„Chronicles of Terror”. Base of testimonies of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor

Main Page Search phrase: [Event Date = 1939.09.20 - 1945.12.31]

Witness (date and place of birth)
- Szulc C. (113)
  
  Anonymous (94)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (30)
  
  Berthoh Feliks (28)
  
  Deja Stanisław; 23.04.1907, Kowala (23)
  
  Sobierajska Irena (17)
  
  Sulima Jan (11)
  
  Szczerbiński Jan (11)
  
  Augustyn Eugeniusz (10)
  
  Stopa F. (10)
  
  Bochen Stanisław; 1901? (9)
  
  Gałecki Wiktor; 1901? (9)
  
  Nowiński (9)
  
  Polak Wacław (8)
  
  Kostka Stanisław (7)
  
  Lewicki W. (7)
  
  Sobczański J. (7)
  
  Sowiński Władysław (7)
  
  Stawiarski Eugeniusz (7)
  
  Steinhauf Renata (7)
  
  Węsierska Agnieszka (7)
  
  Baćmaga Walenty, 11.02.1902, Zakrzów (6)
  
  Brzoskowski Jan (6)
  
  Ciepliński Brunon (6)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (6)
  
  Grodzicki Kazimierz (6)
  
  Krakiewicz Feliks; 1873? (6)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (6)
  
  Marcinkiewicz Stefan (6)
  
  Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (6)
  
  Rott Wiesław; 14.06.1914, Lublin (6)
  
  Russanowska B. (6)
  
  Szelest Kazimierz; 25.03.1917, Kraków (6)
  
  Iwanicka Maria; 27.01.1913 (5)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (5)
  
  Konferowicz Wacław; 13.05.1912, Ostrów Mazowiecka (5)
  
  Kruszyna Stanisław (5)
  
  Kwiatkowski Jan; 1911? (5)
  
  Madej Józef (5)
  
  Mankiewicz Franciszek; 1898 (5)
  
  Maroński Stanisław (5)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 27.01.1913, Warsaw (5)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (5)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (5)
  
  Sendecki Sylwester; 1903? (5)
  
  Zielonka Jan (5)
  
  Łukasiewicz Henryk (5)
  
  Czardybon Bernard; 18.06.1901, Chorzów (4)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (4)
  
  Gozdur Stanisław; 11.11.1891, Wola Solecka (4)
  
  Grabosz Ludwika; 1879? (4)
  
  Jamróz Halina; 1919? (4)
  
  Klimkiewicz Stanisław; 1895? (4)
  
  Korkosz Stanisław; 1904? (4)
  
  Korszla Jan; 1914? (4)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 04.05.1918, Kraków (4)
  
  Lorentz Stanisław; 28.04.1899, Radom (4)
  
  Nass Róża; 09.01.1907, Biała (Bielsko-Biała) (4)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (4)
  
  Rajewski Ludwik; 16.12.1900, Łódź (4)
  
  Rogalski Władysław; 1879? (4)
  
  Sendler Irena; 15.02.1910, Warszawa (4)
  
  Skrzyniarz Adam (4)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć county) (4)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć district) (4)
  
  Sulewski Paweł (4)
  
  Szymanowski Jan (4)
  
  Tomasik Marcin (4)
  
  Wojcikowski Stanisław (4)
  
  Wolny Stefan; 30.10.1903, Kamieńskie (Ukraine) (4)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (4)
  
  Wronikowski Henryk (4)
  
  Zieliński Antoni (4)
  
  Łącki Mikołaj; 30.10.1888, Loyew (Belarus) (4)
  
  Adler Rubin; 24.11.1909, Końskie (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Banach Ludwig; 24.08.1917, Bydgoszcz (3)
  
  Banach Ludwik; 24.08.1918 (3)
  
  Barzał Czesław; 09.10.1915, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Bas Ludwik; 18.12.1912, Kraków (3)
  
  Bech Leon; 24.03.1989, Wola (3)
  
  Blinstrub Aniela; 1892? (3)
  
  Bochenek Marta; 19.09.1892 (3)
  
  Bogdanowicz Jan; 17.12.1894, Warsaw (3)
  
  Brach Jan; 1919? (3)
  
  Branny Paweł; 13.05.1888, Żuków Dolny (Český Těšín, Czech Republic) (3)
  
  Brzezińska Ewa (3)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Dankowska Jolanta (3)
  
  Duda Konrad; 02.02.1914, Wartogłowiec (Tychy) (3)
  
  Dąbrówka Zofia; 1892? (3)
  
  Dąbski Stefan; 26.12.1919, Joanin (3)
  
  Fastman Ludwik; 31.07.1899, Drohobycz (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Figiel Władysław (3)
  
  Filipowska (Freund) Ilza; 14.01.1902, Wrocław (3)
  
  Gil Piotr; 1897? (3)
  
  Grabczyński Jan; 21.05.1908, Tarnów (dolnośląskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Gronczak Józef; 1898? (3)
  
