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Witness

Paluszkiewicz Felicjan

Topic

The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews

Date

1939-1945

Location

Warsaw Wilno (now in Lithuania) KL Dachau (Germany) Albertyn (Słonim, Belarus) Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) Otwock, ghetto

Witness

Sucharewicz Janina

Topic

The Polish diplomacy and its bid to help Jews

Date

1939-1945

Location

Prague (Czech Republic) Anin (Warsaw)

Witness

Płoszczański Roman 1915?

Topic

In exile – Central Asia

Date

1940.04.12-1941.09.21

Location

Lwów (now in Ukraine) Semipalatinsk (Semey, Kazakhstan) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

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Witness

Błażewicz Romuald

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

1940.04.26-1942

Location

Lida (now in Belarus) Baranowicze (now in Belarus) Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) Kyltovo (Russia, Komi Republic) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Orenburg Oblast (Russia)

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Witness

Burakiewicz Maria

Topic

In exile – Komi Republic

Date

1940.02.10-1942.04.05

Location

Komi Republic (Russia) Margilan (Uzbekistan)

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Witness

Cieślak Jan 1905

Topic

A race against time – the road to Anders' Army

Date

1940.02.10-1941.02.14

Location

Syktyvkar (Russia, Komi Republic) Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan)

Witness

Bielski Emil 1898

Topic

In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast

Date

1940.02.10 - 1942.03.29

Location

Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Margilan (Uzbekistan)

Witness

Banaś Jan 1893

Topic

In exile – Siberia

Date

1940.02.10 - 1941.09.15

Location

Hermanów (lubelskie voivodeship) Altai Krai (Russia) Dzhambul (Taraz, Kazakhstan) Lugovoy (Kazakhstan)

Witness

Yevgen 1985

Topic

Fighting in Donbas (2014 and/or 2022)

Date

-

Location

Stanytsia Luhanska Nikopol

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Witness

Głowacki Czesław 1921?

Topic

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death

Date

1940.08.16-1945.06.13

Location

Warsaw KL Ravensbrück (Germany) KL Auschwitz I KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Mysłowice (śląskie voivodeship) Sosnowiec (Śląskie Voivodeship)

Witness

Krzepicki Henryk 04.03.1914, Złoczew

Topic

Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city

Date

1942.07.25-1943.04.29

Location

Warsaw, Ghetto German extermination camp of Treblinka Warsaw, ghetto, Umschlagplatz, Stawki Street 2/6 Warsaw, Jewish cemetery, Okopowa Street 49/51 Warsaw, Ghetto, Dzika Street 3 (Zamenhofa Street 1) Warsaw, Gdański Railway Station Warsaw, Zamenhofa Street 19

Witness

Yana

Topic

Fighting in Donbas (2014 and/or 2022)

Date

-

Location

Konstantynivka Avdiivka Pokrovsk

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Witness

Goldsztein Ludwika 02.07.1916, Wierowna (Russia)

Topic

Resistance movement in Auschwitz

Date

1943.05.28-1945

Location

Mechelen (Belgium), transit camp KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Brussels (Belgium)

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Witness

Bed Elisabeth 12.03.1905, Amsterdam (The Nederlands)

Topic

Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp

Date

1944.09.05-1945.01.27

Location

KL Herzogenbusch (Netherlands) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp Plzeň (Czech Republic)

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Witness

Rabicz Malwina

Topic

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

Date

1941.01.16-1942

Location

Pińsk (now in Belarus), NKVD prison no 29, Brzeska/Poleska Street Margilan (Uzbekistan) Yelets (Russia, Lipetsk Oblast), NKVD prison, Proletarskaya Street 1 B Guzar (Uzbekistan) Kirov (Russia, Kirov Oblast)

Witness

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Topic

Mass extermination – KL Plaszow

Date

1940-1944

Location

Starachowice Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7

en
Witness

Bazylewska Ludwika

Topic

Prisoners of war – transit camps in Kielce

Date

1939.09.06-1939.10.15

Location

Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3

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Witness

Obara Jan 1900?

Topic

The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas

Date

1939-1944.07.24

Location

Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski Bór Kunowski Gębice (Godów) Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, the mill, Siennieńska Street

Witness

Staniewski Roman 19.07.1899, Nowa Słupia

Topic

The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas

Date

1943.03-1943.03

Location

Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 Nowa Słupia, School Youth Hostel, Świętokszyska Street 61 Nowa Słupia Nowa Słupia, "Skałka" Rudki (district of Kielce), "Staszic" National Ore Mine Hucisko (commune of Nowa Słupia)

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Witness

Zelent Stanisław 14.11.1905, Brześć (now: Belarus)

Topic

Majdanek – terror and extermination

Date

1943.01.16-1944.07.22

Location

Lublin KL Majdanek Majdanek, German extermination camp Warsaw, Ghetto German extermination camp of Majdanek