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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Anonymous (54)
  
  Lorentz Stanisław; 28.04.1899, Radom (4)
  
  Anastasiya, 1985 (3)
  
  Kucharski Teofil; 06.02.1889, Jaszczew (3)
  
  Szyszko-Bohusz Adolf; 19.08.1883, Narva (Estonia) (3)
  
  Wiącek Eugeniusz; 11.01.1905, Strużki (3)
  
  Al’ona, 1987 (2)
  
  Ast Jadwiga; 24.01.1923, Żarnowiec (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Bednarz Antoni; 1893? (2)
  
  Bekier Zofia; 17.04.1882 (2)
  
  Bogdanowicz Jan; 17.12.1894, Warsaw (2)
  
  Brach Jan; 1919? (2)
  
  Czechowicz Stanisław; 1883, Białaczów (2)
  
  Czerwonka Władysław; 22.12.1899, Mucisko (2)
  
  Dar'ya, 2002 (2)
  
  Dmytro, 1992 (2)
  
  Estreicher Karol; 1905? (2)
  
  Filipiak Ignacy (2)
  
  Grabiński Marcin; 08.11.1888 (2)
  
  Handzel Jan; 20.04.1906, Wincentów (Kielce county) (2)
  
  Handzel Jan; 20.04.1906, Wincentów (kielecki district) (2)
  
  Kamiński Roman Kazimierz; 09.07.1906, Warsaw (2)
  
  Koprowicz Stanisława; 17.11.1908, Dobrzyń (Lipno county) (2)
  
  Kosakiewicz Władysław; 18.09.1879 (2)
  
  Kruk Jan; 09.03.1904, Serbinów (2)
  
  Kruk Józef; 01.01.1916, Serbinów (2)
  
  Lewak Adam; 03.09.1891, Pieniaki (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Listek Jan; 1899? (2)
  
  Nataliya (2)
  
  Piłsudski Marian; 15.07.1912 (2)
  
  Serek Jan; 11.11.1889, Raszówka (Mniów) (2)
  
  Sieroszewski Władysław; 30.12.1900, Warsaw (2)
  
  Yuliya, 1987 (2)
  
  Abramowicz Bronisław; 07.09.1911, Wzgórze–Bełżyce (1)
  
  Adamus Józef; 1898? (1)
  
  Aleksandr (1)
  
  Aleksandr, 1975 (1)
  
  Aleksandr, 1981 (1)
  
  Aleksandr, 2000 (1)
  
  Aleksey, 1976 (1)
  
  Alina, 1992 (1)
  
  Alisa, 1993 (1)
  
  Al’ona, 1995 (1)
  
  Anastasiya, 1984 (1)
  
  Anastasiya, 2005 (1)
  
  Anatoliy (1)
  
  Andruszkiewicz Walenty; 1899? (1)
  
  Anna, 1989 (1)
  
  Antoniak Franciszek; 1901? (1)
  
  Anyst Adam (1)
  
  Artem, 1983 (1)
  
  Artem, 1985 (1)
  
  Asińska Eugenia; 26.01.1900, Siedlce (1)
  
  Bacański Zygmunt (1)
  
  Bagińska Wanda; 24.02.1910, Sochaczew (1)
  
  Bajerski Stanisław; 10.03.1910, Żychlin (1)
  
  Bakalarz Agata; 1900? (1)
  
  Balcerzak Stanisław; 12.10.1928, Warszawa (1)
  
  Balias Dominik; 12.08.1906, Warsaw (1)
  
  Banach Stanisława; 15.02.1915, Miniów (1)
  
  Banasiak Józef; 25.10.1879, Studzianki (Rawa county) (1)
  
  Banaszczuk Stanisław, 7.07.1932, Dubnica (1)
  
  Banbura Maria (1)
  
  Baran Ludwik; 1918? (1)
  
  Baranowski Marceli (1)
  
  Barańska Danuta Władysława; 17.06.1922, Warsaw (1)
  
  Barcz Edward Antoni Leopold; 23.12.1911, Russia (1)
  
  Bartonezz Irena; 03.10.1896 (1)
  
  Bartosik Józef; 26.02.1902, Mniów (1)
  
  Bartosińska Stanisława; 1905?, Rogowice (1)
  
