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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Anonymous (6)
  
  Bogdanowicz Jan; 17.12.1894, Warsaw (3)
  
  Kruk Józef; 01.01.1916, Serbinów (3)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (3)
  
  Serek Jan; 11.11.1889, Raszówka (Mniów) (3)
  
  Sowiński Władysław (3)
  
  Sulima Jan (3)
  
  Szulc C. (3)
  
  Wiącek Eugeniusz; 11.01.1905, Strużki (3)
  
  Bednarz Antoni; 1893? (2)
  
  Grabiński Marcin; 08.11.1888 (2)
  
  Iwanicka Maria; 27.01.1913 (2)
  
  Kościuszko Janina; 17.05.1897, Chrzanów? (2)
  
  Kruk Jan; 09.03.1904, Serbinów (2)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (2)
  
  Listek Jan; 1899? (2)
  
  Nowak Jan; 23.09.1908, Kraków (2)
  
  Rott Wiesław; 14.06.1914, Lublin (2)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć county) (2)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć district) (2)
  
  Adler Rubin; 24.11.1909, Końskie (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Antoniak Franciszek; 1901? (1)
  
  Bajerowicz Janina (1)
  
  Banach Stanisława; 15.02.1915, Miniów (1)
  
  Barcz Edward Antoni Leopold; 23.12.1911, Russia (1)
  
  Baron Zenek; 1926? (1)
  
  Bartosik Józef; 26.02.1902, Mniów (1)
  
  Bartosińska Stanisława; 1905?, Rogowice (1)
  
  Bednarczyk Franciszka; 25.02.1903, Mniów (1)
  
  Bednarczyk Józefa; 13.12.1912, Skoki (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Bednarczyk Władysław; 1899?, Stachura (1)
  
  Bednarska Jadwiga; 21.10.1920, Białystok (1)
  
  Berkowicz Elza; 1917? (1)
  
  Bida Władysław; 1887? (1)
  
  Biega Eugenia; 1906 (1)
  
  Bilska Wanda (1)
  
  Brandt Janusz; 1905? (1)
  
  Brudkowska Aglaida; 19.10.1914, Żytomierz (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Brudkowska Aglaida; 19.10.1914, Żytomierz (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Brzezińska Kazimiera Zofia; 24.02.1897, Warsaw (1)
  
  Bucior Zygmunt (1)
  
  Bury Adam; 26.11.1931, Zwierzyniec (1)
  
  Błaszczyk Jan; 1914? (1)
  
  Cender Wincenty; 01.01.1894, Lipsko (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Chmielewska Maria (1)
  
  Chomentowski Bohdan; 08.03.1916, Warsaw (1)
  
  Chrościcki Julian; 26.05.1892, Szymony (1)
  
  Ciećwierz Jan (1)
  
  Ciszewski Cezariusz; 25.06.1902, Warsaw (1)
  
  Cohen Lily; 09.07.1921, Saloniki (Grecja) (1)
  
  Cohen Lily; 09.07.1921, Thessaloniki (Greece) (1)
  
  Cukier Rachmil; 1926? (1)
  
  Cunder Milan; 1908? (1)
  
  Czechowicz Stanisław; 1883, Białaczów (1)
  
  Czerwonka Zofia (1)
  
  Czyż (Wilgat) Krystyna; 11.10.1923, Lublin (1)
  
  Denisow Piotr; 1894? (1)
  
  Domańska Helena; 24.03.1919, Krajów (Opoczno county) (1)
  
  Dotkiewicz Teresa (1)
  
  Drogosz Natalia (1)
  
  Drozdowski Henryk Marian; 13.01.1895, Łódź (1)
  
  Dupak Franciszek; 28.02.1927, Michniów (1)
  
  Dwojak Józef (1)
  
  Dybowski Stanisław; 16.04.1895, Warsaw (1)
  
  Dybowski Stanisław; 1895? (1)
  
  Dziurska Anna (1)
  
  Dziurżyński Józef; 1898? (1)
  
  Dębkowski Marian; 08.12.1912, Warsaw (1)
  
  Ehrlich Rudolf; 15.06.1903 (1)
  
  Fedorowicz Marta (1)
  
  Feinberg Kai; 1921, Oslo (1)
  
  Feinsilber Alter (Jankowski Stanisław); 23.10.1910, Stoczek Łukowski (1)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (1)
  
  Feliszek Antonina; 20.12.1909, Filipy (woj. świętokrzyskie) (1)
  
  Feliszek Feliks; 20.09.1920, Skoki (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Filipowicz Teodor; 1891? (1)
  
  Frączek Kazimierz; 15.12.1914, Tarnów (1)
  
  Gajewski Franciszek; 24.09.1920, Nowa Słupia (1)
  
  Galińska Zofia (1)
  
  Garbal Zofia (1)
  
