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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Anonymous (14)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (6)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (5)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (3)
  
  Bogdanowicz Jan; 17.12.1894, Warsaw (3)
  
  Grabczyński Jan; 21.05.1908, Tarnów (dolnośląskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Kucharski Teofil; 06.02.1889, Jaszczew (3)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (3)
  
  Misiewicz Janina Eufrozyna Kazimiera; 12.12.1893, Solvychegodsk (Russia) (3)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (3)
  
  Rott Wiesław; 14.06.1914, Lublin (3)
  
  Rżewski Władysław, 07.01.1894 (3)
  
  Taul Roman; 28.02.1917, Bytom (3)
  
  Tondos Władysław; 06.10.1900, Kalina Mała (3)
  
  Wolny Stefan; 30.10.1903, Kamieńskie (Ukraine) (3)
  
  Brewda Alina; 14.06.1905, Warsaw (2)
  
  Brudkowska Aglaida; 19.10.1914, Żytomierz (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Brudkowska Aglaida; 19.10.1914, Żytomierz (now: Ukraine) (2)
  
  Budziaszek Maria; 08.09.1920, Kraków (2)
  
  Buraczyńska (Zeiske) Wojciecha; 22.04.1920, Warsaw (2)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Cytron Tobiasz; 30.10.1908, Białystok (2)
  
  Czardybon Bernard; 18.06.1901, Chorzów (2)
  
  Denisow Piotr; 1894? (2)
  
  Drabek Jaroslav; 06.04.1901, Chrudim (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Dzido (Hassa) Jadwiga; 26.02.1918, Suchowola (Radzyń county) (2)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (2)
  
  Frankiewicz Janina; 13.08.1912, Wieliczka (2)
  
  Gliński Bogdan; 08.12.1921, Sancygniów (2)
  
  Grygiel Konstanty; 1899? (2)
  
  Głowa Stanisław; 15.09.1898, Igołomia (2)
  
  Hegier (Rafalska) Helena; 07.09.1916, Chișinău (Moldova) (2)
  
  Karcz Jan; 27.08.1915, Skalbmierz (2)
  
  Kaszyński Jan; 19.11.1920, Warsaw (2)
  
  Koczorowski Józef; 01.02.1919, Poznań (2)
  
  Kowalczyk Janina; 10.03.1907, Golkowice (2)
  
  Kościuszko Janina; 17.05.1897, Chrzanów? (2)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 04.05.1918, Kraków (2)
  
  Liszka Edward; 25.07.1920, Kraków (2)
  
  Materkowski Antoni; 14.06.1899, Koprzywnica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Mikołajski Zdzisław; 28.09.1913, Kraków (2)
  
  Nagraba Ludwik; 19.08.1910, Kraków (2)
  
  Nagraba Ludwik; 19.08.1911 (2)
  
  Nowakowska (Żelińska) Maria; 04.04.1921, Ropczyce (2)
  
  Olbrycht Jan; 06.05.1886, Zahutyń (2)
  
  Penson Jakub; 23.04.1899, Płock (2)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 27.01.1913, Warsaw (2)
  
  Plaskura Władysław; 10.05.1905, Łazy (Orłowa, Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (2)
  
  Puka Stanisław; 24.03.1921 (2)
  
  Rostworowski Tomasz; 09.11.1904, Warsaw (2)
  
  Roszkowska Halina; 24.02.1911, Lublin (2)
  
  Rżewski Władysław; 1894? (2)
  
  Siedlecki Karol (2)
  
  Sieroszewski Władysław; 30.12.1900, Warsaw (2)
  
  Sosnowska Izabella; 23.08.1914, Kraków (2)
  
  Sosnowski Józef; 24.01.1905, Myszków (2)
  
  Suryn Maria Wanda; 27.08.1906, Korytków (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Wiśniewska Halina; 03.02.1914 (2)
  
  Wolken Otto; 27.04.1903, Vien (Austria) (2)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Zacharski Adam; 09.04.1899, Kraków (2)
  
  Łącki Mikołaj; 30.10.1888, Loyew (Belarus) (2)
  
  Świtalska Gizella; 20.06.1909 (2)
  
  "Jacek Dyzio" (1)
  
  Adamczyk Karol (1)
  
  Adler Stanisław; 08.02.1901, Warsaw (1)
  
  Aktanarowicz Mieczysław; 1923? (1)
  
  Aleksandrów Władysław; 1919? (1)
  
  Aleksey, 1976 (1)
  
