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

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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Anonim (49)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (8)
  
  Anonym (6)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (6)
  
  Szelest Kazimierz; 25.03.1917, Kraków (6)
  
  Konferowicz Wacław; 13.05.1912, Ostrów Mazowiecka (5)
  
  Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (5)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (5)
  
  Rott Wiesław; 14.06.1914, Lublin (5)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 04.05.1918, Kraków (4)
  
  Nass Róża; 09.01.1907, Biała (Bielsko-Biała) (4)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (4)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 27.01.1913, Warsaw (4)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (4)
  
  Sendler Irena; 15.02.1910, Warszawa (4)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (4)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now: Ukraine) (4)
  
  Barzał Czesław; 09.10.1915, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Bas Ludwik; 18.12.1912, Kraków (3)
  
  Blinstrub Aniela; 1892? (3)
  
  Bogdanowicz Jan; 17.12.1894, Warsaw (3)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Czardybon Bernard; 18.06.1901, Chorzów (3)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (3)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (3)
  
  Igielski Jan; 12.01.1915, Stróże (Nowy Sącz county) (3)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (3)
  
  Kopta Marian; 08.12.1911, Kraków (3)
  
  Korganow Marek; 11.03.1931, Warsaw (3)
  
  Kotlarski Mieczysław; 09.10.1913, Osieczna (wielkopolskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Krokowski Jan; 08.05.1921, Nowy Sącz (3)
  
  Kukla Zbigniew; 11.08.1910, Kalwaria Zebrzydowska (3)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (3)
  
  Ludwig Józef Paweł; 03.07.1910, Sosnowiec (3)
  
  Mankiewicz Franciszek; 1898 (3)
  
  Maławska-Primas Hanna (3)
  
  Misiewicz Janina Eufrozyna Kazimiera; 12.12.1893, Solvychegodsk (Russia) (3)
  
  Nelken Halina; 22.09.1925, Kraków (3)
  
  Paczyński Józef; 29.01.1920, Wadowice (3)
  
  Pająk Wilibald; 15.12.1922, Katowice (3)
  
  Plaskura Józef; 23.01.1911, Brzeszcze (3)
  
  Plaskura Władysław; 10.05.1905, Łazy (Orłowa, Czech Republic) (3)
  
  Plaskura Władysław; 10.05.1905, Łazy (now: Orłowa, Czech Republic) (3)
  
  Rablin Andrzej; 01.01.1914, Kraków (3)
  
  Raczkiewicz Zbysław; 04.09.1925, Pobołowice (3)
  
  Reyman Jan; 21.10.1902, Kraków (3)
  
  Sadalska Jadwiga (3)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć county) (3)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć district) (3)
  
  Strynkowski Józef; 23.02.1891, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Szałwicki Bernard; 1909? (3)
  
  Szlacheta Wacława; 23.09.1900, Warsaw (3)
  
  Vogler Tauba; 18.06.1903, Kraków (3)
  
  Weiss Marian Franciszek; 28.01.1899, Rzeszów (3)
  
  Wiatr Mieczysław; 02.04.1917, Stary Sącz (3)
  
  Wrona Edward; 13.10.1913, Tuchów (3)
  
  Wąsowicz Tadeusz; 29.07.1906, Limanowa (3)
  
  Włodarski Włodzimierz (Walczak Wacław); 03.01.1907, Warsaw (3)
  
  Żelazowska Janina Czesława; 26.10.1908 (3)
  
  Ast Jadwiga; 24.01.1923, Żarnowiec (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Barabasz Alfred; 16.06.1913, Karwina (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Bekier Zofia; 17.04.1882 (2)
  
  Bloch Claude; 29.05.1910, Bourg-la-Reine (France) (2)
  
  Borkowska Cecylia; 20.04.1930, Stoczek (Stoczek commune) (2)
  
  Brudkowska Aglaida; 19.10.1914, Żytomierz (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Brudkowska Aglaida; 19.10.1914, Żytomierz (now: Ukraine) (2)
  
  Bryński Antoni; 18.01.1899, Radom (2)
  
  Budziaszek Maria; 08.09.1920, Kraków (2)
  
  Buraczyńska (Zeiske) Wojciecha; 22.04.1920, Warsaw (2)
  
  Bąk Michał; 1903? (2)
  
