“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)
- Szulc C. (10)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (2)
  
  Gąsowski Antoni, 1891? (2)
  
  Krzymiński Aleksander (2)
  
  Ochman Stefan; 27.12.1902, Kowel (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Wilk Katarzyna; 1885?, Mały Sławków (2)
  
  Banaszewski Stanisław; 1886?, Bugaj (skarżyski district) (1)
  
  Banaszewski; Stanisław 1886?, Bugaj (Skarżysko Kamienna county) (1)
  
  Bielska Krystyna (1)
  
  Bieniek Marianna; 1908, Dębska Wola (1)
  
  Biskup Władysław; 1915? (1)
  
  Borowicz Ignacy; 24.01.1905 (1)
  
  Borowicz Ignacy; 24.01.1906 (1)
  
  Brunarska Zofia; 27.05.1923 (1)
  
  Brzozowska Bronisława Apolonia 14.04.1906 (1)
  
  Brzozowska Bronisława Apolonia; 14.04.1906 (1)
  
  Charszla Lidia (1)
  
  Cieszkowska Halina (1)
  
  Ciuk Władysław; 1900?, Brzeście (Skarżysko Kamienna county) (1)
  
  Ciuk Władysław; 1900?, Brzeście (skarżyski district) (1)
  
  Czubaj Wincenty, 1895? (1)
  
  Czubaj Wincenty; 27.12.1902, Kowel (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Czwojdziński Roman (1)
  
  Dankowska Jolanta (1)
  
  Denisow Piotr; 1894? (1)
  
  Dudek Józef; 1903?, Skorzeczyce (1)
  
  Dąbrowski Jan (1)
  
  Ejda Leon; 12.04.1911, Białobrzegi (Legionowo county) (1)
  
  Frąckowska Maria (1)
  
  Galewicz Artur (Glasman Aron); 01.02.1892, Jadów (1)
  
  Gierych Anatol; 1910? (1)
  
  Guszkowski Stanisław, 1882? (1)
  
  Gąsiorowski Wincenty, 1883? (1)
  
  Jampolski Jan; 15.07.1916, Pińsk (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Janaszek Franciszek; 1912?, Kielce (1)
  
  Jaworski Tadeusz; 1904?, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Kaczmarek Karol (1)
  
  Kamiński Adam; 18.10.1889 (1)
  
  Kempisty Józef; 18.03.1899, Ostrów Mazowiecka (1)
  
  Klimas Zbigniew (1)
  
  Konferowicz Wacław; 13.05.1912, Ostrów Mazowiecka (1)
  
  Kostrzewa Kazimierz; 08.12.1922, Białobrzegi (Legionowo county) (1)
  
  Kowal Józef; 1906? (1)
  
  Kowalski Edward; 14.03.1914, Sępólno Krajeńskie (1)
  
  Krajewska Barbara (1)
  
  Kraus Otto; 07.09.1909, Klášterní Skalice (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Krogulski Robert Ludwik (1)
  
  Krupczak Maksymilian, 1891? (1)
  
  Krzyżyk Stanisław; 27.06.1905, Kielce (1)
  
  Kupiszewska Jadwiga (1)
  
  Lachowicz Stanisław (1)
  
  Lisak Piotr; 05.02.1917, Rzeszów (1)
  
  Makowski Marian; 01.12.1924, Kielce (1)
  
  Makowski Marian; 1.12.1924, Kielce (1)
  
  Marszałek Bolesław Karol; 02.10.1906, Kawęczyn (Dębica) (1)
  
  Matheis Józef (1)
  
  Mroczek Jan (1)
  
  Nowacki Witold Antoni (1)
  
  Osóbka Jan; 1929?, Bilżyn (1)
  
  Owsianko-Girski Sylwin; 1928? (1)
  
  Pisarek Ignacy; 20.07.1890, Białobrzegi (Legionowo county) (1)
  
  Podolska Helena; 1886?, Warsaw (1)
  
  Podolska Helena; 1886?, Warszawa (1)
  
  Pozimski Jerzy; 05.05.1913, Szarlej (Piekary Śląskie) (1)
  
  Połociniec Bronisław; 08.08.1912, Białobrzegi (Legionowo county) (1)
  
  Przygodzki Jacek (1)
  
  Przygodzki Jan (1)
  
  Radziszewski Henryk; 05.02.1911, Ostrówek (Węgrów county) (1)
  
  Radziszewski Henryk; 05.02.1911, Ostrówek (district of Węgrów) (1)
  
  Rajewski Ludwik; 16.12.1900, Łódź (1)
  
  Samek Bolesław; 1911?, Potok Wielki (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Seyfried Edmund; 15.02.1889, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 19.04.1920, Chorzów (1)
  
  Sobaś Władysław; 1913?, Kielce (1)
  
  Sobczyk Jan; 1923?, Kielce (1)
  
  Sperber Karel; 1910, Tachov (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Stachura Władysław; 22.02.1909, Kielce (1)
  
