„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)
- Marcinkiewicz Stefan (6)
  
  Anonymous (3)
  
  Siedlecki Karol (3)
  
  Bartoszko Kazimierz; 09.10.1898 (2)
  
  Głowiak Stanisław; 10.02.1903, Podzwierzyniec (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Lipski Jan (2)
  
  Mongiałło Wacław; 1910 (2)
  
  Nowak Jan (2)
  
  Szczuciński (2)
  
  Tarkowski Bronisław; 1917.12.13 (2)
  
  Tomaszewski Zdzisław (2)
  
  Zdanowicz Michał; 1899.12.11 (2)
  
  Adamczyk Karol (1)
  
  Adamowicz Alfons; 15.12.1906, Białystok (1)
  
  Adamowicz Wiktor; 08.03.1903 (1)
  
  Adamski Alojzy, 1908.06.30 (1)
  
  Adamski Antoni, 1894? (1)
  
  Adamski Antoni; 1894? (1)
  
  Aftergut Bronisław; 1893? (1)
  
  Aksnowicz Alfons; 21.01.1920 (1)
  
  Alchimowicz Kazimierz; 1906 (1)
  
  Aleksandrów Władysław; 1919? (1)
  
  Aleksiejewicz Józef (1)
  
  Aleksiejuk Mieczysław, 1908.05.03 (1)
  
  Amanowicz Kazimierz; 1922? (1)
  
  Ambros Florian; 1913? (1)
  
  Ambroziak Jan (1)
  
  Ambroziewicz Michał; 1904? (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)
  
  Andrzejewski Teodor; 1904? (1)
  
  Aniszkiewicz Józef; 1895? (1)
  
  Ankudowicz Władysław; 23.10.1923, Białystok (1)
  
  Apelbaum Leib; 1921? (1)
  
  Aranowicz Jerma; 1907? (1)
  
  Arciszewski Franciszek; 02.11.1908, Łódź (1)
  
  Arciszewski Jan, 1907, Pińsk (1)
  
  Arociak (1)
  
  Atras Franciszek, 1900.10.08 (1)
  
  Augustowicz Bolesław; 1912 (1)
  
  Aunszlok Kazimierz (1)
  
  Awdziej Alfons; 15.02.1900 (1)
  
  Awienko Henryk; 1910? (1)
  
  Babiarz Józef; 13.03.1909, Łańcut (1)
  
  Babiarz Paweł, 1900.07.06 (1)
  
  Babicz Stanisław; 17.07.1906, Babicze (1)
  
  Babiński Henryk, 1911 (1)
  
  Badach Julian; 05.10.1918_Sulmice (1)
  
  Badach Julian; 1910 (1)
  
  Badurak Bronislaw, 1905 (1)
  
  Badurak Bronisław; 1905 (1)
  
  Bajorek Zygmunt; 1915? (1)
  
  Baka Jan; 1896 (1)
  
  Bakun Wladyslaw, 1906 (1)
  
  Bakun Władysław; 1906 (1)
  
  Bakuła Antoni; 1899 (1)
  
  Bakuła Antoni; 1900 (1)
  
  Balawajder Franciszek (1)
  
  Balińska Janina; 19.03.1905, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Baliński Kazimierz, 1901 (1)
  
  Balter Berek; 15.01.1909 (1)
  
  Balter Berek; 15.01.1910 (1)
  
  Banach Jan; 1894? (1)
  
  Banaszkiewicz Jan, 1894 (1)
  
  Banaś Jan; 1893 (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899 (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899?, Brynica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Barachowski Jan, 1900 (1)
  
  Baran Jan, 1906.02.04 (1)
  
  Baranowski Julian (1)
  
  Baranowski Julian; 1902 (1)
  
  Baranowski Józef (1)
  
  Barbachowski Wladyslaw; 1903 (1)
  
  Barczak Franciszek; 03.04.1913, Świeca (1)
  
  Barczykowski Jan 1914 (1)
  
  Barczykowski Jan; 05.01.1914, Spieczyny (1)
  
  Bardach Jakub; 1909 (1)
  
  Bardas Piotr; 1916, Görlitz (Germany) (1)
  
  Barna Teodor; 1900 (1)
  
  Baroni Jan; 1985 (1)
  
  Bartkiewicz Władysław; 1918?, Delatyn (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bartkiewicz Władysław; 1918?, Delatyn (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bartosiak Kazimierz; 1898 (1)
  
  Bartosiewicz Marcin, 1908 (1)
  
