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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Pacocha Leopold; 10.11.1898, Warsaw (3)
  
  Janssens Jean; 30.03.1904 Ougrée (Belgium) (2)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (2)
  
  Szczepanowski Jan; 1909? (2)
  
  Ablewski Władysław; 28.02.1891, Kuczki (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Ajdelman Gania; 23.02.1924, Lubartów (lubelskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Babiński Henryk, 1911 (1)
  
  Baron Zenek; 1926? (1)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (1)
  
  Bocian Zygmunt; 23.10.1909, Warszawa (1)
  
  Brandel Debora; 09.04.1919 (1)
  
  Brandel Debora; 1920? (1)
  
  Brewda Alina; 14.06.1905, Warsaw (1)
  
  Brunvoll Kirsten; 1898 (1)
  
  Buraczyńska (Zeiske) Wojciecha; 22.04.1920, Warsaw (1)
  
  Bąk Michał; 1903? (1)
  
  Cukier Rachmil; 1926? (1)
  
  Deja Stanisław; 23.04.1907, Kowala (1)
  
  Denisow Piotr; 1894? (1)
  
  Dyntar Józef; 17.03.1919, Kraków (1)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (1)
  
  Dürmayer Heinrich; 10.04.1905, Atzgersdorf (Austria) (1)
  
  Epstein Bertold; 01.04.1890, Pilzno (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Feinsilber Alter (Jankowski Stanisław); 23.10.1910, Stoczek Łukowski (1)
  
  Flak Zofia; 16.07.1916 (1)
  
  Geiger Joanna (1)
  
  Gryta Marcin (1)
  
  Grzyb Apolonia; 01.05.1893, Uchanie (1)
  
  Grzyb Apolonia; 1897? (1)
  
  Głowiak Stanisław; 10.02.1903, Podzwierzyniec (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Hagen de Jean; 1912? (1)
  
  Hagen de Jean; 28.11.1911, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Halbreich Eugenia; 20.09.1919, Kraków (1)
  
  Herschenbaum Izaak; 1918? (1)
  
  Jakubowicz Maria; 1920? (1)
  
  Jakubowicz Mojsze; 15.05.1922, Poddębice (łódzkie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Janiszewska Anna; 1912?, Serbinów (1)
  
  Jona Enrica; 11.02.1910, Asti (Italy) (1)
  
  Jona Enrica; 11.02.1910, Asti (Włochy) (1)
  
  Kalinowski (1)
  
  Kask Roman; 08.06.1908, Warszawa (1)
  
  Kaufmann Maryla; 1929? (1)
  
  Kinel Stefan; 20.12.1912 (1)
  
  Klamdel Jadwiga; 1912? (1)
  
  Koliński Tadeusz; 15.03.1925, Warsaw (1)
  
  Kozłowski Feliks; 1903? (1)
  
  Kościelniak Mieczysław; 28.01.1912, Kalisz (1)
  
  Koźmiński Jerzy; 31.08.1924 (1)
  
  Krawczyk Ryszard; 1920? (1)
  
  Krysa Kazimierz; 16.02.1900, Rejowiec (1)
  
  Krysa Kazimierz; 1900? (1)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (1)
  
  Lachowski Roman; Wójcik Adam (1)
  
  Latała Stanisława; 1921? (1)
  
  Licen Maria; 1908? (1)
  
  Limousin Henri ;25.03.1893, Saint Le Noble (France) (1)
  
  Machałowski Jan; 22.02.1912, Warszawa (1)
  
  Makowska Eleonora; 28.09.1904, Wilno (now in Lithuania) (1)
  
  Mandelbaum Izrael; 16.11.1913, Lublin (1)
  
  Maniowiec Henryka, 29.05.1935, Wisznice (1)
  
  Manowiecka Janina (1)
  
  Mansfeld Géza; 26.02.1882, Budapest (Hungary) (1)
  
  Markiewicz Piotr; 1898? (1)
  
  Mańkowski Augustyn; 20.05.1890, Warsaw (1)
  
  Maślanko Mieczysław; 07.09.1903, Warsaw (1)
  
  Neuman Józef; 1916?, Oświęcim (1)
  
  Nowacki Tadeusz; 1.04.1919, Ostrów Mazowiecka (1)
  
  Nowacki Witold Antoni; 16.06.1917, Ostrów Mazowiecka (1)
  
  Nowakowska (Żelińska) Maria; 04.04.1921, Ropczyce (1)
  
