„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)
- Anonymous (137)
  
  Berthoh Feliks (26)
  
  Szulc C. (21)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (20)
  
  Gałecki Wiktor; 1901? (6)
  
  Kostka Stanisław (6)
  
  Grodzicki Kazimierz (5)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (5)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (5)
  
  Sowiński Władysław (5)
  
  Sulima Jan (5)
  
  Anastasiya, 1985 (4)
  
  Jamróz Halina; 1919? (4)
  
  Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (4)
  
  Nass Róża; 09.01.1907, Biała (Bielsko-Biała) (4)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (4)
  
  Rott Wiesław; 14.06.1914, Lublin (4)
  
  Russanowska B. (4)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć county) (4)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć district) (4)
  
  Szczerbiński Jan (4)
  
  Wronikowski Henryk (4)
  
  Węsierska Agnieszka (4)
  
  Anna, 1986 (3)
  
  Anna, 1989 (3)
  
  Banach Ludwig; 24.08.1917, Bydgoszcz (3)
  
  Banach Ludwik; 24.08.1918 (3)
  
  Blinstrub Aniela; 1892? (3)
  
  Brzezińska Ewa (3)
  
  Ciepliński Brunon (3)
  
  Czardybon Bernard; 18.06.1901, Chorzów (3)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (3)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (3)
  
  Filipowska (Freund) Ilza; 14.01.1902, Wrocław (3)
  
  Grabosz Ludwika; 1879? (3)
  
  Hanna, 1986 (3)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (3)
  
  Kopta Marian; 08.12.1911, Kraków (3)
  
  Kotlarski Mieczysław; 09.10.1913, Osieczna (wielkopolskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Kościuszko Janina; 17.05.1897, Chrzanów? (3)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (3)
  
  Maliszewski Stefan; 23.05.1912, Warsaw (3)
  
  Mączka Zofia; 30.11.1905, Kraków (3)
  
  Nagraba Ludwik; 19.08.1910, Kraków (3)
  
  Nelken Halina; 22.09.1925, Kraków (3)
  
  Plaskura Władysław; 10.05.1905, Łazy (Orłowa, Czech Republic) (3)
  
  Polak Wacław (3)
  
  Serek Jan; 11.11.1889, Raszówka (Mniów) (3)
  
  Sieroszewski Władysław; 30.12.1900, Warsaw (3)
  
  Steinhauf Renata (3)
  
  Stopa F. (3)
  
  Szewczak Helena; 28.02.1915, Marki (Wołomin county) (3)
  
  Szlacheta Wacława; 23.09.1900, Warsaw (3)
  
  Valentyna (3)
  
  Viktoriya (3)
  
  Vogler Tauba; 18.06.1903, Kraków (3)
  
  Wera Janina (3)
  
  Wiącek Eugeniusz; 11.01.1905, Strużki (3)
  
  Wrona Edward; 13.10.1913, Tuchów (3)
  
  Yuliya, 1987 (3)
  
  Żelazowska Janina Czesława; 26.10.1908 (3)
  
  Adler Rubin; 24.11.1909, Końskie (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Alla, 1974 (2)
  
  Al’ona, 1987 (2)
  
  Anastasija, 1988 (2)
  
  Anastasiya, 1988 (2)
  
  Anna, 1990 (2)
  
  Apolińska Zofia; 1893?, Zambrów (2)
  
  Ast Jadwiga; 24.01.1923, Żarnowiec (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Bartosiewicz Henryk; 1909? (2)
  
  Bednarz Antoni; 1893? (2)
  
  Bekier Zofia; 17.04.1882 (2)
  
  Bida Władysław; 1886? (2)
  
  Bloch Claude; 29.05.1910, Bourg-la-Reine (France) (2)
  
  Bochenek Marta; 19.09.1892 (2)
  
  Bocian Zygmunt; 23.10.1909, Warszawa (2)
  
  Bogdanowicz Jan; 17.12.1894, Warsaw (2)
  
  Bonca Brunon (2)
  
  Borkowska Maria; 1887? (2)
  
  Bretsznajder Zofia; 1877? (2)
  
  Brewda Alina; 14.06.1905, Warsaw (2)
  
  Brudkowska Aglaida; 19.10.1914, Żytomierz (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Brudkowska Aglaida; 19.10.1914, Żytomierz (now: Ukraine) (2)
  
  Bryński Antoni; 18.01.1899, Radom (2)
  
  Budziaszek Maria; 08.09.1920, Kraków (2)
  
  Buraczyńska (Zeiske) Wojciecha; 22.04.1920, Warsaw (2)
  
  Bąk Michał; 1903? (2)
  