  Sterdyner Józef; 1910? (1)
  
  Strynkowski Józef; 23.02.1891, Ostrów Mazowiecka (1)
  
  Szczęsny Wacław; 18.06.1913 (1)
  
  Szymczykowski Szymon; 1880?, Kielce (1)
  
  Tomiczek Henryk (1)
  
  Wesołowski Marian; 19.01.1913, Kielce (1)
  
  Wiecki Jan (1)
  
  Wolter Władysław; 05.02.1897, Kraków (1)
  
  Wołoszczuk Julian; 1900? (1)
  
  Wójcik Jan (1)
  
  Zakrzewska Stefania; 1890?, Staszów (1)
  
  Zasada Franciszek; 10.08.1898, Warsaw (1)
  
  Ziółkowska Alina; 11.05.1918, Uniszki Zawadzkie (1)
  
  Łomnicka Anna; 1935? (1)
  
  Łukasiewicz Antoni; 1896?, Zawichost (1)
  
  Żak Ignacy; 1909?, Sorbin (1)
  
  Żarczyński Józef; 10.03.1911, Biała Cerkiew (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Żychowski Stanisław; 17.11.1903 (1)
Subject
- Soviets in German captivity (31)
  
  Taken Captive (14)
  
  Prisoners of war – transit camps in Kielce (10)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (6)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (5)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (4)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (4)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (4)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (4)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (3)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Pomerania (2)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (2)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (2)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (2)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (2)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (1)
  
  Browar, Czerwoniak – the Ostrów death blocks (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Warsaw (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Volhynia (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (1)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (1)
  
  Lebensborn – the Germanization of Polish children (1)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (1)
  
  Poles who saved Jews in the Kielce region (1)
  
  Prisoners of war – the Luckenwalde stalag (1)
  
  Prisoners of war – the Stablack stalag (1)
  
  Pruszków – the town of the displaced (1)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (1)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Soldier's House, Fort VII, Żabikowo – the trail of death in Greater Poland (1)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Kielce, Fijałkowski's Barracks (Cemetery of Soviet Prisoners of War) (9)
  
  Beniaminów, Stalag 368 (8)
  
  Warsaw (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (6)
  
  Białobrzegi (Legionowo county), Soviet POW cemetery (5)
  
  Bliżyn, Stalag XII C/Z (5)
  
  Bliżyn, forced labor camp (4)
  
  Bukówka (Kielce) (4)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (4)
  
  Kielce, Kraków Bishops' Palace, Zamkowy Square (4)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (4)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (4)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (3)
  
  Chełm, POW camp "Stalag 319", Rampa Brzeska Street (3)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (3)
  
  Gross-Born (Kłomino), Oflag II D (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (3)
  
  Kielce, Ludwików Steelworks, Zagnańska Street 27 (3)
  
  Kościerzyna (3)
  
  Ostrówek, Stalag 333 (3)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Świder (Otwock) (3)
  
  Altengrabow (Germany), Stalag XI A (2)
  
  Bliżyn (2)
  
  Chełm (2)
  
  Geneva (Switzerland) (2)
  
  Grudziądz (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (2)
  
  KL Plaszow (2)
  
  Kielce (2)
  
  Kielce, "Henryków" factory, Młynarska Street 133 (Mielczarskiego Street) (2)
  
  Kraków (2)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (2)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (2)
  
  Lublin (2)
  
  Neubrandenburg (Germany), Stalag IIA (2)
  
  Pruszków (2)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (2)
  
  Radzymin (2)
  
  Starachowice (2)
  
  Warsaw, Chłodna Street (2)
  
  Warsaw, Hale Mirowskie [trade halls] (2)
  
  Alecisdorf (Germany), Stalag VI C (1)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Biała Podlaska (1)
  
  Białobrzegi (1)
  
  Biłgoraj (lubelskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Bliżyn, Jewish Cemetery (1)
  
  Bliżyn, Soviet Soldiers' Cemetery (1)
  
  Bochnia, train station (1)
  
  Brody (Starachowice district) (1)
  
  Bryansk (Russia, Bryansk Oblast) (1)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Caracas (Venezuela) (1)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (1)
  
  Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Częstochowa (1)
  
  Dnipropetrovsk (Dnipro, Ukraine) (1)
  
  Dorsten (Germany), Oflag VI E (1)
  
  Dresden (Germany) (1)
  
  Dössel, Oflag VI B (1)
  
  Dęblin (1)
  
  Erfurt (Germany) (1)
  
  Gera (Germany) (1)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (1)
  
  German extermination camp of Sobibór (1)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (1)
  
  Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (1)
  
  Gostków, Szmit's Quarry, labor camp (1)
  
  Gołkowo (Brodnica district) (1)
  
  Grabowo (Starogard Gdański county) (1)
  
  Gross-Hesepe (Germany), Stalag VI C (1)
  
  Hohenstein (Olsztynek), Stalag I B (1)
  
  Hrubieszów (1)
  