  Gitler-Barski Józef; 03.03.1898, Warsaw (1)
  
  Glina Eugenia (1)
  
  Goderski Kazimierz Jerzy Michał; 24.04.1901, Kozienice (1)
  
  Gosek Jan; 1905? (1)
  
  Grodzicki Kazimierz (1)
  
  Gruba Wacław; 11.04.1930, Ostojów (1)
  
  Gryner Hersz; 1893? (1)
  
  Gryta Marcin (1)
  
  Grzyb Apolonia; 01.05.1893, Uchanie (1)
  
  Górska Helena; 18.12.1904 (1)
  
  Gębczyński Kazimierz; 1900? (1)
  
  Gędzikiewicz Stanisław Ludwik, 09.08.1881, Zawiercie (1)
  
  Halbreich Zygfryd; 13.11.1909, Dziedzice (śląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Hołdak Anna; 25.07.1890 (1)
  
  Hołod Aniela (1)
  
  Izbińska Franciszka; 15.11.1900, Ossala (1)
  
  Jakubiec Czesław; 14.09.1909, Warsaw (1)
  
  Jakubowicz Maria; 1920? (1)
  
  Janiszewska Anna; 1912?, Serbinów (1)
  
  Janiszewska Maria; 07.10.1913, Mniów (1)
Subject
- The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (57)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (51)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (43)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (32)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (22)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (21)
  
  Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages (20)
  
  Michniów – the extermination of the Polish countryside (20)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (19)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (18)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (17)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (17)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (11)
  
  A genocide conducted by Ukrainian Nationalists – Volhynia (9)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (9)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (9)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (8)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (7)
  
  The city condemned to death (7)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (6)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (6)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (6)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (5)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (5)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (5)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (4)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Gliwice (4)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (4)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (4)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (4)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (3)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (3)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (3)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town (3)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (3)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (3)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (2)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (2)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (2)
  
  Treblinka – extermination camp (2)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Volhynia (1)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (1)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Radom Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Tarnów Ghetto (1)
  
  In revenge for assisting “Hubal” – reprisal campaigns (1)
  
  Lebensraum – the Germanization of the Zamość region (1)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Neuengamme (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Sachsenhausen (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Stutthof (1)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Częstochowa region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (1)
  
  Pomiechówek Fort – the Mazovian torture complex (1)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Białystok Ghetto (1)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – the Lublin region (1)
  
  The persecuted church (1)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Lublin region (1)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Radom region (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Żoliborz (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz (1)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (48)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (43)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (39)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (34)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (34)
  
  Michniów (33)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (26)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (23)
  
  Warsaw (22)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (18)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (17)
  
  Mniów (17)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (14)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (13)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (12)
  
  Pogłodów (Mniów) (12)
  
  Raszówka (Mniów) (12)
  
  Serbinów (12)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (11)
  
  KL Majdanek (10)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (9)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (9)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (9)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (9)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (8)
  
  Radom (8)
  
  Strużki (8)
  
  Suchedniów (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (7)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (7)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (7)
  
  Brody (Starachowice district) (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (6)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (6)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (6)
  
  Warsaw, Bema Street 54 (6)
  
  Warsaw, Karol and Maria Children's Hospital, Leszno Street 136 (Leszno Street 30) (6)
  
  Warsaw, Olesińska Street 7 (6)
  
  Bór Kunowski (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (5)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (5)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (5)
  
  Kielce (5)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (5)
  
  Lublin (5)
  
  Marcule (5)
  
  Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (5)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (5)
  
  Warsaw, Anca Pharmacy, Marszałkowska Street 21 (5)
  
  Warsaw, Banacha Market Square, Grójecka Street 95 (5)
  
  Warsaw, Długa Street 7 (5)
  
  Warsaw, Franaszek factory, Wolska Street 41/45 (5)
  
  Warsaw, Grażyny Street (5)
  
  Warsaw, Olesińska Street 5 (5)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 (5)
  
  Warsaw, St. Hyacinth's church, Freta Street 10 (5)
  
  Warsaw, St. Lazarus' Hospital, Leszno Street 127 (Leszno Street 15) (5)
  
  Wzdół Rządowy (5)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz IV (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  Bochnia, train station (4)
  
  Bydgoszcz (4)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (4)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (4)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (4)
  
  Lublin, Lublin Castle, Zamkowa Street 9 (4)
  
  Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (4)
  
  Podchyby (4)
  
  Rajsko, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  Warsaw, Działdowska Street (4)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (4)
  
  Warsaw, Górczewska Street (4)
  
  Warsaw, Karolkowa Street (4)
  
  Warsaw, Seminary Church, Krakowskie Przedmieście Street 52/54 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Wolski Hospital, Płocka Street 26 (4)
  
  Warsaw, aleja Szucha (4)
  
  Zamość, resettlement camp, Okrzei Street (4)
  
  Łopuszno (4)
  