  Bartoszewicz Bogna (1)
  
  Barysz Józef; 01.11.1904, Warsaw (1)
  
  Bassalik Kazimierz; 12.06.1879, Brzezie (Pleszew county) (1)
  
  Bednarczyk Józefa; 13.12.1912, Skoki (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Bednarska Jadwiga; 21.10.1920, Białystok (1)
  
  Benrat Roman; 25.08.1878, Słuszczyn (1)
  
  Bernatowicz Helena (1)
  
  Bernaś Jan; 27.05.1923, Świniary (1)
  
  Białecki Jan; 1889? (1)
  
  Białousz Czesława (1)
  
  Bida Antoni; 08.04.1897, Ostrów Krupski (1)
  
  Bida Władysław; 1887? (1)
  
  Biegański Eugeniusz; 05.01.1915, Poniewież (now in Lithuania) (1)
  
  Biejnia Teresa (1)
  
  Biernacka Stefania (1)
  
  Bilska Wanda (1)
  
  Biskupska Jadwiga (1)
  
  Bińkowski Stanisław (1)
  
  Blaźnik Helena; 24.02.1908, Drwalew (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Blumenthal Nachman; 1901? (1)
  
  Bogdanowicz Marian; 15.08.1931, Łuków (1)
  
  Bogucki Józef (1)
  
  Bogus Stanisława; 03.06.1901, Tomczyce (łódzkie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Bohdanowicz Karol; 29.11.1864, Troki (Lithuania) (1)
  
  Borowiecki Antoni; 13.09.1904, Szymanów (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Borysiuk Kazimierz; 05.10.1933, Pogorzelec (1)
  
  Bołdok Jarosław; 07.06.1905, Vladimir (Russia) (1)
  
  Bołdok Jarosław; 07.06.1905, Vladimir (Russia) (1)
  
  Brach Jan; 1920? (1)
  
  Brandt Janusz (1)
Subject
- A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (113)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (85)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (83)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (66)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (62)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (57)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (54)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (52)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (52)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (46)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (41)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (41)
  
  Russian occupation – south Ukraine (39)
  
  Fighting for Kharkiv (38)
  
  Mariupol Siege (37)
  
  The city condemned to death (31)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (26)
  
  Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages (22)
  
  Michniów – the extermination of the Polish countryside (22)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (22)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (18)
  
  Fighting for Kyiv (16)
  
  Fighting in Donbas (2014 and/or 2022) (16)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town (16)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz (16)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (14)
  
  Russian missile terror (12)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Żoliborz (12)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Volhynia (11)
  
  The persecuted church (11)
  
  Fighting for Chernihiv (10)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (10)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (9)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (9)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (8)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (8)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (6)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Warsaw (6)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (6)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (6)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (5)
  
  Battle of Mykolaiv (5)
  
  Fighting in Sumy Oblast (5)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (5)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (5)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (5)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Mazovia (4)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Zamość region (4)
  
  In revenge for assisting “Hubal” – reprisal campaigns (4)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (4)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (4)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (4)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (3)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Polesie region (3)
  
  Warsaw '44 – uprising in Praga (3)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (3)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Lublin region (2)
  
  Evacuation to Poland (2)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Pomerania (2)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (2)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (2)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (2)
  
  In exile – Siberia (2)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Upper Silesia (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Volhynia (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (2)
  
  Radom – daily terror (2)
  
  Russian occupation – Kharkiv Oblast (2)
  
  The Free City of Danzig – erasing Polishness (2)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Białystok Ghetto (2)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Częstochowa Ghetto (2)
  
  The Podlasie region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Lublin region (2)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Świętokrzyskie region (2)
  
  Upper Silesia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  A genocide conducted by Ukrainian Nationalists – Volhynia (1)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lwów region (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Greater Poland (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Lesser Poland (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Warsaw (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Wilno region (1)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Ural (1)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (1)
  
  Kujawy region - the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Kujawy region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Lebensraum – the Germanization of the Zamość region (1)
  
  Lesser Poland – the pacification of townships and rural areas (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Poles, Kashubs and Germans – the situation before the genocide (1)
  
  September Campaign (1)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (1)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Pruszków, Dulag 121 (70)
  
  Warsaw (62)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (37)
  
