„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)
- Rżewski Władysław, 07.01.1894 (3)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (2)
  
  Kowalczyk Janina; 10.03.1907, Golkowice (2)
  
  Olbrycht Jan; 06.05.1886, Zahutyń (2)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 27.01.1913, Warsaw (2)
  
  Rajewski Ludwik; 16.12.1900, Łódź (2)
  
  Rżewski Władysław; 1894? (2)
  
  Anonymous (1)
  
  Bergson Mieczysław; 14.12.1911, Ciechanów (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Blumenfeld Abus; 20.07.1907, Klimontów (1)
  
  Bohosiewicz Mieczysław; 1896.12.04, Bobowce (1)
  
  Bohosiewicz Mieczysław; 1897? (1)
  
  Brakier Moniek; 23.12.1920, Białystok (1)
  
  Brandhuber Jerzy; 23.10.1897, Kraków (1)
  
  Cendrowski Feliks; 27.11.1913, Warsaw (1)
  
  Chomentowski Bohdan; 08.03.1916, Warsaw (1)
  
  Cunder Milan; 1908? (1)
  
  Cygler Ruchla; 08.02.1909, Tomaszów (1)
  
  Czech Jerzy (1)
  
  Dubicki Bogusław; 1910? (1)
  
  Dworakowski Bolesław; 18.02.1895, Dworaki-Staśki (1)
  
  Feinsilber Alter (Jankowski Stanisław); 23.10.1910, Stoczek Łukowski (1)
  
  Ferri Luigi; 09.09.1932, Mediolan (Italy) (1)
  
  Ferri Luigi; 09.09.1932, Mediolan (Włochy) (1)
  
  Filipowicz Teodor; 1891? (1)
  
  Frankiewicz Janina; 13.08.1912, Wieliczka (1)
  
  Glogier Stanisław; 1905? (1)
  
  Glogier Zygmunt; 1898? (1)
  
  Gomziuk Witold; 1913? (1)
  
  Gordon Jakub; 30.06.1910, Wilno (now in Lithuania) (1)
  
  Gordon Jakub; 30.06.1910, Wilno (now: Lithuania) (1)
  
  Grzyb Apolonia; 01.05.1893, Uchanie (1)
  
  Grzyb Apolonia; 1897? (1)
  
  Gutman Simon; 1923? (1)
  
  Gwiazdomorski Jan; 04.02.1899, Kraków (1)
  
  Gwiazdomorski Jan; 1898? (1)
  
  Górka Lucjan; 13.12.1884, Nowy Sącz (1)
  
  Głowa Stanisław; 15.09.1898, Igołomia (1)
  
  Głowacki Czesław; 1921? (1)
  
  Głuch Henryk; 12.07.1896, Jaworzno (1)
  
  Halbreich Zygfryd; 13.11.1909, Dziedzice (śląskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Hoffman Józef (1)
  
  Hönings Paul; 1902? (1)
  
  Iczkovitz Estera; 16.01.1904 (1)
  
  Iczkovitz Estera; 16.01.1905 (1)
  
  Janssens Jean; 30.03.1904 Ougrée (Belgium) (1)
  
  Jarosiński Edward; 1904?, Wołów (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Jaszczyński Czesław; 12.07.1913, Bochnia (1)
  
  Jaszczyński Roman; 05.04.1918, Bochnia (1)
  
  Juraszek Rozalia; 1910, Milewo (1)
  
  Juraszek Rozalia; 1911? (1)
  
  Kaczyńska Franciszka; 1904? (1)
  
  Karcz Jan; 27.08.1915, Skalbmierz (1)
  
  Kask Roman; 08.06.1908, Warszawa (1)
  
  Kinel Stefan; 20.12.1912 (1)
  
  Klamdel Jadwiga; 1912? (1)
  
  Klinger Jakub; 22.09.1920, Strusów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Klinger Jakub; 22.09.1920, Strusów (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Kocięcki Stanisław; 06.03.1914, Wola Gręboszowska (1)
  
  Koczorowski Józef; 01.02.1919, Poznań (1)
  
  Koczyńska Jadwiga; 11.09.1909, Vienna (Austria) (1)
  
  Kopta Marian; 08.12.1911, Kraków (1)
  
  Korecki Stanisław; 06.03.1914, Wola Gręboszowska (1)
  
  Kowalczyk Janina; 1907? (1)
  
  Kozak Jan; 1902? (1)
  
  Kołodziejczyk Aleksander; 21.01.1914, Kraków (1)
  
  Krakowiak Ryszard; 1923? (1)
  
  Krokowski Jan; 08.05.1921, Nowy Sącz (1)
  
