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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Kotlarski Mieczysław; 09.10.1913, Osieczna (wielkopolskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Boratyński Stefan (Kluska); 13.06.1917, Kraków (2)
  
  Bryński Antoni; 18.01.1899, Radom (2)
  
  Gliński Bogdan; 08.12.1921, Sancygniów (2)
  
  Szczepanowski Jan; 1909? (2)
  
  Adwent Stefan; 1925? (1)
  
  Baron Zenek; 1926? (1)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (1)
  
  Borowski Edward; 13.11.1903, Warsaw (1)
  
  Bryński Antoni; 18.01.1899 (1)
  
  Błońska Stefania Maria; 14.04.1919, Warsaw (1)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Chojnacka Pelagia; 09.09.1899, Pakość (1)
  
  Czosnowska Zofia; 02.10.1904, Warsaw (1)
  
  Dubas Irena; 19.10.1914, Nowy Sącz (1)
  
  Duchnowski Jan; 22.10.1908, Podbiele (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Dürmayer Heinrich; 10.04.1905, Atzgersdorf (Austria) (1)
  
  Dębkowski Marian; 08.12.1912, Warsaw (1)
  
  Długosz Wiesława (1)
  
  Elbert Hori; 24.10.1924 (1)
  
  Elbert Hori; 24.10.1925 (1)
  
  Frączek Kazimierz; 15.12.1914, Tarnów (1)
  
  Gaczyńska Irena (1)
  
  Gawalewicz Adolf; 02.09.1916, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Gorlach Halina; 02.07.1908, Strzelno (kujawsko-pomorskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Gulba Franciszek; 10.10.1899, Żyglin (Miasteczko Śląskie) (1)
  
  Gwiazdomorski Jan; 04.02.1899, Kraków (1)
  
  Halbreich Zygfryd; 13.11.1909, Dziedzice (śląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Horawia Aron; 1902? (1)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (1)
  
  Hrynkiewicz Janusz; 15.08.1924, Ciechocinek (1)
  
  Hrynkiewicz Janusz; 1924, Ciechocinek (1)
  
  Jakubowicz Mojsze; 15.05.1922, Poddębice (łódzkie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Juraszek Rozalia; 1910, Milewo (1)
  
  Juraszek Rozalia; 1911? (1)
  
  Kahl Tadeusz; 27.07.1908, Kraków (1)
  
  Kahl Tadeusz; 27.09.1908, Kraków (1)
  
  Kondracka Alina; 1925; Warsaw (1)
  
  Kondracka Alina; 1925; Warsawa (1)
  
  Konieczka Antoni; 04.05.1920, Gniezno (1)
  
  Konieczka Antoni; 04.05.1921 (1)
  
  Kotlarski Mieczysław; 1913? (1)
  
  Krasnoborodow Włodzimierz (1)
  
  Kraus Otto; 07.09.1909, Klášterní Skalice (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Krysa Kazimierz; 16.02.1900, Rejowiec (1)
  
  Krysa Kazimierz; 1900? (1)
  
  Kulka Erich; 18.02.1911, Vsetín (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Leonhard Bolesław (1)
  
  Lipiński Edward (1)
  
  Machałowski Jan; 22.02.1912, Warszawa (1)
  
  Majek Jan; 14.09.1907, Stare Zadybie (1)
  
  Majewski Jan; 1900? (1)
  
  Majka Jan; 1887? (1)
  
  Makowska Eleonora; 28.09.1904, Wilno (now in Lithuania) (1)
  
  Mikołajski Zdzisław; 28.09.1913, Kraków (1)
  
  Misztal Konstanty; 28.01.1920, Warsaw (1)
  
  Nagraba Ludwik; 19.08.1910, Kraków (1)
  
  Nagraba Ludwik; 19.08.1911 (1)
  
  Nelken Halina; 11.09.1925 (1)
  
  Nelken Halina; 22.09.1925, Kraków (1)
  
  Neuman Józef; 1916?, Oświęcim (1)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (1)
  
  Paradowska Józefa; 06.04.1897 (1)
  
