“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 (4)
  
  Jamróz Halina; 1919? (4)
  
  Rogalski Władysław; 1879? (4)
  
  Banach Ludwig; 24.08.1917, Bydgoszcz (3)
  
  Banach Ludwik; 24.08.1918 (3)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (3)
  
  Dąbrówka Zofia; 1892? (3)
  
  Grabosz Ludwika; 1879? (3)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (3)
  
  Jastrzębska Eugenia; 1906? (3)
  
  Kiełbowski Paweł; 1892? (3)
  
  Kocińska Alicja (3)
  
  Koczorowski Józef; 01.02.1919, Poznań (3)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (3)
  
  Maliszewski Stefan; 23.05.1912, Warsaw (3)
  
  Prokop Kamila; 1909? (3)
  
  Rżewski Władysław, 07.01.1894 (3)
  
  Sapińska Helena; 1901? (3)
  
  Winczewska Anna; 1906? (3)
  
  Bartosiewicz Henryk; 1909? (2)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (2)
  
  Blinstrub Aniela; 1892? (2)
  
  Bloch Claude; 29.05.1910, Bourg-la-Reine (France) (2)
  
  Borkowska Maria; 1887? (2)
  
  Bretsznajder Zofia; 1877? (2)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Cyba Eugeniusz; 07.12.1921, Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Czaiński Stanisław; 1890? (2)
  
  Denkiewicz Michał; 08.09.1893, Wierzba (2)
  
  Drabek Jaroslav; 06.04.1901, Chrudim (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Dudek Władysław; 16.06.1920, Radogoszcz (2)
  
  Dudek Władysław; 1920? (2)
  
  Frąk Genowefa; 1910? (2)
  
  Gałązka Maria; 1907? (2)
  
  Grabowski Kazimierz; 03.04.1909, Płock (2)
  
  Izbicki Michał; 05.02.1919, Janów (2)
  
  Jaworska Bogna; 28.04.1925, Blachownia (2)
  
  Kisiel Mieczysław; 1912? (2)
  
  Kotlarski Mieczysław; 09.10.1913, Osieczna (wielkopolskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Kozerska Maria; 1900? (2)
  
  Krokowski Jan; 08.05.1921, Nowy Sącz (2)
  
  Kurys Bronisława; 1913? (2)
  
  Kwiatkowski Stanisław; 1917? (2)
  
  Lang Jerzy Julian; 15.10.1897, Warsaw (2)
  
  Lechowski Maksymilian; 1900? (2)
  
  Lessman Bolesław; 17.02.1904 (2)
  
  Liszka Edward; 25.07.1920, Kraków (2)
  
  Lużyński Władysław; 1916? (2)
  
  Makowski Marian; 01.12.1924, Kielce (2)
  
  Mas Anna; 1913? (2)
  
  Mikołajski Zdzisław; 28.09.1913, Kraków (2)
  
  Nagraba Ludwik; 19.08.1910, Kraków (2)
  
  Paczyński Józef; 29.01.1920, Wadowice (2)
  
  Piegat Stanisław; 26.09.1891 (2)
  
  Plaskura Władysław; 10.05.1905, Łazy (Orłowa, Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Rafalski Mieczysław; 1908? (2)
  
  Rajski Karol; 1897? (2)
  
  Rubach Marian; 14.06.1893 (2)
  
  Rzeszot Maria; 1911? (2)
  
  Rżewski Władysław; 1894? (2)
  
  Sikorski Piotr; 1899? (2)
  
  Siwek Władysław; 01.04.1907, Niepołomnice (2)
  
  Siwek Władysław; 14.04.1907, Niepołomnice (2)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć county) (2)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć district) (2)
  
  Stoeger Samuel; 14.05.1911, Kraków (2)
  
  Szlezyngier Aurelia; 1917? (2)
  
  Szostak Halina; 1910? (2)
  
  Szulc C. (2)
  
  Taul Roman; 28.02.1917, Bytom (2)
  
  Tomiczek Wiktor; 1899?, Rudzica (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Tydor Aleksander; 10.01.1901, Kraków (2)
  
  Wieczorek Kazimierz; 1893? (2)
  
  Wohlfarth Wilhelm; 15.02.1911, Warsaw (2)
  
  Wojdacka Maria; 1885? (2)
  
  Wolny Stefan; 30.10.1903, Kamieńskie (Ukraine) (2)
  
  Włodarski Włodzimierz (Walczak Wacław); 03.01.1907, Warsaw (2)
  
  Łozicka Józefa; 1891? (2)
  
  Adamczuk Barbara (1)
  
  Adler Rubin; 24.11.1909, Końskie (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Augustynowicz Stanisława (1)
  
