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

Main Page Search phrase: [Object Creation Date = 1945.01.01 - 1945.12.31]

Witness (date and place of birth)
- Bazylewska Ludwika (30)
  
  Deja Stanisław; 23.04.1907, Kowala (23)
  
  Sulima Jan (11)
  
  Szczerbiński Jan (11)
  
  Bochen Stanisław; 1901? (9)
  
  Gałecki Wiktor; 1901? (8)
  
  Sowiński Władysław (7)
  
  Stawiarski Eugeniusz (7)
  
  Baćmaga Walenty, 11.02.1902, Zakrzów (6)
  
  Krakiewicz Feliks; 1873? (6)
  
  Grodzicki Kazimierz (5)
  
  Iwanicka Maria; 27.01.1913 (5)
  
  Kruszyna Stanisław (5)
  
  Kwiatkowski Jan; 1911? (5)
  
  Madej Józef (5)
  
  Mankiewicz Franciszek; 1898 (5)
  
  Maroński Stanisław (5)
  
  Zielonka Jan (5)
  
  Łukasiewicz Henryk (5)
  
  Klimkiewicz Stanisław; 1895? (4)
  
  Korkosz Stanisław; 1904? (4)
  
  Korszla Jan; 1914? (4)
  
  Lizis Teofil (4)
  
  Sendecki Sylwester; 1903? (4)
  
  Skrzyniarz Adam (4)
  
  Szymanowski Jan (4)
  
  Tomasik Marcin (4)
  
  Wojcikowski Stanisław (4)
  
  Dąbrówka Zofia; 1892? (3)
  
  Dąbski Stefan; 26.12.1919, Joanin (3)
  
  Gozdur Stanisław; 11.11.1891, Wola Solecka (3)
  
  Grabosz Ludwika; 1879? (3)
  
  Jamróz Halina; 1919? (3)
  
  Jastrzębska Eugenia; 1906? (3)
  
  Kocińska Alicja (3)
  
  Kruczyński Michał; 1895? (3)
  
  Kędzierski Adam; 1890? (3)
  
  Majewski Stanisław (3)
  
  Maszczyk Antoni (3)
  
  Prokop Kamila; 1909? (3)
  
  Rajzman Samuel; 1902, Węgrów (3)
  
  Rogalski Władysław; 1879? (3)
  
  Sapińska Helena; 1901? (3)
  
  Skrzypek Jan (3)
  
  Winczewska Anna; 1906? (3)
  
  Zarębski Kazimierz (3)
  
  Łosińska Weronika Katarzyna; 30.04.1904 (3)
  
  Anonymous (2)
  
  Bartkowicz Jan (2)
  
  Bech Leon; 24.03.1989, Wola (2)
  
  Bielewicz Marian; 19.08.1911, Warsaw (2)
  
  Borkowska Maria; 1887? (2)
  
  Bretsznajder Zofia; 1877? (2)
  
  Buraczyńska (Zeiske) Wojciecha; 22.04.1920, Warsaw (2)
  
  Cichosz Paweł; 1902? (2)
  
  Czaiński Stanisław; 1890? (2)
  
  Dzido (Hassa) Jadwiga; 26.02.1918, Suchowola (Radzyń county) (2)
  
  Falkiewicz Wacław (2)
  
  Frąk Genowefa; 1910? (2)
  
  Gil Piotr (2)
  
  Gil Piotr; 1897? (2)
  
  Gołębiowski Juliusz; 1911? (2)
  
  Gronczak Józef; 1898? (2)
  
  Hegier (Rafalska) Helena; 07.09.1916, Chișinău (Moldova) (2)
  
  Jackowska Zofia; 1910? (2)
  
  Jackowski Marian; 1900? (2)
  
  Janssens Jean; 30.03.1904 Ougrée (Belgium) (2)
  
  Jarmosz Franciszek; 1902 (2)
  
  Kaczanowski Jan; 1913?, Rytwiany (2)
  
  Kiełbowski Paweł; 1892? (2)
  
  Kozerska Maria; 1900? (2)
  
  Kruszel Maria; 14.01.1929, Bruksela (Belgium) (2)
  
  Kruszel Maria; 14.01.1929, Brussels (Belgium) (2)
  
  Kucharek Stanisław; 1904? (2)
  
  Kulczyk Wanda Maria; 13.05.1922, Warsaw (2)
  
  Kurys Bronisława; 1913? (2)
  
  Kuśmierczuk Maria; 20.01.1920, Zamość (2)
  
  Kwiatkowski Stanisław; 1917? (2)
  
  Kwiecień Andrzej (2)
  
  Lużyński Władysław; 1916? (2)
  
  Marian Józefa; 04.03.1897 (2)
  
  Mas Anna; 1913? (2)
  
  Matuszczak Maria (2)
  
  Misiewicz Janina Eufrozyna Kazimiera; 12.12.1893, Solvychegodsk (Russia) (2)
  
  Mroczek Czesław (2)
  
  Niesłuchowska Anna; 12.03.1911 (2)
  
  Osuch Józef; 1920? (2)
  
  Pająk Franciszek (2)
  