  Chołodowska Leokadia; 04./23.04.1915 (2)
  
  Cytron Tobiasz; 30.10.1908, Białystok (2)
  
  Czaiński Stanisław; 1890? (2)
  
  Czaplewska Maria (2)
  
  Czerwińska Zofia; 20.09.1903, Dąbrowa Górnicza (2)
  
  Dar'ya, 2002 (2)
  
  Dittmer Helena (2)
  
  Drabek Jaroslav; 06.04.1901, Chrudim (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Dubas Irena; 19.10.1914, Nowy Sącz (2)
  
  Dubicki Bogusław; 1910? (2)
  
  Dubiel Stanisław; 13.11.1910, Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Dzido (Hassa) Jadwiga; 26.02.1918, Suchowola (Radzyń county) (2)
  
  Dąbkowska Wiktoria, 1878? (2)
  
  Kullanda Henryk (1)
Subject
- Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (218)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (183)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (164)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (163)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (160)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (160)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (122)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (122)
  
  Fighting for Kharkiv (113)
  
  In exile – Siberia (107)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (90)
  
  Russian missile terror (87)
  
  Russian occupation – south Ukraine (79)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (78)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (74)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (69)
  
  The city condemned to death (65)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (63)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (61)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (56)
  
  Fighting for Kyiv (55)
  
  In exile – Ural (54)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (54)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (53)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (52)
  
  Mariupol Siege (48)
  
  Fighting in Donbas (2014 and/or 2022) (46)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (46)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (45)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (42)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (41)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (41)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (40)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (39)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (38)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz (38)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (36)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (35)
  
  Battle of Mykolaiv (34)
  
  Evacuation to Poland (34)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (33)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Pomerania (32)
  
  The tragedy of the Radom Arms Factory (31)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (29)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town (29)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (27)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (27)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (26)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (25)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (24)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (23)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (23)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (23)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (23)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Żoliborz (23)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (22)
  
  Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages (22)
  
  Michniów – the extermination of the Polish countryside (22)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (22)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (22)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (22)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (20)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (20)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (19)
  
  Fighting for Chernihiv (18)
  
  Fighting in Sumy Oblast (18)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (18)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (18)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (18)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (17)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (17)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (17)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (16)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (16)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (16)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – the Stanisławów area (16)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (15)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (14)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (14)
  
  Pruszków – the town of the displaced (14)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (14)
  
  Treblinka – extermination camp (14)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (13)
  
  Firlej near Radom – the training ground of death (12)
  
  Radom – daily terror (12)
  
  The Free City of Danzig – erasing Polishness (12)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (12)
  
  The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews (12)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (11)
  
  Stadion Leśny, Słowik, Herby – execution sites in Kielce (11)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (10)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (10)
  
  Lebensborn – the Germanization of Polish children (10)
  
  Poles who saved Jews in the Kielce region (10)
  
  The Polish Righteous Among the Nations (10)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Radom region (10)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (9)
  
  Lebensraum – the Germanization of the Zamość region (9)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Majdanek (9)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Upper Silesia (9)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (320)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (298)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (296)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (237)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (208)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (173)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (173)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (158)
  
  Warsaw (145)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (143)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (131)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (113)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (113)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (89)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (89)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (81)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (81)
  
  Kharkiv (81)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (80)
  
  KL Majdanek (76)
  
  KL Plaszow (75)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (65)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (59)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (59)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (59)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (58)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (53)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 (53)
  
  Potulice (kujawsko-pomorskie voivodeship), forced labor camp (52)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (52)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (50)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (49)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (49)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (49)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (48)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (48)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (47)
  
  Mariupol (45)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (44)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (44)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (42)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (41)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (41)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (40)
  
  Kraków (40)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (39)
  
  Tehran (Iran) (37)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (36)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (36)
  
  Lublin (35)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (34)
  
  Kyiv (33)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (32)
  
  KL Stutthof (31)
  
  Bydgoszcz (30)
  
  Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (30)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (30)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (30)
  
  Zamość, resettlement camp, Okrzei Street (29)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (28)
  
  Michniów (27)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (27)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (26)
  
  Radom (26)
  
  Rajsko, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (26)
  
  Warsaw, aleja Szucha (26)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (25)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (25)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (25)
  
  Warsaw, St. Lazarus' Hospital, Leszno Street 127 (Leszno Street 15) (25)
  
  Łódź (25)
  
  Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia) (24)
  
  Gdańsk (24)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (24)
  
  Pavlodar (Kazakhstan) (24)
  
  Białystok (23)
  
  Bochnia, train station (23)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (23)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (23)
  
  Kielce (23)
  
  Mykolaiv (23)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (23)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (22)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (22)
  
