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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Anonymous (10)
  
  Stopa F. (10)
  
  Sobczański J. (7)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (6)
  
  Rott Wiesław; 14.06.1914, Lublin (6)
  
  Iwanicka Maria; 27.01.1913 (5)
  
  Lorentz Stanisław; 28.04.1899, Radom (4)
  
  Rajewski Ludwik; 16.12.1900, Łódź (4)
  
  Sendler Irena; 15.02.1910, Warszawa (4)
  
  Bochenek Marta; 19.09.1892 (3)
  
  Bogdanowicz Jan; 17.12.1894, Warsaw (3)
  
  Branny Paweł; 13.05.1888, Żuków Dolny (Český Těšín, Czech Republic) (3)
  
  Igielski Jan; 12.01.1915, Stróże (Nowy Sącz county) (3)
  
  Janiszewska Barbara (3)
  
  Juszczyński Antoni Michał; 01.06.1884, Warsaw (3)
  
  Korganow Marek; 11.03.1931, Warsaw (3)
  
  Kucharski Teofil; 06.02.1889, Jaszczew (3)
  
  Kędzierski Adam; 1890? (3)
  
  Matuszczak Maria (3)
  
  Maławska-Primas Hanna (3)
  
  Misiewicz Janina Eufrozyna Kazimiera; 12.12.1893, Solvychegodsk (Russia) (3)
  
  Pacocha Leopold; 10.11.1898, Warsaw (3)
  
  Piegat Stanisław; 26.09.1891 (3)
  
  Sieroszewski Władysław; 30.12.1900, Warsaw (3)
  
  Szlacheta Wacława; 23.09.1900, Warsaw (3)
  
  Weiss Marian Franciszek; 28.01.1899, Rzeszów (3)
  
  Włodarski Włodzimierz (Walczak Wacław); 03.01.1907, Warsaw (3)
  
  Zarębski Kazimierz (3)
  
  Łosińska Weronika Katarzyna; 30.04.1904 (3)
  
  Łącki Mikołaj; 30.10.1888, Loyew (Belarus) (3)
  
  Żelazowska Janina Czesława; 26.10.1908 (3)
  
  Ambrożewicz Irena Gertruda Helena; 17.03.1903, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Aszkołajtis Kamilla; 29.09.1888, Ejwuńce (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Bekier Zofia; 17.04.1882 (2)
  
  Biejat Edmund; 1891? (2)
  
  Bielewicz Marian; 19.08.1911, Warsaw (2)
  
  Bocian Zygmunt; 23.10.1909, Warszawa (2)
  
  Branny Paweł; 13.05.1888, Żuków Dolny (now: Český Těšín, Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Cegłowski Aleksander; 24.12.1904 (2)
  
  Chojnacka Kazimiera; 06.12.1891 (2)
  
  Chołodowska Leokadia; 04./23.04.1915 (2)
  
  Chrościcki Julian; 26.05.1892, Szymony (2)
  
  Drozdowska-Rogowicz Wanda; 11.11.1906 (2)
  
  Drozdowski Henryk Marian; 13.01.1895, Łódź (2)
  
  Estreicher Karol; 1905? (2)
  
  Fultyn Witold Józef; 1913? (2)
  
  Gałka Wacława; 10.08.1908, Warsaw (2)
  
  Gitler-Barski Józef; 03.03.1898, Warsaw (2)
  
  Gołębiowski Juliusz; 1911? (2)
  
  Grabowski Ludwik; 12.06./06.12.1882, Józefin (Halinów county) (2)
  
  Grzesiński Marian (2)
  
  Gutowska Maria; 03.07.1909 (2)
  
  Głombiowska Jadwiga; 21.01.1915, Warszawa (2)
  
  Herbich Kazimierz; 29.03.1894 (2)
  
  Jackowska Zofia; 1910? (2)
  
  Jackowski Marian; 1900? (2)
  
  Janikowski Jan Bronisław; 14.05.1888, Warsaw (2)
  
  Jarosińska Władysława; 18.12.1884, Rozprza (2)
  
  Kajszczak Marian (2)
  
  Kamiński Roman Kazimierz; 09.07.1906, Warsaw (2)
  
  Karczewska-Bełczowska Barbara; 1930; Warsaw (2)
  
  Karpiński Zdzisław; 18.09.1920, Ostrów Mazowiecka (2)
  
  Kaszyński Jan; 19.11.1920, Warsaw (2)
  
  Kipa Emil Józef; 17.03.1886, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Kisiel Aleksander; 31.12.1913, Wilno (now in Lithuania) (2)
  
  Kleniewski Stanisław; 20.11.1901 (2)
  
  Kopeć Maria; 14.08.1919, Puławy (2)
  
  Koprowicz Stanisława; 17.11.1908, Dobrzyń (Lipno county) (2)
  
