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

Main Page Indexes Crimes Racial policy

Witness (date and place of birth)
- Polak Wacław (4)
  
  Fastman Ludwik; 31.07.1899, Drohobycz (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Rajzman Samuel; 1902, Węgrów (3)
  
  Łącki Mikołaj; 30.10.1888, Loyew (Belarus) (3)
  
  Chrościcki Julian; 26.05.1892, Szymony (2)
  
  Kucharek Stanisław; 1904? (2)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (2)
  
  Kulka Erich; 18.02.1911, Vsetín (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Maślankiewicz Jan; 01.09.1916, Warsaw (2)
  
  Maślankiewicz Jan; 01.09.1916, Warszawa (2)
  
  Okolski Konrad; 19.02.1884, Nowostawce (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Okolski Konrad; 19.02.1884, Nowostawce (now: Ukraine) (2)
  
  Penson Jakub; 23.04.1899, Płock (2)
  
  Rajchman Jechiel (Romanowski Henryk); 06.1914, Łódź (2)
  
  Szenajch Władysław Ludwik; 13.05.1879, Warsaw (2)
  
  Adamczyk Stanisław; 1922? (1)
  
  Adler Rubin; 24.11.1909, Końskie (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Adler Stanisław; 08.02.1901, Warsaw (1)
  
  Anonymous (1)
  
  Banach-Kielanowska Gabriela (1)
  
  Basik Kazimiera; 1913?, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Bednarczyk Wacław; 1916? (1)
  
  Belina Brzozowski Karol; 23.03.1917, Sokołówka (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Benedetti de Leonardo; 15.09.1898, Turyn (Italy) (1)
  
  Benedetti de Leonardo; 15.09.1898, Turyn (Włochy) (1)
  
  Bida Antoni; 08.04.1897, Ostrów Krupski (1)
  
  Bida Władysław; 1886? (1)
  
  Blumenthal Nachman; 1901? (1)
  
  Borowy Stanisław; 1908? (1)
  
  Brakier Moniek; 23.12.1920, Białystok (1)
  
  Brandel Debora; 09.04.1919 (1)
  
  Brandel Debora; 1920? (1)
  
  Branny Paweł; 13.05.1888, Żuków Dolny (now: Český Těšín, Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Branny Paweł; 13.05.1888, Żuków Dolny (Český Těšín, Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Brener Hejnoch; 1913? (1)
  
  Bronicki Florian; 07.12.1907, Inowrocław (1)
  
  Brzezińska Ewa (1)
  
  Brzeziński Chaskiel; 1901?, Gąbin (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Budzioch Mieczysław; 1918? (1)
  
  Bąk Wincenty; 1893? (1)
  
  Błędowska Maria; 13.08.1896, Wawrzyszków (1)
  
  Chomka Władysław; 1893? (1)
  
  Chołdyk Stanisław; 1895?, Sielec (1)
  
  Ciepliński Brunon (1)
  
  Cukier Lejzor; 1905.01.20 Gdańsk (1)
  
  Czapla Władysław; 1901? (1)
  
  Czechowicz Aron 1904? (1)
  
  Czechowicz Aron; 1904? (1)
  
  Czerniak Mieczysław; 1906? (1)
  
  Danielewicz Leon; 20.02.1878 (1)
  
  Dawidowski Roman, 1884? (1)
  
  Denisow Piotr; 1894? (1)
  
  Drabek Jaroslav; 06.04.1901, Chrudim (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Dubiel Stanisław; 13.11.1910, Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Duchnowski Jan; 22.10.1908, Podbiele (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Dudka Stanisław; 04.01.1915, Mysiadło (1)
  
  Dudziński Zygmunt; 1887? (1)
  
  Dzido (Hassa) Jadwiga; 26.02.1918, Suchowola (Radzyń county) (1)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (1)
  
  Dürmayer Heinrich; 10.04.1905, Atzgersdorf (Austria) (1)
  
  Falk Ignacy; 1902? (1)
  
  Fastman Ludwik; 31.07.1897, Drohobycz (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Fastman Ludwik; 31.07.1899, Drohobycz (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (1)
  
  Finkelstein Leon; 1902? (1)
  
  Fiołno Leokadia; 1901? (1)
  
  Foltynova Vera; 1919? (1)
  
  Galewicz Artur (Glasman Aron); 01.02.1892, Jadów (1)
  
  Garwin vel Garfinkiel Mieczysław; 11.05.1898, Zamość (1)
  
  Gawkowski Kazimierz; 25.03.1898, Piecki (1)
  
  Gelade Eliasz; 1893? (1)
  
  Gelade Eliasz; 1894? (1)
  
  Gelbkron Moszek (Maciejuk Józef); 1903? (1)
  
  Gitler-Barski Józef; 03.03.1898, Warsaw (1)
  
  Gliński Bogdan; 08.12.1921, Sancygniów (1)
  
  Glogier Zygmunt; 1898? (1)
  
