“Chronicles of Terror”. Base of testimonies of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor

Main Page Indexes Crimes Desacration of corpses

Witness (date and place of birth)
- Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (3)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (2)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (2)
  
  Mandelbaum Henryk; 15.12.1922, Olkusz (2)
  
  Nagraba Ludwik; 19.08.1910, Kraków (2)
  
  Nagraba Ludwik; 19.08.1911 (2)
  
  Olbrycht Jan; 06.05.1886, Zahutyń (2)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Rumunia) (2)
  
  Bartoszko Kazimierz; 09.10.1898 (1)
  
  Bednarz Antoni; 1893? (1)
  
  Bicz Bolesław; 01.04.1889, Sporysz (Bielsk county) (1)
  
  Blum Albert; 1918? (1)
  
  Blumenthal Nachman; 1901? (1)
  
  Borger Ludwik; 1915? (1)
  
  Bronfeld Bolesław; 03.11.1913, Lublin (1)
  
  Błotnicki Edward; 08.04.1888, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Cera Stanisław (1)
  
  Cieślik-Ciesielska Romualda; 07.02.1908, Grabiny (1)
  
  Cyganik Antoni; 27.03.1909, Chrzanów (1)
  
  Czerwińska Zofia; 20.09.1903, Dąbrowa Górnicza (1)
  
  Drabek Jaroslav; 06.04.1901, Chrudim (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Dragon Szlama; 19.03.1920, Żuromin (1)
  
  Dybus Marian; 13.08.1921, Bochnia (1)
  
  Dąbrowski Piotr; 1895 (1)
  
  Fiderkiewicz Alfred; 02.07.1886, Horodenka (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Fiderkiewicz Alfred; 2.07.1886, Horodenka (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Filipowicz Teodor; 1891? (1)
  
  Foltynova Vera; 1919? (1)
  
  Frączek Kazimierz; 15.12.1914, Tarnów (1)
  
  Gansiwiec Henryk; 1902? (1)
  
  Gelbkron Moszek (Maciejuk Józef); 1903? (1)
  
  Gincza Bogusław; 1925? (1)
  
  Glazrot Szyja (1)
  
  Gorzkowicz Tadeusz; 06.11.1918, Borysław (now in Ukraina) (1)
  
  Grabowski Kazimierz; 03.04.1909, Płock (1)
  
  Głowacki Czesław; 1921? (1)
  
  Hanuszek Tadeusz; 11.07.1922, Kraków (1)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 13.11.1916, Kraków (1)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (1)
  
  Hrad-Głowacka Zofia (1)
  
  Idzikowski Lucjan (1)
  
  Jackiewicz Regina; 19.06.1921, Iłowo (1)
  
  Jastrzębski Jan (1)
  
  Jeleń Piotr; 15.01.1921, Kraków (1)
  
  Jeleń Piotr; 1919? (1)
  
  Juralewicz Marian; 1913? (1)
  
  Kamińska Helena (1)
  
  Kaszyński Jan; 19.11.1920, Warsaw (1)
  
  Kisiel Józef; 1905? (1)
  
  Kisiel Mieczysław; 1912? (1)
  
  Klim Jan (1)
  
  Kordek Ryszard; 18.0.04.1921, Ząbkowice (1)
  
  Kowalik Irena (1)
  
  Kula Michał; 1913? (1)
  
  Langbein Hermann; 18.05.1912, Vienna (Austria) (1)
  
  Langbein Hermann; 18.05.1912, Wiedeń (Austria) (1)
  
  Lasok Aniela; 1922? (1)
  
  Lechowski Maksymilian; 1900? (1)
  
  Machałowski Jan; 22.02.1912, Warszawa (1)
  
  Malawer Bronisława; 1908? (1)
  
  Mamok Franciszek (1)
  
  Müller Filip; 1921? (1)
  
  Nerał Tadeusz (1)
  
  Niemiec Jan (1)
  
  Nikolay, 1956 (1)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (1)
  
  Pająk Wilibald; 15.12.1922, Katowice (1)
  
  Pałasiński Zdzisław; 15.08.1921 (1)
  
  Pieńkoś Władysław; 16.10.1912, Udrzyn (1)
  
  Piotrak Franciszek, 1896 (1)
  
  Piątek M. (1)
  
  Pleszczyńska Eugenia; 1901?, Zaosie (1)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 1911? (1)
  
  Pozimski Jerzy; 05.05.1913, Szarlej (Piekary Śląskie) (1)
  
  Pozimski Jerzy; 05.05.1915, Piekary Śląskie (1)
  
  Prardo Aleksander; 1897 (1)
  
  Reczyńska Zdzisława (1)
  
  Rychlik Czesław; 01.06.1909, Wąwoźnica (1)
  
