Chronicles of Terror: Eyewitness accounts of 1944 Warsaw Uprising

Eyewitness testimonies from the time of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising have been gathered on the "Chronicles of Terror" website.  

Polish President Andrzej Duda meets with participants of the 1944 insurgency at a ceremony in Warsaw on Tuesday.

Photo: PAP/Wojciech Olkuśnik

The Pilecki Institute in Warsaw has been translating its archive of eyewitness accounts from the days of World War II.

More than 3,500 such accounts are now available online in English, including about a thousand that document the reality of the Warsaw Uprising.

Elżbieta Krajewska talked to John Cornell, a historian at the Pilecki Institute.