  Głowa Stanisław; 15.09.1898, Igołomia (3)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (3)
  
  Hys Stanisław; 19.07.1910, Sobolew (mazowieckie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Kullanda Henryk (1)
Subject
- The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (634)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (586)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (492)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (430)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (402)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (352)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (338)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (336)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (257)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (253)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (204)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (202)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (187)
  
  The city condemned to death (173)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (170)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (162)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (159)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (156)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (146)
  
  In exile – Siberia (142)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (135)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (130)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (125)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (120)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (119)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (116)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (111)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (111)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (111)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (110)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (108)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (107)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (103)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (101)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (93)
  
  The tragedy of the Radom Arms Factory (91)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (82)
  
  In exile – Ural (77)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (77)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (75)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Pomerania (73)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (71)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (70)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (66)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (66)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (65)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (60)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (56)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (55)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz (55)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (54)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (53)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (53)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (50)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (48)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (48)
  
  Stadion Leśny, Słowik, Herby – execution sites in Kielce (46)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (44)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (44)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town (43)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (42)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (42)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Świętokrzyskie region (41)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (41)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (41)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Lublin region (39)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (39)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (38)
  
  Firlej near Radom – the training ground of death (37)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (37)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (37)
  
  Terror in the "incorporated lands" – the Łódź region (36)
  
  Treblinka – extermination camp (34)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (33)
  
  Radom – daily terror (33)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (33)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (33)
  
  Warsaw '44 – uprising in Praga (33)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (31)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (31)
  
  The persecuted church (29)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (28)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (27)
  
  Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages (27)
  
  Michniów – the extermination of the Polish countryside (27)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Lublin region (27)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Żoliborz (27)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (26)
  
  Soviets in German captivity (26)
  
  Soldier's House, Fort VII, Żabikowo – the trail of death in Greater Poland (24)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (23)
  
  The Częstochowa region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (23)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Warsaw (22)
  
  Pruszków – the town of the displaced (22)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (22)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (21)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (20)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (20)
  
  The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews (20)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Kraków (19)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz I (553)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (495)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (459)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (442)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (403)
  
  Warsaw (398)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (363)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (352)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (351)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (300)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (237)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (225)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (219)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (211)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (210)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (179)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (171)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (170)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (167)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (161)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (153)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (149)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (140)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (140)
  
  KL Majdanek (134)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (134)
  
  Kielce (125)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (120)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (119)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (112)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (105)
  
  Lublin (103)
  
  Siedlce (103)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (100)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (97)
  
  Radom (97)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (96)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (95)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (95)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (92)
  
  KL Plaszow (91)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (91)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (90)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (90)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (89)
  
  Kraków (88)
  
  Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 (83)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka (83)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (81)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (81)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (81)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (79)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (78)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (75)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (75)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (74)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (73)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (73)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (72)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (71)
  
  KL Stutthof (71)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (70)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (69)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (69)
  
  Busko-Zdrój (68)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (68)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 (67)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (63)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (63)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (63)
  
  Potulice (kujawsko-pomorskie voivodeship), forced labor camp (62)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (61)
  
  Kościerzyna (61)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (61)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (60)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (58)
  
  Firlej (Radom), municipal cemetery, Ofiar Firleja Street 45 (57)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (57)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (57)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (56)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (55)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (55)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (54)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (53)
  
  Radom, Arms Factory "Łucznik", Poniatowskiego Street (1905 Street 1/9) (53)
  
  Starachowice (53)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (53)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) (53)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (52)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (51)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (51)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (51)
  
  Białystok (49)
  
  Bydgoszcz (49)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (49)
  
  Bochnia, train station (48)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (48)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (48)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (48)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (47)
Victims
- The Poles (8819)
  
  Civilians (8523)
  
  The Civilian Population (7727)
  
  Women (3547)
  
  Children (3091)
  
  The Jews (2514)
  
  The Inteligentsia (1605)
  
  The sick (1258)
  
  Prisoners of War (1208)
  
  The Sick (1202)
  
  Deportees (911)
  
  Russians/Soviets (890)
  
  The Russians (765)
  
  The elderly (761)
  
  Ukrainians (743)
  
  The Elderly (723)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (531)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (513)
  
  Policemen (397)
  
  Belarusians (389)
  
  The Church (360)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (325)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (217)
  
  Germans (180)
  
  Internees (165)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (134)
  
  Hungarians (133)
  
  Czechs (124)
  
  The French (112)
  
  Border Guard (108)
  
  Lithuanians (106)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (103)
  
  Landowners (82)
  
  Slovaks (81)
  
  Belgians (73)
  
  The Disabled (70)
  
  The Dutch (70)
  
  Border Protection Corps (69)
  
  The Communists (67)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (61)
  
  Greeks (55)
  
  Latvians (38)
  
  Estonians (31)
  
  Italians (30)
  
  Romanians (24)
  
  Americans (22)
  
  The British (20)
  
  Norwegians (14)
  
  Prison Guard (12)
  