  Bartoszyński Józef; 1913 (1)
  
  Barwicki Władysław; 1898 (1)
  
  Barycki Stanisław; 1898 (1)
  
  Baszker Fiyszel, 1899.08.06 (1)
  
  Bator Franciszek (1)
  
  Batory Nadzieja; 1923?, Płaszówka (now: Ukraine, Rivne Oblast) (1)
  
  Batura Józef; 1916 (1)
  
  Bazylewicz Aleksy, 1892 (1)
  
  Bazyliński Józef (1)
  
  Bałajewicz Jadwiga; 1913 (1)
  
  Bałajewicz Jadwiga; 1914 (1)
  
  Bednarczyk Jan (1)
  
  Bednarz Marian (1)
  
  Kullanda Henryk (1)
Subject
- The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (414)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (311)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (185)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (170)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (157)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (119)
  
  In exile – Siberia (117)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (95)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (80)
  
  In exile – Ural (65)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (61)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (54)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (45)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (42)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (35)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (31)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (29)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (27)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (17)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (15)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (15)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (14)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (11)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ryazan Oblast (8)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (7)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (6)
  
  In exile – Povolzhye (6)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (6)
  
  In exile – Far East (5)
  
  In exile – Mari El Republic (5)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Republic of Mordovia (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Sverdlovsk Oblast (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Vologda Oblast (2)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (2)
  
  A genocide conducted by Ukrainian Nationalists – Volhynia (1)
  
  Allied assistance from the air (1)
  
  Archipełag Gułag - Powołże (1)
  
  Deported – the Altai Krai (1)
  
  Deported – the Perm Krai (1)
  
  Deported – the Volgograd Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Volgograd Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Yaroslavl Oblast (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Volhynia (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Nowogród region (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ivanovo Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Tambov Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Tver Oblast (1)
  
  the Gulag Archipelago – the Krasnoyarsk Krai (1)
  
  the Gulag Archipelago – the Republic of Karelia (1)
  
  the Gulag Archipelago – the Ukraine (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (373)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (303)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (287)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (186)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (166)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (160)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (149)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (141)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (120)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (117)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (113)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (103)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (86)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (82)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (77)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (76)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (76)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (72)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (68)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (64)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (62)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (60)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (58)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (55)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (55)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (55)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (54)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (53)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (52)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (52)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (52)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (52)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (50)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (49)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (48)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (47)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (46)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (45)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (42)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (41)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (41)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (40)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (40)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (40)
  
  Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (39)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (38)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (37)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (36)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (36)
  
  Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (35)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (35)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (35)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (34)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (34)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (34)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (33)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (33)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (33)
  
  Sevvostlag (Russia, Magadan Oblast) (33)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (32)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (32)
  
  Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (31)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (31)
  
  Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (31)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (30)
  
  Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (29)
  
  Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia) (29)
  
  Białystok (29)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (29)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (29)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (29)
  
  Kermine (Navoiy, Uzbekistan) (28)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no 2, Zamarstynowska Street 7/9 (28)
  
  Połąga (now in Lithuania), internee camp (28)
  
  Przemyśl (28)
  
  Radziwiłłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (28)
  
  Ukmergė (Lithuania), internee camp (28)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania), Łukiszki prison, Więzienna Street ( Lukiškių Street 6) (28)
  
  Nakhodka (Russia, Primorsky Krai) (27)
  
  Olesko (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (27)
  
  Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a (27)
  
  Łomża, prison, Legionów Avenue 36 (27)
  
  Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (26)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (26)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (now in Lithuania), internee camp (26)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (25)
  
  Kagan (Uzbekistan) (25)
  
  Pavlodar (Kazakhstan) (25)
  
  Podliski Małe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (25)
  
  Przemyśl, prison, Rokitniańska Street 1 (25)
  
  Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (24)
  
  Minsk (Belarus), "Wołodarka" prison, Waladarskaha Street 2 (24)
  
  Zborów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (24)
  
  Kherson (Ukraine), prison, Perekopska Street 10 (23)
  
  Kniazhpogost (Russia, Komi Republic) (23)
  
  Ostróg (now in Ukraine), transit camp (Barracks of the 19th Volhynian Uhlan Regiment) (23)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania) (23)
  
  Kozelschyna (Ukraine, Poltava Oblast), transit camp (22)
  
  Tashlak (Toshloq, Uzbekistan) (22)
  
  Czortków (now in Ukraine), prison, Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) (21)
Victims
- The Poles (2193)
  
