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Witness

Wdowiszewski Zygmunt 10.09.1897, Kraków

Topic

Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów

Date

1939-1944.08

Location

Warsaw, Dworkowa Street 3

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Witness

Żuczek Wincenty 13.03.1918, Warsaw

Topic

Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów

Date

1944.08.03-1945.02.27

Location

Warsaw, Madalińskiego Street 19/21

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Witness

Samek Bolesław 1911?, Potok Wielki (świętokrzyskie voivodeship)

Topic

Prisoners of war – transit camps in Kielce

Date

1939-1940

Location

Kielce, Kraków Bishops' Palace, Zamkowy Square

Witness

Gamm Rudolf 28.10.1884; Gdańsk

Topic

Poles, Kashubs and Germans – the situation before the genocide

Date

1931-1940.09

Location

Gdańsk

Witness

Bąk Wincenty 1893?

Topic

Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture

Date

1943.04-1945

Location

Kraków

Witness

Stefaniak Józef 16.10.1908

Topic

The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas

Date

1944.03-1945

Location

Kurów (Puławy district) Barłogi (Puławy district)

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Witness

Pratkowski Jan 16.05.1913, Kapuściany (now in Ukraine)

Topic

Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen

Date

1943.05.09-1945.05.09

Location

KL Gross-Rosen Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no. 1, Łąckiego Street (Bandery Street 1) Lwów, Prison no. 1, Łąckiego Street (Bandery Street 1) KL Leitmeritz (subcamp of KL Flossenbürg, Czech Republic)

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Witness

Jakubowicz Mojsze 15.05.1922, Poddębice (łódzkie voivodeship)

Topic

Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Gliwice

Date

1944.08.08-1945.01.21

Location

KL Gross-Rosen Arbeitslager Gleiwitz IV (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Buchenwald (Germany) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Buchenwald (Germany) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Blechhammer Łódź, ghetto KL Gross-Rosen

Witness

Pomian-Grabiński Jan

Topic

Poles saving Jews – the Częstochowa region

Date

1944.04-1945

Location

Częstochowa KL Ravensbrück (Germany) KL Buchenwald (Germany) KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) KL Gross-Rosen

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Witness

Zejer Rajmund 30.08.1902

Topic

Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp

Date

1941.01.24-1945.05.07

Location

KL Auschwitz I KL Gross-Rosen KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) Jaworzno, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Leitmeritz (subcamp of KL Flossenbürg, Czech Republic)

Witness

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Topic

Gdańsk – daily terror

Date

1941.10-1945

Location

Kraków

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Witness

Bowsza Stanisław 10.03.1904

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.08.29-1941.08.25

Location

Lwów (now in Ukraine) Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp Zaporizhia (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Republic of Karelia (Russia) Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs

Witness

Nojek Leonard 1893

Topic

Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees

Date

-

Location

Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8

Witness

Gajdzica Stanisław

Topic

Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland

Date

1942.03-1945

Location

Kraków, ghetto Przemyśl Chełm Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 Berlin (Germany) Kraków, Św. Krzyża Street Kłaj Skoczów

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Witness

Bator Helena 03.03.1904, Wilanów (now: Warsaw)

Topic

Executions in Mazovia

Date

1939-1944.07

Location

Wilanów (Warsaw) Wilanów (Warsaw), Wilanowskie Lake

Witness

Russanowska B.

Topic

Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas

Date

1941-1945

Location

Małkinia Górna

Witness

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Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

-

Location

Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Łuck (now in Ukraine) Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Ostróg (now in Ukraine), transit camp (Barracks of the 19th Volhynian Uhlan Regiment) Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Zhytomyr (Ukraine) Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

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Witness

Michalak Teodor 1911?

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.08.30-1941.09.03

Location

Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Łuck (now in Ukraine) Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) Gródek Jagielloński (Gródek, now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Werba Dubieńska (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Rodatycze (now in Ukraine), transit camp Kozelschyna (Ukraine, Poltava Oblast), transit camp Janów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Skniłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs

Witness

Dmuchowski Leonard 1898

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.08.17 - 1941.09.08

Location

Stołpce (now in Belarus) Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) Sosenki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Tudorów (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)