryk; 23.05.1920, Warsaw (1)
  
  Czechowicz Stanisław; 1883, Białaczów (1)
  
  Czyrnek Jan; 25.03.1900, Jasna (Podłopień, wielkopolskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Dalgiewicz Stanisław; 09.09.1918, Płońsk (1)
  
  Dembiński Paweł Piotr; 27.06.1888, Siemianowice Śląskie (1)
  
  Dobrzyński Czesław (1)
  
  Donten Lubomir; 17.07.1903, Warsaw (1)
  
  Dukowski Władysław; 18.12.1896 (1)
  
  Dutkiewicz Jerzy; 03.08.1922 (1)
  
  Dutkiewicz Jerzy; 03.08.1923 (1)
  
  Dwórnik Zofia; 24.01.1898 (1)
  
  Dziewięcki Henryk Witold; 19.02.1908, Warsaw (1)
  
  Dziewulski Wacław; 31.01.1909, Warsaw (1)
  
  Dziwisz Stefania; 1911? (1)
  
  Fajdek Władysława; 1906? (1)
  
  Gawryszewska Lucyna; 17.05.1923, Warsaw (1)
  
  Gieniszka Władysław; 1897? (1)
  
  Gil Piotr (1)
  
  Gil Piotr; 1897? (1)
  
  Gołębiowski Jan; 1891? (1)
  
  Granat Stanisława, 30.03.1891, Warsaw (1)
  
  Gronczak Józef; 1898? (1)
  
  Gruszka Jan (1)
  
  Guzikowski Witold Marian; 19.08.1923, Warsaw (1)
  
  Górski Kazimierz; 11.07.1895, Łady (Sochaczew county) (1)
  
  Handzel Jan; 20.04.1906, Wincentów (Kielce county) (1)
  
  Handzel Jan; 20.04.1906, Wincentów (kielecki district) (1)
  
  Hochedlinger Władysław; 1897? (1)
  
  Hołówko Helena Walentyna; 02.02.1889; Płoskirów (now: Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine) (1)
  
  Huskowski Tadeusz; 02.01.1924, Warsaw (1)
  
  Irena (1)
  
  Jabłoński Tadeusz; 14.10.1901 (1)
  
  Jachna Eugenia; 19.01.1926, Poręba (1)
  
  Jaguszewski Stanisław (1)
  
  Jakubaszek Franciszek (1)
  
  Jakubiec Czesław; 14.09.1909, Warsaw (1)
  
  Jakubowska Zofia Stanisława; 22.03.1900, Warka (1)
  
  Jakubowski Czesław; 14.07.1910, Warsaw (1)
  
  Janek Julianna; 1907? (1)
  
  Jankowska Anna; 19.07.1904, Ołtarzew (1)
  
  Janus Anna; 23.04.1920, Wincentów (Kielce county) (1)
  
  Jarmasz Franciszek; 1902 (1)
  
  Jarosińska Władysława; 18.12.1884, Rozprza (1)
  
  Jasik Piotr; 1884? (1)
  
  Jaworski Augustyn (1)
  
  Jaworski Seweryn Stanisław; 17.12.1898, Warsaw (1)
  
  Juszczyński Antoni Michał; 01.06.1884, Warsaw (1)
  
  Kacperski Stanisław; 22.03.1913 (1)
  
  Kalinowski Jan; 1875? (1)
  
  Kalisz Stanisława; 06.01.1897, Kąty (Sochaczew county) (1)
  
  Kamińska Irena; 30.09.1924, Sadowne (1)
  
  Karczewski Stanisław (1)
  
  Kaszuba Ignacy; 1912? (1)
  
  Kawecki Jerzy; 1913? (1)
  
  Kietlińska Maria; 24.07.1927, Warsaw (1)
  
  Kisiel Józef (1)
  
  Kisiel Józef; 1905? (1)
  
  Klimczak Stanisław; 1907? (1)
  
  Klimiuk Kazimiera (1)
  
  Knapp vel Knap Tadeusz Marian; 10.01.1924, Warsaw (1)
Subject
- The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (33)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (31)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (29)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (21)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (19)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (16)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (14)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (12)
  
  Pruszków – the town of the displaced (12)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz (12)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (11)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (11)
  
  The city condemned to death (10)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (9)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (8)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (6)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town (6)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (6)
  
  Warsaw '44 – uprising in Praga (5)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (4)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (4)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Żoliborz (4)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (3)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (3)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (3)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Świętokrzyskie region (3)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (3)
  