  Palińska Kazimiera; 03.03.1883, Świr (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Paluch Stanisław (2)
  
  Piegat Stanisław; 26.09.1891 (2)
  
  Rafalski Mieczysław; 1908? (2)
  
  Rajchman Jechiel (Romanowski Henryk); 06.1914, Łódź (2)
  
  Rajski Karol; 1897? (2)
  
  Rott Wiesław; 14.06.1914, Lublin (2)
  
  Rzeszot Maria; 1911? (2)
  
  Sikorski Piotr; 1899? (2)
  
  Skibniewski Franciszek (2)
  
  Sotomski Henryk (2)
  
  Spustek Franciszek, 1903 (2)
Subject
- The tragedy of the Radom Arms Factory (85)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (73)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (73)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (71)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (54)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (33)
  
  Treblinka – extermination camp (33)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (29)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (26)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (26)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (25)
  
  Soldier's House, Fort VII, Żabikowo – the trail of death in Greater Poland (22)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (18)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (17)
  
  The city condemned to death (17)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (15)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (13)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Lublin region (13)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (13)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (10)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (10)
  
  Wawer Massacre '39 (10)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Radom region (9)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Mazovia (9)
  
  Prisoners of war – transit camps in Kielce (6)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Radom region (6)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Świętokrzyskie region (6)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (5)
  
  Radom – daily terror (5)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (5)
  
  Stadion Leśny, Słowik, Herby – execution sites in Kielce (5)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (5)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (5)
  
  Warsaw '44 – uprising in Praga (5)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (4)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (3)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (3)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Stutthof (3)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (3)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (3)
  
  Taken Captive (3)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (2)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Trzebinia (2)
  
  Firlej near Radom – the training ground of death (2)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Tarnów Ghetto (2)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Zawichost Ghetto (2)
  
  Pomiechówek Fort – the Mazovian torture complex (2)
  
  Radom bathed in blood – the prison in the former convent buildings (2)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (2)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (2)
  
  A mass extermination – KL Flossenbürg (1)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (1)
  
  Allied assistance from the air (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Volhynia (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (1)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death - the Lipsko Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Chmielnik Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Kielce Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Klimontów Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Sandomierz Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Staszów Ghetto (1)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (1)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Flossenbürg (1)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Neuengamme (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Sachsenhausen (1)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (1)
  
  Prisoners of war – the Luckenwalde stalag (1)
  
  Pruszków – the town of the displaced (1)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Soviets in German captivity (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Sandomierz Ghetto (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Staszów Ghetto (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Zwoleń Ghetto (1)
  
  The Intelligenzaktion in Pomerania – the Piaśnica massacre (1)
  
  The Przyrów massacre (1)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – the Lublin region (1)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (1)
  
  The persecuted church (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Warsaw (93)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (63)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (53)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (52)
  
  Radom, Arms Factory "Łucznik", Poniatowskiego Street (1905 Street 1/9) (48)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (43)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (39)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (39)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (39)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (36)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (35)
  
  Rożki, train station (31)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (31)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (29)
  
  Radom (28)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (23)
  
  Firlej (Radom), municipal cemetery, Ofiar Firleja Street 45 (21)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (18)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (17)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (17)
  
  Radom, Kielecka Street (16)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (15)
  
  Mechelen (Belgium), transit camp (15)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (15)
  
  Radom, Warszawska Street (15)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (14)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (13)
  
  Kończyce (Radom), Kosowski Forest (13)
  
  Warsaw, Anca Pharmacy, Marszałkowska Street 21 (13)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (12)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (12)
  
  Lublin, Gestapo detention center, Uniwersytecka Street 1 (12)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (12)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (12)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (12)
  
  Brussels (Belgium) (11)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (11)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (11)
  
  Lublin, Lublin Castle, Zamkowa Street 9 (11)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (10)
  
  KL Majdanek (10)
  
  Radom, Gestapo headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (10)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (9)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (9)
  
  Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 (9)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (9)
  
  Warsaw, Marszałkowska Street (9)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (8)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (7)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (7)
  
  KL Stutthof (7)
  
  Treblinka, train station (7)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (7)
  
  Anin (Warsaw), Poprzeczna II Street 3 (6)
  
  Kraków (6)
  
  Milejowice (Zakrzew commune), Milejowicki Forest (6)
  
  Skaryszew (Radom District), Chomentowska Street (Partyzantów Street) (6)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 (6)
  
  Warsaw, aleja Szucha (6)
  
  Łódź (6)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (5)
  
  Bieliny (district of Kielce) (5)
  
  Bochnia, train station (5)
  
  Częstochowa, Ghetto (5)
  
  Hrubieszów (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (5)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (5)
  
  KL Malchow (KL Ravensbrück subcamp, Germany) (5)
  
  KL Neuengamme (Germany) (5)
  
  Lublin (5)
  
  Skaryszew (Radom District) (5)
  
  Warsaw, Aleje Ujazdowskie (5)
  
  Warsaw, Gęsiówka prison, Gęsia Street (Anielewicza Street)/ Zamenhofa Street (5)
  
  Warsaw, Ursus factory, Wolska Street 55 (5)
  
  Białystok, Ghetto (4)
  