  Goldman Roman; 04.05.1931, Tomaszów Mazowiecki (1)
  
  Grabczyński Jan; 21.05.1908, Tarnów (dolnośląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Grygiel Konstanty; 1899? (1)
  
  Gurbiel Mieczysław Edward; 1920, Miechów (1)
  
  Gwiazdomorski Jan; 1898? (1)
  
  Górski Antoni Stanisław; 18.08.1914, Warsaw (1)
  
  Głowa Stanisław; 15.09.1898, Igołomia (1)
  
  Głowa Stanisław; 1898? (1)
  
  Halbreich Eugenia; 20.09.1919, Kraków (1)
  
  Heliczer Helena; 27.07.1890, Jezierna (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Hirszfeld Ludwik; 05.08.1884, Warsaw (1)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 13.11.1916, Kraków (1)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (1)
  
  Hrad-Głowacka Zofia (1)
  
  Jurka Kazimierz (1)
  
  Juszkiewicz Ryszard (1)
  
  Jęczalik Władysław; 1869? (1)
  
  Jędrzejowski Ferdynand; 06.01.1893, Sieniawa (1)
  
  Karczmarz (Łysakowska) Maria; 27.07.1917 (1)
  
  Kardas Józef; 1915? (1)
  
  Karolewska (Łapińska) Władysława; 15.03.1909, Żuromin (1)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (1)
  
  Kipa Emil Józef; 17.03.1886, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Klimas Zbigniew (1)
Subject
- Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (36)
  
  Treblinka – extermination camp (31)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (20)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (17)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (16)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Pomerania (9)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (8)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (8)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (7)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (7)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (7)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (5)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (5)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (5)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (4)
  
  The city condemned to death (4)
  
  The persecuted church (4)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (4)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (3)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (2)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (2)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Radom Ghetto (2)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Tarnów Ghetto (2)
  
  Lebensraum – the Germanization of the Zamość region (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Łódź region (2)
  
  Radom – daily terror (2)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  Soldier's House, Fort VII, Żabikowo – the trail of death in Greater Poland (2)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (2)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Radom Ghetto (2)
  
  The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews (2)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  Warsaw '44 – uprising in Praga (2)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (1)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Częstochowa Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Sandomierz Ghetto (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Zamość Ghetto (1)
  
  Lebensborn – the Germanization of Polish children (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Bergen-Belsen (1)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (1)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Kraków (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Polesie region (1)
  
  Poles who saved Jews in Lwów (1)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Terror in the "incorporated lands" – the Łódź region (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Białystok Ghetto (1)
  
  The Polish Righteous Among the Nations (1)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (1)
  
  The Polish diplomacy and its bid to help Jews (1)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (1)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Lesser Poland (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- German extermination camp of Treblinka (41)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (36)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (36)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (35)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (34)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (33)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (32)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (23)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (22)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (18)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (18)
  
  Warsaw (16)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (11)
  
  Częstochowa (10)
  
  Kraków (10)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (9)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (9)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (9)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (9)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (9)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (8)
  
  Bydgoszcz (7)
  
  Częstochowa, Ghetto (7)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (7)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (7)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (7)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (7)
  
  KL Majdanek (7)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (7)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (7)
  
  Treblinka, train station (7)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (6)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (6)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (6)
  
  KL Plaszow (6)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (6)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (6)
  
  Radom (6)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (6)
  
  Łódź (6)
  
  Białystok, ghetto (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (5)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (5)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (5)
  
  Radom, Gestapo Headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (5)
  
  Radom, Gestapo headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (5)
  
  Radom, Ghetto Śródmieście (5)
  
  Warsaw, Gęsiówka prison, Gęsia Street (Anielewicza Street)/ Zamenhofa Street (5)
  
  Warsaw, Leszno Street (5)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (5)
  
  Bełżec, German extermination camp (4)
  
  Białystok, Ghetto (4)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (4)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (4)
  
  Katowice (4)
  
  Lublin (4)
  
  Lublin, Lublin Castle, Zamkowa Street 9 (4)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (4)
  
  Prague (Czech Republic) (4)
  
  Radom, Ghetto Glinice (4)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Umschlagplatz, Stawki Street 2/6 (4)
  
  Warsaw, Karol and Maria Children's Hospital, Leszno Street 136 (Leszno Street 30) (4)
  
  Warsaw, Nalewki Street 9 (4)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 (4)
  
  Warsaw, ghetto, Umschlagplatz, Stawki Street 2/6 (4)
  
  Bliżyn, forced labor camp (3)
  
  Bochnia, train station (3)
  
  Firlej (Radom) (3)
  
  Gdańsk (3)
  
  German extermination camp of Sobibór (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (3)
  
  Kościerzyna (3)
  
  Lublin, Gestapo detention center, Uniwersytecka Street 1 (3)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Majdanek, German extermination camp (3)
  