  Kościerzyna (22)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (22)
  
  Warsaw, Warszawa Zachodnia Station (22)
  
  Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (21)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (21)
  
  Kermine (Navoiy, Uzbekistan) (21)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka (21)
  
  Starachowice (21)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (21)
  
  Warsaw, Wolski Hospital, Płocka Street 26 (21)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania) (21)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (20)
  
  Kherson (20)
  
  Radzymin (20)
  
  Rożki, train station (20)
  
  Warsaw, Sowiński Park (20)
Oblast
- Kharkiv (128)
  
  Donetsk (79)
  
  Kherson (75)
  
  Zaporizhia (66)
  
  Kyiv (63)
  
  Dnipropetrovsk (40)
  
  Mykolaiv (37)
  
  Luhansk (31)
  
  Kyiv Oblast (27)
  
  Mikołajowski (25)
  
  Chernihiv (20)
  
  Sumy (18)
  
  Zhytomyr (13)
  
  Lviv (7)
  
  Odesa (5)
  
  Volyn (5)
  
  Poltava (4)
  
  Rivne (4)
  
  Ivano-Frankivsk (1)
Raion
- Kharkiv (100)
  
  Mariupol (48)
  
  Mykolaiv (30)
  
  Kyiv (29)
  
  Kiev (28)
  
  Kherson (27)
  
  Kakhovka (23)
  
  Severodonetsk (22)
  
  Mikołajów (20)
  
  Bucha (19)
  
  Nikopol (19)
  
  Chernihiv (15)
  
  Zaporizhia (15)
  
  Kramatorsk (12)
  
  Melitopol (12)
  
  Sumy (11)
  
  Polohy (10)
  
  Zhytomyr (10)
  
  Beryslav (9)
  
  Dnipro (9)
  
  Vasylivka (9)
  
  Berdyansk (8)
  
  Donetsk (7)
  
  Izium (7)
  
  Pokrovsk (7)
  
  Chuhuiv (6)
  
  Henichesk (6)
  
  Skadovsk (6)
  
  Brovary (5)
  
  Svatove (5)
  
  Bohoduhiv (4)
  
  Lviv (4)
  
  Pawlohrad (4)
  
  Rivne (4)
  
  Shchastia (4)
  
  Bakhmut (3)
  
  Bashtanka (3)
  
  Fastiv (3)
  
  Kamianske (3)
  
  Korosten (3)
  
  Lutsk (3)
  
  Odesa (3)
  
  Vyshhorod (3)
  
  Bila Tserkva (2)
  
  Volnovakha (2)
  
  Сhuhuiv (2)
  
  Boryspil (1)
  
  Horlivka (1)
  
  Ivano-Frankivsk (1)
  
  Kamin-Kashyrskyi (1)
  
  Kremenchuk (1)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (1)
  
  Kupyansk (1)
  
  Novoiavorivsk (1)
  
  Novomoskovsk (1)
  
  Oleszky (1)
  
  Pervomaisk (1)
  
  Podilsk (1)
  
  Romny (1)
  
  Rozivka (1)
  
  Schastia (1)
  
  Volyn (1)
  
  Voznesensk (1)
  
  Yavoriv (1)
Victims
- Women (4179)
  
  Civilians (4038)
  
  The Poles (3198)
  
  The Civilian Population (3123)
  
  Children (2124)
  
  The Jews (1188)
  
  Ukrainians (816)
  
  The sick (763)
  
  The elderly (715)
  
  Deportees (682)
  
  The Sick (676)
  
  The Inteligentsia (655)
  
  The Elderly (564)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (423)
  
  Russians/Soviets (348)
  
  The Russians (308)
  
  Prisoners of War (292)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (228)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (190)
  
  The Church (186)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (140)
  
  Policemen (101)
  
  Hungarians (98)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (98)
  
  Germans (90)
  
  Belarusians (88)
  
  Czechs (83)
  
  The French (72)
  
  Slovaks (65)
  
  Belgians (62)
  
  The Disabled (57)
  
  The Dutch (57)
  
  The Communists (46)
  
  Greeks (44)
  
  Landowners (38)
  
  Lithuanians (37)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (33)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (24)
  
  Italians (23)
  
  Americans (17)
  
  Internees (17)
  
  Internally displaced persons (14)
  
  Latvians (13)
  
  Estonians (12)
  
  Norwegians (12)
  
  The British (12)
  
  The elderly (11)
  
  Border Guard (10)
  
  Border Protection Corps (9)
  
  Romanians (6)
  
  Bulgarians (2)
  
  Finns (2)
  
  Georgians (2)
  
  Prison Guard (2)
  
  the Chinese (2)
  
