„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)
- Lorentz Stanisław; 28.04.1899, Radom (2)
  
  Adamski Alojzy, 1908.06.30 (1)
  
  Anlen Bronisław Elkana; 9.05.1907, Warsaw (1)
  
  Banbura Maria (1)
  
  Baran Stanisław (1)
  
  Baszker Fiyszel, 1899.08.06 (1)
  
  Bednarczyk Jan (1)
  
  Bolbat Władysław (1)
  
  Brzeziński Bronisław; 20.07.1905, Warsaw (1)
  
  Chomczyk Leon; 02.10.1906, Piaski (Piotrków county) (1)
  
  Chyliński Aleksander, 1914.05.24 (1)
  
  Cieplewski Janusz (1)
  
  Cieszkowski Kazimierz; 1921? (1)
  
  Cugowski Karol; 30.01.1882 (1)
  
  Czapnicki Erwin (1)
  
  Damięcki Dobiesław; 02.04.1899, Karniewek (1)
  
  Dreyza Jerzy; 19.07.1902, Brzóstownia (1)
  
  Drogosz Natalia (1)
  
  Dryja-Wysocki Stanisław (1)
  
  Falk Ignacy; 1902? (1)
  
  Falska Helena; 1900? (1)
  
  Filipowicz Władysław, 1894.09.22 (1)
  
  Filipowski Andrzej, 1899 (1)
  
  Fronenberg Moszek; 04.04.1921, Puławy (1)
  
  Gałuszewski Kazimierz; 1899.03.04 (1)
  
  Gitler-Barski Józef; 03.03.1898, Warsaw (1)
  
  Goldebrg Jakub; 1899.10.14 (1)
  
  Grajnert Stanisław; 1899 (1)
  
  Górecki Tadeusz; 18.10.1919, Radomsko (1)
  
  Gładysz Franciszek; 21.04.1903 (1)
  
  Idzikowski Aleksander; 03.02.1927, Warsaw (1)
  
  Jamioł Agnieszka; 1881?, Galów (1)
  
  Jan Chwastek; 1900.01.06 (1)
  
  Józefczyk Wojciech; 1896.11.14 (1)
  
  Kalinko Józef; 27.01.1912, Augustów (podlaskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Kiniorska Władysława; 1913? (1)
  
  Kowalska Maria; 09.01.1920, Warsaw (1)
  
  Kowalska Maria; 1910? (1)
  
  Kuchta Jan (1)
  
  Kulawik Justyna; 1909? (1)
  
  Kura Helena; 02.02.1920, Brzesko (1)
  
  Lehr-Soławiński Tadeusz; 1890? (1)
  
  Litka Mieczysław; 28.03.1926 (1)
  
  Maron Irena (1)
  
  Małkiewicz Józef; 1899 (1)
  
  Milewczyk Władysław; 1901? (1)
  
  Młynarczyk Stanisława; 24.01.1904, Kielce (1)
  
  Niewiarowicz Roman; 15.01.1902 (1)
  
  Nowak Danuta; 21.01.1921 Kamieniec Litewski (Kamieniec, now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Nowak Danuta; 21.01.1921, Kamieniec Litewski (Kamieniec, now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Nowakowska Maria; 1906? (1)
  
  Nowakowska Maria; 1915? (1)
  
  Oryński Czesław (1)
  
  Orzechowska Anna; 1917? (1)
  
  Ostasiewicz Wacław, 1896 (1)
  
  Paszewski Zygmunt (1)
  
  Piełowski Gerard; 1906? (1)
  
  Pipka Małgorzata; 1885? (1)
  
  Pięta Eugeniusz (1)
  
  Ptak Stanisław; 1902? (1)
  
  Putkowska Janina Barbara; 15.09.1924, Warsaw (1)
  
  Racki Wawrzyniec, 1904 (1)
  
  Rataj Tomasz (1)
  
  Rudnicki Henryk Michał; 25.06.1899, Grodno (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Rymkowski Michał Kazimierz; 15.09.1909 (1)
  
  Rzeszotarski Adam; 06.02.1903, Kutno (1)
  
  Sendecki Sylwester; 1903? (1)
  
  Szczepanik Irena; 18.03.1918, Warsaw (1)
  
  Targosz Franciszek; 07.09.1899, Kończyce? (1)
  
  Targosz Franciszek; 1898? (1)
  
  Tchórzewski Józef (1)
  
