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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (6)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (5)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (5)
  
  Czardybon Bernard; 18.06.1901, Chorzów (4)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (4)
  
  Wolny Stefan; 30.10.1903, Kamieńskie (Ukraine) (4)
  
  Bas Ludwik; 18.12.1912, Kraków (3)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (3)
  
  Grabczyński Jan; 21.05.1908, Tarnów (dolnośląskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (3)
  
  Koczorowski Józef; 01.02.1919, Poznań (3)
  
  Kotlarski Mieczysław; 09.10.1913, Osieczna (wielkopolskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Kościuszko Janina; 17.05.1897, Chrzanów? (3)
  
  Krokowski Jan; 08.05.1921, Nowy Sącz (3)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (3)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 04.05.1918, Kraków (3)
  
  Mandelbaum Henryk; 15.12.1922, Olkusz (3)
  
  Nagraba Ludwik; 19.08.1910, Kraków (3)
  
  Olbrycht Jan; 06.05.1886, Zahutyń (3)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (3)
  
  Pająk Wilibald; 15.12.1922, Katowice (3)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 27.01.1913, Warsaw (3)
  
  Plaskura Władysław; 10.05.1905, Łazy (Orłowa, Czech Republic) (3)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć county) (3)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć district) (3)
  
  Staszkiewicz Bronisław; 18.07.1921, Żywiec (3)
  
  Taul Roman; 28.02.1917, Bytom (3)
  
  Tondos Władysław; 06.10.1900, Kalina Mała (3)
  
  Wrona Edward; 13.10.1913, Tuchów (3)
  
  Banach Ludwig; 24.08.1917, Bydgoszcz (2)
  
  Banach Ludwik; 24.08.1918 (2)
  
  Bartel Erwin; 02.03.1923, Oświęcim (2)
  
  Bartosiewicz Henryk; 1909? (2)
  
  Brudkowska Aglaida; 19.10.1914, Żytomierz (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Brudkowska Aglaida; 19.10.1914, Żytomierz (now: Ukraine) (2)
  
  Budziaszek Maria; 08.09.1920, Kraków (2)
  
  Denisow Piotr; 1894? (2)
  
  Denkiewicz Michał; 08.09.1893, Wierzba (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)
  
  Franaszewski Hieronim; 30.09.1904, Warsaw (2)
  
  Frankiewicz Janina; 13.08.1912, Wieliczka (2)
  
  Gliński Bogdan; 08.12.1921, Sancygniów (2)
  
  Goliński Marian; 1904? (2)
  
  Głowa Stanisław; 15.09.1898, Igołomia (2)
  
  Habrajski Józef; 08.03.1915, Radzionków (2)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (2)
  
  Janssens Jean; 30.03.1904 Ougrée (Belgium) (2)
  
  Jeleń Piotr; 15.01.1921, Kraków (2)
  
  Jeleń Piotr; 1919? (2)
  
  Kahl Tadeusz; 27.07.1908, Kraków (2)
  
  Kopta Marian; 08.12.1911, Kraków (2)
  
  Kowalczyk Janina; 10.03.1907, Golkowice (2)
  
  Kołodziejczyk Aleksander; 21.01.1914, Kraków (2)
  
  Kraus Otto; 07.09.1909, Klášterní Skalice (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Kukla Zbigniew; 11.08.1910, Kalwaria Zebrzydowska (2)
  
  Kulka Erich; 18.02.1911, Vsetín (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Lasok Aniela; 1922? (2)
  
  Liszka Edward; 25.07.1920, Kraków (2)
  
  Ludwig Józef Paweł; 03.07.1910, Sosnowiec (2)
  
  Mikołajski Zdzisław; 28.09.1913, Kraków (2)
  
  Moskowicz Norbert; 1922? (2)
  
  Nagraba Ludwik; 19.08.1911 (2)
  
  Nowak Jan; 23.09.1908, Kraków (2)
  
  Obrycki Narcyz; 04.09.1896, Warszawa (2)
  
  Paczyński Józef; 29.01.1920, Wadowice (2)
  
  Panasiewicz Adam; 23.03.1898, Krystynopol (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Plaskura Józef; 23.01.1911, Brzeszcze (2)
  
  Plaskura Władysław; 10.05.1905, Łazy (now: Orłowa, Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Rumunia) (2)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 1911? (2)
  
  Prawer Seweryn; 1903? (2)
  
  Prząda Marian; 12.09.1920, Kraków (2)
  
  Rajchman Jechiel (Romanowski Henryk); 06.1914, Łódź (2)
  
  Rajewski Ludwik; 16.12.1900, Łódź (2)
  