  Mariupol (34)
  
  Michniów (34)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (29)
  
  Kharkiv (25)
  
  Kraków (21)
  
  Warsaw, SS-Stauferkaserne, Rakowiecka Street 4 (19)
  
  Radom (18)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 (18)
  
  Łuków (lubelskie voivodeship) (16)
  
  Kielce (15)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (14)
  
  Mniów (14)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (14)
  
  Siedlce (12)
  
  Biała Podlaska (11)
  
  Częstochowa (11)
  
  Kherson (11)
  
  Serbinów (11)
  
  Starachowice (11)
  
  Suchedniów (11)
  
  Warsaw, Rakowiecka Street (11)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) (11)
  
  Chernihiv (10)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (10)
  
  Hrubieszów (10)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (10)
  
  Lublin (10)
  
  Warsaw, Mokotów Prison, Rakowiecka Street 37 (10)
  
  Warsaw, Ogród Saski [Saxon Garden] (10)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (9)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (9)
  
  Podsuliszka (Radom District) (9)
  
  Podsuliszka, Pakosławski Forest (9)
  
  Warsaw, Narbutta Street (9)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's Church, Wolska Street 76 (9)
  
  Zwierzyniec (Zwierzyniec commune), transit camp (9)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (8)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (8)
  
  Modrzejowice, an estate (8)
  
  Pogłodów (Mniów) (8)
  
  Radzyń Podlaski (8)
  
  Raszówka (Mniów) (8)
  
  Warsaw, Józef Piłsudski Academy of Physcial Education, Marymoncka Street 34 (8)
  
  Warsaw, National Museum, Aleje Jerozolimskie 3 (8)
  
  Warsaw, Royal Castle, Zamkowy Square 4 (8)
  
  Warsaw, St. Stanislaus' Hospital, Wolska Street 37 (8)
  
  Warsaw, Warszawa Zachodnia Station (8)
  
  Warsaw, Wolski Hospital, Płocka Street 26 (8)
  
  Warsaw, aleja Szucha (8)
  
  Gębice (Godów) (7)
  
  Irpin (7)
  
  Iłża (7)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (7)
  
  Mariupol, Drama Theater (7)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (7)
  
  Strużki (7)
  
  Służewiec Race Course (Warsaw) (7)
  
  Warsaw, Dworkowa Street (7)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (7)
  
  Warsaw, Pole Mokotowskie (7)
  
  Warsaw, St. Lazarus' Hospital, Leszno Street 127 (Leszno Street 15) (7)
  
  Warsaw, Wolska Street 129 (7)
  
  Łopuszno (7)
  
  Brody (Starachowice district) (6)
  
  Bydgoszcz (6)
  
  Bór Kunowski (6)
  
  Dąbrowa (Kielce) (6)
  
  Kyiv (6)
  
  Piekoszów (6)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (6)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (6)
  
  Warsaw, Górczewska Street (6)
  
  Warsaw, Jesuit Monastery, Rakowiecka Street 61 (6)
  
  Warsaw, Karol and Maria Children's Hospital, Leszno Street 136 (Leszno Street 30) (6)
  
  Warsaw, Madalińskiego Street (6)
  
  Warsaw, Puławska Street (6)
  
  Warsaw, Saski Square (Piłsudskiego Square) (6)
  
  Warsaw, Sowiński Park (6)
  
  Warsaw, aleja Niepodległości (6)
  
  Zagnańsk (6)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (5)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (5)
  
  Marcule (5)
  
  Masłów Pierwszy (5)
  
  Milanówek (5)
  
  Niewachlów (Kielce) (5)
  
  Skałka Polska (5)
  
  Skronina (5)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (5)
  
  Warsaw, Banacha Market Square, Grójecka Street 95 (5)
  
  Warsaw, Bałuckiego Street 24 (5)
  
  Warsaw, Dembińskiego Street 2/4 (5)
  
  Warsaw, Długa Street 7 (5)
  
  Warsaw, Flakkaserne, Puławska Street 4/6/8 (5)
  
  Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście Street (5)
  
  Warsaw, Leszno Street (5)
Oblast
- Donetsk (43)
  
  Kharkiv (43)
  
  Kherson (31)
  