  Tyszka Bolesław; 1905.03.02 (1)
  
  Wagner Janusz Bogumił; 31.03.1898, Orsha (Belarus) (1)
  
  Waluda Wawrzyniec (1)
  
  Wasilczyk Władysław (1)
  
  Wierzbiński Józef, 1899 (1)
  
  Wolszczak Genowefa; 1919? (1)
  
  Wutke Paweł; 1893 (1)
  
  Zakrzecki Szymon, 1894 (1)
  
  Ziara Władysława (1)
  
  Ziemiewicz Bohdan; 16.09.1907, Warsaw (1)
  
  Śliwicki Zygmunt; 14.03.1903, Sierakowice (łódzkie voivodeship) (1)
Subject
- The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (12)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (8)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (7)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (6)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (6)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (5)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (5)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (4)
  
  In exile – Siberia (4)
  
  The Free City of Danzig – erasing Polishness (4)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (4)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (4)
  
  In exile – Ural (3)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (3)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz (3)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (2)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (2)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (2)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (2)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  The city condemned to death (2)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (2)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (1)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Tarnów Ghetto (1)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (1)
  
  Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages (1)
  
  Michniów – the extermination of the Polish countryside (1)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Greater Poland (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (1)
  
  Prisoners of war – transit camps in Kielce (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (1)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Żoliborz (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Warsaw, Hotel Polski, Długa Street 29 (9)
  
  Skałka Polska (8)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (8)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (7)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship), Agricultural School, Wojska Polskiego Street 78 (7)
  
  Łopuszno (7)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (5)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (5)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (5)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (5)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) (5)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (4)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (4)
  
  Leokadiów (4)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (4)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (4)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (4)
  
  Warsaw, Pfeiffer Brothers' Tannery Factory, Okopowa Street 58/72 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Polish Security Printing Works, Sanguszki Street 1 (4)
  
  Hanover (Germany) (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (3)
  
  Kielce, Lipowa Street (Wojska Polskiego Street) (3)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (3)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (3)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (3)
  
  Vittel (France) (3)
  
  Warsaw (3)
  
  Warsaw, General Directorate of State Forests, Wawelska Street 52/54 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (3)
  
  Warsaw, Polish Theater, Karasia Street 2 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Traugutta Park (3)
  
  Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (2)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (2)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (2)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (2)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (2)
  
  Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship), Gestapo headquarters, Rostka Street 2 (2)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (2)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (2)
  
  Gdynia (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (2)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (2)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (2)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (2)
  
  KL Majdanek (2)
  
  Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (2)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (2)
  
  Kielce, Sienkiewicza Street (2)
  
  Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 (2)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (2)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (2)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (2)
  
  Olesko (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (2)
  
  Podwołoczyska (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (2)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (2)
  
  Przemyśl, prison, Rokitniańska Street 1 (2)
  
  Radom (2)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (2)
  
  Rawa Ruska (Ukraine), NKVD prison (2)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (2)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (2)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (2)
  
  Syktyvkar (Russia, Komi Republic) (2)
  
  Tashlak (Toshloq, Uzbekistan) (2)
  
  Turkistan (Kazakhstan) (2)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (2)
  
  Ukhto-Izhemsky Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (2)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (2)
  
  Warsaw, Church of the Mother of God, Queen of Poland, Gdańska Street 6A (2)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Umschlagplatz, Stawki Street 2/6 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Komedia Theater, Kredytowa Street 14 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Krasiński Library, Okólnik Street 9 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Leszno Street 6 (2)
  
  Warsaw, National Museum, Aleje Jerozolimskie 3 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Philips Poland S.A., Karolkowa Street 30 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Polish Army Museum, Aleje Jerozolimskie 3 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Polish Army Museum, Jerozolimskie Avenue 3 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Royal Castle (2)
  
  Warsaw, Royal Castle, Zamkowy Square 4 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Royal Hotel, Chmielna Street 31 (2)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Warszawa Zachodnia Station (2)
  
  Wisła (Cieszyn district), Castle of the President of the Republic of Poland, Zameczek Street 1 (2)
  
  Wodzisław Śląski (2)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (2)
  
  Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk, Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (2)
  
  Yertsevo (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (2)
  
  Zborów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (2)
  
  Łomża, prison, Legionów Avenue 36 (2)
  
  Abez (Russia, Komi Republic) (1)
  
  Aktobe (Kazakhstan) (1)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (1)
  
  Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia) (1)
  
  Babin (now in Ukraine, Rivne Oblast), POW forced labor camp (1)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (1)
Victims
- The Poles (101)
  
  Civilians (94)
  
  The Civilian Population (72)
  
  Women (41)
  
  Children (30)
  
  The Jews (29)
  
  The Inteligentsia (28)
  
  Deportees (21)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (21)
  
  The sick (18)
  
  The Sick (15)
  
  Prisoners of War (13)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (11)
  
  Ukrainians (9)
  
  Policemen (8)
  
  The elderly (8)
  
  Russians/Soviets (6)
  
  Belarusians (5)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (5)
  
  The Elderly (5)
  
  Border Guard (3)
  
  The Church (3)
  
  Estonians (2)
  
  Internees (2)
  
  Latvians (2)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (2)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (2)
  
  Slovaks (2)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (2)
  
  Americans (1)
  
  Border Protection Corps (1)
  
  Germans (1)
  
  Hungarians (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  Prison Guard (1)
  
  Romanians (1)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (1)
  
  The Russians (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (20)
  
  Military Police (13)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (11)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (10)
  
  Collaboration (9)
  
  Red Army (9)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (8)
  
  Denunciation (6)
  
  Soviet Militia (6)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (5)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (5)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (4)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (3)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (3)
  
  Collaborators (2)
  
  Latvians (2)
  
  The Russian National Liberation Army (RONA) (2)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (1)
Crimes
- Arrest (55)
  
  Forced labor (53)
  
  Biological extermination (52)
  
  Beating (39)
  
  Death by shooting (36)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (30)
  
  Execution (28)
  
  Robbery (22)
  
  Deportation/Exile (21)
  
  Judicial crime (20)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (16)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (16)
  
  Cattle wagons (15)
  
  Cremation (11)
  
  Cremation of corpses (11)
  
  Administrative persecution (8)
  
  Deportation (7)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (6)
  
  Displacement (5)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (5)
  
  Mass graves (5)
  
  Punishment cell (5)
  
  Air raids (4)
  
  Armored weapons (4)
  
  Economic exploitation (4)
  
  Expulsion (4)
  
  Forced voting (4)
  
  Round-up (4)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (4)
  
  Artillery fire (3)
  
  Artillery shelling (3)
  
  Burning people alive (3)
  
  Gas chambers (3)
  
  Racial policy (3)
  
  Rape (3)
  
  Death marches (2)
  
  Denationalization (2)
  
  Disarmament (2)
  
  Hanging (2)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (2)
  
  Roads of death (2)
  
  Sovietization (2)
  
  Germanization (1)
  
  Human shields (1)
Place
- Prison (25)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (18)
  
  Kolkhoz (13)
  
  NKVD custody suite (12)
  
  Mine (9)
  
  Ghetto (7)
  
  Transit camp (7)
  
  Concentration camp (6)
  
  Extermination camp (6)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (6)
  
  Police headquarters/station (5)
  
  Forced labor (2)
  
  Internment camp (2)
  
  Labor camp (1)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (1)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (1)
  
  Sovkhoz (1)
Content
- Health service (30)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (21)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (13)
  
  Extermination of Jews (11)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (7)
  
  Civil resistance (6)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (6)
  
  Rescue of Jews (6)
  
  Epidemics (5)
  
  First deportation (5)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (5)
  
  Amnesty (4)
  
  Free City of Danzig (4)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (4)
  
  Ochota Massacre (3)
  
  Third deportation (3)
  
  Underground courts (3)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (3)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (3)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (2)
  
  Central Welfare Council (2)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (2)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (2)
  
  Obliterating the traces (2)
  
  Polish Underground State (2)
  
  Underground culture and education (2)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (1)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (1)
  
  Judenrat (1)
  
  Military hospital (1)
  
  Pabst Plan (Pabst-Plan) (1)
  
  Polish culture in exile (1)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (1)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (1)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (1)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (1)
  
  Underground media (1)
  
  obliterating the traces (1)
  
  the Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (42)
  
  Account (32)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (15)
  
  Brief (3)
  
  Official memo (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Independent Historical Office of the Command of the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union/Documentation Office of the Polish Army in the East (47)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (16)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (13)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (10)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (7)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (6)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (3)
  
  District Court in Radom (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (1)
  
  Katyn Museum (1)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (1)
Medium
- Text (106)
  
  Image (12)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (100)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (14)