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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Puka Stanisław; 24.03.1921 (2)
  
  Zdanowicz Michał; 1899.12.11 (2)
  
  Aftergut Bronisław; 1893? (1)
  
  Aksnowicz Alfons; 21.01.1920 (1)
  
  Aleksandrów Władysław; 1919? (1)
  
  Aleksiejuk Mieczysław, 1908.05.03 (1)
  
  Amanowicz Kazimierz; 1922? (1)
  
  Ambros Florian; 1913? (1)
  
  Androchowicz Kazimiera; 1904, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Androchowicz Kazimiera; 1904, Lwów (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Andronowski Jan; 1922 (1)
  
  Andronowski Piotr; 1921? (1)
  
  Arciszewski Franciszek; 02.11.1908, Łódź (1)
  
  Atras Franciszek, 1900.10.08 (1)
  
  Augustyn Bolesław; 1902 (1)
  
  Awdziej Alfons; 15.02.1900 (1)
  
  Badach Julian; 05.10.1918_Sulmice (1)
  
  Badach Julian; 1910 (1)
  
  Bajorek Zygmunt; 1915? (1)
  
  Baka Jan; 1896 (1)
  
  Balawajder Franciszek (1)
  
  Balter Berek; 15.01.1909 (1)
  
  Balter Berek; 15.01.1910 (1)
  
  Banasiewicz Józef (1)
  
  Banaś Jan; 1893 (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899 (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899?, Brynica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Baranowski Julian (1)
  
  Barczak Franciszek; 03.04.1913, Świeca (1)
  
  Bardas Piotr; 1916, Görlitz (Germany) (1)
  
  Barna Teodor; 1900 (1)
  
  Baroni Jan; 1985 (1)
  
  Bartoszewicz Emilia; 09.11.1915 (1)
  
  Baszker Fiyszel, 1899.08.06 (1)
  
  Batory Nadzieja; 1923?, Płaszówka (now: Ukraine, Rivne Oblast) (1)
  
  Bauer Ludmiła; 28.01.1922 (1)
  
  Baumgarten Józefina (1)
  
  Bazylewicz Aleksy, 1892 (1)
  
  Bazyliński Józef (1)
  
  Bednarczyk Czesław (1)
  
  Bednarczyk Jan (1)
  
  Bednarska Wanda; 16.06.1912, Suchedniów (1)
  
  Bednarz Marian (1)
  
  Bernacki Michal, 1898 (1)
  
  Besarab Michał; 04.03.1901 (1)
  
  Bełch Franciszek (1)
  
  Bełzki Jan; 1896, Potok Górny (1)
  
  Bibik Stanisław (1)
  
  Bibiło Jadwiga; 11.07.1922, Nacewicze (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Biel Ferdynand; 1898? (1)
  
  Bielenia Maciej; 1899 (1)
  
  Bielska Emilia; 1911? (1)
  
  Bielski Emil, 1898 (1)
  
  Bieniasiewicz Józef; 1897 (1)
  
  Binkiewicz Władysław; 1899? (1)
  
  Biskup Marcin; 1909 (1)
  
  Biskup Piotr, 1900 (1)
  
  Blachuta Czesław; 1923? (1)
  
  Bloch Ilia; 1912? (1)
  
  Bober Kazimierz; 24.06.1899, Chłopy (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bobrow Eugeniusz, 1906 (1)
  
  Bobrowicz Nikodem; 1899? (1)
  
  Bochnik Kasper, 1897 (1)
  
  Bodnar Mikołaj (1)
  
  Bohdziewicz Jan, 1891? (1)
  
  Bojarska Stefania; 1922 (1)
  
  Bojarski Jan, 1899 (1)
  
  Bojda Ferdynand; 1921? (1)
  
  Bojko Jan; 1920? (1)
  
  Bolimowska Wanda; 1923, Pomorzanka (dziś: Ukraina) (1)
  
  Bolimowska Wanda; 1923, Pomorzanka (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Borasińska Helena; 05.05.1898, Goszczyno (Płocki county) (1)
  
