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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Cytron Tobiasz; 30.10.1908, Białystok (2)
  
  Apelbaum Leib; 1921? (1)
  
  Augustowicz Bolesław; 1912 (1)
  
  Babkus Ida; 23.06.1917, Białystok (1)
  
  Barbachowski Wladyslaw; 1903 (1)
  
  Baszker Fiyszel, 1899.08.06 (1)
  
  Bańkowski Kazimierz (1)
  
  Bednarska Jadwiga; 21.10.1920, Białystok (1)
  
  Bloch Ilia; 1912? (1)
  
  Bogucki Jan; 1913? (1)
  
  Borowy Stanisław; 1908? (1)
  
  Brakier Moniek; 23.12.1920, Białystok (1)
  
  Busłowska Paulina (1)
  
  Błas Szloma; 1906? (1)
  
  Chmielewski Szczepan; 1899 (1)
  
  Chojnacki Bolesław, 1897 (1)
  
  Chudoń Marian; 23.01.1909 (1)
  
  Chyliński Aleksander, 1914.05.24 (1)
  
  Cieślik Bolesław; 1917 (1)
  
  Cudowska Leokadia; 15.04.1904, Rogowo (Białystok county) (1)
  
  Cudowska Leokadia; 15.04.1904, Rogowo (Białystok district) (1)
  
  Cupryk Wladysław; 1916 (1)
  
  Czechocki Eli; 1901? (1)
  
  Czertok Mejsza (1)
  
  Dembinski Michał; 1916? (1)
  
  Dmowski Jan; 1901 (1)
  
  Duchnowski Jan; 22.10.1908, Podbiele (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Dworzak Bazyli; 1898.12.25 (1)
  
  Dybowska Aniela; 13.04.1912, Łódź (1)
  
  Eilsztein Dawid, 1909 (1)
  
  Fabrycki Jakob (1)
  
  Falucińska Anna; 20.09.1913, Białystok (1)
  
  Fedorowicz Mieczysław, 1892 (1)
  
  Feldman Irena 21.02.1909, Warsaw (1)
  
  Feldman Irena; 21.02.1909, Warsaw (1)
  
  Flint Szmul; 1920? (1)
  
  Fortuna Kazimierz; 1920? (1)
  
  Gabrynowicz Stefan, 1914 (1)
  
  Gaciąg Zbigniew; 1911? (1)
  
  Gajdowski Jan; 1901 (1)
  
  Garbarz Szmul, 1902 (1)
  
  Garniewicz Stanisław; 1884 (1)
  
  Giller Hersz; 1917 (1)
  
  Gisicz Stanisław (1)
  
  Glickson Jerry (1)
  
  Gogolewski Roman; 1911 (1)
  
  Goldfarb Pinkus (1)
  
  Grynsztejn Szmel (1)
  
  Grzał Julian; 1907? (1)
  
  Gudałewski Jan (1)
  
  Gulik Józef (1)
  
  Guziewicz Henryk; 1918? (1)
  
  Górewicz Ber; 1920 (1)
  
  Gąsowski Stanisław; 29.10.1890 (1)
  
  Głębowski Stanisław, 1897 (1)
  
  Handelsman Czesław, 1902 (1)
  
  Jamielita Jan; 1901? (1)
  
  Jarocki Aleksy (1)
  
  Jaroszek Czesław (1)
  
  Jędrzejczak Joanna (1)
  
  Kaczyński Kazimierz; 1907 (1)
  
  Kardasz Szymon; 1916 (1)
  
  Karpowicz Jakub (1)
  
  Kiersz Ludwik (1)
  
  Kiełsa Kazimierz (1)
  
  Klimek Wanda (1)
  
  Kordal Antoni (1)
  
  Krasnodębski Tadeusz; 19.02.1922, Dmochy-Sadły (Dmochy-Wochy) (1)
  
  Kurlawski Marian; 19.02.1908 (1)
  
  Kuźmiński Józef; 1909? (1)
  
  Kwiatkowska Teresa (1)
  
  Lenczewski Tadeusz; 1913?, Rzędziany (1)
  
  Lenczewski Waclaw;14.07.1910 (1)
  
  Lewito Czesław, 1922.01.20, Białystok (1)
  
  Litewiak Stanisław; 1920? (1)
  
  Lubelski Chaim (1)
  
  Malinowski Władysław (1)
  
  Mamak Eugenia; 10.04.1921 (1)
  