  Zaporizhia (20)
  
  Kyiv (18)
  
  Luhansk (13)
  
  Chernihiv (10)
  
  Kyiv Oblast (10)
  
  Mykolaiv (6)
  
  Mikołajowski (5)
  
  Sumy (5)
  
  Dnipropetrovsk (3)
  
  Zhytomyr (3)
  
  Lviv (2)
Raion
- Mariupol (37)
  
  Kharkiv (32)
  
  Kherson (16)
  
  Severodonetsk (12)
  
  Chernihiv (9)
  
  Bucha (8)
  
  Kakhovka (6)
  
  Izium (5)
  
  Kiev (5)
  
  Kyiv (5)
  
  Polohy (5)
  
  Berdyansk (4)
  
  Beryslav (4)
  
  Henichesk (4)
  
  Melitopol (4)
  
  Kramatorsk (3)
  
  Mykolaiv (3)
  
  Nikopol (3)
  
  Vasylivka (3)
  
  Bashtanka (2)
  
  Brovary (2)
  
  Lviv (2)
  
  Mikołajów (2)
  
  Sumy (2)
  
  Volnovakha (2)
  
  Zaporizhia (2)
  
  Zhytomyr (2)
  
  Bohoduhiv (1)
  
  Chuhuiv (1)
  
  Fastiv (1)
  
  Horlivka (1)
  
  Korosten (1)
  
  Kupyansk (1)
  
  Markivka (1)
  
  Pervomaisk (1)
  
  Romny (1)
  
  Rozivka (1)
  
  Vyshhorod (1)
  
  Сhuhuiv (1)
Victims
- Civilians (1065)
  
  The Poles (862)
  
  The Civilian Population (856)
  
  Children (663)
  
  Women (583)
  
  Ukrainians (201)
  
  The elderly (152)
  
  The Jews (127)
  
  The Inteligentsia (124)
  
  The Elderly (109)
  
  The sick (108)
  
  The Sick (83)
  
  The Church (59)
  
  Prisoners of War (47)
  
  Russians/Soviets (21)
  
  The Russians (18)
  
  Deportees (10)
  
  Belarusians (8)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (8)
  
  The Disabled (8)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (7)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (7)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (5)
  
  Policemen (5)
  
  The French (4)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (4)
  
  Germans (3)
  
  Internally displaced persons (3)
  
  Landowners (2)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (2)
  
  Slovaks (2)
  
  The Communists (2)
  
  Americans (1)
  
  Belgians (1)
  
  Czechs (1)
  
  Greeks (1)
  
  Hungarians (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (1)
Perpetrators
- Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (191)
  
  SS (159)
  
  Military Police (105)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (98)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (85)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (83)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (64)
  
  Collaboration (52)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (33)
  
  Kadyrovites (20)
  
  Donetsk People’s Militia (all military formations of so-called separatist republics DNR and LNR) (19)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (18)
  
  Collaborators (16)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (13)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (13)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (10)
  
  Denunciation (9)
  
  Red Army (8)
  
  Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (7)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (7)
  
  Soviet Militia (7)
  
  The Russian National Liberation Army (RONA) (7)
  
  Russian diversionary groups (5)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (5)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (4)
  
  Rosgvardiya [National Guard of Russia] (4)
  
  Separatists (4)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (4)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (4)
  
  Waffen-SS (4)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (3)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (3)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (2)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (2)
  
  Latvians (2)
  
  Lithuanians (2)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (1)
  
  OMON/SOBR [Special Purpose Mobile Unit/Special Rapid Response Unit] (1)
  
  Postal Protection (1)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (1)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (1)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (1)
Crimes
- Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (1111)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (917)
  
  Death by shooting (527)
  
  Execution (516)
  
  Robbery (365)
  
  Arrest (273)
  
  Air raids (257)
  
  Deportation (216)
  
  Forced labor (203)
  
  Artillery shelling (193)
  
  Burning people alive (180)
  
  Beating (175)
  
  Destruction of civilian infrastructure (170)
  
  Displacement (143)
  
  Expulsion (131)
  
  Missile attack (120)
  
  Humanitarian catastrophe (113)
  
  Armored weapons (102)
  
  Round-up (99)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (95)
  
  Mass graves (90)
  