  Kosakiewicz Władysław; 18.09.1879 (2)
  
  Koźmiński Jerzy; 31.08.1924 (2)
  
  Krupka Stanisław; 22.04.1900, Zimna (podlaskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Krzymiński Aleksander (2)
  
  Kucharski Edward Marian; 18.06.1904, Warsaw (2)
  
  Kuczewska Maria (2)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (2)
  
  Lange Lucyna; 1897? (2)
  
  Lessman Bolesław; 17.02.1904 (2)
  
  Lewak Adam; 03.09.1891, Pieniaki (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Lilienstern Stanisława Stefania; 11.11.1884, Glinojeck (2)
  
  Loth Felicjan; 30.06.1914, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Loth Felicjan; 30.06.1914, Lwów (now: Ukraine) (2)
  
  Makowska Janina; 26.11.1906 (2)
  
  Maliszewski Stefan; 23.05.1912, Warsaw (2)
  
  Marian Józefa; 04.03.1897 (2)
  
  Matysiak Aleksandra Julia; 04.03.1893, Koło (Warsaw) (2)
  
  Maślankiewicz Jan; 01.09.1916, Warsaw (2)
  
  Maślankiewicz Jan; 01.09.1916, Warszawa (2)
  
  Michalik Zdzisław; 07.09.1907 (2)
  
  Michałowicz Mieczysław Jan; 10.09.1876, Petersburg (Russia) (2)
  
  Michelis Zygmunt; 17.03.1880, Bycz (kujawsko-pomorskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Miklaszewska Antonina (2)
  
  Niesłuchowska Anna; 12.03.1911 (2)
  
  Nowakowska Ewelina; 20.12.1924, Mała Wieś (Płock county) (2)
  
  Nowiński (2)
  
  Odolska Wanda; 05.06.1909, Poltava (Ukraine) (2)
  
  Okolski Konrad; 19.02.1884, Nowostawce (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Okolski Konrad; 19.02.1884, Nowostawce (now: Ukraine) (2)
  
  Olszewicz Bolesław, 5.01.1893, Warsaw (2)
  
  Palińska Kazimiera; 03.03.1883, Świr (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Paradowska Józefa; 06.04.1897 (2)
Subject
- The city condemned to death (171)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (162)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (146)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (135)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (111)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (110)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (102)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (82)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (82)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (78)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (75)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz (55)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town (44)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (41)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (39)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (39)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (35)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (33)
  
  Warsaw '44 – uprising in Praga (33)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (32)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (31)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (29)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Żoliborz (27)
  
  The persecuted church (24)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (23)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Warsaw (22)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (22)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (20)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (20)
  
  Wawer Massacre '39 (17)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (16)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (16)
  
  The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews (16)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (15)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Lublin region (13)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (12)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (12)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (12)
  
  Treblinka – extermination camp (12)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Warsaw (11)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (11)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (11)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (11)
  
  Pruszków – the town of the displaced (11)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (8)
  
  The Polish Righteous Among the Nations (8)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (8)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Mazovia (8)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (7)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (7)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (7)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (7)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (6)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (6)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (6)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Lublin region (5)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (5)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Neuengamme (5)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (5)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (4)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Sachsenhausen (4)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (4)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (4)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (4)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (4)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (4)
  
  Browar, Czerwoniak – the Ostrów death blocks (3)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (3)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Kraków (3)
  
  The Free City of Danzig – erasing Polishness (3)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (3)
  
  The Polish diplomacy and its bid to help Jews (3)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (2)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Pomerania (2)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (2)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Stutthof (2)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Greater Poland (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Volhynia (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Podlasie region (2)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (2)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (2)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – the Lublin region (2)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (2)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching classes – the Kielce region (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching classes – the Lwów region (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Lesser Poland (1)
  
  Closeness to the border – opportunity and oppression (1)
  
  Deported – the Altai Krai (1)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Stutthof branch in Inowrocław (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Mazovia (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Volhynia (1)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto (1)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (1)
  
  Lebensborn – the Germanization of Polish children (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Warsaw (420)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (224)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (140)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (120)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (101)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (72)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 (67)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (51)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (48)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (48)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (45)
  
  Warsaw, SS-Stauferkaserne, Rakowiecka Street 4 (45)
  
  Warsaw, aleja Szucha (45)
  
  Warsaw, Warszawa Zachodnia Station (43)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (35)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (35)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (35)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (35)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (35)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (34)
  
  Warsaw, Marszałkowska Street (34)
  
  Warsaw, Rakowiecka Street (34)
  
  Warsaw, Wolski Hospital, Płocka Street 26 (34)
  
  Warsaw, St. Lazarus' Hospital, Leszno Street 127 (Leszno Street 15) (33)
  
  KL Majdanek (32)
  
  Warsaw, Wolska Street (31)
  
