„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 (254)
  
  Szulc C. (117)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (30)
  
  Berthoh Feliks (29)
  
  Deja Stanisław; 23.04.1907, Kowala (23)
  
  Sobierajska Irena (19)
  
  Wilczak J. (12)
  
  Sulima Jan (11)
  
  Szczerbiński Jan (11)
  
  Augustyn Eugeniusz (10)
  
  Steinhauf Renata (10)
  
  Stopa F. (10)
  
  Bochen Stanisław; 1901? (9)
  
  Gałecki Wiktor; 1901? (9)
  
  Nowiński (9)
  
  Pemper Mieczysław; 24.03.1920, Kraków (9)
  
  Polak Wacław (8)
  
  Stoeger Samuel; 14.05.1911, Kraków (8)
  
  Kostka Stanisław (7)
  
  Lewicki W. (7)
  
  Sobczański J. (7)
  
  Sowiński Władysław (7)
  
  Stawiarski Eugeniusz (7)
  
  Węsierska Agnieszka (7)
  
  Baćmaga Walenty, 11.02.1902, Zakrzów (6)
  
  Brzoskowski Jan (6)
  
  Ciepliński Brunon (6)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (6)
  
  Grodzicki Kazimierz (6)
  
  Konferowicz Wacław; 13.05.1912, Ostrów Mazowiecka (6)
  
  Krakiewicz Feliks; 1873? (6)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (6)
  
  Marcinkiewicz Stefan (6)
  
  Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (6)
  
  Przytuła Stanisław; Cios Magdalena (6)
  
  Rott Wiesław; 14.06.1914, Lublin (6)
  
  Russanowska B. (6)
  
  Szelest Kazimierz; 25.03.1917, Kraków (6)
  
  Iwanicka Maria; 27.01.1913 (5)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (5)
  
  Kruszyna Stanisław (5)
  
  Kwiatkowski Jan; 1911? (5)
  
  Madej Józef (5)
  
  Mankiewicz Franciszek; 1898 (5)
  
  Maroński Stanisław (5)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 27.01.1913, Warsaw (5)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (5)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (5)
  
  Sendecki Sylwester; 1903? (5)
  
  Zielonka Jan (5)
  
  Łukasiewicz Henryk (5)
  
  Anastasiya, 1985 (4)
  
  Czardybon Bernard; 18.06.1901, Chorzów (4)
  
  Dobromirski Franciszek (4)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (4)
  
  Gozdur Stanisław; 11.11.1891, Wola Solecka (4)
  
  Grabosz Ludwika; 1879? (4)
  
  Jamróz Halina; 1919? (4)
  
  Janiszek Piotr, 19.10.1902, Grabów Szlachecki (4)
  
  Klima Joanna; 10.02.1898, Lwów (Ukraina) (4)
  
  Klimkiewicz Stanisław; 1895? (4)
  
  Korkosz Stanisław; 1904? (4)
  
  Korszla Jan; 1914? (4)
  
  Krawczyk Marian; 22.12.1902, Kraków (4)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 04.05.1918, Kraków (4)
  
  Lizis Teofil (4)
  
  Lorentz Stanisław; 28.04.1899, Radom (4)
  
  Maksim Jan; Siwko Józef (4)
  
  Mech Alojzy; 25.12.1905, Łosiewice (4)
  
  Nass Róża; 09.01.1907, Biała (Bielsko-Biała) (4)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (4)
  
  Rajewski Ludwik; 16.12.1900, Łódź (4)
  
  Rogalski Władysław; 1879? (4)
  
  Schlang Dawid; 08.07.1906, Kraków (4)
  
  Sehn Jan; 22.04.1909, Tuszów Mały (4)
  
  Sendler Irena; 15.02.1910, Warszawa (4)
  
  Skrzyniarz Adam (4)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć county) (4)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć district) (4)
  
  Strynkowski Józef; 23.02.1891, Ostrów Mazowiecka (4)
  
  Stuhr Oskar Tadeusz; 08.10.1891, Kraków (4)
  
  Sulewski Paweł (4)
  
  Szymanowski Jan (4)
  
  Szyszko-Bohusz Adolf; 19.08.1883, Narva (Estonia) (4)
  