  Itzehoe, Stalag X A (1)
  
  Iłowo (1)
  
  Iłowo-Osada (subcamp of KL Soldau transit camp), Szkolna Street (Leśna Street) (1)
  
  Iłża (1)
  
  Jastrzębia (district of Skarżysko-Kamienna) (1)
  
  Jasło (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (1)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (1)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (1)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (1)
  
  KL Stutthof (1)
  
  Kabacki Forest (Warsaw) (1)
  
  Kalkówka (Mława) (1)
  
  Kielce, Barracks of the 4th Legion Infantry Regiment, Prosta Street (1)
  
  Kielce, Zagórska Street (1)
  
  Kielce, forced labor camp "Henryków", Młynarska Street 133 (Mielczarskiego Street) (1)
  
  Kielce, the "Leśny" Stadium (1)
  
  Klaipėda (Lithuania) (1)
Victims
- Prisoners of War (98)
  
  The Poles (71)
  
  Russians/Soviets (61)
  
  Civilians (52)
  
  The Civilian Population (40)
  
  The Russians (38)
  
  The Jews (35)
  
  Women (26)
  
  Children (20)
  
  The sick (17)
  
  The Sick (15)
  
  The Inteligentsia (14)
  
  The French (10)
  
  Italians (6)
  
  The Church (6)
  
  The Elderly (6)
  
  The elderly (6)
  
  Ukrainians (5)
  
  Czechs (4)
  
  Germans (3)
  
  Greeks (3)
  
  Hungarians (3)
  
  The Dutch (3)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (3)
  
  Belgians (2)
  
  Lithuanians (2)
  
  Policemen (2)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (2)
  
  The British (2)
  
  The Disabled (2)
  
  Belarusians (1)
  
  Romanians (1)
  
  Serbs (1)
  
  Slovaks (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (20)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (9)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (8)
  
  Military Police (7)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (6)
  
  Collaboration (5)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (4)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (4)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (2)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (2)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (2)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (2)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (1)
  
  Denunciation (1)
  
  Red Army (1)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (1)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (1)
  
  The Navy of Nazi Germany (Kriegsmarine) (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1)
Crimes
- Execution (56)
  
  Forced labor (55)
  
  Deportation (43)
  
  Death by shooting (41)
  
  Biological extermination (39)
  
  Mass graves (29)
  
  Beating (27)
  
  Arrest (15)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (15)
  
  Robbery (14)
  
  Cremation of corpses (10)
  
  Displacement (10)
  
  Economic exploitation (9)
  
  Expulsion (9)
  
  Hanging (8)
  
  Cremation (7)
  
  Gas chambers (7)
  
  Racial policy (7)
  
  Administrative persecution (5)
  
  Air raids (5)
  
  Armored weapons (3)
  
  Death marches (3)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (3)
  
  Judicial crime (3)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (3)
  
  Round-up (3)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (3)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (3)
  
  "Dosing" (2)
  
  Artillery fire (2)
  
  Artillery shelling (2)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (2)
  
  Medical experiments (2)
  
  Rape (2)
  
  Burning people alive (1)
  
  Cattle wagons (1)
  
  Denationalization (1)
  
  Deportation/Exile (1)
  
  Disarmament (1)
  
  Germanization (1)
Place
- POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (112)
  
  Labor camp (15)
  
  Transit camp (14)
  
  Forced labor (10)
  
  Concentration camp (8)
  
  Ghetto (8)
  
  Prison (8)
  
  Extermination camp (5)
  
  Police headquarters/station (5)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (2)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (1)
  
  Sewers (1)
Content
- Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (23)
  
  Extermination of Jews (19)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (13)
  
  Rescue of Jews (12)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (9)
  
  Obliterating the traces (8)
  
  Civil resistance (6)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (5)
  
  Health service (4)
  
  Aktion Zamość (3)
  
  Central Welfare Council (3)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (3)
  
  Polish Underground State (3)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (2)
  
  Underground culture and education (2)
  
  obliterating the traces (2)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (1)
  
  Amnesty (1)
  
  Anders' Army (1)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (1)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (1)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (1)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (1)
  
  National Armed Forces (1)
  
  Polish culture in exile (1)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (1)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (1)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
  
  Underground media (1)
  
  Verbrennungskommando (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1)
  
  Wola Massacre (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (56)
  
  Brief (10)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (7)
  
  Account (5)
  
  Photograph (1)
  
  Scene investigation report (1)
  
  Statement (1)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (25)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (19)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (16)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (11)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (10)
  
  District Court in Radom (5)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (3)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (3)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (3)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Gdańsk 1945–1949 (2)
  
  Katyn Museum (2)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland. Research and investigative files (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Warsaw (1)
  
  District Court in Łomża (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)
  
  Magistrates’ Court in Bydgoszcz (1)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland 1949–1984 (1)
  
  Provincial Office of Internal Affairs in Wrocław [1945] 1983–1990 (1)
Medium
- Text (112)
  
  Image (6)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (62)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (50)