  Rajzman Samuel; 1902, Węgrów (2)
  
  Reyman Jan; 21.10.1902, Kraków (2)
  
  Rychlik Czesław; 01.06.1909, Wąwoźnica (2)
  
  Skotnicki Jerzy; 12.02.1902, Łódź (2)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 19.04.1920, Chorzów (2)
  
  Smużewski Zygmunt; 17.05.1919, Stanisławowo (2)
  
  Sosnowska Izabella; 23.08.1914, Kraków (2)
  
  Sosnowski Józef; 24.01.1905, Myszków (2)
  
  Sowa Kazimierz; 28.12.1923, Kraków (2)
  
  Stapf Adam; 01.08.1907, Tarnów (2)
  
  Stryj Franciszek; 05.01.1912, Ruda Śląska (2)
  
  Szczepanowski Jan; 1909? (2)
  
  Szewczyk Jan; 15.02.1921, Nowy Sącz (2)
  
  Szuszkiewicz Roman; 1907? (2)
  
  Weszke Wacław; 05.09.1904, Melburg (Austria) (2)
  
  Wolken Otto; 27.04.1903, Vien (Austria) (2)
  
  Wąsowicz Tadeusz; 29.07.1906, Limanowa (2)
  
  Zacharski Adam; 09.04.1899, Kraków (2)
  
  Zelent Stanisław; 1905, Brześć (now in Białoruś) (2)
  
  Łachecki Czesław; 13.09.1902, Nisko (podkarpackie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Adamczyk Stanisław; 1922? (1)
  
  Adler Jermie; 21.03.1902, Solotwyno (now: Ukraine) (1)
Subject
- Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (180)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (136)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (100)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (34)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (33)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (31)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (23)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (23)
  
  Treblinka – extermination camp (23)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (21)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (20)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (11)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (11)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (10)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Neuengamme (3)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (3)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (3)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (2)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (2)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Gliwice (2)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (2)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (2)
  
  For show – Familienlager Theresienstadt (2)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (2)
  
  Lebensraum – the Germanization of the Zamość region (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (2)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (2)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (2)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (2)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Radom Ghetto (1)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (1)
  
  Kulmhof – extermination camp (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Stutthof (1)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Soldier's House, Fort VII, Żabikowo – the trail of death in Greater Poland (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Białystok Ghetto (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Tomaszów Mazowiecki Ghetto (1)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (1)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  The Polish Righteous Among the Nations (1)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (384)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (328)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (327)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (317)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (200)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (198)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (108)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (78)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (72)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (62)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (61)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (59)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (52)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (50)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (50)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (49)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (46)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (45)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (44)
  
  KL Majdanek (43)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (38)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (34)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (32)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (32)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (31)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (27)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (26)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (25)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (25)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (24)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (23)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (22)
  
  Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (22)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (21)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (21)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (21)
  
  Warsaw (21)
  
  Bochnia, train station (20)
  
  Bydgoszcz (20)
  
  Rajsko, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (20)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (18)
  
  Łódź (18)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (17)
  
  Kraków (15)
  
  Majdanek, German extermination camp (15)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (15)
  
  Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (14)
  
  Lublin (12)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (11)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, SS-Stabsgebaude (10)
  
  Lublin, Lublin Castle, Zamkowa Street 9 (10)
  
  Zamość, resettlement camp, Okrzei Street (10)
  
  KL Neuengamme (Germany) (9)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (9)
  
  KL Malchow (KL Ravensbrück subcamp, Germany) (8)
  
  KL Plaszow (8)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (8)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (7)
  
  Będzin (7)
  
  Jawiszowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (7)
  
  Jaworzno, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (7)
  
  KL Mittelbau-Dora (Germany) (7)
  
  Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 (7)
  
  Mechelen (Belgium), transit camp (7)
  
  Nowy Wiśnicz (7)
  
  Pszczyna (7)
  
  Radom (7)
  
  Tarnów (7)
  
  Dresden (Germany) (6)
  
  Harmęże, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (6)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (6)
  
  KL Melk (Austria) (6)
  
  KL Stutthof (6)
  
  Katowice (6)
  
  Paris (France) (6)
  
  Babice, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (5)
  
  Brzeszcze (5)
  
  Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (5)
  
  Częstochowa, Ghetto (5)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (5)
  
  Hamburg (Germany) (5)
  
  Jasło, temporary remand prison, Staszica Street 3 (5)
  
  KL Ebensee (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) (5)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (5)
  
  Rajsko (Oświęcim district) (5)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (5)
  
  Sosnowiec (Śląskie Voivodeship) (5)
  
  Starachowice (5)
  
  Treblinka, train station (5)
  