  Tomasik Marcin (4)
  
  Wojcikowski Stanisław (4)
  
  Wolny Stefan; 30.10.1903, Kamieńskie (Ukraine) (4)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (4)
  
  Wronikowski Henryk (4)
  
  Wąsowicz Tadeusz; 29.07.1906, Limanowa (4)
  
  Zieliński Antoni (4)
  
  Łuszcz Zygmunt; 1904? (4)
  
  Łącki Mikołaj; 30.10.1888, Loyew (Belarus) (4)
  
  Adler Rubin; 24.11.1909, Końskie (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Anna, 1986 (3)
  
  Anna, 1989 (3)
  
  Banach Ludwig; 24.08.1917, Bydgoszcz (3)
  
  Banach Ludwik; 24.08.1918 (3)
  
  Barzał Czesław; 09.10.1915, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Bas Ludwik; 18.12.1912, Kraków (3)
  
  Kullanda Henryk (1)
Subject
- Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (804)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (785)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (601)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (589)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (586)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (532)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (434)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (420)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (419)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (371)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (370)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (357)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (355)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (336)
  
  In exile – Siberia (277)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (265)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (263)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Mazovia (257)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (253)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (253)
  
  Lesser Poland – the pacification of townships and rural areas (206)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (194)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (191)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (190)
  
  The city condemned to death (180)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (162)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (162)
  
  In exile – Ural (160)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (157)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (147)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (140)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (137)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (136)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (131)
  
  Fighting for Kharkiv (129)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (125)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (121)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (112)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (112)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (111)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (111)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (108)
  
  Russian missile terror (102)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (102)
  
  Russian occupation – south Ukraine (96)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (93)
  
  The tragedy of the Radom Arms Factory (91)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (90)
  
  Upper Silesia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (87)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (83)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (82)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (81)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (80)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (78)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (78)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (75)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (74)
  
  Radom – daily terror (74)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Pomerania (73)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (70)
  
  Mariupol Siege (67)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (67)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (66)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Mazovia region (66)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (65)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (65)
  
  The Częstochowa region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (64)
  
  Fighting in Donbas (2014 and/or 2022) (63)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Upper Silesia (63)
  
  Fighting for Kyiv (62)
  
  Terror in the "incorporated lands" – the Łódź region (58)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz (55)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (54)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (53)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (52)
  
  The Podlasie region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (52)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (50)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (49)
  
  Stadion Leśny, Słowik, Herby – execution sites in Kielce (46)
  
  The persecuted church (46)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (44)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town (44)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (44)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (43)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (42)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (42)
  
  Evacuation to Poland (41)
  
  The extermination of the mentally ill – the Kobierzyn massacre (41)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Świętokrzyskie region (41)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (41)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Lublin region (39)
  
  In exile – Povolzhye (39)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (39)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (39)
  
  Battle of Mykolaiv (38)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (38)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Lublin region (38)
  
  Firlej near Radom – the training ground of death (37)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (36)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (35)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz I (554)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (497)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (460)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (443)
  
  Warsaw (423)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (416)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (364)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (356)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (355)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (300)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (237)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (228)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (220)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (213)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (213)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (182)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (173)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (172)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (168)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (161)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (155)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (149)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (140)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (140)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (136)
  
  KL Majdanek (134)
  
  Kielce (127)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (120)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (120)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (114)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (106)
  
  Lublin (104)
  
  Siedlce (103)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (103)
  
  Radom (98)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (97)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (97)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (96)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (95)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (93)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (93)
  
  KL Plaszow (92)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (91)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (90)
  
  Kharkiv (90)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (89)
  
  Kraków (88)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka (84)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (84)
  
  Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 (83)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (81)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (81)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (79)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (79)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (75)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (75)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (74)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (74)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (73)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (72)
  
  KL Stutthof (72)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (72)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (71)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (70)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (69)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (69)
  
  Busko-Zdrój (68)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 (67)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (64)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (63)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (63)
  
  Kościerzyna (63)
  
  Potulice (kujawsko-pomorskie voivodeship), forced labor camp (63)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (63)
  
  Mariupol (62)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (61)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (61)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (58)
  