  Sarkowski Feliks (1)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć county) (1)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć district) (1)
  
  Sperber Karel; 1910, Tachov (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Stapf Adam; 01.08.1907, Tarnów (1)
  
  Stapf Adam; 1907? (1)
  
  Staruch Jan; 1897? (1)
  
  Suliborski Stanisław; 13.03.1911, Pińsk (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Sulima Jan (1)
  
  Szafrański Zygmunt; 1913? (1)
  
  Szczepan Józef; 1908? (1)
  
  Szmaglewska Seweryna; 11.02.1916, Przygłów (1)
  
  Szuszkiewicz Roman; 1907? (1)
  
  Tarkowski Ludomir (1)
  
  Tuczapski Roman; 1892 (1)
  
  Wagner Rózia (1)
  
  Wasiak Jan (1)
  
  Wesoły Antoni, 1899.04.08 (1)
  
  Wniler Samuel, 12.11.1914, Wiedeń (Austria) (1)
  
  Wolny Stanisław (1)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Węgrzyn Elżbieta, 1911? (1)
Subject
- Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (17)
  
  A genocide conducted by Ukrainian Nationalists – Volhynia (16)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (12)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (7)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (6)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (6)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (5)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (5)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (5)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (4)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (4)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (4)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (3)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (3)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (3)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (2)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (2)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (2)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (1)
  
  Browar, Czerwoniak – the Ostrów death blocks (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Tarnów Ghetto (1)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (1)
  
  Lebensborn – the Germanization of Polish children (1)
  
  Mariupol Siege (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)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Soviets in German captivity (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (1)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (1)
  
  The city condemned to death (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (42)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (39)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (39)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (31)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (30)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (26)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (20)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (16)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (16)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (13)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (10)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (10)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (9)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (8)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (7)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (7)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (7)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (7)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (6)
  
  KL Majdanek (6)
  
  KL Plaszow (6)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (6)
  
  Warsaw (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (5)
  
  Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (5)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (4)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (4)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (4)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (4)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (4)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (4)
  
  Skniłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (4)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (4)
  
  Bochnia, train station (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (3)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (3)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (3)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (3)
  
  Nakhodka (Russia, Primorsky Krai) (3)
  
  Połock (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Zinaida Tusnolobova-Marchenko Street (3)
  
  Pustków, forced labor camp (3)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (3)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (3)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (3)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (2)
  
  Busk (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (2)
  
  Bydgoszcz (2)
  
  Chełm (2)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (2)
  
  Jawiszowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (2)
  
  KL Mittelbau-Dora (Germany) (2)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Kobierzyn (Kraków), Mental Health Hospital, Babińskiego Street 29 (2)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (2)
  
  Kraków (2)
  
  Kraków, Marshal Józef Piłsudski Retreat of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers, Łobzowska Street 3 (2)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no 2, Zamarstynowska Street 7/9 (2)
  
  Minsk (Belarus), NKVD remand center "Amerykanka", Hradsky Val Street 4 (2)
  
  Mołodeczno (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Wielki Gościniec Street 52 (2)
  
  Petropavlovsk (Kazakhstan) (2)
  
  Radom, Gestapo Headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (2)
  
  Radom, Gestapo headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (2)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (2)
  
  Radziwiłłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (2)
  
  Rajsko, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (2)
  
  Sosnowiec (Śląskie Voivodeship) (2)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Tobolsk (Russia, Tyumen Oblast), NKVD prison (prison castle), Red Square 5 (2)
  
  Tomsk (Russia, Tomsk Oblast) (2)
  
  Vienna (Austria) (2)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (2)
  
  Warsaw, Jewish cemetery, Okopowa Street 49/51 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Muranowska Street (2)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (2)
  
  Zborów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (2)
  
  Łomża, prison, Legionów Avenue 36 (2)
  
  Łódź (2)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (1)
  
  Asino (Russia, Tomsk Oblast) (1)
  
  Aykino (Russia, Komi Republic) (1)
  
  Babin (now in Ukraine, Rivne Oblast), POW forced labor camp (1)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (1)
  
  Barysaw (Belarus) (1)
  
  Bay of Lübeck (Germany) (1)
  
  Belfort (France), prison (1)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (1)
  
  Borowiczki (Płock) (1)
  
  Borszczów (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Borysów (Belarus) (1)
  
  Brody (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
Oblast
- Donetsk (1)
Raion
- Mariupol (1)
Victims
- Civilians (119)
  
  The Poles (115)
  
  The Civilian Population (92)
  
  Women (86)
  
  Children (69)
  
  The Jews (64)
  
  The sick (50)
  
  The Sick (44)
  
  The Inteligentsia (39)
  
  The elderly (35)
  
  Russians/Soviets (34)
  
  The Russians (29)
  
  Prisoners of War (28)
  