  Lublin (30)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (30)
  
  Radzymin (30)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (29)
  
  Warsaw, Długa Street 7 (29)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (28)
  
  Warsaw, Banacha Market Square, Grójecka Street 95 (28)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's Church, Wolska Street 76 (28)
  
  Warsaw, Ogródek Jordanowski [Jordan garden], Bagatela Street 2/4 (27)
  
  Warsaw, Puławska Street (27)
  
  Warsaw, Karolkowa Street (25)
  
  Warsaw, Pole Mokotowskie (25)
  
  Warsaw, Zbawiciela Square (25)
  
  Kraków (24)
  
  Warsaw, Litewska Street (24)
  
  Warsaw, Dworkowa Street (23)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (22)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (22)
  
  Pruszków (22)
  
  Warsaw, Aleje Ujazdowskie (22)
  
  Warsaw, General Inspectorate of the Armed Forces, aleja Szucha 12/14 (22)
  
  Warsaw, Józef Piłsudski Academy of Physcial Education, Marymoncka Street 34 (22)
  
  Warsaw, Mokotów Prison, Rakowiecka Street 37 (22)
  
  Warsaw, Unii Lubelskiej Square (21)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (20)
  
  KL Plaszow (20)
  
  Palmiry (20)
  
  Warsaw, Sowiński Park (20)
  
  Warsaw, St. Stanislaus' Hospital, Wolska Street 37 (20)
  
  KL Stutthof (19)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (19)
  
  Radom (19)
  
  Warsaw, Chłodna Street (19)
  
  Warsaw, Czerniakowska Street (19)
  
  Warsaw, Franaszek factory, Wolska Street 41/45 (19)
  
  Warsaw, Gęsiówka prison, Gęsia Street (Anielewicza Street)/ Zamenhofa Street (19)
  
  Warsaw, Narbutta Street (19)
  
  Warsaw, St. Lawrence's church, Wolska Street 140A (19)
  
  Warsaw, Anca Pharmacy, Marszałkowska Street 21 (18)
  
  Warsaw, Górczewska Street (18)
  
  Warsaw, Karol and Maria Children's Hospital, Leszno Street 136 (Leszno Street 30) (18)
  
  Warsaw, Młynarska Street (18)
  
  Warsaw, Ogród Saski [Saxon Garden] (18)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (17)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (17)
  
  Warsaw, General Inspectorate of the Armed Forces, al. Szucha 12/14 (17)
  
  Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście Street (17)
  
  Warsaw, Mokotów Fort (17)
  
  Warsaw, Seminary Church, Krakowskie Przedmieście Street 52/54 (17)
  
  Warsaw, St. Hyacinth's church, Freta Street 10 (17)
  
  Warsaw, aleja Niepodległości (17)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (16)
  
  Warsaw, Płocka Street (16)
  
  Warsaw, Senatorska Street (16)
  
  Warsaw, Ursus factory, Wolska Street 55 (16)
  
  Warsaw, Złota Street 38 (16)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (15)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (15)
  
  Milanówek (15)
  
  Siedlce (15)
  
  Warsaw, Dworkowa Street 3 (15)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (14)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (14)
  
  Kielce (14)
  
  Okęcie (Warsaw) (14)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (14)
  
  Warsaw, Dembińskiego Street 2/4 (14)
  
  Warsaw, Działdowska Street (14)
  
  Warsaw, Hale Mirowskie [trade halls] (14)
  
  Warsaw, Litewska Street 14 (14)
  
  Warsaw, Piusa XI Street (Piękna Street) (14)
  
  Warsaw, Saski Square (Piłsudskiego Square) (14)
  
  Warsaw, Wolska Street 129 (14)
  
  Bydgoszcz (13)
Victims
- Civilians (1630)
  
  The Civilian Population (1516)
  
  The Poles (1510)
  
  Women (839)
  
  Children (584)
  
  The Jews (476)
  
  The sick (315)
  
  The Sick (304)
  
  The Inteligentsia (262)
  
  The Church (172)
  
  Prisoners of War (168)
  
  The elderly (156)
  
  The Elderly (144)
  
  Russians/Soviets (82)
  
  The Russians (65)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (28)
  
  Germans (22)
  
  The French (18)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (16)
  
  The Disabled (16)
  
  Czechs (15)
  
  Ukrainians (15)
  
  Hungarians (13)
  
  Slovaks (13)
  
  The Communists (13)
  
  Belgians (10)
  
  Greeks (10)
  
  Policemen (10)
  
  The Dutch (9)
  
  Americans (7)
  
  Deportees (7)
  
  The British (6)
  
  Belarusians (5)
  
  Italians (5)
  
  Romanians (4)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (3)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (3)
  
  Norwegians (3)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (3)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (2)
  
  Internees (2)
  
