„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)
- Sendler Irena; 15.02.1910, Warszawa (4)
  
  Adler Rubin; 24.11.1909, Końskie (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Fastman Ludwik; 31.07.1899, Drohobycz (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Łącki Mikołaj; 30.10.1888, Loyew (Belarus) (3)
  
  Żelazowska Janina Czesława; 26.10.1908 (3)
  
  Anonim (2)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (2)
  
  Bielewicz Marian; 19.08.1911, Warsaw (2)
  
  Gelade Eliasz; 1894? (2)
  
  Gitler-Barski Józef; 03.03.1898, Warsaw (2)
  
  Gitler-Barski Józef; 3.03.1898, Warsaw (2)
  
  Kajszczak Marian (2)
  
  Loth Felicjan; 30.06.1914, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Loth Felicjan; 30.06.1914, Lwów (now: Ukraine) (2)
  
  Mankiewicz Franciszek; 1898 (2)
  
  Maślankiewicz Jan; 01.09.1916, Warsaw (2)
  
  Maślankiewicz Jan; 01.09.1916, Warszawa (2)
  
  Maślanko Mieczysław (Mojżesz); 07.09.1903, Warsaw (2)
  
  Penson Jakub; 23.04.1899, Płock (2)
  
  Powichrowski Zygmunt; 1905 (2)
  
  Powichrowski Zygmunt; 1905? (2)
  
  Sendecki Sylwester; 1903? (2)
  
  Sterner Wacław; 28.11.1908, Warsaw (2)
  
  Sterner Wacław; 28.11.1908, Warszawa (2)
  
  Suchy Mojżesz; 05.10.1906, Radom (2)
  
  Warszawer Zygmunt (2)
  
  Wiernik Jankiel (Smarzyński Jan); 1889, Biała Podlaska (2)
  
  Wolken Otto; 27.04.1903, Vien (Austria) (2)
  
  Łukasiewicz Henryk (2)
  
  Abramczyk Stanisław (1)
  
  Adler Stanisław; 08.02.1901, Warsaw (1)
  
  Ajdelman Gania; 23.02.1924, Lubartów (lubelskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Andrzejczyk Edward Edmund; 18.08.1918, Słupia (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Anlen Bronisław Elkana; 9.05.1907, Warsaw (1)
  
  Anonym (1)
  
  Anonymous (1)
  
  Atkins Janina (1)
  
  Banach Leon; 8.06.1904, Futory (1)
  
  Banach-Kielanowska Gabriela (1)
  
  Banaszczyk Jan (1)
  
  Baron Zenek; 1926? (1)
  
  Barzycki Aleksander; 1894? (1)
  
  Berezowski Ludwik; 31.05.1894 (1)
  
  Bida Antoni; 08.04.1897, Ostrów Krupski (1)
  
  Bielska Krystyna (1)
  
  Biliński Jerzy; 1923, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Blinstrub Aniela; 1892? (1)
  
  Blusztein Laja; 1921? (1)
  
  Bojm Mojżesz; 1902? (1)
  
  Bojm Mojżesz; 1903? (1)
  
  Borzykowski Tuwia (Tadeusz); 1911 (1)
  
  Branny Paweł; 13.05.1888, Żuków Dolny (now Czech Teschen, the Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Branny Paweł; 13.05.1888, Żuków Dolny (now: Český Těšín, Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Branny Paweł; 13.05.1888, Żuków Dolny (Český Těšín, Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Braun Lejzor; 24.11.1920, Żuromin (1)
  
  Brener Liber; 08.11.1907, Turzysk (1)
  
  Bresler Jerzy (1)
  
  Brewda Alina; 13.06.1905, Warsaw (1)
  
  Brewda Alina; 14.06.1905, Warsaw (1)
  
  Brunarska Zofia; 27.05.1923 (1)
  
  Brzeziński Chaskiel; 1901?, Gąbin (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Brzuszkiewicz Kazimierz (1)
  
