“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 (2)
  
  Lorentz Stanisław; 28.04.1899, Radom (2)
  
  Bachniak Franciszek; 15.10.1904, Gruszewnia (1)
  
  Balińska Janina; 19.03.1905, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Banach Leon; 8.06.1904, Futory (1)
  
  Banaszczyk Jan (1)
  
  Bartosik Antoni; 1902, Gidle (łódzkie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Basik Kazimiera; 1913?, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Bednarek Stanisław; 1904?, Kuchary (śląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Beliczyński (1)
  
  Beliczyński Marian; 23.06.1902, Michałów (Grójec county) (1)
  
  Bielecki Andrzej; 24.11.1925, Radziejów (1)
  
  Blumenthal Nachman; 1901? (1)
  
  Blusztein Laja; 1921? (1)
  
  Bohosiewicz Mieczysław; 1896.12.04, Bobowce (1)
  
  Bohosiewicz Mieczysław; 1897? (1)
  
  Branny Franciszek Karol; 26.09.1896, Ropica (now in the Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Brelewski Stanislaw; 05.04.1883, Olsztyn (śląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Brener Liber; 08.11.1907, Turzysk (1)
  
  Bresler Jerzy (1)
  
  Brzeziński Chaskiel; 1901?, Gąbin (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Buraczyńska (Zeiske) Wojciecha; 22.04.1920, Warsaw (1)
  
  Buła Jan; 26.08.1925, Mrzygród (1)
  
  Błaut Sławomir; 17.12.1930, Lublin (1)
  
  Całus Edmund; 14.11.1900, Aniołów ( Częstochowa) (1)
  
  Chlebołowski Jan; 1899, Wancerzów (1)
  
  Chmielewska Stefania; 22.03.1898, Płock (1)
  
  Chwała Stefan; 11.11.1908, Kowalew (łódzkie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Cichoński Stefan (1)
  
  Czapla Władysław; 1901? (1)
  
  Czarny Moszek; 05.05.1910, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Dietrich Edward; 13.10.1900, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Domagalska Helena; 01.02.1915, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Dreyza Jerzy; 19.07.1902, Brzóstownia (1)
  
  Dudek Władysława; 1898?, Krasice (śląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Dziedzic Małgorzata (1)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (1)
  
  Falk Ignacy; 1902? (1)
  
  Fiszer Irena; 07.09.1922, Kłobuck (1)
  
  Frydman Moszek; 14.12.1919, Radom (1)
  
  Gelber Zeuma; 26.07.1907, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Goldman Roman; 04.05.1931, Tomaszów Mazowiecki (1)
  
  Gruszka Janina Wanda; 29.11.1905; Grabowiec (Zamość county) (1)
  
  Grzela Stanisław (1)
  
  Gutman Jakub; 09.10.1910, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Gutman Jakub; 1911? (1)
  
  Górka-Olbrychowska Wiesława (1)
  
  Górski Antoni Stanisław; 18.08.1914, Warsaw (1)
  
  Głaz Antoni; 17.01.1920, Zawichost (1)
  
  Hagen de Jean; 1912? (1)
  
  Hagen de Jean; 28.11.1911, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Haupenthal Janina (1)
  
  Helman Bolesław; 1890? (1)
  
  Hurysz Kazimierz; 1888?, Targowa Górka (1)
  
  Imiolek Piotr (1)
  
  Januszkiewicz Henryk Stanisław; 1913 (1)
  
  Jaworska Bogna; 28.04.1925, Blachownia (1)
  
  Jaworski Józef; 23.09.1882 Wierzbica (Radom county) (1)
  
  Jaworski Józef; 23.09.1882, Wierzbica (Radom county) (1)
  
  Jaworski Tadeusz; 1904?, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Jurczyk Wiesław; 1888?, Karczewice (1)
  
  Kac Samuel; 1892?, Sandomierz (1)
  
  Kapusta Zygmunt; 1903? (1)
  
  Karcz Jan; 27.08.1915, Skalbmierz (1)
  
  Kardas Józef; 1915? (1)
  
  Karolewska (Łapińska) Władysława; 15.03.1909, Żuromin (1)
  
  Kasprzyk Franciszek; 17.03.1895, Borowa (śląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Kała Marianna; 1902?, Krasice (śląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Kałuska Helena; 25.09.1907, Warsaw (1)
  
  Kielich Stefan; 02.09.1909, Mozolice Duże (1)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (1)
  
  Klekowska Barbara; 26.09.1921, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Kobyłkiewicz Helena; 03.07.1908, Nowa Wieś (Kłobuck district) (1)
  
  Kon Abe; 1917? (1)
  
  Kon Stanisław (Kohn Shalom); 1910, Praczka (1)
  
  Koniecpoler Dawid; 1897? (1)
  
  Koniecpoler Dawid; 1898?, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Korsak-Bartonezz Fryderyk Jan; 14.10.1891 (1)
  