  Bachniak Franciszek; 15.10.1904, Gruszewnia (1)
  
  Banach Zenobiusz, 28.01.1933, Parczew (1)
  
  Barabasz Alfred; 16.06.1913, Karwina (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Barwin Jan (1)
  
  Bator Maria (1)
  
  Bałut Tadeusz; 14.08.1921, Żywiec (1)
  
  Bednarska Władysława (1)
  
  Benedetti de Leonardo; 15.09.1898, Turyn (Italy) (1)
  
  Benedetti de Leonardo; 15.09.1898, Turyn (Włochy) (1)
  
  Berkowicz Elza; 1917? (1)
  
  Bernatowicz Helena (1)
  
  Biernacka Stefania (1)
  
  Bieńkowska Franciszka; 1914? (1)
  
  Bilska Wanda (1)
  
  Blinstrub Władysław; 1892? (1)
  
  Bloch Claudette; 1910, Bourg-la-Reine (France) (1)
  
  Blum Albert; 1918? (1)
  
  Bodera Wiesława; 1935? (1)
  
  Boratyński Stefan (Kluska); 13.06.1917, Kraków (1)
Subject
- The tragedy of the Radom Arms Factory (91)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (82)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (69)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (37)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (27)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (24)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (21)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (20)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (18)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (17)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (16)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (14)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (13)
  
  The Częstochowa region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (10)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (10)
  
  Wawer Massacre '39 (10)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (9)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (8)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (8)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (7)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (6)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (6)
  
  A mass extermination – KL Flossenbürg (5)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (5)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (5)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (5)
  
  Firlej near Radom – the training ground of death (4)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Radom Ghetto (4)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (4)
  
  Radom bathed in blood – the prison in the former convent buildings (4)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (4)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (3)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Flossenbürg (3)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Neuengamme (3)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (3)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (3)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Upper Silesia (3)
  
  The persecuted church (3)
  
  Treblinka – extermination camp (3)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (3)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (3)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (2)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Radom region (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Sachsenhausen (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (2)
  
  Radom – daily terror (2)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (2)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Białystok Ghetto (2)
  
  The city condemned to death (2)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (2)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (2)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (2)
  
  Clandestine teaching classes – the Kielce region (1)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Gliwice (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Volhynia (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (1)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Majdanek (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Bergen-Belsen (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Dachau (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Stutthof (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Podlasie region (1)
  
  Poles who saved Jews in Wilno (1)
  
  Pomiechówek Fort – the Mazovian torture complex (1)
  
  Prisoners of war – the Luckenwalde stalag (1)
  
  Terror in the "incorporated lands" – the Łódź region (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Radom Ghetto (1)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – the Stanisławów area (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz I (147)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (112)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (111)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (110)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (94)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (65)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (61)
  
  Radom, Arms Factory "Łucznik", Poniatowskiego Street (1905 Street 1/9) (52)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (48)
  
  Warsaw (40)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (39)
  
  Rożki, train station (37)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (36)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (34)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (32)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (32)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (27)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (26)
  
  Firlej (Radom), municipal cemetery, Ofiar Firleja Street 45 (24)
  
  KL Plaszow (23)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (23)
  
  Radom, Kielecka Street (22)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (22)
  
  Radom, Warszawska Street (21)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (20)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (20)
  
  KL Majdanek (20)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (20)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (19)
  
  Bochnia, train station (17)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (17)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (15)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (15)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (14)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (14)
  
  Radom, Gestapo headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (14)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (13)
  
  Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (13)
  
  Bydgoszcz (12)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (12)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (12)
  
  Radom (12)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (12)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (11)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (11)
  
  Kraków (11)
  
  Rajsko, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (11)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (10)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (10)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (10)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (9)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (9)
  
  Kielce, "Henryków" factory, Młynarska Street 133 (Mielczarskiego Street) (9)
  
  Kielce, forced labor camp "Henryków", Młynarska Street 133 (Mielczarskiego Street) (9)
  
  Radom, Gestapo Headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (9)
  
  Starachowice (9)
  
  Łódź (9)
  
  Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (8)
  
  Firlej (Radom) (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (8)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (8)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (8)
  
  Lublin (8)
  
  Nowa Wieś (Kłobuck district) (8)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (8)
  
  Anin (Warsaw), Poprzeczna II Street 3 (7)
  
  Kielce (7)
  
  Nowa Słupia (7)
  
  Sosnowiec (Śląskie Voivodeship) (7)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (6)
  
  Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (6)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (6)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (6)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (5)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (5)
  
  Jaworzno, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, SS-Stabsgebaude (5)
  
  KL Leitmeritz (subcamp of KL Flossenbürg, Czech Republic) (5)
  
  Kielce, Ludwików Steelworks, Zagnańska Street 27 (5)
  
  Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 (5)
  
  Mechelen (Belgium), transit camp (5)
  
  Bełżec, German extermination camp (4)
  
  Brussels (Belgium) (4)
  
  Brzeszcze (4)
  
  Chlewiska (Szydłowiec district) (4)
  
  Góra Puławska (4)
  
  Jawiszowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  Milanowska Wólka (4)
  
  Nowy Wiśnicz (4)
  
  Paris (France) (4)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (4)
  
  Radom, Ghetto Glinice (4)
  
  Radom, Ghetto Śródmieście (4)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (4)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (4)
  
  Wierzbnik (Starachowice) (4)
  
  Wodzisław Śląski (4)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz I (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  Białystok, ghetto (3)
Victims
- Civilians (493)
  
  The Poles (481)
  
  The Civilian Population (468)
  
  Women (258)
  
  The Jews (233)
  
  Children (198)
  
  The Inteligentsia (124)
  
  The sick (111)
  
  The Sick (106)
  
  Russians/Soviets (94)
  
  The Russians (89)
  
  The elderly (74)
  
  Prisoners of War (73)
  
  The Elderly (67)
  
  The Church (45)
  
  Hungarians (37)
  
  The French (37)
  
  Germans (34)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (31)
  
  Czechs (29)
  
  Belgians (25)
  
  Slovaks (24)
  
  The Dutch (24)
  
  The Communists (22)
  
  Greeks (20)
  
  The Disabled (19)
  
  Americans (6)
  
  Norwegians (6)
  
  The British (6)
  
  Italians (5)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (4)
  
  Ukrainians (3)
  
  Romanians (2)
  
  Bulgarians (1)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (250)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (138)
  
  Military Police (50)
  
  Collaboration (36)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (27)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (26)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (17)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (13)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (7)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (6)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (5)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (5)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (4)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (4)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (3)
  
  Latvians (2)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (2)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (2)
  
  Denunciation (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  Postal Protection (1)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (1)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1)
  
  Waffen-SS (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Hanging (526)
  
  Execution (467)
  
  Beating (272)
  
  Death by shooting (271)
  
  Forced labor (233)
  
  Arrest (218)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (212)
  
  Deportation (163)
  
  Biological extermination (155)
  
  Cremation of corpses (147)
  
  Cremation (142)
  
  Gas chambers (136)
  
  Robbery (104)
  
  Mass graves (90)
  
  Round-up (51)
  
  Burning people alive (50)
  
  Medical experiments (45)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (41)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (40)
  
  "Dosing" (39)
  
  Economic exploitation (39)
  
  Cattle wagons (37)
  
  Racial policy (32)
  
  Displacement (30)
  
  Desacration of corpses (29)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (29)
  
  Expulsion (28)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (22)
  
  Judicial crime (21)
  
  Death marches (19)
  
  Denationalization (12)
  
  Rape (12)
  
  Air raids (10)
  
  Administrative persecution (8)
  
  Armored weapons (8)
  
  Germanization (6)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (6)
  
  Disarmament (4)
  
  Human shields (4)
  
  Artillery fire (2)
  
  Artillery shelling (2)
  
  Collectivization (1)
  
  Deportation/Exile (1)
Place
- Concentration camp (210)
  
  Extermination camp (129)
  
  Prison (118)
  
  Labor camp (63)
  
  Police headquarters/station (36)
  
  Forced labor (30)
  
  Ghetto (28)
  
  Transit camp (13)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (8)
  
  Center for the Germanization of children (1)
Content
- Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (148)
  
  Extermination of Jews (141)
  
  Obliterating the traces (56)
  
  obliterating the traces (50)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (31)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (31)
  
  Health service (27)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (27)
  
  Civil resistance (22)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (22)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (16)
  
  Rescue of Jews (13)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (12)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (10)
  
  Polish Underground State (10)
  
  Aktion Zamość (9)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (8)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (7)
  
  Underground media (7)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (5)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (5)
  
  Central Welfare Council (4)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (4)
  
  Judenrat (4)
  
  Wola Massacre (3)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (2)
  
  Field health service (2)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (2)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (2)
  
  Underground courts (2)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (1)
  
  Operation "Tempest" (1)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (1)
  
  Underground culture and education (1)
  
  Verbrennungskommando (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (408)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (16)
  
  Brief (10)
  
  Account (9)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (2)
  
  Book excerpt (1)
  
  Press clipping (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Supreme National Tribunal (207)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (94)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (77)
  
  District Court in Radom (73)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (32)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (17)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków (17)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (5)
  
  Inspectorate of Schools in Radom (5)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland. Research and investigative files (4)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (4)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (1)
Medium
- Text (525)
  
  Image (110)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (498)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (28)