  Ostrowski Antoni Czesław; 13.01.1902, Warsaw (1)
  
  Parapura Mieczysław; 15.03.1920, Pruszyn (Siedlce county) (1)
  
  Parapura Stanisław; 02.05.1895, Pruszyn (Siedlce county) (1)
  
  Pawełczyk Józef (1)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina, 24.12.1900, Warszawa (1)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (1)
  
  Popiół Motek; 17.07.1923, Żuromin (1)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (1)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 1911? (1)
  
  Pozimski Jerzy; 05.05.1913, Szarlej (Piekary Śląskie) (1)
  
  Pytaś Bogdan; 1920? (1)
  
  Rachwał Stanisława; 29.06.1906, Rudki (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Radałowicz Zbigniew; 25.08.1909 (1)
  
  Rek Izabella; 26.07.1922, Suchedniów (1)
  
  Reyman Jan; 21.10.1902, Kraków (1)
  
  Rosin Arnošt; 1912, Snina (Slovakia) (1)
  
  Roszkowska Halina; 24.02.1911, Lublin (1)
  
  Rzeźnicki Zygmunt Józef; 10.01.1910, Warsaw (1)
  
  Rzeźnicki Zygmunt Józef; 10.01.1910, Warszawa (1)
  
  Sernacki Piotr; 1899? (1)
  
  Siekierkowski Mieczysław; 1899? (1)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć county) (1)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć district) (1)
  
  Sokół Michał; 1890? (1)
  
  Sperber Karel; 1910, Tachov (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Steinfeld Izrael; 1903 (1)
  
  Stoeger Samuel; 14.05.1911, Kraków (1)
  
  Stępniak Jan; 1906? (1)
  
  Surgiewicz Henryk; 09.05.1896 (1)
  
  Szabłowski Aleksander (1)
  
  Szczuciński (1)
Subject
- Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (23)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (13)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (12)
  
  Warsaw '44 – uprising in Praga (12)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (9)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (7)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Gliwice (6)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (5)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (4)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Sachsenhausen (4)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (4)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (4)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (3)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (3)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (2)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (2)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (1)
  
  Firlej near Radom – the training ground of death (1)
  
  In exile – Ryazan Oblast (1)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Buchenwald (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (1)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (1)
  
  Stadion Leśny, Słowik, Herby – execution sites in Kielce (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ivanovo Oblast (1)
  
  The Polish Righteous Among the Nations (1)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (1)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Świętokrzyskie region (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (1)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (46)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (40)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (39)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (34)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (29)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (23)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (21)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (20)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (20)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (19)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (17)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (16)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (13)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (13)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (9)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (9)
  
  Warsaw, the Metropolitan Council of the Holy Equal of the Apostles Mary Magdalene, Aleksandryjska Street (aleja „Solidarności” 52) (9)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (8)
  
  KL Majdanek (8)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (8)
  
  Wodzisław Śląski (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (7)
  
  KL Melk (Austria) (7)
  
  Pszczyna (7)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (6)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (6)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (6)
  
  Warsaw, Wileńska Street 5 (6)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz IV (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (5)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (5)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (5)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (5)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (5)
  
  Schwerin (Germany) (5)
  
  Łódź (5)
  
  Bydgoszcz (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (4)
  
  KL Blechhammer (4)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (4)
  
  KL Plaszow (4)
  
  KL Stutthof (4)
  
  Warsaw (4)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (4)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (3)
  
  Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  Jawiszowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (3)
  
  KL Ebensee (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) (3)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (3)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (3)
  
  Radom (3)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (3)
  
  Warsaw, Wileńska Street 3 (3)
  
  Warsaw, the Jewish Cemetery, św. Wincentego Street (3)
  
  Zamość, resettlement camp, Okrzei Street (3)
  
  Łódź, ghetto (3)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz I (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Bełżec, German extermination camp (2)
  
  Bochnia, train station (2)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (2)
  
  Brzeszcze (2)
  
  Compiègne (France), transit camp (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (2)
  
  Jasło, temporary remand prison, Staszica Street 3 (2)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (2)
  
  KL Melk (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) (2)
  
  KL Neuengamme (Germany) (2)
  
  KL Neustadt-Glewe (Germany) (2)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (2)
  
  Kończyce (Radom), Kosowski Forest (2)
  
  Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 (2)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (2)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (2)
  
  Lublin, Lublin Castle, Zamkowa Street 9 (2)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Majdanek, German extermination camp (2)
  
  Mechelen (Belgium), transit camp (2)
  