  Krzetuski Artur; 08.11.1897, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Krzetuski Artur; 08.11.1897, Lwów (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Krzywicki Janusz; 15.09.1907, Warsaw (1)
  
  Kuhlemann Hermann; 22.10.1908, Barntrup (Germany) (1)
  
  Kumala Kazimierz; 22.04.1909, Kraków (1)
  
  Kupferminc Chana; 10.08.1914, Przedbórz (1)
  
  Kwiatkowski Mikołaj; 1.05.1906; Gródek (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 04.05.1918, Kraków (1)
  
  Lehr-Soławiński Tadeusz; 1890? (1)
  
  Lewin Jakub; 13.04.1903, Warsaw (1)
  
  Lewin Jakub; 1903? (1)
  
  Litwink Jerzy Bernard; 19.08.1919, Warszawa (1)
  
  Lubicz Jerzy; 25.05.1914, Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (1)
  
  Mandelbaum Izrael; 16.11.1913, Lublin (1)
  
  Markowski Stefan; 17.06.1911, Maciejowice (1)
  
  Maślanko Mieczysław; 07.09.1903, Warsaw (1)
  
  Michalski Jan; 01.04.1909 (1)
  
  Michalski Jan; 01.04.1909, Rzeszów (1)
  
  Michelis Zygmunt; 17.03.1880, Bycz (kujawsko-pomorskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Montag Marek; 1910? (1)
  
  Moskowicz Norbert; 1922? (1)
  
  Mystkowski Stanisław; 13.09.1892, Dąbrowa Wielka (podlaskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (1)
  
  Neyman Tola; 14.02.1909, Łódź (1)
  
  Nowacki Tadeusz; 1.04.1919, Ostrów Mazowiecka (1)
  
  Nowacki Witold Antoni; 16.06.1917, Ostrów Mazowiecka (1)
  
  Oleksy Józef; 09.07.1892 (1)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (1)
  
  Ożóg Waleria; 05.08.1899, Rogatka (1)
  
  Paczyński Józef; 29.01.1920, Wadowice (1)
  
  Paczyński Józef; 29.01.1920, Łękawica (1)
  
  Piasecki Józef; 24.04.1893, Lwów (1)
Subject
- Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (39)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (27)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (16)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (12)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Sachsenhausen (8)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (6)
  
  The persecuted church (5)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (4)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (4)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (4)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (4)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (4)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (4)
  
  A mass extermination – KL Flossenbürg (3)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (3)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (3)
  
  Radom – daily terror (3)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (3)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (3)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (3)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Ravensbrück branch in KL Malchow (2)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Flossenbürg (2)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Neuengamme (2)
  
  Radom bathed in blood – the prison in the former convent buildings (2)
  
  Soldier's House, Fort VII, Żabikowo – the trail of death in Greater Poland (2)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (2)
  
  Browar, Czerwoniak – the Ostrów death blocks (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Lesser Poland (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Dachau (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (1)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (1)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Łódź region (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Białystok Ghetto (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (149)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (83)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (56)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (55)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (49)
  
  Bochnia, train station (48)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (44)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (42)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (39)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (30)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (26)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (22)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (20)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (17)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (16)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (13)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (12)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (11)
  
  Kraków (11)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (10)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (10)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (9)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (9)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (9)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (7)
  
  KL Majdanek (7)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (7)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (7)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (7)
  
  Bydgoszcz (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (6)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (6)
  
  KL Neuengamme (Germany) (6)
  
  Mechelen (Belgium), transit camp (6)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (6)
  
  Radom, prison (benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (6)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (6)
  
  Schwerin (Germany) (6)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (6)
  
  Łódź (6)
  
  Brussels (Belgium) (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (5)
  
  KL Malchow (KL Ravensbrück subcamp, Germany) (5)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (5)
  
  Zamość, resettlement camp, Okrzei Street (5)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (4)
  
  KL Barth (subcamp of KL Ravensbrück, Germany) (4)
  
  Radom, Gestapo headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (4)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (4)
  
  Warsaw (4)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, SS-Stabsgebaude (3)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (3)
  
  Kraków, Collegium Novum of the Jagiellonian University, Gołębia Street 24 (3)
  
  Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 (3)
  
  Nowy Sącz, correctional facility and temporary remand prison, Pijarska Street 1 (3)
  
  Radom, Gestapo Headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (3)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (3)
  
  Uchanie (3)
  
  Wrocław, prison, Kleczkowska Street 35 (3)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz I (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Bełżec, German extermination camp (2)
  
  Brzeszcze (2)
  
  Compiègne (France), transit camp (2)
  
  Dresden (Germany) (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (2)
  
  Hamburg (Germany) (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Lagerhaus (2)
  