  Firlej (Radom), municipal cemetery, Ofiar Firleja Street 45 (57)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (57)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (57)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (57)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (56)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (55)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (55)
  
  Starachowice (54)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) (54)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (53)
  
  Radom, Arms Factory "Łucznik", Poniatowskiego Street (1905 Street 1/9) (53)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (53)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (53)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (52)
  
  Bydgoszcz (51)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (51)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (51)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (51)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (51)
  
  Białystok (49)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (49)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (49)
Oblast
- Kharkiv (148)
  
  Donetsk (113)
  
  Kherson (96)
  
  Zaporizhia (80)
  
  Kyiv (75)
  
  Dnipropetrovsk (47)
  
  Luhansk (44)
  
  Mykolaiv (40)
  
  Kyiv Oblast (33)
  
  Mikołajowski (27)
  
  Chernihiv (21)
  
  Sumy (20)
  
  Zhytomyr (14)
  
  Odesa (8)
  
  Lviv (7)
  
  Poltava (5)
  
  Rivne (5)
  
  Volyn (5)
  
  Ivano-Frankivsk (1)
Raion
- Kharkiv (110)
  
  Mariupol (67)
  
  Kherson (37)
  
  Kyiv (33)
  
  Mykolaiv (33)
  
  Kiev (32)
  
  Kakhovka (29)
  
  Severodonetsk (29)
  
  Bucha (26)
  
  Mikołajów (22)
  
  Nikopol (22)
  
  Chernihiv (16)
  
  Kramatorsk (15)
  
  Zaporizhia (15)
  
  Melitopol (14)
  
  Donetsk (13)
  
  Polohy (13)
  
  Sumy (13)
  
  Berdyansk (12)
  
  Izium (12)
  
  Vasylivka (11)
  
  Zhytomyr (11)
  
  Dnipro (10)
  
  Beryslav (9)
  
  Henichesk (9)
  
  Pokrovsk (8)
  
  Skadovsk (8)
  
  Svatove (7)
  
  Chuhuiv (6)
  
  Odesa (6)
  
  Bakhmut (5)
  
  Brovary (5)
  
  Rivne (5)
  
  Bohoduhiv (4)
  
  Fastiv (4)
  
  Kamianske (4)
  
  Lviv (4)
  
  Pawlohrad (4)
  
  Shchastia (4)
  
  Volnovakha (4)
  
  Bashtanka (3)
  
  Korosten (3)
  
  Kupyansk (3)
  
  Lutsk (3)
  
  Vyshhorod (3)
  
  Сhuhuiv (3)
  
  Bila Tserkva (2)
  
  Boryspil (2)
  
  Horlivka (2)
  
  Kremenchuk (2)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (2)
  
  Bilokurakyne (1)
  
  Ivano-Frankivsk (1)
  
  Kamin-Kashyrskyi (1)
  
  Markivka (1)
  
  Novoiavorivsk (1)
  
  Novomoskovsk (1)
  
  Oleszky (1)
  
  Pervomaisk (1)
  
  Podilsk (1)
  
  Romny (1)
  
  Rozivka (1)
  
  Schastia (1)
  
  Volyn (1)
  
  Voznesensk (1)
  
  Yavoriv (1)
Victims
- Civilians (9362)
  
  The Poles (8932)
  
  The Civilian Population (7811)
  
  Women (4179)
  
  Children (3459)
  
  The Jews (2557)
  
  The Inteligentsia (1626)
  
  Ukrainians (1479)
  
  The sick (1339)
  
  Prisoners of War (1228)
  
  The Sick (1213)
  
  Deportees (923)
  
  The elderly (915)
  
  Russians/Soviets (905)
  
  The Russians (769)
  
  The Elderly (732)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (540)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (522)
  
  Policemen (404)
  
  Belarusians (391)
  
  The Church (363)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (327)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (218)
  
  Germans (184)
  
  Internees (169)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (136)
  
  Hungarians (133)
  
  Czechs (124)
  
  The French (112)
  
  Border Guard (108)
  
  Lithuanians (107)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (104)
  
  Landowners (84)
  
  Slovaks (81)
  
  Belgians (74)
  
  Border Protection Corps (73)
  
  The Disabled (71)
  