  Białystok, ghetto (4)
  
  Bydgoszcz (4)
  
  Daleszyce (4)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (4)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (4)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (4)
  
  KL Mittelbau-Dora (Germany) (4)
  
  Kielce, the "Leśny" Stadium (4)
  
  Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 (4)
  
  Sochaczew (4)
  
  Warsaw, General Inspectorate of the Armed Forces, al. Szucha 12/14 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Jagiellońska Street/ Kępna Street (4)
  
  Warsaw, Kępna Street/ Jagiellońska Street (4)
  
  Warsaw, Litewska Street (4)
  
  Warsaw, Marszałkowska Street/ aleja Piłsudskiego (aleja Armii Ludowej) (4)
  
  Warsaw, Mokotów Prison, Rakowiecka Street 37 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Piusa XI Street (Piękna Street) (4)
  
  Warsaw, Zbawiciela Square (4)
  
  Wełecki Forest (Wełecz) (4)
  
  Łoniów (4)
  
  Busko-Zdrój (3)
  
  Busko-Zdrój, Parish Cemetery, Szaniecka Street (3)
Victims
- Civilians (670)
  
  The Poles (599)
  
  The Civilian Population (595)
  
  Women (286)
  
  The Jews (244)
  
  Children (132)
  
  The sick (95)
  
  The Sick (88)
  
  The elderly (80)
  
  The Elderly (75)
  
  Prisoners of War (65)
  
  Russians/Soviets (52)
  
  The Inteligentsia (49)
  
  The Russians (36)
  
  Belgians (29)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (28)
  
  The Church (25)
  
  The French (20)
  
  Germans (19)
  
  Hungarians (18)
  
  Czechs (16)
  
  The Dutch (15)
  
  Slovaks (13)
  
  The Disabled (13)
  
  Ukrainians (13)
  
  Greeks (11)
  
  The Communists (11)
  
  Italians (7)
  
  The British (4)
  
  Americans (2)
  
  Norwegians (2)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (224)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (199)
  
  Military Police (150)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (68)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (40)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (22)
  
  Collaboration (19)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (13)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (7)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (4)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (4)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (4)
  
  Lithuanians (3)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (3)
  
  Latvians (2)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (2)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (2)
  
  Administrative Police (1)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (1)
  
  Denunciation (1)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (1)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (1)
  
  Red Army (1)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (1)
  
  Technical Support (Technische Nothilfe) (1)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Execution (546)
  
  Death by shooting (442)
  
  Arrest (216)
  
  Beating (187)
  
  Forced labor (185)
  
  Mass graves (174)
  
  Cremation of corpses (159)
  
  Cremation (153)
  
  Deportation (129)
  
  Hanging (127)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (126)
  
  Biological extermination (117)
  
  Gas chambers (87)
  
  Robbery (78)
  
  Medical experiments (60)
  
  Racial policy (52)
  
  Burning people alive (40)
  
  Economic exploitation (29)
  
  Round-up (29)
  
  "Dosing" (25)
  
  Cattle wagons (25)
  
  Displacement (25)
  
  Death marches (23)
  
  Expulsion (20)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (19)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (16)
  
  Armored weapons (15)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (13)
  
  Judicial crime (12)
  
  Rape (10)
  
  Administrative persecution (8)
  
  Desacration of corpses (8)
  
  Air raids (7)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (7)
  
  Human shields (5)
  
  Disarmament (3)
  
  Artillery fire (2)
  
  Artillery shelling (2)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (2)
  
  Denationalization (1)
  
  Deportation/Exile (1)
  
  Germanization (1)
  
  Ukrainianization (1)
Place
- Concentration camp (137)
  
  Prison (132)
  
  Extermination camp (100)
  
  Police headquarters/station (62)
  
  Labor camp (58)
  
  Transit camp (53)
  
  Ghetto (31)
  
  Forced labor (23)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (9)
  
  Sewers (3)
  
  Center for the Germanization of children (1)
Content
- Extermination of Jews (170)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (138)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (92)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (73)
  
  Obliterating the traces (34)
  
  obliterating the traces (32)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (19)
  
  Health service (16)
  
  Wola Massacre (16)
  
  Civil resistance (12)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (12)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (12)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (9)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (9)
  
  Rescue of Jews (9)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (8)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (6)
  
  Underground media (6)
  
  Polish Underground State (5)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (3)
  
  Judenrat (3)
  
  Central Welfare Council (2)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (2)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (2)
  
  Underground culture and education (2)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (2)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (2)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (1)
  
  Clandestine courses (1)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (1)
  
  Field health service (1)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (1)
  
  Ochota Massacre (1)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (528)
  
  Account (26)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (22)
  
  Brief (8)
  
  Scene investigation report (7)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (5)
  
  Book excerpt (2)
  
  Press clipping (2)
  
  Report (2)
  
  Statement (2)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (260)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (164)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (128)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (111)
  
  District Court in Radom (44)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (36)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (23)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (4)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (1)
  
  District Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Warsaw (1)
  
  Inspectorate of Schools in Radom (1)
Medium
- Text (817)
  
  Image (96)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (624)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (194)