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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Sobczański J. (5)
  
  Lorentz Stanisław; 28.04.1899, Radom (3)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 04.05.1918, Kraków (2)
  
  Lasocka-Estreicher Teresa; 22.02.1905, Monasterzyska (now: Ukraine) (2)
  
  Rysiński Mieczysław (2)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Wołczyński Jan (2)
  
  Augustyniak Regina; 01.06.1914, Sterdyń (1)
  
  Białous Edward; 03.04.1914, Kantorówka (1)
  
  Biliński Jerzy; 1923, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Blum Artur (1)
  
  Bochenek Marta; 19.09.1892 (1)
  
  Borkowski Stefan (1)
  
  Brandt Janusz; 1905? (1)
  
  Budziaszek Maria; 08.09.1920, Kraków (1)
  
  Bujko Wiktor (1)
  
  Cichocki Edmund; 17.06.1915, Warsaw (1)
  
  Cichoński Stefan (1)
  
  Cyran Walentyna; 1899, Grodno (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  CyranWalentyna; Grodno (now: Belarus), 1899 (1)
  
  Daszkiewicz Wanda (1)
  
  Denkiewicz Michał; 08.09.1893, Wierzba (1)
  
  Denkiewicz Michał; 1893? (1)
  
  Donnerstag Hildegarda; 08.02.1915 (1)
  
  Falk Ignacy; 1902? (1)
  
  Fiderkiewicz Alfred; 02.07.1886, Horodenka (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Fiderkiewicz Alfred; 2.07.1886, Horodenka (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Filipak Olga (1)
  
  Franaszewski Hieronim; 30.09.1904, Warsaw (1)
  
  Frydel Wanda (1)
  
  Fryt Hanna (1)
  
  Garlicki Aleksander (1)
  
  Grabowski Władysław; 1886? (1)
  
  Grabowski Władysław; 22.04.1897, Ignaczewo (1)
  
  Gubrynowicz Bronisława (1)
  
  Gutkowska Teresa, 06.12.1930 (1)
  
  Gwiazdomorski Jan; 1898? (1)
  
  Górecki Aleksander; 1901? (1)
  
  Gładysz Franciszek; 21.04.1903 (1)
  
  Horczak Krystyna; 23.03.1914, Warsaw (1)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 13.11.1916, Kraków (1)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (1)
  
  Iżycka-Kowalska Anna (1)
  
  Jackiewicz Regina; 19.06.1921, Iłowo (1)
  
  Jamróz Halina; 1919? (1)
  
  Jurewicz Maria, 14.10.1907 (1)
  
  Jędrusiak Michalina, 29.09.1906, Kraków (1)
  
  Jędrzejczak Joanna (1)
  
  Kaczmarek Karol (1)
  
  Kamińska Irena; 30.09.1924, Sadowne (1)
  
  Karcz Jan; 27.08.1915, Skalbmierz (1)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (1)
  
  Klimas Zbigniew (1)
  
  Komar Marian; 11.10.1928, Białka (1)
  
  Kopera Feliks; 1872? (1)
  
  Kościelny Czesław; 1906? (1)
  
  Kościuszko Janina; 17.05.1897, Chrzanów? (1)
  
  Kraus Otto; 07.09.1909, Klášterní Skalice (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Kruczyński Michał; 1895? (1)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (1)
  
  Kulka Erich; 18.02.1911, Vsetín (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Kurkowski Jan; 08.09.1893 (1)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Kutzner Maria; 02.02.1940, Szelest (1)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 1917? (1)
  
  Lehr-Soławiński Tadeusz; 1890? (1)
  
  Leja Ignacy (1)
  
  Lendzion Witold; 16.09.1918, Toruń (1)
  
  Lepszy Kazimierz; 11.06.1904 (1)
  
  Lerczak Bolesław, 02.08.1912 (1)
  
  Lipczyński Józef (1)
  
  Lipiński Eryk; 12.07.1908; Kraków (1)
  
  Liszka Edward; 25.07.1920, Kraków (1)
  
  Lubkiewicz Stanisław; 18.10.1913, Sadowne (1)
  
  Maciszewska Maria (1)
  
  Maliszewski Stefan, 23.05.1912, Warszawa (1)
  
  Maliszewski Stefan; 23.05.1912, Warsaw (1)
  
  Maszczyk Antoni (1)
  
  Mazanek Stefan; 1895 (1)
  
  Mazurkiewicz Józef; 1904 (1)
  
  Małecka Irena (1)
  
  Mikołajski Zdzisław; 28.09.1913, Kraków (1)
  