  Cegłowski Aleksander; 24.12.1904 (2)
  
  Chojnacka Kazimiera; 06.12.1891 (2)
  
  Chrościcki Julian; 26.05.1892, Szymony (2)
  
  Chwistek Barbara (2)
  
  Ciopińska Anna (2)
  
  Cyba Eugeniusz; 07.12.1921, Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Czarnecki Stefan (2)
  
  Drabek Jaroslav; 06.04.1901, Chrudim (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Drozdowski Henryk Marian; 13.01.1895, Łódź (2)
  
  Dubas Irena; 19.10.1914, Nowy Sącz (2)
  
  Dubiel Stanisław; 13.11.1910, Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Duda Konrad; 02.02.1914, Wartogłowiec (Tychy) (2)
  
  Dzido (Hassa) Jadwiga; 26.02.1918, Suchowola (Radzyń county) (2)
  
  Dzik Adam; 1910? (2)
  
  Dąbkowska Wiktoria, 1878? (2)
  
  Filipak Olga (2)
  
  Fliegel Jerzy; 02.11.1915, Ruda Śląska (2)
  
  Gałka Wacława; 10.08.1908, Warsaw (2)
  
  Giedroyć Kazimierz; 29.09.1908, Grodno (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Goliński Marian; 1904? (2)
  
  Goljan Stanisław; 1919? (2)
  
  Gołębiowski Stanisław; 22.08.1918, Kielce (2)
  
  Grabowski Kazimierz; 03.04.1909 (2)
  
  Grabowski Kazimierz; 03.04.1909, Płock (2)
  
  Głombiowska Jadwiga; 21.01.1915, Warszawa (2)
  
  Głowa Stanisław; 15.09.1898, Igołomia (2)
  
  Głuszak Józef; 27.10.1913, Koszyce Małe (2)
  
  Habrajski Józef; 08.03.1915, Radzionków (2)
  
  Hanuszek Tadeusz; 11.07.1922, Kraków (2)
  
  Hegier (Rafalska) Helena; 07.09.1916, Chișinău (Moldova) (2)
Subject
- Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (320)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (312)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (207)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (183)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (180)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Lublin region (164)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (128)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (127)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (126)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (125)
  
  The city condemned to death (113)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (109)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (97)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (94)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (93)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (79)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (75)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (65)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (64)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town (64)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (63)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (63)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (56)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (54)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (51)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (49)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (47)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (45)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (41)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (40)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (32)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (32)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Lublin region (31)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Żoliborz (31)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz (31)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (30)
  
  Firlej near Radom – the training ground of death (29)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (29)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (27)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (26)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (25)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (24)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (24)
  
  Radom – daily terror (21)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (21)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (21)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (20)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (20)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (19)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (18)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Warsaw (17)
  
  The persecuted church (17)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Kraków (16)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (16)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (16)
  
  The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews (15)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (14)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (14)
  
  Poles who saved Jews in the Kielce region (14)
  
  Soviets in German captivity (14)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (14)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (14)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Lesser Poland (13)
  
  Lebensborn – the Germanization of Polish children (13)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (12)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Upper Silesia (12)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (11)
  
  Pruszków – the town of the displaced (11)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Volhynia (10)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (9)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Podlasie region (9)
  
  Stadion Leśny, Słowik, Herby – execution sites in Kielce (9)
  
  The Polish Righteous Among the Nations (9)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Świętokrzyskie region (9)
  
  Browar, Czerwoniak – the Ostrów death blocks (8)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Warsaw (8)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Częstochowa region (8)
  
  Radom bathed in blood – the prison in the former convent buildings (8)
  
  The Podlasie region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (8)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (8)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Gliwice (7)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Łódź region (7)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (7)
  
  Clandestine teaching classes – the Lwów region (6)
  
  Clandestine teaching classes – the Kielce region (5)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Wilno region (5)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Łódź region (5)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Mazovia (5)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Neuengamme (5)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Sachsenhausen (5)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Volhynia (5)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Tarnopol region (5)
  
  Poles who saved Jews (5)
  
  The tragedy of the Radom Arms Factory (5)
  
  Wyszków – daily terror (5)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Rzeszów (4)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Kujawy region (4)
  
  Dispersed terror – KL Plaszow, the Schindler Factory sub-camp (4)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Plaszow branch in Schindler's Factory (4)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Ravensbrück branch in KL Malchow (4)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz I (427)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (384)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (357)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (353)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (269)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (226)
  