  Michalski Aleksander; 1897 (1)
  
  Mieszkowski Aleksander; 1915 (1)
  
  Miron Leonard (1)
  
  Molski Czesław (1)
  
  Niwiński Antoni, 1901 (1)
  
  Okurowski Józef; 1910? (1)
  
  Olejniczak Stefania (1)
  
  Orłowski Czesław (1)
  
  Orłowski Jan; 1919? (1)
  
  Orłowski Taduesz; 1927.07.17 (1)
  
  Ołowski Czesław (1)
  
  Paczyński Wojciech (1)
  
  Pasztaleniec Antoni; 1909 (1)
  
  Perkowska Janina; 1912? (1)
  
  Piekart Barbara, 1911 (1)
  
  Piktel Julian; 1901.03.11 (1)
  
  Plotnicki Bogusław (1)
  
  Pyliński Emanuel (1)
  
  Pęczek Jan; 1896 (1)
  
  Reduta Aleksander; 1911.03.17 (1)
  
  Rojko Józef (1)
  
  Rokieta Stanisław; 1900? (1)
Subject
- The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (42)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (19)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Białystok Ghetto (9)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (8)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (6)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (5)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (4)
  
  Treblinka – extermination camp (4)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (3)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Podlasie region (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (3)
  
  In exile – Ural (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (2)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (1)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (1)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (1)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Warsaw (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (1)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (1)
  
  In exile – Far East (1)
  
  In exile – Siberia (1)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Nowogród region (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (1)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (1)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (69)
  
  Białystok (49)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (32)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (24)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (15)
  
  Białystok, ghetto (14)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (13)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (13)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (12)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (11)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (11)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (11)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (9)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (9)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (8)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (8)
  
  Białystok, Ghetto (6)
  
  Warsaw (6)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (5)
  
  Vitebsk (Belarus), NKVD prison, Surazhska Street (Gagarina Street 2) (5)
  
  Zaręby Kościelne (5)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (4)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (4)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (4)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (4)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (4)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (4)
  
  Pavlodar (Kazakhstan) (4)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (4)
  
  Łomża (4)
  
  Łomża, prison, Legionów Avenue 36 (4)
  
  Aykino (Russia, Komi Republic) (3)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (3)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), prison, Zygmuntowska Street (Marx Street 86-88) (3)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (3)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (3)
  
  Kagan (Uzbekistan) (3)
  
  Kniazhpogost (Russia, Komi Republic) (3)
  
  Kuybyshev (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (3)
  
  Małkinia (3)
  
  Minsk (Belarus), "Wołodarka" prison, Waladarskaha Street 2 (3)
  
  Minsk (Belarus), NKVD remand center "Amerykanka", Hradsky Val Street 4 (3)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (3)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (3)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Vitebsk (Belarus) (3)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (2)
  
  Bandar-e Pahlavi (Bandar-e Anzali, Iran) (2)
  
  Barnaul (Russia, Altai Krai) (2)
  
  Białystok, train station, Kolejowa Street 9 (2)
  
  Bliżyn, forced labor camp (2)
  
  Bydgoszcz (2)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (2)
  
  Enlag (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (2)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (2)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (2)
  
  KL Stutthof (2)
  
  Karaganda (Kazakhstan) (2)
  
  Kirov (Russia, Kirov Oblast) (2)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (2)
  
  Krasnogvardeysk (Gatchina, Russia, Leningrad Oblast) (2)
  
  Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) (2)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (2)
  
  Lublin (2)
  
  Małkinia Górna (2)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (2)
  
  Murmansk Oblast (Russia) (2)
  
  Nukus (Uzbekistan) (2)
  
  Oryol (Russia, Oryol Oblast) (2)
  
  Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (2)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka (2)
  
  Prużana (Belarus) (2)
  
  Rzędziany (2)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (2)
  
  Siedlce (2)
  
  Sovkhoz no. 499 (Kazakhstan, Pavlodar Oblast) (2)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (2)
  
  Starosielce (Białystok) (2)
  
  Szepetówka (Ukraine) (2)
  
  Treblinka, train station (2)
  
  Turkistan (Kazakhstan) (2)
  
  Vietlosian (Ukhta, Russia, Komi Republic) (2)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (2)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (2)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (2)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania), Łukiszki prison, Więzienna Street ( Lukiškių Street 6) (2)
  