  Molski Czesław (1)
  
  Mystkowski Stanisław; 13.09.1892, Dąbrowa Wielka (podlaskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Mączka Zofia; 30.11.1905, Kraków (1)
  
  Nowacki Stanisław; 1916? (1)
  
  Olejniczak Stefania (1)
  
  Orłowski Stanisław; 1910 (1)
  
  Orłowski Stanisław; 1910, Życiny (1)
  
  Owiński Tadeusz; 21.07.1904; Kołomyja (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Pastuszak Janina (1)
  
  Pałasiński Zdzisław; 15.08.1921 (1)
  
  Piotrowicz Genowefa; 1919? (1)
  
  Piotrowski Roman; 21.01.1895, Nowy Targ (małopolskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (1)
  
  Piłsudski Marian; 15.07.1912 (1)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (1)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 1911? (1)
  
  Pozimski Jerzy; 05.05.1913, Szarlej (Piekary Śląskie) (1)
  
  Pozimski Jerzy; 05.05.1915, Piekary Śląskie (1)
Subject
- Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (18)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (15)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (12)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (9)
  
  Pruszków – the town of the displaced (8)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Lublin region (6)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (5)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (5)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (5)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Warsaw (4)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (4)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (4)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (3)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (3)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (3)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (3)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (3)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (3)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (3)
  
  The city condemned to death (3)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Radom region (3)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (2)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (2)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (2)
  
  Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages (2)
  
  Michniów – the extermination of the Polish countryside (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (2)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (2)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (2)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (2)
  
  The persecuted church (2)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Świętokrzyskie region (2)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (1)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (1)
  
  In exile – Ural (1)
  
  Lebensborn – the Germanization of Polish children (1)
  
  Lebensraum – the Germanization of the Zamość region (1)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Neuengamme (1)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Upper Silesia (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Volhynia (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (1)
  
  Poles who saved Jews in Lwów (1)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (1)
  
  Taken Captive (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (1)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  The tragedy of the Radom Arms Factory (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz I (35)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (32)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (28)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (26)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (26)
  
  Warsaw (23)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (19)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (17)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (14)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (12)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (12)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (12)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (11)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (10)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (10)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (9)
  
  Kraków (9)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (8)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (8)
  
  Bochnia, train station (7)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (7)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (7)
  
  Bydgoszcz (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (6)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (6)
  
  KL Majdanek (6)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (6)
  
  Łódź (6)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, SS-Stabsgebaude (5)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (5)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (5)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (5)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (5)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (5)
  
  Wrocław (5)
  
  Brzeszcze (4)
  
  Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  Częstochowa (4)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (4)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (4)
  
  KL Plaszow (4)
  
  Lublin (4)
  
  Majdanek, German extermination camp (4)
  
  Palmiry (4)
  
  Warsaw, Royal Castle, Zamkowy Square 4 (4)
  
  Busko-Zdrój (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (3)
  
  Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 (3)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (3)
  
  Nowy Wiśnicz, forced labor camp (3)
  
  Paris (France) (3)
  
  Podkowa Leśna (3)
  
  Prague (Czech Republic) (3)
  
  Pruszków, Tworki Hospital, Partyzantów Street 2/4 (3)
  
  Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  Rajsko, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  Sandomierz (3)
  
  Sosnowiec (Śląskie Voivodeship) (3)
  
  Warsaw, St. John's Cathedral, Świętojańska Street 8 (3)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (2)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (2)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Grodzisk Mazowiecki (2)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (2)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (2)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (2)
  
  KL Melk (Austria) (2)
  
  KL Mittelbau-Dora (Germany) (2)
  
  Katowice (2)
  
  Kielce (2)
  
  Kraków, Collegium Novum of the Jagiellonian University, Gołębia Street 24 (2)
  
  Michniów (2)
  
  Milanówek (2)
  
  Mszczonów (2)
  
  Nowy Wiśnicz (2)
  
  Obdzierz (Sulejów) (2)
  
  Pszczyna (2)
  
  Płock (2)
  
  Radom (2)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (2)
  
  Rajsko (Oświęcim district) (2)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Sadowne (Sadowne commune) (2)
  
  Siedlce (2)
  
  Skaryszew (Radom District), Chomentowska Street (Partyzantów Street) (2)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Sulejów (2)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (2)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (2)
  
  Warsaw, Brzozowa Street 10 (2)
Victims
- Civilians (141)
  
  The Poles (136)
  
  The Civilian Population (132)
  
  Women (90)
  
  The Jews (66)
  
  Children (64)
  
  The Inteligentsia (62)
  
  The sick (39)
  