  The Dutch (71)
  
  The Communists (67)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (61)
  
  Greeks (55)
  
  Latvians (39)
  
  Estonians (32)
  
  Italians (30)
  
  Romanians (24)
  
  Americans (23)
  
  The British (20)
  
  Internally displaced persons (15)
  
  Norwegians (14)
  
  The elderly (13)
  
  Prison Guard (12)
  
  Finns (7)
  
  the Chinese (7)
  
  Azerbaijanis (3)
  
  Georgians (3)
  
  Scouts (3)
  
  Serbs (3)
  
  Bulgarians (2)
  
  Crimean Tatars (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (1772)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (972)
  
  Military Police (967)
  
  Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (713)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (673)
  
  Collaboration (511)
  
  Red Army (479)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (468)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (312)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (282)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (247)
  
  Denunciation (235)
  
  Soviet Militia (220)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (144)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (119)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (98)
  
  Lithuanians (93)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (81)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (64)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (61)
  
  Collaborators (60)
  
  Donetsk People’s Militia (all military formations of so-called separatist republics DNR and LNR) (53)
  
  Kadyrovites (40)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (38)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (30)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (25)
  
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  Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (19)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (18)
  
  Russian diversionary groups (17)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (17)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (15)
  
  Waffen-SS (15)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (13)
  
  Separatists (13)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (11)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (10)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (9)
  
  Rosgvardiya [National Guard of Russia] (8)
  
  Security Office (8)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (8)
  
  Administrative Police (5)
  
  Technical Support (Technische Nothilfe) (5)
  
  Postal Protection (3)
  
  Assault Units (Sturmabteilung, SA) (2)
  
  Gendarmerie (1)
  
  OMON/SOBR [Special Purpose Mobile Unit/Special Rapid Response Unit] (1)
  
  The Navy of Nazi Germany (Kriegsmarine) (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (4385)
  
  Execution (4274)
  
  Arrest (3864)
  
  Death by shooting (3857)
  
  Biological extermination (3084)
  
  Beating (2798)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (2205)
  
  Deportation (1759)
  
  Robbery (1609)
  
  Deportation/Exile (1542)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (1114)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (917)
  
  Mass graves (891)
  
  Cremation of corpses (810)
  
  Displacement (782)
  
  Cremation (774)
  
  Cattle wagons (756)
  
  Judicial crime (680)
  
  Air raids (662)
  
  Punishment cell (625)
  
  Expulsion (599)
  
  Destruction of civilian infrastructure (594)
  
  Round-up (566)
  
  Gas chambers (543)
  
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  Burning people alive (381)
  
  Disarmament (358)
  
  Armored weapons (315)
  
  Humanitarian catastrophe (306)
  
  Racial policy (240)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (221)
  
  Administrative persecution (212)
  
  Medical experiments (200)
  
  Roads of death (195)
  
  Rape (156)
  
  "Dosing" (134)
  
  Death marches (126)
  
  Artillery fire (116)
  
  Desacration of corpses (109)
  
  Limiting freedom of movement (107)
  
  Human shields (106)
  
  Persecution of Ukrainian identity/Russification (95)
  
  Sovietization (91)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (85)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (85)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (60)
  
  Germanization (57)
  
  Pacification (38)
  
  Forced voting (34)
  
  Confiscation (23)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (19)
  
  Collectivization (17)
  
  Forced mobilization (15)
  
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  Minefields (11)
  
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Place
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  Forced labor (458)
  
  Ghetto (406)
  
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  NKVD custody suite (361)
  
  Police headquarters/station (350)
  
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Content
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  Warsaw Uprising (1077)
  
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  Extermination of Jews (928)
  
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  Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022) (698)
  
  Rescue of Jews (609)
  
  First deportation (467)
  
  Epidemics (346)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (332)
  
  Communist propaganda (328)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (328)
  
  Polish culture in exile (287)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (241)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (239)
  
  Obliterating the traces (222)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (214)
  
  Evacuation from war zone/occupied territories (206)
  
  obliterating the traces (193)
  
  Russian occupation/Occupation terror (169)
  
  Civil resistance (142)
  
  Wola Massacre (139)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (127)
  
  Departure from Ukraine (121)
  