  Kowal Józef; 1906? (1)
  
  Kołosow Serafin; 1911? (1)
  
  Król Tadeusz; 10.05.1910, Janów (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Kubuła Marian; 24.04.1909, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Kudlik Aleksander; 1909? (1)
  
  Kumalski Tadeusz (1)
  
  Kułak Franciszek; 22.02.1901 (1)
  
  Kwiatkowski Walenty; 16.01.1904, Turowice (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Kóper Dawid; 17.06.1901, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Lehrer Karol; 13.03.1922, Oświęcim (1)
  
  Lizis Teofil (1)
  
  Marchewka Stanisław; 1893? (1)
  
  Materek Wacława; 02.05.1924, Michniów (1)
  
  Mazanek Stefan; 1895 (1)
  
  Mazurek Władysław; 21.01.1907 (1)
  
  Mazurkiewicz Bronisława; 28.08.1910 (1)
  
  Miedziejewska Aleksandra; 08.10.1900 Gruszczyce (1)
  
  Mystkowski Stanisław; 13.09.1892, Dąbrowa Wielka (podlaskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Mączka Zofia, 1905? (1)
  
  Mączka Zofia; 30.11.1905, Kraków (1)
  
  Niegut Maksymilian; 1899?, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Noszczyński Bolesław (1)
Subject
- The Częstochowa region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (64)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Częstochowa region (12)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (10)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (8)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (8)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Częstochowa Ghetto (7)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (6)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (6)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (5)
  
  Treblinka – extermination camp (5)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (4)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (4)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (3)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (3)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (3)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (3)
  
  Pruszków – the town of the displaced (3)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Tarnów Ghetto (3)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Upper Silesia (3)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Częstochowa region (2)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (2)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Częstochowa Ghetto (2)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Kłobuck Ghetto (2)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Upper Silesia (2)
  
  Soviets in German captivity (2)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Radom Ghetto (2)
  
  The persecuted church (2)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (2)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz (2)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Częstochowa region (1)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Radom region (1)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (1)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Majdanek (1)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Neuengamme (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (1)
  
  Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages (1)
  
  Michniów – the extermination of the Polish countryside (1)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Greater Poland (1)
  
  Radom bathed in blood – the prison in the former convent buildings (1)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (1)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Stadion Leśny, Słowik, Herby – execution sites in Kielce (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (1)
  
  The Przyrów massacre (1)
  
  The city condemned to death (1)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town (1)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (1)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (1)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Częstochowa (35)
  
  Częstochowa, Ghetto (17)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (15)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (15)
  
  Częstochowa, forced labor camp "Hasag Pelcery", 1 Maja Street (Filomatów Street 14) (12)
  
  Warsaw (11)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (10)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (9)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (9)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (8)
  
  Lublin (8)
  
  Nowa Wieś (Kłobuck district) (8)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (7)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (7)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (7)
  
  Radom (7)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (7)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (7)
  
  Częstochowa, Garibaldiego Street (6)
  
  Częstochowa, Jewish cemetery, Złota Street (6)
  
  Częstochowa, Rynek Warszawski (Bohaterów Getta Square) (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (6)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (6)
  
  KL Plaszow (6)
  
  Kraków (6)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (5)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (5)
  
  Warsaw, Warszawa Zachodnia Station (5)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (4)
  
  Radomsko (4)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (4)
  
  Aniołów (Częstochowa) (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (3)
  
  KL Majdanek (3)
  
  Kielce (3)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (3)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (3)
  
  Mstów (śląskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (3)
  
  Palmiry (3)
  
  Przemyśl (3)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna, forced labor camp "Hasag", Legionów Street 122 (3)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (3)
  
  Wancerzów (3)
  
  Warsaw, National Museum, Aleje Jerozolimskie 3 (3)
  
  Warsaw, Saski Square (Piłsudskiego Square) (3)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz II (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Bliżyn, forced labor camp (2)
  
  Brzózki (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Bydgoszcz (2)
  
  Częstochowa, Krótka Street (2)
  
  Częstochowa, Nowy Rynek (Daszyńskiego Square) (2)
  
  Garbatka (Garbatka-Letnisko) (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Sobibór (2)
  
  Grójec (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (2)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (2)
  
  KL Blechhammer (2)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (2)
  
  Kielce, Arbeitsamt, Kolejowa Street (Sienkiewicza Street) (2)
  
  Kobyłczyce (2)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (2)
  
  Kłobuck, ghetto (2)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Małogoszcz (2)
  
  Mokrzesz (2)
  
  Mszczonów (2)
  
  Nowy Sącz (2)
  
  Nowy Wiśnicz (2)
  
  Piaseczno (Piaseczno county) (2)
  
  Pruszków (2)
  
  Płock (2)
  
  Radom, Gestapo headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (2)
  