  Crimean Tatars (1)
  
  Scouts (1)
  
  Serbs (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (935)
  
  Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (591)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (416)
  
  Military Police (360)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (275)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (257)
  
  Collaboration (229)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (174)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (152)
  
  Soviet Militia (120)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (110)
  
  Denunciation (94)
  
  Red Army (65)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (61)
  
  Collaborators (45)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (45)
  
  Donetsk People’s Militia (all military formations of so-called separatist republics DNR and LNR) (36)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (35)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (31)
  
  Kadyrovites (30)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (23)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (22)
  
  Lithuanians (19)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (16)
  
  Russian diversionary groups (16)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (16)
  
  Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (14)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (13)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (13)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (10)
  
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  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (2)
  
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  OMON/SOBR [Special Purpose Mobile Unit/Special Rapid Response Unit] (1)
  
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Crimes
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  Execution (1661)
  
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  Biological extermination (1245)
  
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  Cremation of corpses (475)
  
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  Displacement (444)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (422)
  
  Cattle wagons (386)
  
  Air raids (363)
  
  Gas chambers (359)
  
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  Mass graves (340)
  
  Expulsion (316)
  
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  Humanitarian catastrophe (240)
  
  Armored weapons (237)
  
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  "Dosing" (98)
  
  Human shields (86)
  
  Administrative persecution (82)
  
  Limiting freedom of movement (81)
  
  Death marches (73)
  
  Desacration of corpses (71)
  
  Persecution of Ukrainian identity/Russification (71)
  
  Sovietization (51)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (50)
  
  Artillery fire (44)
  
  Denationalization (44)
  
  Disarmament (40)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (27)
  
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  Germanization (25)
  
  Confiscation (21)
  
  Roads of death (19)
  
  Forced passportization (14)
  
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  Minefields (10)
  
  Collectivization (9)
  
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  Ukrainianization (2)
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Content
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  Polish culture in exile (126)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (126)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (116)
  
  Wola Massacre (116)
  
  obliterating the traces (114)
  
  Departure from Ukraine (96)
  
  Second deportation (95)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (94)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (92)
  
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  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (67)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (66)
  
  Called by name (60)
  
  Aktion Zamość (53)
  
  Armed Forces of Ukraine (53)
  
  Fourth deportation (51)
  
  Third deportation (50)
  
  Polish Underground State (49)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (45)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (44)
  
  Field health service (40)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (40)
  
  Underground culture and education (32)
  
  Military hospital (27)
  
  Underground media (27)
  
  Central Welfare Council (26)
  
  Judenrat (26)
  
  Underground courts (25)
  
  War in Donbas (2014) (24)
  
  Russian propaganda/disinformation (22)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (22)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (21)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (20)
  
  Ochota Massacre (20)
  
  Pseudoreferendums in occupied territories (20)
  
  Free City of Danzig (16)
  
  Students' Army Corps (15)
  
  Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces (15)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (13)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (12)
  
  “Donetsk People’s Republic” (11)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (9)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (9)
  
  “Luhansk People’s Republic” (9)
  
  Verbrennungskommando (8)
  
  Aid to Jews (7)
  
  Clandestine courses (7)
  
  the Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (7)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (7)
  
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  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (5)
  
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  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (5)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (5)
  
  Bucha Massacre (4)
  
  Operation "Tempest" (3)
  
  Security Service of Ukraine (3)
  
  the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (3)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (2)
  
  The Silent Unseen (2)
  
  Clandestine teaching classes (1)
  
  Irpin Massacre (1)
  
  Izyum Massacre (1)
  
  Kidnapping (and Germanization) of Polish children (1)
  
  National Guard of Ukraine (1)
  
  War reparations (1)
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  Lemkin Center (596)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (389)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (360)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (260)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (232)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (216)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (208)
  
  District Court in Radom (135)
  
  District Court in Łomża (36)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków (35)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (33)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland. Research and investigative files (32)
  
  Katyn Museum (14)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation – Institute of National Remembrance in Białystok (11)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Warsaw (10)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland 1949–1984 (10)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (9)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (7)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Białystok (5)
  
  Office of the District Authorities in Ostrów Mazowiecka (4)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (3)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Gdańsk (3)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes – Institute of National Remembrance in Białystok (3)
  
  Voivodeship Court in Łódź (3)
  
  Inspectorate of Schools in Radom (2)
  
  Provincial Office of Internal Affairs in Katowice (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 Hitlerite Crimes – Institute of National Remembrance in Kraków (1)
  
  District Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Warsaw (1)
  
  District Court in Łomża 1945–1950 (1)
  
  Magistrates’ Court in Włocławek (1)
Medium
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Testimony availability ^?
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