  Second deportation (121)
  
  Urban warfare (97)
  
  Polish Underground State (89)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (89)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (88)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (86)
  
  Third deportation (80)
  
  Fourth deportation (69)
  
  Called by name (68)
  
  Armed Forces of Ukraine (63)
  
  Aktion Zamość (62)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (61)
  
  Underground media (60)
  
  Central Welfare Council (58)
  
  Field health service (57)
  
  Underground culture and education (56)
  
  Underground courts (51)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (50)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (43)
  
  Free City of Danzig (38)
  
  Military hospital (38)
  
  Ochota Massacre (37)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (36)
  
  Judenrat (34)
  
  War in Donbas (2014) (32)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (31)
  
  Russian propaganda/disinformation (31)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (30)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (30)
  
  Pseudoreferendums in occupied territories (27)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (24)
  
  The Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (21)
  
  Students' Army Corps (20)
  
  Clandestine courses (18)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (18)
  
  Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces (18)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (17)
  
  “Donetsk People’s Republic” (17)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (15)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (13)
  
  the Government Delegation for Poland's Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" (13)
  
  “Luhansk People’s Republic” (13)
  
  Pabst Plan (Pabst-Plan) (8)
  
  Verbrennungskommando (8)
  
  Aid to Jews (7)
  
  National Armed Forces (7)
  
  Operation "Tempest" (7)
  
  the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (7)
  
  Aktion T4 (6)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (6)
  
  Bucha Massacre (4)
  
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  Irpin Massacre (3)
  
  Security Service of Ukraine (3)
  
  The Silent Unseen (3)
  
  Blue Police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (1)
  
  Border provocations in 1939 (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching classes (1)
  
  Izyum Massacre (1)
  
  Kidnapping (and Germanization) of Polish children (1)
  
  National Guard of Ukraine (1)
  
  War reparations (1)
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File creator ^?
- Independent Historical Office of the Command of the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union/Documentation Office of the Polish Army in the East (4600)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (2738)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (1430)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (1305)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (989)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (746)
  
  Lemkin Center (731)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (479)
  
  Provincial Court for the Capital City of Warsaw 1951–1975 (444)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (395)
  
  District Court in Radom (282)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków 1945–1949 (240)
  
  Provincial Court for the Capital City of Warsaw (216)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (152)
  
  Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Appellate Court in Warsaw (141)
  
  Provincial Court for the Province of Warsaw in Warsaw 1951–1975 (129)
  
  District Court in Łomża (114)
  
  Katyn Museum (112)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal in Kraków (105)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin 1945–1949 (90)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland. Research and investigative files (81)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Katowice (80)
  
  Public Prosecutor’s Office at the District Court in Warsaw (60)
  
  Provincial Court for the Province of Warsaw in Warsaw (54)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland 1949–1984 (39)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation – Institute of National Remembrance in Białystok (21)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (21)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (18)
  
  Provincial Office of Internal Affairs in Katowice (14)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Białystok (12)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Warsaw (12)
  
  District Court in Łomża 1945–1950 (11)
  
  Provincial Court for the Capital City of Warsaw 1951–1980 (11)
  
  County Public Prosecutor’s Office in Pułtusk (10)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (10)
  
  Inspectorate of Schools in Radom (10)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Gdańsk (9)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Kraków (9)
  
  Voivodeship Court in Łódź (9)
  
  Office of the District Authorities in Ostrów Mazowiecka (8)
  
  Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Special Criminal Court in Warsaw. Agency in Białystok (8)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Gdańsk 1945–1949 (7)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes (5)
  
  Magistrates’ Court in Bydgoszcz (5)
  
  Special Criminal Court for the Warsaw Appellate District with its seat in Łódź (5)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes – Institute of National Remembrance in Białystok (4)
  
  Provincial Office of Internal Affairs in Wrocław [1945] 1983–1990 (3)
  
  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)
  
  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 Gdańsk (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes – Institute of National Remembrance in Kraków (1)
  
  District Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Warsaw (1)
  
  Magistrates’ Court in Włocławek (1)
  
  Magistrates’ Court in Łomża (1)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland the Institute of National Remembrance the District Commission in Warsaw (1)
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