  The Sick (38)
  
  Russians/Soviets (37)
  
  Prisoners of War (36)
  
  The Russians (31)
  
  The Elderly (30)
  
  The elderly (30)
  
  Germans (16)
  
  Czechs (15)
  
  Hungarians (14)
  
  The Church (13)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (10)
  
  Slovaks (9)
  
  Greeks (8)
  
  The French (8)
  
  Ukrainians (8)
  
  Deportees (7)
  
  The Dutch (7)
  
  The Communists (6)
  
  The Disabled (5)
  
  Belarusians (4)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (4)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (4)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (4)
  
  Belgians (3)
  
  Italians (3)
  
  The British (3)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (2)
  
  Lithuanians (2)
  
  Policemen (2)
  
  Romanians (2)
  
  Border Guard (1)
  
  Norwegians (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (67)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (36)
  
  Collaboration (24)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (17)
  
  Military Police (11)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (9)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (7)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (6)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (6)
  
  Denunciation (5)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (5)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (4)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (4)
  
  Lithuanians (2)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (2)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (2)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (1)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (1)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (1)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (1)
  
  Soviet Militia (1)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (1)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (1)
  
  Waffen-SS (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Execution (85)
  
  Forced labor (73)
  
  Death by shooting (72)
  
  Beating (61)
  
  Arrest (59)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (55)
  
  Biological extermination (54)
  
  Deportation (44)
  
  Robbery (40)
  
  Gas chambers (34)
  
  Cremation (28)
  
  Cremation of corpses (28)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (24)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (24)
  
  Round-up (23)
  
  Hanging (22)
  
  Administrative persecution (20)
  
  Cattle wagons (19)
  
  Displacement (19)
  
  Expulsion (19)
  
  Racial policy (19)
  
  Medical experiments (17)
  
  Economic exploitation (16)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (16)
  
  "Dosing" (13)
  
  Deportation/Exile (12)
  
  Mass graves (12)
  
  Burning people alive (11)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (11)
  
  Desacration of corpses (9)
  
  Punishment cell (8)
  
  Germanization (7)
  
  Judicial crime (6)
  
  Air raids (5)
  
  Death marches (4)
  
  Denationalization (4)
  
  Rape (3)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (3)
  
  Armored weapons (2)
  
  Disarmament (2)
  
  Artillery fire (1)
  
  Artillery shelling (1)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (1)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (1)
  
  Sovietization (1)
Place
- Concentration camp (54)
  
  Extermination camp (38)
  
  Prison (32)
  
  Forced labor (16)
  
  Labor camp (15)
  
  Transit camp (13)
  
  Ghetto (9)
  
  Police headquarters/station (9)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (6)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (5)
  
  Kolkhoz (5)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (5)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (3)
  
  Mine (2)
  
  Center for the Germanization of children (1)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (1)
  
  NKVD custody suite (1)
  
  Sewers (1)
  
  Sovkhoz (1)
Content
- Civil resistance (146)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (66)
  
  Extermination of Jews (28)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (28)
  
  Health service (24)
  
  Rescue of Jews (24)
  
  Obliterating the traces (23)
  
  obliterating the traces (21)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (18)
  
  Underground culture and education (12)
  
  Underground media (11)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (10)
  
  Aktion Zamość (8)
  
  Anders' Army (8)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (8)
  
  Polish Underground State (8)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (8)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (8)
  
  Central Welfare Council (7)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (7)
  
  Epidemics (6)
  
  Amnesty (5)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (5)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (5)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (4)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (4)
  
  First deportation (4)
  
  Polish culture in exile (4)
  
  Called by name (3)
  
  Communist propaganda (3)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (3)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (3)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (3)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (2)
  
  Pabst Plan (Pabst-Plan) (2)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (2)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (2)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (2)
  
  Third deportation (2)
  
  Underground courts (2)
  
  the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (2)
  
  Clandestine courses (1)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (1)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (1)
  
  Judenrat (1)
  
  Kidnapping (and Germanization) of Polish children (1)
  
  National Armed Forces (1)
  
  Second deportation (1)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (1)
  
  the Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (1)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (93)
  
  Brief (14)
  
  Account (11)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (3)
  
  Statement (2)
  
  Report (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Supreme National Tribunal (62)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (19)
  
  Independent Historical Office of the Command of the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union/Documentation Office of the Polish Army in the East (13)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (10)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (10)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (8)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Warsaw (7)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (5)
  
  District Court in Radom (4)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (3)
  
  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)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (1)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (1)
Medium
- Text (143)
  
  Image (22)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (100)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (46)