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Witness

Biełous Włodzimierz 1904

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

1940.06.23 - 1940.09

Location

Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Ural (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast)

Witness

Biś Teodor 1901?

Topic

A race against time – the road to Anders' Army

Date

1939.10.18 - 1942.03.27

Location

Złoczów (now in Ukraine) Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Urgench (Uzbekistan) Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Chardzhou (Türkmenabat, Turkmenistan)

Witness

Bigoraj Józef 1899

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

1940.05.07 - 1941.09.20

Location

Drohiczyn (now in Belarus) Czerwień (Belarus) Minsk (Belarus), "Wołodarka" prison, Waladarskaha Street 2 Moscow (Russia) Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

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Witness

Borysiuk Kazimierz 05.10.1933, Pogorzelec

Topic

Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland

Date

1939.09-1944

Location

-

Witness

Zeiliński Tymoteusz

Topic

Disrupted childhood – the Radom region

Date

1939.09.01-1945

Location

-

Witness

Zieja Maria

Topic

Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region

Date

1939.09.01-1945

Location

Gębice (Godów)

Witness

Kosińska Irena

Topic

A shattered childhood – the Lublin region

Date

1939.09-1944.07.22

Location

Berlin (Germany)

Witness

Staszewski Alfons 1904?

Topic

Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees

Date

1940.07.10-1941.08

Location

Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Kola Penninsula (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Witness

Stefańki Michał 1908

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast

Date

1939.09.17-1942.03.31

Location

Przemyśl Zaleszczyki (Ukraine) Przemyśl, prison, Rokitniańska Street 1 Kharkiv (Ukraine) Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Abez (Russia, Komi Republic) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) Farab (Kazakhstan)

Witness

Affek Halina

Topic

Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland

Date

1939.09-1945.05

Location

-

Witness

Wojtas Izabela

Topic

Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region

Date

1939.09.01-1945

Location

-

Witness

Stępień Stanisław

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09-1941

Location

Chełm Olesko (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Angielówka (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Ostra Góra (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Zastawie (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Sarny (now in Ukraine) Kharkiv (Ukraine)

Witness

Womperski Andrzej

Topic

Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region

Date

1939.09.01-1945

Location

-

Witness

Jagitko K.

Topic

Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland

Date

1940.01-1944

Location

-

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Witness

Abramczuk Jan 06.08.1933, Przewłoka

Topic

A shattered childhood – the Lublin region

Date

1939.09-1945.05

Location

-

Witness

Kóper Dawid 17.06.1901, Częstochowa

Topic

The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Częstochowa Ghetto

Date

1940-1943.01.05

Location

Częstochowa, Rynek Warszawski (Bohaterów Getta Square) Częstochowa, Ghetto German extermination camp of Treblinka

Witness

Żurakowska-Gniazdowska Teresa 21.05.1929, Kiwerce

Topic

Clandestine teaching – Kraków

Date

1939.09.01-1945.05

Location

Uściług (now in Ukraine) Kraków

Witness

Jakusz-Gostomska Wiktoria 16.12.1914

Topic

Date

1939.09-1945

Location

KL Dachau (Germany) KL Stutthof Gdańsk

Witness

Pantofel Abram 30.12.1912, Częstochowa

Topic

The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Częstochowa Ghetto

Date

1939-1945

Location

Częstochowa, Garibaldiego Street Częstochowa, forced labor camp "Hasag Pelcery", 1 Maja Street (Filomatów Street 14)

Witness

Wołk-Lewanowicz Mikołaj 11.03.1912

Topic

In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast

Date

1940.04.12-1941.12

Location

Lida (now in Belarus) Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) Tashlak (Toshloq, Uzbekistan)