  Cechnicki Zbigniew; 1927 (1)
  
  Chlebowski Icek; 13.11.1918, Radom (1)
  
  Chojnacka Kazimiera; 06.12.1891 (1)
  
  Chrobak Franciszek; 1899? (1)
  
  Chądzyńska-Czarnocka Maria (1)
  
  Cichy Wiesław (1)
  
  Czajka Teodozja; 29.05.1934 (1)
  
  Czajkowski Czesław; 1886? (1)
  
  Czarnecki Antoni (1)
  
  Czerenkiewicz Michał; 21.11.1911, Wołkowyja (1)
  
  Czerniaków Felicja; 01.06.1883, Warsaw (1)
  
  Czyżewska Anna (1)
  
  Delingowski Jan; 19.06.1888 (1)
  
  Dobrzycka Anna (1)
  
  Dragon Szlama; 19.03.1920, Żuromin (1)
  
  Dudziński Zygmunt; 1887? (1)
  
  Dziuba Władysław; 1895?, Kielce (1)
  
  Dąbrowski Jan (1)
  
  Dąbski Stefan (1)
  
  Dębski Moszek; 1910?, Kielce (1)
  
  Długosz Wiesława (1)
  
  Edelman Marek; 01.01.1919, Warsaw (1)
  
  Falk Ignacy; Warsaw (1)
  
  Falk Ignacy; Warszawa (1)
  
  Fastman Ludwik; 31.07.1897, Drohobycz (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Fastman Ludwik; 31.07.1899, Drohobycz (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Feder Sala; 02.01.1918, Pilica (śląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Feingesicht Szmul; 20.04.1917, Radom (1)
  
  Feliksik-Ożóg Lubomiła (1)
  
  Ficowska Elżbieta (1)
  
  Fischmann Dawid; 02.01.1906, Ciechanów (1)
  
  Fiszer Irena; 07.09.1922, Kłobuck (1)
  
  Fiszer Irena; 7.09.1922, Kłobuck (1)
  
  Flak Zofia; 16.07.1916 (1)
  
  Fronenberg Moszek; 04.04.1921, Puławy (1)
  
  Frydenthal Aron; 1904? (1)
  
  Frydman Moszek; 14.12.1919, Radom (1)
  
  Furmankiewicz Agnieszka; 1886?, Małogoszcz (1)
Subject
- Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (36)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (35)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (26)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (18)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (17)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (14)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Radom Ghetto (11)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (11)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (10)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (10)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Radom Ghetto (10)
  
  The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews (10)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (8)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Kłobuck Ghetto (6)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (6)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (6)
  
  The Polish Righteous Among the Nations (6)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (6)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Kielce Ghetto (5)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Kraków (4)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Upper Silesia (4)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Nowogród region (4)
  
  The city condemned to death (4)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (3)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Gliwice (3)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Lublin region (3)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (3)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (3)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (3)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Częstochowa region (3)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Kielce region (3)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Podlasie region (3)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Wilno region (3)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Łódź region (3)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (3)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto (3)
  
  The Polish diplomacy and its bid to help Jews (3)
  
  Treblinka – extermination camp (3)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (2)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (2)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Częstochowa region (2)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (2)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Stopnica Ghetto (2)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Zawichost Ghetto (2)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (2)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Greater Poland (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Volhynia (2)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Częstochowa Ghetto (2)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (2)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Mazovia (1)
  
  Firlej near Radom – the training ground of death (1)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Częstochowa Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death - the Lipsko Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Chmielnik Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Klimontów Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Sandomierz Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Staszów Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Wilno Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Zamość Ghetto (1)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Kujawy region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Polesie region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Stanisławów region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Tarnopol region (1)
  
  Radom bathed in blood – the prison in the former convent buildings (1)
  
  Radom – daily terror (1)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Jedlińsk Ghetto (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Kłobuck Ghetto (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski Ghetto (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Sandomierz Ghetto (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Tomaszów Mazowiecki Ghetto (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Zwoleń Ghetto (1)
  