  Wodzisław Śląski (5)
  
  Goleszów, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  KL Barth (subcamp of KL Ravensbrück, Germany) (4)
  
  KL Melk (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) (4)
  
  Lublin, Gestapo detention center, Uniwersytecka Street 1 (4)
  
  Międzybrodzie Bialskie, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  Mysłowice (śląskie voivodeship) (4)
  
  Nowy Sącz (4)
  
  Poznań (4)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (4)
  
  Zamość (4)
Victims
- Civilians (512)
  
  The Civilian Population (505)
  
  The Poles (481)
  
  The Jews (402)
  
  Women (359)
  
  The sick (242)
  
  The Sick (237)
  
  Children (236)
  
  The Inteligentsia (191)
  
  Russians/Soviets (178)
  
  The Russians (168)
  
  Prisoners of War (139)
  
  The elderly (122)
  
  The Elderly (118)
  
  Hungarians (110)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (84)
  
  Czechs (79)
  
  The French (76)
  
  Slovaks (72)
  
  Germans (69)
  
  The Dutch (57)
  
  Belgians (52)
  
  Greeks (47)
  
  The Church (46)
  
  The Communists (38)
  
  The Disabled (35)
  
  Italians (19)
  
  Americans (14)
  
  Norwegians (12)
  
  The British (9)
  
  Romanians (6)
  
  Ukrainians (5)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (4)
  
  Latvians (2)
  
  Lithuanians (2)
  
  Serbs (2)
  
  Bulgarians (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (491)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (146)
  
  Collaboration (48)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (35)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (31)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (22)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (12)
  
  Military Police (11)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (10)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (6)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (5)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (5)
  
  Latvians (4)
  
  Lithuanians (4)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (4)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (4)
  
  Denunciation (3)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (3)
  
  Red Army (3)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (2)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (2)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (2)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (2)
  
  Waffen-SS (2)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (1)
  
  Postal Protection (1)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Gas chambers (543)
  
  Beating (417)
  
  Execution (372)
  
  Forced labor (372)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (341)
  
  Cremation of corpses (335)
  
  Cremation (329)
  
  Biological extermination (293)
  
  Death by shooting (292)
  
  Deportation (190)
  
  Arrest (185)
  
  Robbery (184)
  
  Hanging (136)
  
  Medical experiments (114)
  
  "Dosing" (103)
  
  Mass graves (102)
  
  Cattle wagons (68)
  
  Racial policy (64)
  
  Burning people alive (59)
  
  Economic exploitation (59)
  
  Death marches (45)
  
  Desacration of corpses (45)
  
  Displacement (34)
  
  Round-up (33)
  
  Expulsion (32)
  
  Judicial crime (28)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (28)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (22)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (17)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (17)
  
  Rape (14)
  
  Germanization (9)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (9)
  
  Administrative persecution (8)
  
  Disarmament (8)
  
  Air raids (7)
  
  Armored weapons (6)
  
  Collectivization (6)
  
  Deportation/Exile (3)
  
  Denationalization (2)
Place
- Extermination camp (465)
  
  Concentration camp (463)
  
  Prison (109)
  
  Labor camp (65)
  
  Police headquarters/station (37)
  
  Ghetto (33)
  
  Forced labor (22)
  
  Transit camp (22)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (7)
  
  Center for the Germanization of children (1)
  
  Internment camp (1)
  
  NKVD custody suite (1)
Content
- Extermination of Jews (314)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (143)
  
  Obliterating the traces (94)
  
  obliterating the traces (86)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (79)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (78)
  
  Health service (77)
  
  Aktion Zamość (37)
  
  Civil resistance (34)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (15)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (15)
  
  Rescue of Jews (11)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (10)
  
  Underground media (10)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (10)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (6)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (6)
  
  Polish Underground State (6)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (6)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (4)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (4)
  
  Underground courts (4)
  
  Underground culture and education (4)
  
  Aktion T4 (3)
  
  Central Welfare Council (3)
  
  Judenrat (3)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (3)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (2)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (2)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (2)
  
  Clandestine courses (1)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (1)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (1)
  
  Field health service (1)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (1)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (1)
  
  Operation "Tempest" (1)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (480)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (23)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (11)
  
  Account (8)
  
  Brief (6)
  
  Book excerpt (1)
  
  Report (1)
  
  Scene investigation report (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Supreme National Tribunal (461)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (21)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (16)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (9)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (5)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (5)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (4)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Gdańsk 1945–1949 (2)
  
  District Court in Radom (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)
  
  Inspectorate of Schools in Radom (1)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (1)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (1)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków (1)
Medium
- Text (543)
  
  Image (108)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (519)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (24)