  Aleksiejuk Mieczysław, 1908.05.03 (1)
  
  Alena, 1988 (1)
  
  Alla, 1965 (1)
  
  Amanowicz Kazimierz; 1922? (1)
  
  An anonymous letter to Polska Zbrojna [Armed Poland newspaper] (1)
  
  An anonymous letter to Polska Zbrojna [Armed Poland; newspaper] (1)
  
  Anastasiya, 1985 (1)
  
  Anatoliy (1)
  
  Androchowicz Kazimiera; 1904, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Androchowicz Kazimiera; 1904, Lwów (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Andronowski Jan; 1922 (1)
  
  Andruszkiewicz Józef; 1893? (1)
  
  Anna (1)
  
  Anna, 1986 (1)
  
  Apostoł Jadwiga; 22.12.1913, Nowy Targ (małopolskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Arciszewski Franciszek; 02.11.1908, Łódź (1)
  
  Augustyn Bolesław; 1902 (1)
  
  Bajerowicz Janina (1)
  
  Bakuła Antoni; 1899 (1)
  
  Bakuła Antoni; 1900 (1)
  
  Balawender Antonina (1)
  
  Balińska Janina; 19.03.1905, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Banasik Stefania; 1927? (1)
  
  Banaś Jan; 1893 (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899 (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899?, Brynica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Baranowska Marta; 26.11.1903, Bydgoszcz (1)
  
  Baranowska Władysława (1)
  
  Baranowski Julian (1)
  
  Barcz Edward Antoni Leopold; 23.12.1911, Russia (1)
Subject
- Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (115)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (93)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (86)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (64)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (61)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (60)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (55)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (49)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (49)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (44)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (38)
  
  In exile – Siberia (38)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (33)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (31)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (27)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town (27)
  
  In exile – Ural (21)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (18)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (17)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (17)
  
  Fighting for Kharkiv (16)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (16)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (16)
  
  Pruszków – the town of the displaced (15)
  
  The city condemned to death (15)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (14)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (14)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (14)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (13)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (13)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (13)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (12)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (12)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (12)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (12)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (12)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (12)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (12)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (11)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (11)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (11)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (10)
  
  Russian missile terror (10)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Neuengamme (9)
  
  Soviets in German captivity (9)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (9)
  
  Mariupol Siege (8)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (8)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (7)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (7)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz (7)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Gliwice (6)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (6)
  
  Fighting for Kyiv (6)
  
  Fighting in Donbas (2014 and/or 2022) (6)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (6)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (6)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (6)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (5)
  
  Treblinka – extermination camp (5)
  
  A mass extermination – KL Flossenbürg (4)
  
  Fighting in Sumy Oblast (4)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Kielce Ghetto (4)
  
  Lebensborn – the Germanization of Polish children (4)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (3)
  
  Battle of Mykolaiv (3)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Pomerania (3)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (3)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (3)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (3)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Sachsenhausen (3)
  
  Russian occupation – south Ukraine (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (3)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Białystok Ghetto (3)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Mazovia (3)
  
  The extermination of the mentally ill – the Piaśnica massacre (3)
  
  Deported – the Altai Krai (2)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Ravensbrück branch in KL Malchow (2)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Tarnów Ghetto (2)
  
  In exile – Far East (2)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (2)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (2)
  
  Lebensraum – the Germanization of the Zamość region (2)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Flossenbürg (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Stutthof (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (2)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (2)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (2)
  
  A mass extermination – KL Mauthausen-Gusen (1)
  
  Allied assistance from the air (1)
  
  Browar, Czerwoniak – the Ostrów death blocks (1)
  
  Dispersed terror – KL Plaszow, the Schindler Factory sub-camp (1)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Babice (1)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Budy (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz I (207)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (199)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (198)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (161)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (123)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (119)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (84)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (83)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (71)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (69)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (67)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (64)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (63)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (57)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (54)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (48)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (47)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (47)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (43)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (40)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (40)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (38)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (35)
  
  KL Majdanek (35)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (35)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (34)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (34)
  
  Warsaw (34)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (33)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (33)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (33)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (29)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (27)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (27)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (27)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (27)
  
  Warsaw, Długa Street 7 (26)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (23)
  
  Warsaw, St. Lazarus' Hospital, Leszno Street 127 (Leszno Street 15) (23)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (22)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (22)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (20)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (20)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (20)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (20)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (20)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 (20)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (19)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (19)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (19)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (18)
  
  Kraków (18)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (18)
  