  Łódź (4)
  
  Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  Ciepielów (mazowieckie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Dębno (commune of Nowa Słupia), St. Michael's Church, Dębno 49 (3)
  
  Gębice (Godów) (3)
  
  Iłża (3)
  
  Jaworzno, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (3)
  
  KL Plaszow (3)
  
  Kazanów (mazowieckie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Końskie, district hospital, Warszawska Street 25 (3)
  
  Kraków (3)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (3)
  
  Lipsko (mazowieckie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Majdanek, German extermination camp (3)
  
  Niewachlów (Kielce) (3)
  
  Nowa Słupia (3)
  
  Orzechówka (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship) (3)
  
  Orzechówka (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Podkowa Leśna (3)
  
  Pruszków (3)
Victims
- Civilians (384)
  
  The Poles (364)
  
  The Civilian Population (356)
  
  Children (257)
  
  Women (254)
  
  The Jews (106)
  
  The sick (84)
  
  The Sick (81)
  
  The elderly (80)
  
  The Elderly (74)
  
  The Inteligentsia (56)
  
  Russians/Soviets (36)
  
  The Russians (32)
  
  The Church (30)
  
  Prisoners of War (24)
  
  Hungarians (22)
  
  Czechs (20)
  
  The French (18)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (16)
  
  Belgians (11)
  
  Germans (11)
  
  The Dutch (11)
  
  Greeks (10)
  
  Slovaks (10)
  
  The Communists (10)
  
  The Disabled (9)
  
  Ukrainians (4)
  
  Americans (3)
  
  Italians (3)
  
  Norwegians (3)
  
  The British (2)
Perpetrators
- SS (124)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (64)
  
  Military Police (63)
  
  Collaboration (36)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (36)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (21)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (16)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (10)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (7)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (5)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (4)
  
  The Russian National Liberation Army (RONA) (3)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (3)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (3)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (1)
  
  Denunciation (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (1)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (1)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (1)
Crimes
- Burning people alive (391)
  
  Execution (320)
  
  Death by shooting (241)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (185)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (172)
  
  Beating (118)
  
  Forced labor (107)
  
  Arrest (101)
  
  Cremation of corpses (101)
  
  Deportation (100)
  
  Robbery (98)
  
  Cremation (92)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (85)
  
  Biological extermination (78)
  
  Mass graves (71)
  
  Gas chambers (59)
  
  Hanging (50)
  
  Round-up (45)
  
  Displacement (33)
  
  Economic exploitation (33)
  
  Expulsion (31)
  
  Air raids (26)
  
  Cattle wagons (24)
  
  Rape (24)
  
  Medical experiments (22)
  
  "Dosing" (18)
  
  Denationalization (15)
  
  Armored weapons (14)
  
  Desacration of corpses (14)
  
  Death marches (13)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (12)
  
  Racial policy (11)
  
  Administrative persecution (8)
  
  Artillery fire (6)
  
  Artillery shelling (6)
  
  Germanization (4)
  
  Human shields (4)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (4)
  
  Judicial crime (3)
  
  Disarmament (1)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (1)
Place
- Concentration camp (74)
  
  Extermination camp (62)
  
  Forced labor (34)
  
  Prison (32)
  
  Labor camp (20)
  
  Transit camp (15)
  
  Ghetto (13)
  
  Police headquarters/station (10)
  
  Sewers (2)
  
  Internment camp (1)
  
  Kolkhoz (1)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (1)
  
  Robbery (1)
Content
- Pacification of rural areas (144)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (126)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (84)
  
  Extermination of Jews (76)
  
  Obliterating the traces (24)
  
  Wola Massacre (23)
  
  Health service (22)
  
  obliterating the traces (22)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (18)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (17)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (16)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (13)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (12)
  
  Civil resistance (11)
  
  Rescue of Jews (11)
  
  Aktion Zamość (10)
  
  Underground courts (9)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (7)
  
  Ochota Massacre (6)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (6)
  
  Field health service (5)
  
  Polish Underground State (4)
  
  Central Welfare Council (3)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (3)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (3)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (2)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (2)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (2)
  
  Judenrat (2)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (2)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (2)
  
  Underground media (2)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (1)
  
  Called by name (1)
  
  National Armed Forces (1)
  
  The Silent Unseen (1)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
  
  the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (225)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (45)
  
  Brief (15)
  
  Photograph (9)
  
  Account (7)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (3)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Ministry of Education in Warsaw (101)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (79)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (72)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (47)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (41)
  
  District Court in Radom (40)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (7)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (2)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków (2)
  
  A collection of copies of witness interview reports and accounts of former prisoners of Ravensbrück and other camps, written down at the Polish Research Institute in Lund. (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation – Institute of National Remembrance in Białystok (1)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (1)
Medium
- Text (391)
  
  Image (41)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (359)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (31)