  Warsaw (191)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (186)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (148)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (133)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (111)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (110)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (98)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (92)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (88)
  
  Kielce (88)
  
  Siedlce (78)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (69)
  
  KL Majdanek (66)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (65)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (62)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (60)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (59)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (56)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (54)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (52)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (50)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka (50)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (48)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (48)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 (48)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (47)
  
  Lublin (47)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (46)
  
  Kraków (44)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (44)
  
  Warsaw, SS-Stauferkaserne, Rakowiecka Street 4 (40)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's Church, Wolska Street 76 (40)
  
  Bochnia, train station (39)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (39)
  
  Warsaw, aleja Szucha (39)
  
  KL Plaszow (38)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (37)
  
  Bydgoszcz (34)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (33)
  
  Radom (33)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (32)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (32)
  
  Firlej (Radom), municipal cemetery, Ofiar Firleja Street 45 (30)
  
  Radom, Gestapo headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (29)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (29)
  
  Warsaw, Marszałkowska Street (29)
  
  Warsaw, St. Lazarus' Hospital, Leszno Street 127 (Leszno Street 15) (29)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (28)
  
  Radom, Gestapo Headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (28)
  
  Łódź (28)
  
  Busko-Zdrój (27)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (27)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (26)
  
  Warsaw, Rakowiecka Street (26)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (25)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (25)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (25)
  
  Warsaw, Warszawa Zachodnia Station (25)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (24)
  
  Radzymin (24)
  
  Warsaw, Ogródek Jordanowski [Jordan garden], Bagatela Street 2/4 (24)
  
  Warsaw, Zbawiciela Square (24)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (23)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (23)
  
  Warsaw, Wolska Street (23)
  
  Warsaw, Wolski Hospital, Płocka Street 26 (23)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (22)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (22)
  
  Warsaw, Banacha Market Square, Grójecka Street 95 (22)
  
  Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (21)
  
  KL Stutthof (21)
  
  Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (21)
  
  Rajsko, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (21)
  
  Warsaw, Długa Street 7 (21)
  
  Warsaw, General Inspectorate of the Armed Forces, aleja Szucha 12/14 (21)
  
  Warsaw, St. Lawrence's Church, Wolska Street 140A (21)
  
  Warsaw, St. Lawrence's church, Wolska Street 140A (21)
  
  KL Malchow (KL Ravensbrück subcamp, Germany) (20)
  
  Lublin, Lublin Castle, Zamkowa Street 9 (20)
  
  Poznań (20)
  
  Warsaw, Litewska Street (20)
  
  Warsaw, Puławska Street (19)
  
  Warsaw, Sowiński Park (19)
  
  Warsaw, St. Stanislaus' Hospital, Wolska Street 37 (19)
  
  Warsaw, Unii Lubelskiej Square (19)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) (19)
  
  Łuków (lubelskie voivodeship) (19)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (18)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (18)
  
  Warsaw, Narbutta Street (18)
  
  Wzdół Rządowy (18)
  
  Hrubieszów (17)
  
  Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 (17)
  
  Warsaw, Dworkowa Street (17)
Victims
- The Civilian Population (3111)
  
  The Poles (2925)
  
  Children (1461)
  
  Women (1352)
  
  The Jews (1006)
  
  The Sick (468)
  
  The Inteligentsia (437)
  
  The Elderly (271)
  
  Prisoners of War (247)
  
  The Russians (237)
  
  The Church (179)
  
  Hungarians (105)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (98)
  
  The French (86)
  
  Czechs (84)
  
  Germans (84)
  
  Slovaks (66)
  
  Belgians (63)
  
  The Dutch (53)
  
  The Communists (48)
  
  Greeks (45)
  
  The Disabled (44)
  
  Italians (19)
  
  Ukrainians (17)
  
  Americans (15)
  
  The British (14)
  
  Deportees (12)
  
  Norwegians (12)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (8)
  
  Policemen (6)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (6)
  
  Romanians (6)
  
  Lithuanians (5)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (4)
  
  Latvians (3)
  
  Belarusians (2)
  
  Serbs (2)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (2)
  
  Border Guard (1)
  
  Landowners (1)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (977)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (441)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (284)
  
  Military Police (267)
  
