„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)
- Libkind-Lubodziecki Stanisław; 24.01.1879, Warsaw (2)
  
  Nita Maria, 04.07.1919 (2)
  
  Puka Stanisław; 24.03.1921 (2)
  
  Zdanowicz Michał; 1899.12.11 (2)
  
  Abramowicz Bronisław; 07.09.1911, Wzgórze–Bełżyce (1)
  
  Adamczyk Karol (1)
  
  Adamowicz Alfons; 15.12.1906, Białystok (1)
  
  Adamowicz Wiktor; 08.03.1903 (1)
  
  Adamusik Stanisław (1)
  
  Affek Piotr; 1905? (1)
  
  Aftergut Bronisław; 1893? (1)
  
  Aksnowicz Alfons; 21.01.1920 (1)
  
  Aktanarowicz Mieczysław; 1923? (1)
  
  Aleksandrów Władysław; 1919? (1)
  
  Aleksiejuk Mieczysław, 1908.05.03 (1)
  
  Amanowicz Kazimierz; 1922? (1)
  
  Ambros Florian; 1913? (1)
  
  Ambroziak Jan (1)
  
  Ambroziewicz Michał; 1904? (1)
  
  Amsta Norbert (1)
  
  Amsterdamski Saul (1)
  
  Androchowicz Kazimiera; 1904, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Androchowicz Kazimiera; 1904, Lwów (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Andronowski Jan; 1922 (1)
  
  Andronowski Piotr; 1921? (1)
  
  Andruszkiewicz Józef; 1893? (1)
  
  Aniszkiewicz Józef; 1895? (1)
  
  Ankudowicz Władysław; 23.10.1923, Białystok (1)
  
  Anonymous (1)
  
  Apelbaum Leib; 1921? (1)
  
  Aranowicz Jerma; 1907? (1)
  
  Arciszewski Franciszek; 02.11.1908, Łódź (1)
  
  Arociak (1)
  
  Atras Franciszek, 1900.10.08 (1)
  
  Augustowicz Bolesław; 1912 (1)
  
  Augustyn Bolesław; 1902 (1)
  
  Aunszlok Kazimierz (1)
  
  Awdziej Alfons; 15.02.1900 (1)
  
  Awienko Henryk; 1910? (1)
  
  Babiarz Józef; 13.03.1909, Łańcut (1)
  
  Babicz Stanisław; 17.07.1906, Babicze (1)
  
  Badach Julian, 05.10.1918 Sulmice (1)
  
  Bajorek Zygmunt; 1915? (1)
  
  Baka Jan; 1896 (1)
  
  Bakuła Antoni; 1899 (1)
  
  Bakuła Antoni; 1900 (1)
  
  Balawajder Franciszek (1)
  
  Balawender Antonina (1)
  
  Banasiewicz Józef (1)
  
  Banaszkiewicz Jan, 1894 (1)
  
  Banaś Jan; 1893 (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899 (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899?, Brynica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Baranowska Władysława (1)
  
  Baranowski Julian (1)
  
  Baranowski Maksymilian (1)
  
  Barbachowski Wladyslaw; 1903 (1)
  
  Barczak Franciszek; 03.04.1913, Świeca (1)
  
  Bardach Jakub; 1909 (1)
  
  Bardas Piotr; 1916, Görlitz (Germany) (1)
  
  Barna Teodor; 1900 (1)
  
  Baroni Jan; 1985 (1)
  
  Bartel Erwin; 02.03.1923, Oświęcim (1)
  
  Bartkiewicz Władysław; 1918?, Delatyn (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bartkiewicz Władysław; 1918?, Delatyn (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bartoszewicz Emilia; 09.11.1915 (1)
  
  Bartoszko Kazimierz; 09.10.1898 (1)
  
  Bartoszyński Józef; 1913 (1)
  
  Barycki Stanisław; 1898 (1)
  
  Baszker Fiyszel, 1899.08.06 (1)
  
  Batory Nadzieja; 1923?, Płaszówka (now: Ukraine, Rivne Oblast) (1)
  
  Batura Józef; 1916 (1)
  
  Bauer Ludmiła; 28.01.1922 (1)
  
  Baumgarten Józefina (1)
  
  Bazylewicz Aleksy, 1892 (1)
  
  Bazyliński Józef (1)
  
  Bałajewicz Jadwiga; 1913 (1)
  
  Bałajewicz Jadwiga; 1914 (1)
  
  Bednarczyk Czesław (1)
  
  Bednarczyk Jan (1)
  
  Bednarska Wanda; 16.06.1912, Suchedniów (1)
  
  Bednarski Bronisław (1)
  
  Bednarz Marian (1)
  
  Beker Władysław; 1911 (1)
  
  Bekery Julian; 1908 (1)
  