  The Ostrów forests – mass executions (1)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (1)
  
  The persecuted church (1)
  
  Third Reich – the Kielce region (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town (1)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Warsaw, Ghetto (82)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (31)
  
  Warsaw (27)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (25)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (25)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (21)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (20)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (20)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (20)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (19)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (15)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (15)
  
  Radom, Ghetto Śródmieście (14)
  
  Radom, Ghetto Glinice (13)
  
  Warsaw, ghetto, Umschlagplatz, Stawki Street 2/6 (13)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (12)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (12)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Umschlagplatz, Stawki Street 2/6 (12)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (12)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (11)
  
  Radzymin (10)
  
  KL Majdanek (9)
  
  Warsaw, Gęsiówka prison, Gęsia Street (Anielewicza Street)/ Zamenhofa Street (9)
  
  Łódź, ghetto (9)
  
  Częstochowa, forced labor camp "Hasag Pelcery", 1 Maja Street (Filomatów Street 14) (8)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (8)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (8)
  
  Piotrków Trybunalski, ghetto (8)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (8)
  
  Radom (8)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship), ghetto (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (7)
  
  KL Plaszow (7)
  
  KL Stutthof (7)
  
  Kielce, Ghetto (7)
  
  Kłobuck, ghetto (7)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (7)
  
  Palmiry (7)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) (7)
  
  Częstochowa, Ghetto (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (6)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (6)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (6)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (6)
  
  Kielce, Ludwików Steelworks, Zagnańska Street 27 (6)
  
  Lublin (6)
  
  Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (6)
  
  Poznań (6)
  
  Warsaw, Hotel Polski, Długa Street 29 (6)
  
  Warsaw, Leszno Street (6)
  
  Bliżyn, forced labor camp (5)
  
  Garbatka (Garbatka-Letnisko) (5)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (5)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (5)
  
  KL Treblinka (5)
  
  Majdanek, German extermination camp (5)
  
  Otwock, ghetto (5)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (5)
  
  Warsaw, All Saints' Church, Grzybowski Square 3/5 (5)
  
  Warsaw, Jewish cemetery, Okopowa Street 49/51 (5)
  
  Łódź (5)
  
  Będzin, ghetto (4)
  
  Częstochowa, Jewish cemetery, Złota Street (4)
  
  Częstochowa, Rynek Warszawski (Bohaterów Getta Square) (4)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (4)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (4)
  
  Katowice (4)
  
  Kielce, school, św. Aleksandra Street 26 (4)
  
  Kielce, the "Hasag-Granat" factory, Karczówkowska Street (4)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (4)
  
  Lwów (Ukraine), ghetto (4)
  
  Opatów (4)
  
  Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, ghetto (4)
  
  Poniatowa, German forced labor camp (4)
  
  Radom, forced labor camp, Szkolna Street (Poznańska Street) (4)
  
  Radom, forced labor camp, Szwarlikowskiego Street (4)
  
  Szydłowiec (Szydłowiec district) (4)
  
  Warsaw, Father Boduen Children's Home, Nowogrodzka Street 75 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Father Boduen House, Nowogrodzka Street 75 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Nalewki Street 9 (4)
  
  Wilno (Lithuania), ghetto (4)
  
  Firlej (Radom) (3)
  
  Hanover (Germany) (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (3)
  
  KL Blechhammer (3)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (3)
  
  Kielce, Jewish Cemetery, Pakosz Dolny Street (3)
  
  Kielce, Kadzielnia (3)
  
  Kraków (3)
  
  Legionowo, ghetto (3)
  
  Niemiecki obóz zagłady Majdanek (3)
  
  Piotrków Trybunalski, Manufaktura, Sulejowska Street 45 (3)
  
  Radom, Wałowa Street (3)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (3)
  
  Radomsko (3)
Victims
- The Jews (310)
  
  The Civilian Population (300)
  
  The Poles (234)
  
  Women (183)
  