  Cremation of corpses (89)
  
  Economic exploitation (87)
  
  Biological extermination (86)
  
  Cremation (85)
  
  Artillery fire (63)
  
  Denationalization (58)
  
  Administrative persecution (49)
  
  Rape (49)
  
  Limiting freedom of movement (43)
  
  Hanging (41)
  
  Persecution of Ukrainian identity/Russification (40)
  
  Racial policy (30)
  
  Human shields (25)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (23)
  
  Cattle wagons (20)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (20)
  
  Pacification (18)
  
  Gas chambers (17)
  
  Germanization (16)
  
  Judicial crime (14)
  
  Deportation/Exile (12)
  
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Hennadiy 1967

Mariupol Siege

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Mariupol

Dar'ya 2006

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Menes Łazarz 23.03.1910, Warsaw

Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city

1940.07-1942

Warsaw, Leszno Street Warsaw, Ghetto Warsaw, Natolińska Street 6 Warsaw, Żelazna Street 76 Warsaw, Gęsia Street 30 (Anielewicza Street) Warsaw, Miła Street 64 Warsaw, Gęsia Street 79 (Anielewicza Street) Warsaw, Nowolipki Street Warsaw, Karmelicka Street Pruszków, Dulag 121 Warsaw, Zamenhofa Street Warsaw, Prosta Street Warsaw, Wołyńska Street (Lewartowskiego Street) Warsaw, Stawki Street Warsaw, Gęsia Street (Anielewicza Street) Gołąbki, Śniadeckich Street 7 (district of Warsa) Warsaw, Okopowa Street Gołąbki (Warsaw), Śniadeckich Street 7

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The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast

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Viatlag (Russia, Kirov Oblast) Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress Moscow (Russia)

Blumenthal Nachman 1901?

Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture

1939.11.25-1944

German extermination camp of Sobibór German extermination camp of Treblinka German extermination camp of Bełżec German extermination camp of Majdanek Warsaw, Ghetto Częstochowa Radom Przemyśl Kraków, ghetto Radom Poniatowa, German forced labor camp Warsaw, National Museum, Aleje Jerozolimskie 3 Radom Czortków (Ukraine) Borszczów (Ukraine)

Seyfried Edmund 15.02.1889, Lwów (now in Ukraine)

Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture

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Warsaw Pustków, forced labor camp Lublin Częstochowa Radom Warsaw Jasło Nowy Sącz Nowy Sącz Starachowice Lublin Radom Starachowice Częstochowa Sanok Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 KL Plaszow Palmiry KL Auschwitz-Birkenau German extermination camp of Bełżec German extermination camp of Sobibór Zwierzyniec (Zwierzyniec commune), transit camp Zamość, resettlement camp, Okrzei Street Chełm Kielce Ostrów Wielkopolski

Falk Ignacy 1902?

Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture

1939.09.01-1944

Warsaw, Mokotów Prison, Rakowiecka Street 37 Trawniki, German forced labor camp Lublin Radom Trawniki, German forced labor camp Lublin Warsaw, Mokotów Prison, Rakowiecka Street 37 Płock Warsaw, Warszawa Wschodnia Station Biała Podlaska Siedlce Gniewoszów (mazowieckie voivodeship) Częstochowa German extermination camp of Treblinka KL Plaszow KL Gross-Rosen Warsaw, Hotel Polski, Długa Street 29 Warsaw, Gęsiówka prison, Gęsia Street (Anielewicza Street)/ Zamenhofa Street Warsaw, Ghetto, Többens' shop, Prosta Street

Drabek Jaroslav 06.04.1901, Chrudim (Czech Republic)

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory

1932-1945

Lidice (Czech Republic) KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp

Kula Michał 07.09.1912, Trzebinia

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory

1939.09.28-1945.05

Warsaw KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I KL Auschwitz I, roll call square KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I Warsaw, Krucza Street 23

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Disrupted childhood – the Radom region

1939.09-1945.05

Warsaw

Długosz Wiesława

Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region

1939.09.01-1945.05

Łódź, ghetto Wierzbnik (Starachowice) Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski Skarżysko-Kamienna Gębice (Godów) KL Auschwitz-Birkenau KL Buchenwald (Germany) KL Dachau (Germany)

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