  Berner Aleksander; 04.03.1915, Landwarów (now in Lithuania) (1)
  
  Berner Aleksander; 04.03.1915, Landwarów (now in Lithuania) (1)
  
  Bełzki Jan; 1896, Potok Górny (1)
  
  Bialik Stefania; 1899? (1)
  
  Białous Edward; 03.04.1914, Kantorówka (1)
  
  Białowicz Edmund (1)
  
  Bibik Stanisław (1)
  
  Bibiło Jadwiga; 11.07.1922, Nacewicze (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Biel Ferdynand; 1898? (1)
  
  Bielawski Stanisław (1)
  
  Bielska Emilia; 1911? (1)
  
  Bier Maksymilian; 1892? (1)
  
  Biełous Włodzimierz; 1904 (1)
  
  Biler Romuald, 06.02.1912 (1)
  
  Binkiewicz Władysław; 1899? (1)
  
  Kullanda Henryk (1)
Subject
- In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (240)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (196)
  
  In exile – Siberia (169)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (154)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (154)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (153)
  
  In exile – Ural (88)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (65)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (62)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (55)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (49)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (49)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (32)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (29)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (24)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (19)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (19)
  
  In exile – Povolzhye (14)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (13)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (12)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (10)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (9)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (9)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (8)
  
  In exile – Mari El Republic (8)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (8)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (8)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (8)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Republic of Mordovia (7)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (7)
  
  In exile – Far East (5)
  
  Deported – the Altai Krai (2)
  
  Deported – the Perm Krai (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Sverdlovsk Oblast (2)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (1)
  
  Allied assistance from the air (1)
  
  Archipełag Gułag - Powołże (1)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (1)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (1)
  
  Deported – the Novosibirsk Oblast (1)
  
  Deported – the Rostov Oblast (1)
  
  Deported – the Volgograd Oblast (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (1)
  
  In exile – Rostov Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Ryazan Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Volgograd Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Yaroslavl Oblast (1)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (1)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ivanovo Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ryazan Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Tambov Oblast (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (227)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (166)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (160)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (153)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (114)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (106)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (103)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (103)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (78)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (78)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (71)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (65)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (50)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (49)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (48)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (47)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (45)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (44)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (43)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (41)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (40)
  
  Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia) (36)
  
  Tehran (Iran) (36)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (35)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (35)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (33)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (33)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (33)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (32)
  
  Kermine (Navoiy, Uzbekistan) (32)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (32)
  
  Pavlodar (Kazakhstan) (32)
  
  Białystok (31)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (31)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (31)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (30)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (29)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (28)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (28)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (28)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (28)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (27)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (27)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (27)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (26)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (26)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (25)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (24)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (24)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (23)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (23)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania) (22)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (22)
  
  Barnaul (Russia, Altai Krai) (21)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (21)
  
  Kagan (Uzbekistan) (21)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (21)
  
  Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) (21)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (20)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (20)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (20)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (20)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (19)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (now in Lithuania), internee camp (19)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (18)
  
  Nakhodka (Russia, Primorsky Krai) (18)
  
  Sevvostlag (Russia, Magadan Oblast) (18)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (17)
  
  Przemyśl (17)
  
  Semipalatinsk (Semey, Kazakhstan) (17)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine) (17)
  
  Tashlak (Toshloq, Uzbekistan) (17)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (16)
  
  Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (16)
  
  Kitab (Uzbekistan) (16)
  
  Lida (now in Belarus) (16)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (16)
  
  Nowogródek (now in Belarus) (16)
  
  Petropavlovsk (Kazakhstan) (16)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (16)
  
  Vrevsky (Almazar, Uzbekistan) (16)
  
  Altai Krai (Russia) (15)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (15)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (15)
  
  Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (15)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (15)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no 2, Zamarstynowska Street 7/9 (15)
  
  Omsk (Russia, Omsk Oblast) (15)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (15)
  
  Shahrisabz (Uzbekistan) (15)
  
  Czortków (now in Ukraine), Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) (14)
  
  Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (14)
  
  Kirov (Russia, Kirov Oblast) (14)
  
  Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a (14)
  
  Tomsk (Russia, Tomsk Oblast) (14)
  
  Turtkul (Uzbekistan) (14)
  
  Łomża, prison, Legionów Avenue 36 (14)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (13)
  
  Berezwecz (Głębokie, now in Belarus), NKVD prison (Basilian monastery), Sovetskaya Street 201 (13)
  
  British Mandate of Palestine (Israel) (13)
Victims
- The Poles (1722)
  
  Civilians (1499)
  
  The Civilian Population (1263)
  
  Deportees (1053)
  
  Women (909)
  
  Children (707)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (654)
  
  The Inteligentsia (528)
  