  Potulice (kujawsko-pomorskie voivodeship), forced labor camp (3)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), Gestapo headquarters, Urszulańska Street 18 (3)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Jewish cemetery, Okopowa Street 49/51 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Wolska Street 6 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Zamenhofa Street (3)
  
  Zamość, resettlement camp, Okrzei Street (3)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz I (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Babice, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Czortków (Ukraine) (2)
  
  Garwolin (mazowieckie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Jasło, temporary remand prison, Staszica Street 3 (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (2)
  
  KL Ebensee (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) (2)
  
  KL Melk (Austria) (2)
  
  KL Stutthof (2)
  
  Kielce (2)
  
  Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 (2)
  
  Kraków, Marshal Józef Piłsudski Retreat of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers, Łobzowska Street 3 (2)
Victims
- Civilians (185)
  
  The Poles (181)
  
  The Jews (169)
  
  The Civilian Population (165)
  
  Women (129)
  
  Children (99)
  
  The Inteligentsia (71)
  
  The sick (70)
  
  The Sick (65)
  
  The elderly (45)
  
  The Elderly (40)
  
  Russians/Soviets (36)
  
  The Russians (35)
  
  Prisoners of War (33)
  
  The Church (20)
  
  Hungarians (18)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (18)
  
  Czechs (16)
  
  The Communists (13)
  
  The Disabled (13)
  
  The French (13)
  
  Germans (12)
  
  Greeks (10)
  
  Slovaks (9)
  
  The Dutch (8)
  
  Belgians (6)
  
  Americans (5)
  
  Italians (5)
  
  The British (3)
  
  Ukrainians (3)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (2)
  
  Belarusians (1)
  
  Deportees (1)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  Norwegians (1)
  
  Romanians (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (132)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (64)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (48)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (32)
  
  Military Police (25)
  
  Collaboration (20)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (15)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (14)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (7)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (7)
  
  Latvians (6)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (5)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (5)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (5)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (4)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (4)
  
  Lithuanians (4)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (4)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (4)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (3)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (3)
  
  Denunciation (2)
  
  Administrative Police (1)
  
  Postal Protection (1)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (1)
  
  Security Office (1)
  
  Waffen-SS (1)
Crimes
- Racial policy (235)
  
  Execution (131)
  
  Beating (118)
  
  Death by shooting (108)
  
  Forced labor (106)
  
  Robbery (99)
  
  Arrest (87)
  
  Deportation (79)
  
  Biological extermination (75)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (73)
  
  Gas chambers (64)
  
  Cremation of corpses (60)
  
  Cremation (59)
  
  Administrative persecution (58)
  
  Displacement (54)
  
  Mass graves (54)
  
  Economic exploitation (47)
  
  Expulsion (44)
  
  Round-up (37)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (33)
  
  Hanging (32)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (30)
  
  Medical experiments (29)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (28)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (22)
  
  Cattle wagons (18)
  
  Desacration of corpses (17)
  
  Germanization (14)
  
  Burning people alive (11)
  
  Judicial crime (11)
  
  Rape (11)
  
  "Dosing" (10)
  
  Air raids (10)
  
  Death marches (10)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (10)
  
  Armored weapons (4)
  
  Deportation/Exile (2)
  
  Artillery fire (1)
  
  Artillery shelling (1)
  
  Disarmament (1)
  
  Human shields (1)
Place
- Extermination camp (77)
  
  Concentration camp (66)
  
  Ghetto (64)
  
  Prison (31)
  
  Labor camp (28)
  
  Forced labor (24)
  
  Police headquarters/station (21)
  
  Transit camp (15)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (7)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (1)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (1)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (1)
Content
- Extermination of Jews (115)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (62)
  
  Rescue of Jews (38)
  
  Health service (33)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (27)
  
  obliterating the traces (24)
  
  Obliterating the traces (23)
  
  Civil resistance (19)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (18)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (16)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (14)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (14)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (14)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (11)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (9)
  
  Central Welfare Council (8)
  
  Judenrat (8)
  
  Aktion Zamość (7)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (7)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (6)
  
  Polish Underground State (6)
  
  Underground courts (5)
  
  Underground culture and education (5)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (4)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (4)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (4)
  
  Wola Massacre (4)
  
  Clandestine courses (3)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (3)
  
  Underground media (3)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (2)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (2)
  
  Anders' Army (1)
  
  Epidemics (1)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (1)
  
  Field health service (1)
  
  Ochota Massacre (1)
  
  Operation "Tempest" (1)
  
  Polish culture in exile (1)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
  
  Verbrennungskommando (1)
  
  the Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (1)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (181)
  
  Brief (13)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (13)
  
  Account (11)
  
  Statement (3)
  
  Book excerpt (2)
  
  Scene investigation report (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Supreme National Tribunal (113)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (25)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (23)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (20)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (13)
  
  District Court in Radom (11)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (8)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (7)
  
  Voivodeship Court in Łódź (2)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland. Research and investigative files; Polish Military Mission (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Gdańsk (1)
  
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