  Wawer Massacre '39 (3)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (2)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (2)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Volhynia (2)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (2)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (2)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (2)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Radom region (2)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Neuengamme (2)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (2)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  Prisoners of war – transit camps in Kielce (2)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (2)
  
  The persecuted church (2)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (1)
  
  Browar, Czerwoniak – the Ostrów death blocks (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Mazovia (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Polesie region (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Zamość region (1)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (1)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (1)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (1)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (1)
  
  Lebensraum – the Germanization of the Zamość region (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Dachau (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (1)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Upper Silesia (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Częstochowa region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Wilno region (1)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (1)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (1)
  
  Soviets in German captivity (1)
  
  The Częstochowa region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (1)
  
  The Ostrów forests – mass executions (1)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (1)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (1)
  
  The tragedy of the Radom Arms Factory (1)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Lublin region (1)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Radom region (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Pruszków, Dulag 121 (37)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (18)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (13)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (13)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (12)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (11)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 (11)
  
  Warsaw (9)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (8)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's Church, Wolska Street 76 (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (7)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (7)
  
  Garbatka (Garbatka-Letnisko) (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (6)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (6)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (6)
  
  KL Majdanek (6)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (6)
  
  Warsaw, Franaszek factory, Wolska Street 41/45 (6)
  
  Warsaw, Józef Piłsudski Academy of Physcial Education, Marymoncka Street 34 (6)
  
  Warsaw, aleja Szucha (6)
  
  Bydgoszcz (5)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (5)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (5)
  
  Magnuszew (Kozienice district) (5)
  
  Podsuliszka (Radom District) (5)
  
  Podsuliszka, Pakosławski Forest (5)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (5)
  
  Warsaw, Długa Street 7 (5)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (5)
  
  Warsaw, Hale Mirowskie [trade halls] (5)
  
  Warsaw, Ogród Saski [Saxon Garden] (5)
  
  Warsaw, St. Stanislaus' Hospital, Wolska Street 37 (5)
  
  Warsaw, Warszawa Zachodnia Station (5)
  
  Busko-Zdrój (4)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (4)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (4)
  
  Lipsko (mazowieckie voivodeship) (4)
  
  Lublin (4)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (4)
  
  Palmiry (4)
  
  Podkowa Leśna (4)
  
  Służewiec Race Course (Warsaw) (4)
  
  Warsaw, Marii Kazimiery Street 29 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Marii Kazimiery Street 3 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Racławicka Street (4)
  
  Warsaw, St. Lazarus' Hospital, Leszno Street 127 (Leszno Street 15) (4)
  
  Warsaw, Ursus factory, Wolska Street 55 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Wolska Street (4)
  
  Warsaw, Wolski Hospital, Płocka Street 26 (4)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) (4)
  
  Łuków (lubelskie voivodeship) (4)
  
  Anin (Warsaw), Poprzeczna II Street 3 (3)
  
  Bełżec, German extermination camp (3)
  
  Bochnia, train station (3)
  
  Bryzgów (3)
  
  Chmielnik (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Częstochowa (3)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (3)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (3)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (3)
  
  Karolin (Zwoleń district) (3)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (3)
  
  Mszczonów (3)
  
  Piekoszów (3)
  
  Pińczów (3)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (3)
  
  Skłoby (3)
  
  Solec nad Wisłą (3)
  
  Warsaw, Bałuckiego Street 24 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Brustman Ponds (3)
  
  Warsaw, Central Army Gas School, Gdańska Street 6 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Czerniakowski Fort (3)
  
  Warsaw, Dembińskiego Street 2/4 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Dworkowa Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, Elekcyjna Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Górczewska Street/ Zagłoby Street (Górczewska Street 32) (3)
  
  Warsaw, Hospital of the Sisters of St. Elizabeth, ul. Goszczyńskiego 1 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Jana III Sobieskiego Street/ Międzychodzka Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, Kozia Street 5 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Marii Kazimiery Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, Mokotów Fort (3)
  
  Warsaw, Puławska Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, Puławska Street 71 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Płocka Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, SS-Stauferkaserne, Rakowiecka Street 4 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Seminary Church, Krakowskie Przedmieście Street 52/54 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Sokołowska Street 5 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Solec Street (3)
  
  Warsaw, Sowiński Park (3)
  
  Warsaw, University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście Street 26/28 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Warsaw University of Technology, Politechniki Square 1 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Wolska Street 122/124 (3)
  