  Paudyn Tadeusz; 16.12.1899, Radom (1)
  
  Pałasiński Zdzisław; 10.12.1919, Kraków (1)
  
  Pałasiński Zdzisław; 15.08.1921 (1)
  
  Piasecka Irena; 01.03.1895, Warsaw (1)
  
  Pielach Bolesław; 30.12.1907, Głuszczyzna (1)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 27.01.1913, Warsaw (1)
  
  Pomian-Grabiński Jan (1)
  
  Przerwa-Tetmajer Michał Jerzy; 12.10.1909, Kiev (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Quintet Marc; 10.01.1911 (1)
  
  Quintet Marc; 10.01.1912 (1)
  
  Rachwał Stanisława; 29.06.1906, Rudki (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Rajchstain Michał; 1897? (1)
  
  Ramuz Franciszka; 1894? (1)
  
  Rożek Stefania, 30.08.1917, Lwów (now:Ukraine) (1)
  
  Rożek Stefania; 30.08.1917, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Sadkowski Henryk Władysław; 28.11.1889, Zabrodzie (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Sewerski Stefan; 1900? (1)
  
  Skrętek Maria; 1911? (1)
  
  Sperber Karel; 1910, Tachov (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Sztander Bogusława (1)
  
  Tauber Henryk; 08.07.1917, Chrzanów (małopolskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Walas Józef; 23.02.1898, Bochnia (Bochnia district) (1)
  
  Weissblum Giza; 1917? (1)
  
  Wilanowski Kazimierz; 27.12.1914, Kraków (1)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Wąsowicz Tadeusz; 29.07.1906, Limanowa (1)
  
  Zarzycka Zofia (1)
  
  Zawistowski Witold; 01.05.1915, Ostrów Mazowiecka (1)
  
  Češpiva Jan; 1912? (1)
  
  Śliwicki Zygmunt; 14.03.1903, Sierakowice (łódzkie voivodeship) (1)
Subject
- Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (22)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (15)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (6)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (5)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (5)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (4)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (4)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (4)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (3)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (3)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (3)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Gliwice (2)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Buchenwald (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (2)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (2)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (2)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto (2)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (1)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (1)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (1)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Neuengamme (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Dachau (1)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Kraków (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Częstochowa region (1)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (1)
  
  Radom – daily terror (1)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Buchenwald (Germany) (83)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (39)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (37)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (32)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (32)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (25)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (22)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (21)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (18)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (17)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (16)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (13)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (10)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (9)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (9)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (8)
  
  KL Mittelbau-Dora (Germany) (8)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (7)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (7)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (7)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (7)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (6)
  
  Warsaw (6)
  
  Bochnia, train station (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (5)
  
  KL Majdanek (5)
  
  Kraków (5)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz IV (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (4)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (4)
  
  KL Neuengamme (Germany) (4)
  
  KL Stutthof (4)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (4)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (4)
  
  Radom, Gestapo Headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (4)
  
  Radom, Gestapo headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (4)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (4)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (4)
  
  Łódź (4)
  
  Bydgoszcz (3)
  
  Hamburg (Germany) (3)
  
  Jawiszowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (3)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (3)
  
  Leipzig (Germany), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Buchenwald, Germany) (3)
  
  Lublin (3)
  
  Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (3)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (3)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (3)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (3)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (3)
  
  Łódź, ghetto (3)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (2)
  
  Brussels (Belgium) (2)
  
  Brzeszcze (2)
  
  Buchenwald (Germany), German extermination camp (2)
  
  Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Będzin (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (2)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (2)
  
  KL Malchow (KL Ravensbrück subcamp, Germany) (2)
  
  KL Plaszow (2)
  
  Kielce (2)
  
  Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 (2)
  
  Leipzig (Germany) (2)
  
  Lipsk (Germany), labor camp (2)
  
  Opatów, Cememtery, Cmentarna Street (2)
  
  Opatów, Słowackiego Street 1 (2)
  
  Piotrków Trybunalski, Manufaktura, Sulejowska Street 45 (2)
  
  Piotrków Trybunalski, ghetto (2)
  