  Children (130)
  
  The Inteligentsia (69)
  
  The Sick (48)
  
  The Elderly (41)
  
  The Russians (14)
  
  Prisoners of War (11)
  
  The Church (10)
  
  Hungarians (9)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (9)
  
  Czechs (8)
  
  The French (8)
  
  Americans (6)
  
  Germans (5)
  
  Slovaks (5)
  
  The Disabled (5)
  
  The Dutch (5)
  
  Greeks (4)
  
  Belgians (3)
  
  The Communists (3)
  
  Italians (2)
  
  Lithuanians (2)
  
  The British (2)
  
  Ukrainians (2)
  
  Belarusians (1)
  
  Deportees (1)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (1)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (1)
  
  Norwegians (1)
  
  Romanians (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (103)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (66)
  
  Military Police (62)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (35)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (29)
  
  Collaboration (17)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (12)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (11)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (10)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (9)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (8)
  
  Latvians (7)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (6)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (6)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (3)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (3)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (3)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (3)
  
  Lithuanians (2)
  
  Red Army (2)
  
  Security Office (2)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (2)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (2)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (2)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (2)
  
  Waffen-SS (2)
  
  Assault Units (Sturmabteilung, SA) (1)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (1)
  
  Denunciation (1)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (1)
  
  Soviet Militia (1)
Crimes
- Execution (213)
  
  Shooting (178)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (141)
  
  Forced Labour (104)
  
  Deportation (97)
  
  Beatings (91)
  
  Arrest (83)
  
  Robbery (67)
  
  Expulsion (58)
  
  Biological extermination (56)
  
  Racial policy (55)
  
  Brutal Interrogation/Tortures (47)
  
  Mass graves (46)
  
  Administrative persecution (41)
  
  Round-up (40)
  
  Cremation (36)
  
  Economic exploitation (30)
  
  Gas chambers (28)
  
  Hanging (26)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (21)
  
  Air raids (12)
  
  Burning people alive (11)
  
  Cattle wagons (11)
  
  Medical experiments (11)
  
  Death marches (9)
  
  Judicial crime (8)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (8)
  
  Rape (5)
  
  Armoured Weapon (3)
  
  Desacration of corpses (3)
  
  "Dosing" (2)
  
  Artillery fire (1)
  
  Deportation/Exile (1)
  
  Disarmament (1)
  
  Germanization (1)
  
  Human shields (1)
Place
- Ghetto (361)
  
  Concentration camp (67)
  
  Extermination camp (40)
  
  Labor camp (38)
  
  Prison (37)
  
  Police headquarters/station (21)
  
  Forced labor (16)
  
  Transit camp (9)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (7)
  
  Sewers (4)
Content
- Extermination of Jews (170)
  
  Rescue of Jews (148)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (87)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (49)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (36)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (26)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (26)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (21)
  
  Polish Underground State (18)
  
  Health service (14)
  
  obliterating the traces (14)
  
  Judenrat (13)
  
  Central Welfare Council (11)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (9)
  
  the Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (9)
  
  Civil resistance (8)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (8)
  
  Underground culture and education (6)
  
  Underground courts (5)
  
  Clandestine courses (4)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (4)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (4)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (3)
  
  Underground media (3)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (2)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (2)
  
  Wola Massacre (2)
  
  Aid to Jews (1)
  
  Aktion Zamość (1)
  
  Anders' Army (1)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (1)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (1)
  
  Field health service (1)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (1)
  
  Pabst Plan (Pabst-Plan) (1)
  
  Polish culture in exile (1)
  
  The Silent Unseen (1)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
Object type
- Testimony from judicial/criminal proceedings (221)
  
  Brief (73)
  
  Account (33)
  
  Statement (19)
  
  Interview (2)
  
  Book excerpt (1)
  
  Exhumation report (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Supreme National Tribunal (52)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (51)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (50)
  
  District Court in Radom (43)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (13)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (10)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (1)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (245)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (116)