  Warsaw, the Metropolitan Council of the Holy Equal of the Apostles Mary Magdalene, Aleksandryjska Street (aleja „Solidarności” 52) (3)
  
  Wincentów (district of Kielce) (3)
Victims
- The Civilian Population (264)
  
  The Poles (252)
  
  Women (139)
  
  Children (96)
  
  The Jews (62)
  
  The Sick (58)
  
  The Elderly (42)
  
  Prisoners of War (39)
  
  The Inteligentsia (37)
  
  The Church (25)
  
  Russians/Soviets (19)
  
  The Russians (19)
  
  Germans (10)
  
  The French (8)
  
  Czechs (6)
  
  Hungarians (6)
  
  Slovaks (6)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (6)
  
  The Disabled (5)
  
  The Dutch (5)
  
  Belgians (4)
  
  The Communists (4)
  
  Ukrainians (4)
  
  Greeks (2)
  
  Italians (2)
  
  Lithuanians (2)
  
  Americans (1)
  
  Belarusians (1)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Serbs (1)
Perpetrators
- The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (287)
  
  SS (82)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (59)
  
  Military Police (56)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (52)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (26)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (17)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (15)
  
  Collaboration (14)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (14)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (6)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (6)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (5)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (5)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (3)
  
  Waffen-SS (3)
  
  Assault Units (Sturmabteilung, SA) (2)
  
  Red Army (2)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (2)
  
  The Russian National Liberation Army (RONA) (2)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (2)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (1)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (1)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Shooting (179)
  
  Execution (169)
  
  Arrest (90)
  
  Forced Labour (90)
  
  Robbery (78)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (78)
  
  Beatings (73)
  
  Expulsion (63)
  
  Deportation (56)
  
  Biological extermination (38)
  
  Brutal Interrogation/Tortures (37)
  
  Mass graves (37)
  
  Cremation (35)
  
  Round-up (31)
  
  Rape (26)
  
  Air raids (24)
  
  Armoured Weapon (23)
  
  Burning people alive (20)
  
  Administrative persecution (18)
  
  Economic exploitation (16)
  
  Artillery fire (15)
  
  Hanging (12)
  
  Gas chambers (11)
  
  Judicial crime (10)
  
  Racial policy (10)
  
  Human shields (9)
  
  Death marches (8)
  
  Denationalization (8)
  
  Medical experiments (7)
  
  Cattle wagons (6)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (6)
  
  "Dosing" (5)
  
  Displacement (4)
  
  Germanization (4)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (4)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (4)
  
  Deportation/Exile (2)
  
  Desacration of corpses (1)
  
  Disarmament (1)
Place
- Transit camp (48)
  
  Concentration camp (41)
  
  Prison (21)
  
  Forced labor (20)
  
  Extermination camp (18)
  
  Police headquarters/station (17)
  
  Ghetto (12)
  
  Labor camp (10)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (7)
  
  Sewers (2)
  
  Center for the Germanization of children (1)
  
  Kolkhoz (1)
Content
- Warsaw Uprising (128)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (60)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (38)
  
  Extermination of Jews (37)
  
  Health service (25)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (24)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (15)
  
  Civil resistance (15)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (15)
  
  Wola Massacre (14)
  
  Rescue of Jews (11)
  
  Field health service (9)
  
  Obliterating the traces (9)
  
  obliterating the traces (9)
  
  Central Welfare Council (8)
  
  Underground courts (8)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (5)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (4)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (4)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (4)
  
  Aktion Zamość (3)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (3)
  
  Polish Underground State (3)
  
  Underground culture and education (3)
  
  Verbrennungskommando (3)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (3)
  
  Called by name (2)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (2)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (2)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (2)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (2)
  
  Underground media (2)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (1)
  
  Anders' Army (1)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (1)
  
  Free City of Danzig (1)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (1)
  
  Judenrat (1)
  
  Ochota Massacre (1)
  
  Polish culture in exile (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (226)
  
  Brief (9)
  
  Account (5)
  
  Report (4)
  
  Photograph (3)
  
  Statement (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (83)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (64)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (40)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (32)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (27)
  
  District Court in Radom (10)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (9)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (7)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Warsaw (7)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation – Institute of National Remembrance in Białystok (1)
  
  District Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Warsaw (1)
  
  Independent Historical Office of the Command of the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union/Documentation Office of the Polish Army in the East (1)
  
  Provincial Office of Internal Affairs in Katowice (1)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (1)
  
  Voivodeship Court in Łódź (1)
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