  Radom, Moniuszki Street (2)
  
  Radom, Sienkiewicza Street (2)
  
  Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Rajsko, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Siemianowice Śląskie, Laurahütte industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Szydłowiec (Szydłowiec district) (2)
  
  Tarnów (2)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Czerniakowska Street (2)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (2)
  
  Wodzisław Śląski (2)
  
  Zamość, Gestapo headquarters, Kolegiacka Street 18 (2)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz I (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz II (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz III (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
  
  Berdychiv (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bełżec, German extermination camp (1)
  
  Białystok (1)
  
  Bliżyn, forced labor camp (1)
  
  Bochnia (1)
  
  Bremen (Germany), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Neuengamme, Germany) (1)
  
  Brno (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Brussels (Belgium), Avenue Louise (1)
Victims
- Civilians (80)
  
  The Civilian Population (80)
  
  The Poles (80)
  
  The Jews (55)
  
  Women (46)
  
  The Sick (35)
  
  The sick (35)
  
  The Inteligentsia (33)
  
  Children (29)
  
  Russians/Soviets (29)
  
  The Russians (27)
  
  Prisoners of War (20)
  
  Czechs (15)
  
  Hungarians (14)
  
  The elderly (13)
  
  The Elderly (13)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (12)
  
  Germans (10)
  
  Slovaks (9)
  
  The Communists (8)
  
  Belgians (7)
  
  The Dutch (7)
  
  The French (7)
  
  Greeks (4)
  
  The Church (4)
  
  The Disabled (4)
  
  Americans (2)
  
  Italians (2)
  
  The British (2)
  
  Ukrainians (2)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Norwegians (1)
  
  Romanians (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (62)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (29)
  
  Collaboration (11)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (10)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (9)
  
  Military Police (6)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (4)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (4)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (3)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (2)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Red Army (1)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (1)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (1)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (1)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Beating (62)
  
  Forced labor (59)
  
  Execution (58)
  
  Death by shooting (52)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (48)
  
  Arrest (47)
  
  Deportation (47)
  
  Biological extermination (45)
  
  Gas chambers (40)
  
  Cremation (36)
  
  Cremation of corpses (36)
  
  Robbery (28)
  
  Hanging (21)
  
  Cattle wagons (17)
  
  "Dosing" (15)
  
  Death marches (13)
  
  Economic exploitation (13)
  
  Medical experiments (12)
  
  Displacement (9)
  
  Expulsion (9)
  
  Mass graves (9)
  
  Burning people alive (7)
  
  Desacration of corpses (6)
  
  Racial policy (6)
  
  Round-up (6)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (6)
  
  Judicial crime (5)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (4)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (4)
  
  Rape (3)
  
  Air raids (2)
  
  Denationalization (2)
  
  Disarmament (2)
  
  Germanization (2)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (2)
  
  Collectivization (1)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (1)
Place
- Concentration camp (71)
  
  Extermination camp (42)
  
  Prison (23)
  
  Labor camp (20)
  
  Police headquarters/station (13)
  
  Ghetto (8)
  
  Forced labor (5)
  
  Transit camp (2)
  
  Center for the Germanization of children (1)
Content
- Extermination of Jews (33)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (25)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (13)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (13)
  
  Health service (11)
  
  Obliterating the traces (10)
  
  obliterating the traces (10)
  
  Civil resistance (5)
  
  Rescue of Jews (5)
  
  Underground media (5)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (5)
  
  Aktion Zamość (4)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (4)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (4)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (3)
  
  Underground courts (3)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (1)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (1)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (1)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (1)
  
  Ochota Massacre (1)
  
  Operation "Tempest" (1)
  
  Polish Underground State (1)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (1)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (74)
  
  Brief (6)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (3)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (2)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Supreme National Tribunal (52)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (7)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (7)
  
  District Court in Radom (5)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (5)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (5)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (3)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Kraków (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (2)
  
  Office of the District Authorities in Ostrów Mazowiecka (1)
  
  Voivodeship Court in Łódź (1)
Medium
- Text (88)
  
  Image (8)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (78)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (10)