  Ukrainians (457)
  
  The sick (399)
  
  The Jews (372)
  
  The Sick (368)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (360)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (317)
  
  Russians/Soviets (299)
  
  Prisoners of War (269)
  
  The elderly (268)
  
  The Russians (261)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (232)
  
  Belarusians (227)
  
  The Elderly (227)
  
  Policemen (191)
  
  Internees (77)
  
  Landowners (62)
  
  Lithuanians (57)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (57)
  
  The Church (46)
  
  Germans (42)
  
  Border Guard (41)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (39)
  
  Border Protection Corps (32)
  
  Estonians (19)
  
  Latvians (18)
  
  Czechs (14)
  
  Hungarians (10)
  
  Romanians (9)
  
  Prison Guard (4)
  
  the Chinese (4)
  
  Finns (3)
  
  Greeks (3)
  
  Slovaks (3)
  
  The French (3)
  
  Georgians (2)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (2)
  
  Belgians (1)
  
  Italians (1)
  
  Scouts (1)
  
  The British (1)
  
  The Communists (1)
  
  The Dutch (1)
Perpetrators
- People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (485)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (212)
  
  Soviet Militia (187)
  
  Red Army (150)
  
  Denunciation (143)
  
  Collaboration (101)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (31)
  
  Lithuanians (30)
  
  Collaborators (22)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (12)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (10)
  
  Military Police (10)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (6)
  
  Latvians (4)
  
  SS (3)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (3)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (2)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (2)
  
  Administrative Police (1)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (1)
  
  Postal Protection (1)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (1)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1)
Crimes
- Deportation/Exile (1729)
  
  Forced labor (1604)
  
  Biological extermination (1486)
  
  Arrest (1088)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (534)
  
  Cattle wagons (482)
  
  Beating (475)
  
  Punishment cell (326)
  
  Judicial crime (316)
  
  Robbery (209)
  
  Disarmament (99)
  
  Death by shooting (97)
  
  Execution (94)
  
  Sovietization (80)
  
  Roads of death (66)
  
  Deportation (64)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (57)
  
  Forced voting (29)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (22)
  
  Air raids (21)
  
  Desacration of corpses (18)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (12)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (10)
  
  Round-up (9)
  
  Collectivization (8)
  
  Armored weapons (7)
  
  Death marches (7)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (7)
  
  Mass graves (6)
  
  Economic exploitation (4)
  
  Displacement (3)
  
  Expulsion (3)
  
  Gas chambers (3)
  
  Germanization (2)
  
  Racial policy (2)
  
  "Dosing" (1)
  
  Administrative persecution (1)
  
  Artillery fire (1)
  
  Artillery shelling (1)
  
  Cremation (1)
  
  Cremation of corpses (1)
  
  Denationalization (1)
  
  Espionage for the Third Reich (1)
  
  Hanging (1)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (1)
  
  Medical experiments (1)
  
  Rape (1)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (1)
Place
- Spetsposelok (special settlement) (737)
  
  Kolkhoz (477)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (438)
  
  Prison (379)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (162)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (143)
  
  Mine (140)
  
  Sovkhoz (118)
  
  Transit camp (105)
  
  NKVD custody suite (93)
  
  Internment camp (70)
  
  Concentration camp (9)
  
  Siberia (9)
  
  Orphanage – dietdom (6)
  
  Police headquarters/station (5)
  
  Forced labor (4)
  
  Extermination camp (3)
  
  Labor camp (2)
  
  Ghetto (1)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (1)
  
  Sewers (1)
Content
- Health service (987)
  
  Anders' Army (759)
  
  First deportation (581)
  
  Amnesty (553)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (273)
  
  Communist propaganda (249)
  
  Epidemics (242)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (226)
  
  Polish culture in exile (212)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (136)
  
  Second deportation (120)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (102)
  
  Third deportation (99)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (71)
  
  Fourth deportation (64)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (61)
  
  Military hospital (30)
  
  Students' Army Corps (19)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (17)
  
  Civil resistance (12)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (8)
  
  Extermination of Jews (7)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (7)
  
  Aid to Jews (6)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (6)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (6)
  
  Underground culture and education (4)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (3)
  
  Judenrat (2)
  
  Underground media (2)
  
  Aktion Zamość (1)
  
  Central Welfare Council (1)
  
  Clandestine courses (1)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (1)
  
  Obliterating the traces (1)
  
  Partisan warfare (1)
  
  Polish Underground State (1)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (1)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (1)
  
  obliterating the traces (1)
  
  the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
Object type
- Account (628)
  
  Report (628)
  
  Summary (628)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (32)
  
  Press clipping (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
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 (1715)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (10)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (3)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (1)
Medium
- Text (1729)
  
  Image (49)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (1716)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (12)