  Finns (7)
  
  the Chinese (7)
  
  The elderly (6)
  
  Scouts (3)
  
  Serbs (3)
  
  Georgians (2)
  
  Bulgarians (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (1757)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (970)
  
  Military Police (965)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (673)
  
  Collaboration (508)
  
  Red Army (467)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (467)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (295)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (270)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (245)
  
  Denunciation (231)
  
  Soviet Militia (217)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (142)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (115)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (94)
  
  Lithuanians (90)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (79)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (63)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (60)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (37)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (30)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (25)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (24)
  
  The Russian National Liberation Army (RONA) (23)
  
  Latvians (22)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (22)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (22)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (18)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (17)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (15)
  
  Waffen-SS (15)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (13)
  
  Collaborators (12)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (11)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (10)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (9)
  
  Security Office (8)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (8)
  
  Administrative Police (5)
  
  Technical Support (Technische Nothilfe) (5)
  
  Postal Protection (3)
  
  Assault Units (Sturmabteilung, SA) (2)
  
  Gendarmerie (1)
  
  The Navy of Nazi Germany (Kriegsmarine) (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (4340)
  
  Execution (4201)
  
  Arrest (3739)
  
  Death by shooting (3605)
  
  Biological extermination (3048)
  
  Beating (2714)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (2139)
  
  Deportation (1724)
  
  Deportation/Exile (1529)
  
  Robbery (1401)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (899)
  
  Mass graves (872)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (857)
  
  Cremation of corpses (803)
  
  Cremation (773)
  
  Displacement (764)
  
  Cattle wagons (743)
  
  Judicial crime (664)
  
  Punishment cell (612)
  
  Expulsion (593)
  
  Round-up (549)
  
  Gas chambers (541)
  
  Hanging (525)
  
  Economic exploitation (426)
  
  Denationalization (384)
  
  Burning people alive (376)
  
  Disarmament (353)
  
  Air raids (332)
  
  Racial policy (239)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (219)
  
  Administrative persecution (207)
  
  Medical experiments (197)
  
  Roads of death (190)
  
  Rape (145)
  
  "Dosing" (134)
  
  Death marches (126)
  
  Armored weapons (118)
  
  Artillery shelling (114)
  
  Artillery fire (113)
  
  Desacration of corpses (108)
  
  Sovietization (89)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (80)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (79)
  
  Human shields (62)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (60)
  
  Germanization (57)
  
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Felskowski Jan

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Potulice (kujawsko-pomorskie voivodeship), forced labor camp

Freda Krystyna

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Potulice (kujawsko-pomorskie voivodeship), forced labor camp

Gerbatowska Eryka

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Kościerzyna

Gilla Zofia

1939.09-1939.09

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Goebel Mechtylda

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Potulice (kujawsko-pomorskie voivodeship), forced labor camp

Gosiak Józef

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Starogard Gdański

Grochowska Krystyna

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Gussek Jadwiga

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Hoppe Sylwester

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Dittmer Helena

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Felskowski Jan

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Chodor Jan

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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Location

Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Busk (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Olesko (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Poltava (Ukraine) Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Witness

Kupiszewska Jadwiga

Topic

The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory

Date

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Location

Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Złoczów (now in Ukraine) Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) Podwołoczyska (Ukraine) Żółkiew (Ukraine) Kyiv (Ukraine) Bryansk (Russia, Bryansk Oblast) Moscow (Russia) Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) Terespol (Biała Podlaska district) Brześć (now in Belarus)

Witness

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

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Location

Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Przemyśl Grodno (now in Belarus) Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Czerlany (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Lida (now in Belarus)

Witness

Futerek Tomasz 1899

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

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Location

Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp Donbas (Ukraine) Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine)

Witness

Gajewski Jan 1899.05.01

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

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Location

Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Świętosław (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

Witness

Fojcik Wilhelm 1897.04.17

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

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Location

Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Podwołoczyska (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Tarnopol (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Złoczów (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Sądowa Wisznia (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Babin (now in Ukraine, Rivne Oblast), POW forced labor camp Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp Lwów (now in Ukraine)

Witness

Folitarczyk Bronisław 1908

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

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Location

Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Czerlany (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Tuligłowy (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Omeliany (Velyka Omeliana, Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn)

Witness

Halejko Piotr 1902

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia

Date

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Location

Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) Przemyśl, prison, Rokitniańska Street 1

Witness

Chabros Józef 1910.02.26

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

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Location

Volodymyr-Volynskyi Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp Zaporizhia (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Komi Republic (Russia) Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

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Potulice (kujawsko-pomorskie voivodeship), forced labor camp

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1939.09-1939.09

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Starogard Gdański

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The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory

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The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Przemyśl Grodno (now in Belarus) Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Czerlany (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Lida (now in Belarus)

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp Donbas (Ukraine) Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine)

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Świętosław (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia

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Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) Przemyśl, prison, Rokitniańska Street 1

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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Volodymyr-Volynskyi Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp Zaporizhia (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Komi Republic (Russia) Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

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