  Modrzejowice, an estate (2)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (2)
  
  Nowy Wiśnicz (2)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (2)
  
  Podsuliszka (Radom District) (2)
  
  Podsuliszka, Pakosławski Forest (2)
  
  Poręba (district of Pszczyna) (2)
  
  Proskuriv (Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (2)
  
  Saint Cyprien (France) (2)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (2)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (2)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (2)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (2)
  
  Uchanie (2)
  
  Vienna (Austria) (2)
  
  Warsaw, Golędzinów (2)
Victims
- Civilians (107)
  
  The Civilian Population (107)
  
  The Poles (101)
  
  Women (71)
  
  The Jews (62)
  
  The Sick (46)
  
  The sick (46)
  
  Children (42)
  
  Russians/Soviets (34)
  
  Prisoners of War (33)
  
  The Russians (33)
  
  The Inteligentsia (31)
  
  The elderly (27)
  
  The Elderly (27)
  
  Hungarians (19)
  
  The French (17)
  
  Belgians (16)
  
  Czechs (16)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (16)
  
  Germans (12)
  
  The Dutch (11)
  
  The Church (10)
  
  Greeks (9)
  
  Slovaks (9)
  
  Ukrainians (7)
  
  Italians (6)
  
  The Disabled (6)
  
  Norwegians (5)
  
  Americans (4)
  
  Belarusians (4)
  
  The Communists (4)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (3)
  
  The British (3)
  
  Policemen (2)
  
  Romanians (2)
  
  Border Guard (1)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Serbs (1)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (70)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (34)
  
  Collaboration (12)
  
  Military Police (9)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (9)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (8)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (5)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (5)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (5)
  
  Red Army (4)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (3)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (2)
  
  Denunciation (2)
  
  Latvians (2)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (2)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (1)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (1)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Death marches (114)
  
  Execution (90)
  
  Forced labor (86)
  
  Death by shooting (82)
  
  Beating (74)
  
  Biological extermination (67)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (65)
  
  Arrest (51)
  
  Gas chambers (45)
  
  Deportation (42)
  
  Cremation (40)
  
  Cremation of corpses (40)
  
  Robbery (38)
  
  Mass graves (37)
  
  Cattle wagons (29)
  
  Medical experiments (27)
  
  "Dosing" (20)
  
  Hanging (19)
  
  Economic exploitation (17)
  
  Burning people alive (13)
  
  Racial policy (10)
  
  Displacement (9)
  
  Expulsion (9)
  
  Judicial crime (8)
  
  Deportation/Exile (7)
  
  Disarmament (7)
  
  Rape (6)
  
  Round-up (6)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (6)
  
  Punishment cell (5)
  
  Desacration of corpses (4)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (4)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (4)
  
  Armored weapons (3)
  
  Germanization (3)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (3)
  
  Roads of death (3)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (3)
  
  Administrative persecution (1)
  
  Air raids (1)
  
  Sovietization (1)
Place
- Concentration camp (66)
  
  Extermination camp (43)
  
  Labor camp (31)
  
  Prison (19)
  
  Police headquarters/station (16)
  
  Ghetto (9)
  
  Transit camp (9)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (8)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (8)
  
  Forced labor (5)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (2)
  
  Center for the Germanization of children (1)
  
  Mine (1)
Content
- Extermination of Jews (45)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (28)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (17)
  
  Obliterating the traces (15)
  
  obliterating the traces (14)
  
  Health service (13)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (10)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (10)
  
  Aktion Zamość (8)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (7)
  
  Anders' Army (5)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (5)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (5)
  
  Amnesty (4)
  
  Civil resistance (4)
  
  Rescue of Jews (4)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (4)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (3)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (3)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (2)
  
  Communist propaganda (2)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (2)
  
  Polish culture in exile (2)
  
  Underground culture and education (2)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (2)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (1)
  
  Clandestine courses (1)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (1)
  
  Epidemics (1)
  
  Operation "Tempest" (1)
  
  Underground courts (1)
  
  Underground media (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (93)
  
  Account (7)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (5)
  
  Brief (3)
  
  Book excerpt (1)
  
  Scene investigation report (1)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Supreme National Tribunal (52)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (22)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (12)
  
  Independent Historical Office of the Command of the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union/Documentation Office of the Polish Army in the East (11)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (3)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (2)
  
  District Court in Radom (2)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (2)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (2)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (1)
  
  Voivodeship Court in Łódź (1)
Medium
- Text (114)
  
  Image (13)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (102)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (12)