  Collaboration (177)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (156)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (126)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (87)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (76)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (53)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (38)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (33)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (19)
  
  The Russian National Liberation Army (RONA) (16)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (16)
  
  Red Army (15)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (15)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (14)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (13)
  
  Waffen-SS (10)
  
  Denunciation (9)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (8)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (7)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (5)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (5)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (4)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (4)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (4)
  
  Security Office (4)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (4)
  
  Latvians (3)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (3)
  
  Technical Support (Technische Nothilfe) (3)
  
  Lithuanians (2)
  
  Administrative Police (1)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (1)
  
  Postal Protection (1)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (1)
  
  Soviet Militia (1)
  
  The Navy of Nazi Germany (Kriegsmarine) (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Execution (1625)
  
  Shooting (1381)
  
  Forced Labour (1090)
  
  Beatings (1017)
  
  Arrest (882)
  
  Deportation (764)
  
  Brutal Interrogation/Tortures (661)
  
  Robbery (592)
  
  Biological extermination (533)
  
  Cremation (503)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (432)
  
  Expulsion (391)
  
  Mass graves (388)
  
  Gas chambers (383)
  
  Round-up (294)
  
  Hanging (261)
  
  Economic exploitation (244)
  
  Air raids (170)
  
  Burning people alive (167)
  
  Medical experiments (158)
  
  "Dosing" (106)
  
  Administrative persecution (106)
  
  Racial policy (103)
  
  Rape (100)
  
  Cattle wagons (84)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (79)
  
  Death marches (73)
  
  Armoured Weapon (72)
  
  Artillery fire (69)
  
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Ciećwierz Jan

Executions in Mazovia

1943.11-1944.08

Truskaw Zaborów

Zaleski Henryk 1908?, Ołdaki (Ostrołęka county)

Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście

1944.08.01-1944.08.31

Warsaw, Okopowa Street 59 Warsaw, Okopowa Street 57

Sumińska Janina 28.01.1904, Warsaw

Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz

1944.08.01-1944.09

Warsaw, Gdańska Street 4A Warsaw, Gdańska Street/ Kaskadowa Street Warsaw, Gdańska Street 14 Warsaw, Bieniewicka Street 34 Warsaw, Józef Piłsudski Academy of Physcial Education, Marymoncka Street 34 Warsaw, St. Adalbert's Church, Wolska Street 76 Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 Pruszków, Dulag 121

Bonna Piotr 1887?

1939.09.01-1945.05.09

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Kobylińska Maria

Disrupted childhood – the Lublin region

1939.09-1945.05

-

Tychoniewicz Zbigniew

Disrupted childhood – the Lublin region

1941.06.22-1944

-

Anonim

Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland

1940.12.12-1944

-

Górecki Aleksander 1901?

Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation

1942-1943

Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I KL Auschwitz I, roll call square KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau)

Korneluk Ryszard 01.03.1933, Wisznice

Disrupted childhood – the Lublin region

1941.06.22-1944

Brześć (now in Belarus) Warsaw

Podolska Helena 1886?, Warszawa

Prisoners of war – transit camps in Kielce

1941.09-1944

Kielce, Barracks of the 4th Legion Infantry Regiment, Prosta Street

Nazar Szymon 17.02.1905, Sarny (now in Ukraine)

Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz

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Warsaw, Wilsona Square 4 Warsaw, Convent of the Sisters of the Order of the Resurrection, Krasińskiego Street 31 Warsaw, Warsaw Citadel Warsaw, Bem Fort Warsaw, Sokolnickiego Fort

Targowska Halina 09.05.1907, Kiev (Ukraine)

Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów

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Warsaw, SS-Stauferkaserne, Rakowiecka Street 4 Warsaw, Kazimierzowska Street 51 Warsaw, Madalińskiego Street Warsaw, Narbutta Street Warsaw, Kazimierzowska Street 75 Warsaw, Kazimierzowska Street 77 Warsaw, Puławska Street 19 Warsaw, Sandomierska Street Warsaw, Rakowiecka Street

Chojnacka Kazimiera 06.12.1891

Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town

1944.08-1944.08.20

Warsaw, Old Town Warsaw, Okopowa Street Okuniew

Cuprzyński Teofil 19.10.1912, Wyględy

Executions in Mazovia

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Wyględy Borzęcin Duży (district of Warsaw-West)

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