  Estonians (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (535)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (357)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (348)
  
  Military Police (189)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (150)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (91)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (70)
  
  Collaboration (60)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (55)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (47)
  
  The Russian National Liberation Army (RONA) (23)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (21)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (20)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (14)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (12)
  
  Latvians (10)
  
  Red Army (9)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (8)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (7)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (7)
  
  Waffen-SS (7)
  
  Denunciation (6)
  
  Lithuanians (5)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (5)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (5)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (4)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (4)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (4)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (3)
  
  Security Office (3)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (3)
  
  Soviet Militia (3)
  
  Technical Support (Technische Nothilfe) (3)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (3)
  
  Assault Units (Sturmabteilung, SA) (2)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (2)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (1)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (1)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (1)
Crimes
- Execution (1052)
  
  Death by shooting (1011)
  
  Robbery (433)
  
  Arrest (429)
  
  Forced labor (422)
  
  Beating (383)
  
  Displacement (338)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (334)
  
  Expulsion (332)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (304)
  
  Deportation (248)
  
  Cremation of corpses (230)
  
  Cremation (222)
  
  Mass graves (194)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (189)
  
  Biological extermination (166)
  
  Round-up (143)
  
  Rape (116)
  
  Burning people alive (112)
  
  Hanging (99)
  
  Racial policy (97)
  
  Air raids (96)
  
  Administrative persecution (82)
  
  Armored weapons (73)
  
  Economic exploitation (73)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (68)
  
  Gas chambers (63)
  
  Human shields (61)
  
  Denationalization (57)
  
  Artillery shelling (49)
  
  Artillery fire (48)
  
  Cattle wagons (35)
  
  Medical experiments (30)
  
  Judicial crime (27)
  
  Death marches (25)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (25)
  
  "Dosing" (16)
  
  Desacration of corpses (16)
  
  Germanization (13)
  
  Deportation/Exile (12)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (8)
  
  Disarmament (6)
  
  Punishment cell (6)
  
  Roads of death (5)
  
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Sulej Piotr 1910?

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

1939.09.22-1941

Warsaw Dęblin Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, Ukraine), transit camp Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Warkowicze (Ukraine) Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Angielówka (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

Brunarska Zofia 27.05.1923

The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews

1939.09-1946.05.03

Kraków, Strzelecka Street 11 KL Plaszow Poznań Warsaw Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) Kraków, Lubicz Street Kraków, Botaniczna Street Słomniki Kraków, Fałata Street Kraków, Lubomirskich Street 27 Kraków, Krowoderska Street Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 Łódź, ghetto Kraków, Topolowa Street Kraków, Warszawska Street Kraków, Pędzichów Street 13 Radzymin Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) Kraków, Św. Tomasza Street Kraków, Św. Jana Street Kraków, Zamenhofa Street Kraków, Radziwiłłowska Street Zgierz (łódzkie voivodeship) Tymbark Nowe Brzesko Kraków, Warszawska Street 1

Wohlfarth Wilhelm 15.02.1911, Warsaw

To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau

1941.11.19-1944.05.20

KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall Rajsko (Oświęcim district) KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) Harmęże, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Rajsko, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp Brzeszcze Broszkowice Oświęcim Pławy (małopolskie voivodeship) Budy (Oświęcim district) Stare Stawy Harmęże Łęki (Oświęcim district) Bielany (Oświęcim district) Babice (Oświęcim district)

Szyszko-Bohusz Adolf 19.08.1883, Narva (Estonia)

Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture

1939.05-1945.01.17

Paris (France) Kazimierz Dolny Ottawa (Canada) Wrocław Warsaw, Royal Castle, Zamkowy Square 4 Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) Radom Sandomierz Sandomierz

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Olesko (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Babin (now in Ukraine, Rivne Oblast), POW forced labor camp Poltava (Ukraine) Kyiv (Ukraine) Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Tashlak (Toshloq, Uzbekistan) Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) Farab (Kazakhstan) Beirut (Lebanon)

Dziopek Jan 27.10.1889, Borek Stary

Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp

1940.08.21-1945.06.16

Warsaw KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II KL Auschwitz-Birkenau KL Melk (Austria) KL Auschwitz I Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I KL Auschwitz I, roll call square KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) Jawiszowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt Arbeitslager Gleiwitz I (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) Arbeitslager Gleiwitz II (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Arbeitslager Gleiwitz III (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Arbeitslager Gleiwitz IV (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Melk (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) KL Ebensee (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) Jasło, temporary remand prison, Staszica Street 3 Gorlice, Gestapo headquarters, Legionów Street 8 KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 KL Ravensbrück (Germany) Babice, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” Poręba (district of Pszczyna) Linz (Austria) Pszczyna Nowy Wiśnicz Libusza Ostrava (Czech Republic) Wels (Austria) Lambach (Austria) Gmunden (Austria)

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