  Warsaw, Wolski Hospital, Płocka Street 26 (18)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (17)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (17)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (17)
  
  KL Plaszow (17)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (17)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (16)
  
  Lublin (16)
  
  Lublin, Lublin Castle, Zamkowa Street 9 (16)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (16)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (16)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (16)
  
  Łódź (16)
  
  Bochnia, train station (15)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (15)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (15)
  
  Warsaw, Karol and Maria Children's Hospital, Leszno Street 136 (Leszno Street 30) (15)
  
  Warsaw, St. Stanislaus' Hospital, Wolska Street 37 (15)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (15)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (14)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (14)
  
  Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (14)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (14)
  
  Warsaw, Karolkowa Street (14)
  
  Warsaw, Seminary Church, Krakowskie Przedmieście Street 52/54 (14)
  
  Warsaw, St. Hyacinth's church, Freta Street 10 (14)
  
  Warsaw, Warszawa Zachodnia Station (14)
  
  Warsaw, Wolska Street (14)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (13)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (13)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (13)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (13)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (13)
  
  Warsaw, Banacha Market Square, Grójecka Street 95 (13)
  
  Warsaw, Górczewska Street (13)
  
  Bliżyn, forced labor camp (12)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (12)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (12)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (12)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (12)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (12)
  
  Tehran (Iran) (12)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (12)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (12)
  
  Warsaw, Młynarska Street (12)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (11)
  
  Bydgoszcz (11)
Oblast
- Kharkiv (16)
  
  Donetsk (13)
  
  Kherson (8)
  
  Kyiv (7)
  
  Kyiv Oblast (6)
  
  Luhansk (5)
  
  Zaporizhia (5)
  
  Dnipropetrovsk (4)
  
  Sumy (4)
  
  Odesa (3)
  
  Mykolaiv (2)
  
  Chernihiv (1)
  
  Mikołajowski (1)
  
  Poltava (1)
  
  Rivne (1)
Raion
- Kharkiv (15)
  
  Mariupol (8)
  
  Kakhovka (5)
  
  Nikopol (4)
  
  Bucha (3)
  
  Odesa (3)
  
  Severodonetsk (3)
  
  Sumy (3)
  
  Brovary (2)
  
  Mykolaiv (2)
  
  Pokrovsk (2)
  
  Polohy (2)
  
  Chernihiv (1)
  
  Donetsk (1)
  
  Fastiv (1)
  
  Henichesk (1)
  
  Izium (1)
  
  Kherson (1)
  
  Kiev (1)
  
  Kramatorsk (1)
  
  Kyiv (1)
  
  Mikołajów (1)
  
  Rivne (1)
  
  Skadovsk (1)
  
  Volnovakha (1)
Victims
- The sick (1335)
  
  The Sick (1214)
  
  Civilians (1206)
  
  The Poles (1152)
  
  The Civilian Population (1089)
  
  Women (758)
  
  Children (511)
  
  The Jews (498)
  
  The Inteligentsia (381)
  
  The elderly (300)
  
  Russians/Soviets (285)
  
  The Russians (264)
  
  Ukrainians (264)
  
  The Elderly (257)
  
  Prisoners of War (256)
  
  Deportees (238)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (139)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (138)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (108)
  
  The Church (105)
  
  Belarusians (85)
  
  Germans (78)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (68)
  
  Hungarians (68)
  
  Policemen (65)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (60)
  
  Czechs (58)
  
  The French (55)
  
  Slovaks (47)
  
  The Disabled (43)
  
  Belgians (38)
  
  The Dutch (34)
  
  Greeks (32)
  
  The Communists (31)
  
  Lithuanians (26)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (26)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (19)
  
  Internees (18)
  
  Landowners (18)
  
  Border Guard (14)
  
  Border Protection Corps (14)
  
  Italians (14)
  
  Latvians (11)
  
  Americans (10)
  
  Romanians (9)
  
  Estonians (8)
  
  The British (8)
  
  Norwegians (6)
  
  Internally displaced persons (2)
  
  Serbs (2)
  
  the Chinese (2)
  
  Georgians (1)
  
  Prison Guard (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (471)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (157)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (155)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (124)
  
  Collaboration (91)
  
  Red Army (81)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (74)
  
  Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (68)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (63)
  
  Soviet Militia (62)
  
  Denunciation (60)
  
  Military Police (59)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (48)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (31)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (29)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (21)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (16)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (11)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (9)
  
  Collaborators (8)
  