  Wołkowysk (Belarus) (2)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (2)
  
  Zambrów (2)
  
  Łomża, prison, aleja Legionów 36 (2)
  
  Akmol (Kazakhstan), Akmolinsk Camp for Wives of Traitors of the Motherland (1)
  
  Akmolinsk (Astana, Kazakhstan) (1)
  
  Albertyn (Słonim, Belarus) (1)
  
  Alekseevska (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (1)
  
  Alma-Ata (Almaty, Kazakhstan) (1)
  
  Arbeitslager Gleiwitz I (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (1)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (1)
Victims
- Civilians (120)
  
  The Poles (120)
  
  The Civilian Population (109)
  
  The Jews (52)
  
  Women (49)
  
  The Inteligentsia (40)
  
  Children (38)
  
  Russians/Soviets (36)
  
  The Russians (29)
  
  The sick (29)
  
  The Sick (27)
  
  Ukrainians (26)
  
  Deportees (24)
  
  Belarusians (22)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (18)
  
  Prisoners of War (15)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (13)
  
  Policemen (12)
  
  The elderly (11)
  
  The Elderly (11)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (8)
  
  Lithuanians (7)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (6)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (6)
  
  Estonians (4)
  
  Germans (4)
  
  Landowners (4)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (4)
  
  Latvians (3)
  
  Internees (2)
  
  Border Protection Corps (1)
  
  Czechs (1)
  
  The Church (1)
  
  The French (1)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (1)
Perpetrators
- People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (29)
  
  Denunciation (10)
  
  Soviet Militia (10)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (9)
  
  SS (9)
  
  Red Army (7)
  
  Collaboration (6)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (6)
  
  Lithuanians (4)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (3)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (3)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (2)
  
  Collaborators (1)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (1)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (1)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (1)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (112)
  
  Arrest (103)
  
  Biological extermination (96)
  
  Deportation/Exile (62)
  
  Beating (57)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (56)
  
  Judicial crime (47)
  
  Punishment cell (33)
  
  Cattle wagons (22)
  
  Execution (20)
  
  Robbery (20)
  
  Death by shooting (17)
  
  Deportation (15)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (9)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (8)
  
  Round-up (7)
  
  Air raids (6)
  
  Racial policy (6)
  
  Hanging (5)
  
  Economic exploitation (4)
  
  Gas chambers (4)
  
  Mass graves (4)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (3)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (3)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (3)
  
  Armored weapons (2)
  
  Cremation (2)
  
  Cremation of corpses (2)
  
  Denationalization (2)
  
  Disarmament (2)
  
  Medical experiments (2)
  
  Roads of death (2)
  
  Sovietization (2)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (2)
  
  Artillery fire (1)
  
  Artillery shelling (1)
  
  Burning people alive (1)
  
  Displacement (1)
  
  Expulsion (1)
  
  Forced voting (1)
  
  Human shields (1)
Place
- Prison (56)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (47)
  
  Kolkhoz (28)
  
  NKVD custody suite (27)
  
  Mine (18)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (14)
  
  Ghetto (13)
  
  Extermination camp (9)
  
  Sovkhoz (6)
  
  Transit camp (5)
  
  Concentration camp (4)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (4)
  
  Forced labor (3)
  
  Labor camp (3)
  
  Internment camp (2)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (2)
  
  Police headquarters/station (1)
Content
- Health service (64)
  
  Anders' Army (51)
  
  Amnesty (28)
  
  Epidemics (17)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (17)
  
  Extermination of Jews (14)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (14)
  
  Communist propaganda (12)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (12)
  
  Polish culture in exile (11)
  
  Third deportation (7)
  
  Military hospital (5)
  
  Rescue of Jews (5)
  
  Second deportation (5)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (4)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (4)
  
  First deportation (3)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (2)
  
  Fourth deportation (2)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (2)
  
  Judenrat (2)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (2)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (2)
  
  Aid to Jews (1)
  
  Civil resistance (1)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (1)
  
  Polish Underground State (1)
  
  Underground courts (1)
  
  Underground media (1)
  
  Wola Massacre (1)
Object type
- Account (39)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (16)
  
  Brief (6)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given under oath (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Independent Historical Office of the Command of the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union/Documentation Office of the Polish Army in the East (109)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (5)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (5)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (1)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Białystok (1)
  
  Katyn Museum (1)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (1)
Medium
- Text (135)
  
  Image (2)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (127)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (14)