  Radom, Ghetto Śródmieście (2)
  
  Radom, forced labor camp, Szkolna Street (Poznańska Street) (2)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (2)
  
  Radom, prison (benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (2)
  
  Sandomierz (2)
  
  Siedlce (2)
  
  Skierniewice (2)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Banacha Market Square, Grójecka Street 95 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Chłodna Street/ Wronia Street (2)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Marszałkowska Street (2)
  
  Warsaw, Mokotów Prison, Rakowiecka Street 37 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Order of Malta Hospital, Senatorska Street 34/36/38/40 (2)
  
  Warsaw, St. John's Cathedral, Świętojańska Street 8 (2)
Victims
- Civilians (134)
  
  The Civilian Population (129)
  
  The Poles (120)
  
  The Jews (77)
  
  Women (70)
  
  Children (47)
  
  The Inteligentsia (35)
  
  The sick (31)
  
  The Sick (30)
  
  The elderly (25)
  
  The Elderly (25)
  
  Prisoners of War (19)
  
  Russians/Soviets (14)
  
  The Church (13)
  
  The Russians (13)
  
  Germans (7)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (7)
  
  Czechs (4)
  
  The Communists (4)
  
  The Disabled (4)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (3)
  
  The French (3)
  
  Belgians (2)
  
  Greeks (2)
  
  Hungarians (2)
  
  Italians (2)
  
  The Dutch (2)
  
  Border Guard (1)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (1)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (1)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (1)
  
  Norwegians (1)
  
  Policemen (1)
  
  Romanians (1)
  
  Slovaks (1)
  
  The British (1)
  
  Ukrainians (1)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (63)
  
  Military Police (35)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (23)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (22)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (10)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (8)
  
  Collaboration (6)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (6)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (5)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (4)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (3)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (2)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (2)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (2)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (2)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (2)
  
  Assault Units (Sturmabteilung, SA) (1)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (1)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (1)
  
  Red Army (1)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (1)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (1)
  
  The Russian National Liberation Army (RONA) (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (1)
  
  Waffen-SS (1)
Crimes
- Execution (97)
  
  Death by shooting (76)
  
  Beating (69)
  
  Forced labor (61)
  
  Deportation (55)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (43)
  
  Robbery (41)
  
  Arrest (40)
  
  Biological extermination (32)
  
  Racial policy (23)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (23)
  
  Hanging (22)
  
  Administrative persecution (21)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (21)
  
  Displacement (20)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (20)
  
  Expulsion (19)
  
  Round-up (19)
  
  Gas chambers (18)
  
  Economic exploitation (17)
  
  Cremation of corpses (16)
  
  Cremation (15)
  
  Mass graves (15)
  
  Cattle wagons (11)
  
  Medical experiments (8)
  
  Burning people alive (6)
  
  Rape (6)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (6)
  
  Death marches (4)
  
  Judicial crime (4)
  
  "Dosing" (3)
  
  Armored weapons (3)
  
  Desacration of corpses (3)
  
  Germanization (3)
  
  Air raids (2)
  
  Denationalization (2)
  
  Disarmament (2)
  
  Punishment cell (2)
  
  Deportation/Exile (1)
  
  Roads of death (1)
Place
- Ghetto (31)
  
  Concentration camp (27)
  
  Extermination camp (24)
  
  Labor camp (24)
  
  Prison (19)
  
  Police headquarters/station (12)
  
  Transit camp (12)
  
  Forced labor (9)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (4)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (4)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (3)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (1)
Content
- Extermination of Jews (42)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (26)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (23)
  
  Rescue of Jews (22)
  
  Health service (15)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (11)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (8)
  
  Central Welfare Council (7)
  
  Civil resistance (7)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (6)
  
  Obliterating the traces (5)
  
  Judenrat (4)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (4)
  
  obliterating the traces (4)
  
  Amnesty (3)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (3)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (3)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (3)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (2)
  
  Aktion Zamość (2)
  
  Anders' Army (2)
  
  Called by name (2)
  
  Communist propaganda (2)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (2)
  
  Ochota Massacre (2)
  
  Polish Underground State (2)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (2)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (2)
  
  Clandestine courses (1)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (1)
  
  Epidemics (1)
  
  Field health service (1)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (1)
  
  Pabst Plan (Pabst-Plan) (1)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (1)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (1)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
  
  Wola Massacre (1)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (117)
  
  Brief (19)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (11)
  
  Account (2)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (2)
  
  Report (1)
  
  Statement (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (46)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (35)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (16)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (16)
  
  District Court in Radom (13)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (8)
  
  Katyn Museum (5)
  
  Independent Historical Office of the Command of the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union/Documentation Office of the Polish Army in the East (4)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków (4)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (3)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (1)
  
  District Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Warsaw (1)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (1)
Medium
- Text (157)
  
  Image (24)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (129)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (69)