  The Russian National Liberation Army (RONA) (8)
  
  Lithuanians (7)
  
  Kadyrovites (6)
  
  Latvians (6)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (6)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (6)
  
  Donetsk People’s Militia (all military formations of so-called separatist republics DNR and LNR) (5)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (5)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (5)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (4)
  
  Waffen-SS (4)
  
  Russian diversionary groups (3)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (2)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (2)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (2)
  
  Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (2)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (2)
  
  Administrative Police (1)
  
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Drabek Jaroslav 06.04.1901, Chrudim (Czech Republic)

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory

1943.01.28-1945.01

KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) Lidice (Czech Republic) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Prague (Czech Republic), Pankrác Prison, ul. Soudní 1 KL Majdanek Łódź, ghetto Plzeň (Czech Republic)

Kahl Tadeusz 27.07.1908, Kraków

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death

1941.10.30-1945.06.15

KL Buchenwald (Germany) KL Ravensbrück (Germany) KL Buchenwald (Germany) Kraków, Pędzichów Street 11 (Dietla Street 11) Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 KL Mittelbau-Dora (Germany) KL Wiener Neustadt (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) Magdeburg (Germany) KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz I, roll call square KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) Kraków, Nowowiejska Street German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Nordhausen (Germany) Nauen (Germany) Ocker (Germany) Wittenberga (Niemcy)

Rachwał Stanisława 29.06.1906, Rudki (now in Ukraine)

Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

1942.10.12-1945.05.24

Bydgoszcz Nakło nad Notecią KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) KL Melk (Austria) KL Buchenwald (Germany) KL Ravensbrück (Germany) Rajsko (Oświęcim district) Poręba (district of Pszczyna) Poznań Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) Bełżec, German extermination camp Kraków, Sobieskiego Street 5 KL Auschwitz I KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I Bochnia, train station Pruszków, Dulag 121 KL Plaszow KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) Berlin (Germany) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Lagerhaus German extermination camp of Bełżec Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp German extermination camp of Majdanek German extermination camp of Treblinka Majdanek, German extermination camp Treblinka, German extermination camp Wodzisław Śląski Drezdenko Drancy (France) Brussels (Belgium) Zagreb (Croatia) KL Herzogenbusch (Netherlands) Łódź KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) Brzeszcze Pszczyna

Mołczadski Mordka

The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast

1939.09.17 - 1941.09.09

Horodyszcze (now in Belarus, Brześć Oblast, Pińsk region) Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD remand center, Fralankowa Street 50 Orsha (Belarus) Osinovka (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Kozicz Ryszard 1898?

In exile – Vologda Oblast

1940.02.10-1942.02.02

Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Rafałówka (now in Ukraine) Morzhenga (Russia, Vologda Oblast), railway station Obirkovo (Russia, Vologda Oblast, Babushkinsky District) Totma (Russia, Vologda Oblast) Vologda (Russia, Vologda Oblast), corrective colony, Levitsheva Street 1 Vologda (Russia, Vologda Oblast), corrective colony, Levicheva Street 1

Piotrowski Feliks

In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast

1939.09.08-1941.09.10

Vyatlag (Russia, Kirov Oblast) Korzec (now in Ukraine) Viatlag (Russia, Kirov Oblast) Orenburg (Kazakhstan) Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Dobosz Józef 1897

In exile – Komi Republic

1940.03.16 - 1941.09.22

Czortków (now in Ukraine), prison, Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) Kirovohrad (Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine), NKVD prison, Kuropyatnikova Street 50 Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Vietlosian (Ukhta, Russia, Komi Republic) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

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1940.03.20-1942.02.10

Równe (Ukraine), prison, 3 Maja Street (Soborna Street 16) Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) Korzec (now in Ukraine) Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Chardzhou (Türkmenabat, Turkmenistan) Guzar (Uzbekistan)

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The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

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Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 Mołodeczno (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Wielki Gościniec Street 52 Połock (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Zinaida Tusnolobova-Marchenko Street Gudogaj (Belarus) Aykino (Russia, Komi Republic) Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Sangorodok (Russia, Komi Republic) Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast)

Wolman Jakub 13.07.1914

Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp

1940.04-1945.01.27

KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I KL Buchenwald (Germany) KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I KL Auschwitz I, roll call square KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Bratislava (Slovakia) Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp Žilina (Slovakia) Bronna Góra (Belarus)

Wołyński Jan 1916?

A race against time – the road to Anders' Army

1940.02.10-1943

Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Guzar (Uzbekistan)

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