  The Elderly (25)
  
  Hungarians (18)
  
  Germans (17)
  
  Czechs (16)
  
  The French (15)
  
  The Church (13)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (13)
  
  Ukrainians (11)
  
  Deportees (10)
  
  The Disabled (10)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (9)
  
  The Communists (9)
  
  Greeks (8)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (8)
  
  Slovaks (8)
  
  The Dutch (8)
  
  Policemen (6)
  
  Americans (5)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (5)
  
  The British (5)
  
  Belgians (4)
  
  Lithuanians (4)
  
  Belarusians (3)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (3)
  
  Latvians (3)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (3)
  
  Italians (2)
  
  Landowners (1)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (1)
  
  Norwegians (1)
  
  Prison Guard (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (66)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (23)
  
  Collaboration (16)
  
  Red Army (9)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (8)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (6)
  
  Military Police (5)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (5)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (4)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (4)
  
  Denunciation (3)
  
  Soviet Militia (3)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (3)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (3)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (2)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (2)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (2)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (2)
  
  Waffen-SS (2)
  
  Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (1)
  
  Collaborators (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (1)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (1)
  
  Postal Protection (1)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (1)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (1)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (1)
Crimes
- Desacration of corpses (126)
  
  Execution (94)
  
  Forced labor (83)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (82)
  
  Death by shooting (77)
  
  Beating (76)
  
  Biological extermination (69)
  
  Arrest (51)
  
  Cremation of corpses (46)
  
  Gas chambers (45)
  
  Cremation (44)
  
  Robbery (43)
  
  Deportation (42)
  
  Mass graves (35)
  
  Cattle wagons (30)
  
  Hanging (30)
  
  Medical experiments (19)
  
  Deportation/Exile (18)
  
  Judicial crime (18)
  
  Racial policy (17)
  
  Economic exploitation (16)
  
  Burning people alive (14)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (12)
  
  "Dosing" (11)
  
  Displacement (9)
  
  Punishment cell (9)
  
  Administrative persecution (8)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (8)
  
  Expulsion (7)
  
  Round-up (7)
  
  Roads of death (6)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (6)
  
  Air raids (5)
  
  Disarmament (5)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (5)
  
  Rape (5)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (5)
  
  Death marches (4)
  
  Germanization (4)
  
  Armored weapons (1)
  
  Artillery shelling (1)
  
  Destruction of civilian infrastructure (1)
  
  Forced passportization (1)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (1)
  
  Forced voting (1)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (1)
  
  Human shields (1)
  
  Humanitarian catastrophe (1)
  
  Limiting freedom of movement (1)
  
  Persecution of Ukrainian identity/Russification (1)
  
  Sovietization (1)
Place
- Concentration camp (53)
  
  Extermination camp (45)
  
  Prison (23)
  
  NKVD custody suite (10)
  
  Labor camp (8)
  
  Police headquarters/station (7)
  
  Forced labor (6)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (6)
  
  Ghetto (6)
  
  Transit camp (6)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (4)
  
  Kolkhoz (4)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (3)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (3)
  
  Mine (2)
  
  Checkpoint (1)
  
  Filtration camp (1)
Content
- Extermination of Jews (45)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (32)
  
  Health service (28)
  
  Obliterating the traces (24)
  
  obliterating the traces (24)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (16)
  
  Epidemics (11)
  
  Civil resistance (9)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (9)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (9)
  
  Amnesty (7)
  
  Aktion Zamość (6)
  
  Anders' Army (6)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (6)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (6)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (6)
  
  First deportation (5)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (5)
  
  Rescue of Jews (4)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (4)
  
  Underground media (4)
  
  Judenrat (3)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (3)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (2)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (2)
  
  Communist propaganda (2)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (2)
  
  Aktion T4 (1)
  
  Armed Forces of Ukraine (1)
  
  Central Welfare Council (1)
  
  Evacuation from war zone/occupied territories (1)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (1)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (1)
  
  Military hospital (1)
  
  Polish Underground State (1)
  
  Polish culture in exile (1)
  
  Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022) (1)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (1)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (1)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (1)
  
  Third deportation (1)
  
  Underground courts (1)
  
  Underground culture and education (1)
  
  Urban warfare (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1)
  
  “Donetsk People’s Republic” (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (60)
  
  Account (22)
  
  Brief (18)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (7)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (3)
  
  Press clipping (1)
  
  Questionnaire (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Supreme National Tribunal (54)
  
  Independent Historical Office of the Command of the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union/Documentation Office of the Polish Army in the East (26)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (5)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (3)
  
  District Court in Radom (3)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (2)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków (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 German Crimes in Warsaw (1)
  
  Lemkin Center (1)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (1)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (1)
Medium
- Text (126)
  
  Image (13)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (100)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (26)