  KL Fort VII Posen (2)
  
  KL Soldau (2)
  
  Lublin (2)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Majdanek, German extermination camp (2)
  
  Nowy Sącz (2)
  
  Nowy Wiśnicz, forced labor camp (2)
  
  Opatów, Słowackiego Street 1 (2)
  
  Palmiry (2)
  
  Paris (France) (2)
  
  Poznań (2)
  
  Radom (2)
  
  Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Rajsko (Oświęcim district) (2)
  
  Siemianowice Śląskie, Laurahütte industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  Sosnowiec (Śląskie Voivodeship) (2)
  
  Warsaw, Central Detention Center, Daniłowiczowska Street 7 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Central Jail, Daniłowiczowska Street 7 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Daniłowiczowska Street (2)
  
  Warsaw, Evangelical Hospital, Karmelicka Street 10 (Nowolipie Street 9/11) (2)
  
  Warsaw, Evangelical-Augsburg Church of the Holy Trinity, Małachowskiego Square 1 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (2)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (2)
  
  Wrocław (2)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz II (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz III (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
Victims
- Civilians (144)
  
  The Civilian Population (143)
  
  The Poles (140)
  
  Women (81)
  
  The Jews (71)
  
  The Inteligentsia (62)
  
  The sick (48)
  
  The Sick (47)
  
  Children (44)
  
  Russians/Soviets (40)
  
  The Russians (39)
  
  Prisoners of War (29)
  
  The elderly (25)
  
  The Elderly (25)
  
  Germans (23)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (20)
  
  Belgians (18)
  
  The French (18)
  
  Czechs (16)
  
  Hungarians (16)
  
  Greeks (14)
  
  The Church (12)
  
  Slovaks (10)
  
  The Communists (10)
  
  The Dutch (8)
  
  The Disabled (6)
  
  Italians (4)
  
  Norwegians (2)
  
  Romanians (2)
  
  Ukrainians (2)
  
  Americans (1)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (1)
  
  The British (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (115)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (49)
  
  Collaboration (13)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (9)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (8)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (8)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (6)
  
  Military Police (4)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (3)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (3)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (2)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (2)
  
  Latvians (2)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (2)
  
  Waffen-SS (2)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (1)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (1)
  
  Red Army (1)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (1)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Beating (114)
  
  Forced labor (100)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (96)
  
  Execution (89)
  
  Arrest (87)
  
  Deportation (80)
  
  Biological extermination (78)
  
  Death by shooting (67)
  
  Gas chambers (59)
  
  Cremation (49)
  
  Cremation of corpses (49)
  
  Hanging (39)
  
  Robbery (38)
  
  Medical experiments (34)
  
  "Dosing" (23)
  
  Death marches (20)
  
  Cattle wagons (17)
  
  Burning people alive (12)
  
  Economic exploitation (11)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (10)
  
  Displacement (10)
  
  Expulsion (10)
  
  Mass graves (10)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (10)
  
  Administrative persecution (9)
  
  Desacration of corpses (9)
  
  Racial policy (9)
  
  Round-up (9)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (7)
  
  Judicial crime (5)
  
  Rape (5)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (5)
  
  Denationalization (3)
  
  Germanization (3)
  
  Armored weapons (2)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (2)
  
  Air raids (1)
  
  Artillery fire (1)
  
  Artillery shelling (1)
  
  Disarmament (1)
Place
- Concentration camp (119)
  
  Extermination camp (64)
  
  Prison (52)
  
  Police headquarters/station (24)
  
  Labor camp (22)
  
  Transit camp (14)
  
  Forced labor (9)
  
  Ghetto (7)
  
  Center for the Germanization of children (1)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (1)
Content
- Extermination of Jews (40)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (37)
  
  Health service (16)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (13)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (13)
  
  Obliterating the traces (11)
  
  obliterating the traces (11)
  
  Aktion Zamość (10)
  
  Civil resistance (9)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (8)
  
  Sonderaktion Krakau (6)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (5)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (4)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (4)
  
  Underground culture and education (3)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (2)
  
  Rescue of Jews (2)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (2)
  
  Underground courts (2)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (1)
  
  Aktion T4 (1)
  
  Central Welfare Council (1)
  
  Destruction of Warsaw (1)
  
  Farmers' Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie) (1)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (1)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (1)
  
  Judenrat (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1)
Object type
- Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (137)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (5)
  
  Brief (2)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (2)
  
  Account (1)
  
  Press clipping (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Supreme National Tribunal (105)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (12)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (7)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (4)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (4)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Lublin (3)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (1)
  
  Supreme Military Tribunal (1)
Medium
- Text (146)
  
  Image (24)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (126)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (23)