  Civilians (1650)
  
  The Civilian Population (1547)
  
  Deportees (768)
  
  Women (723)
  
  The Inteligentsia (695)
  
  Ukrainians (655)
  
  Prisoners of War (596)
  
  The Jews (581)
  
  Children (564)
  
  The sick (484)
  
  The Sick (461)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (456)
  
  Russians/Soviets (451)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (450)
  
  The Russians (375)
  
  Belarusians (343)
  
  Policemen (329)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (282)
  
  The elderly (228)
  
  The Elderly (220)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (182)
  
  Internees (151)
  
  Lithuanians (95)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (92)
  
  Border Guard (90)
  
  Landowners (76)
  
  The Church (71)
  
  Germans (69)
  
  Border Protection Corps (67)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (44)
  
  Latvians (34)
  
  Estonians (27)
  
  Romanians (17)
  
  Czechs (15)
  
  Prison Guard (10)
  
  Hungarians (7)
  
  the Chinese (6)
  
  Finns (5)
  
  Scouts (3)
  
  Georgians (2)
  
  Slovaks (2)
  
  Americans (1)
  
  The British (1)
  
  The Communists (1)
Perpetrators
- People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (672)
  
  Red Army (408)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (276)
  
  Denunciation (217)
  
  Soviet Militia (208)
  
  Collaboration (152)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (88)
  
  Lithuanians (77)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (18)
  
  Collaborators (11)
  
  Latvians (8)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (4)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (3)
  
  Administrative Police (2)
  
  Postal Protection (2)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (2)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (1)
  
  Military Police (1)
  
  SS (1)
  
  Security Office (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (1)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (1998)
  
  Biological extermination (1920)
  
  Arrest (1502)
  
  Deportation/Exile (1217)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (902)
  
  Beating (788)
  
  Cattle wagons (543)
  
  Punishment cell (533)
  
  Judicial crime (514)
  
  Robbery (315)
  
  Disarmament (289)
  
  Death by shooting (188)
  
  Execution (164)
  
  Roads of death (163)
  
  Sovietization (72)
  
  Deportation (65)
  
  Air raids (60)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (50)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (49)
  
  Forced voting (28)
  
  Desacration of corpses (21)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (18)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (16)
  
  Round-up (15)
  
  Armored weapons (10)
  
  Collectivization (8)
  
  Death marches (7)
  
  Denationalization (3)
  
  Mass graves (3)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (3)
  
  Artillery fire (2)
  
  Artillery shelling (2)
  
  Cremation of corpses (2)
  
  Displacement (2)
  
  Expulsion (2)
  
  Rape (2)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (2)
  
  Burning people alive (1)
  
  Cremation (1)
  
  Gas chambers (1)
Place
- Prison (539)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (522)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (461)
  
  Kolkhoz (455)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (454)
  
  NKVD custody suite (350)
  
  Transit camp (312)
  
  Mine (217)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (182)
  
  Internment camp (136)
  
  Sovkhoz (100)
  
  Siberia (6)
  
  Concentration camp (5)
  
  Orphanage – dietdom (5)
  
  Forced labor (3)
  
  Ghetto (2)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (2)
  
  Labor camp (1)
  
  Police headquarters/station (1)
  
  Sewers (1)
Content
- Health service (1354)
  
  Anders' Army (699)
  
  Amnesty (621)
  
  First deportation (386)
  
  Epidemics (288)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (287)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (278)
  
  Communist propaganda (251)
  
  Polish culture in exile (245)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (108)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (96)
  
  Second deportation (92)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (81)
  
  Third deportation (70)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (66)
  
  Fourth deportation (59)
  
  Military hospital (24)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (17)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (16)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (15)
  
  Students' Army Corps (14)
  
  Civil resistance (10)
  
  Rescue of Jews (7)
  
  Underground culture and education (7)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (5)
  
  Partisan warfare (4)
  
  Polish Underground State (4)
  
  Underground media (3)
  
  Aid to Jews (2)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (2)
  
  Central Welfare Council (1)
  
  Clandestine courses (1)
  
  Judenrat (1)
  
  Obliterating the traces (1)
  
  The People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
  
  Underground courts (1)
  
  obliterating the traces (1)
  
  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (1)
  
  the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
Object type
- Account (845)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (26)
  
  Brief (9)
  
  Press clipping (1)
  
  Statement (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 (2184)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (8)
  
  Katyn Museum (6)
Medium
- Text (2199)
  
  Image (43)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (2232)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (77)