  Borasińska Jadwiga; 06.07.1925 Sutkowszczyzna (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Borasińska Jadwiga; 06.07.1925 Sutkowszczyzna (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Borasiński Jan; 15.08.1897, Goszczyno Górne (1)
  
  Borejko Anton (1)
  
  Borkowski Edward; 1892? (1)
  
  Borowy Władysław (1)
  
  Borys Pelagia; 20.08.1920, Kąty (Łomża county) (1)
  
  Borys Piotr, 1901 (1)
  
  Borysiuk Mateusz; 1903? (1)
  
  Boryń Franciszek; 1898 (1)
  
  Bryja Joachim (1)
  
  Buba Jadwiga; 1908 (1)
  
  Bubrzycki Antoni (1)
  
  Buczkowski Franciszek (1)
  
  Budzyń Leokadia; 03.03.1924, Hallerowo (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bujko Henryk (1)
  
  Bujko Wiktor (1)
  
  Bulska (1)
  
  Burakiewicz Maria (1)
  
  Burdanowicz Leon; 1919 (1)
  
  Burzawa Franciszek, 22.11.1892 (1)
  
  Busłowska Paulina (1)
  
  Butrymowicz Jan (1)
  
  Byra Paweł, 1898 ? (1)
  
  Bzik Wacław; 1909? (1)
  
  Bąkowski Stefan; 1901 (1)
  
  Bławat Franciszek (1)
  
  Bławat Michał; 1896? (1)
Subject
- In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (196)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (182)
  
  In exile – Siberia (133)
  
  In exile – Ural (67)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (40)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (39)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (36)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (35)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (31)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (14)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (14)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (13)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (12)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (10)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (10)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (9)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (9)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (9)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (9)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (8)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (7)
  
  In exile – Mari El Republic (6)
  
  In exile – Povolzhye (5)
  
  In exile – Far East (4)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (4)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (3)
  
  Deported – the Altai Krai (2)
  
  Deported – the Perm Krai (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (2)
  
  Allied assistance from the air (1)
  
  Deported – the Novosibirsk Oblast (1)
  
  Firlej near Radom – the training ground of death (1)
  
  In exile – Yaroslavl Oblast (1)
  
  Poles who saved Jews in Lwów (1)
  
  Poles who saved Jews in the Kielce region (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ryazan Oblast (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Guzar (Uzbekistan) (111)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (108)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (102)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (55)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (52)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (49)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (42)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (39)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (35)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (32)
  
  Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia) (30)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (25)
  
  Pavlodar (Kazakhstan) (25)
  
  Tehran (Iran) (25)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (23)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (21)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (21)
  
  Kermine (Navoiy, Uzbekistan) (18)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (17)
  
  Białystok (15)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (15)
  
  Barnaul (Russia, Altai Krai) (14)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (13)
  
  Kagan (Uzbekistan) (13)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (13)
  
  Tashlak (Toshloq, Uzbekistan) (13)
  
  Altai Krai (Russia) (12)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (12)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (12)
  
  Kitab (Uzbekistan) (12)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania) (12)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (12)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (11)
  
  Semipalatinsk (Semey, Kazakhstan) (11)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (11)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (10)
  
  Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (10)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (10)
  
  Petropavlovsk (Kazakhstan) (10)
  
  Tomsk (Russia, Tomsk Oblast) (10)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (10)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (9)
  
  Kostanay Oblast (Kazakhstan) (9)
  
  Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) (9)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (9)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (9)
  
  Nowogródek (now in Belarus) (9)
  
  Plesetsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (9)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (9)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (9)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (9)
  
  Vologda (Russia, Vologda Oblast) (9)
  
  Alma-Ata (Almaty, Kazakhstan) (8)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (8)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (8)
  
  British Mandate of Palestine (Israel) (8)
  
  Kazakhstan, Pavlodar Oblast (8)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (8)
  
  Shahrisabz (Uzbekistan) (8)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (8)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (8)
  
  Vrevsky (Almazar, Uzbekistan) (8)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (8)
  
  Łomża (8)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (7)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (7)
  
  Ostashkov (Russia, Tver Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (7)
  
  Poldnevitsa (Russia, Kostroma Oblast) (7)
  
  Przemyśl (7)
  
  Sosva (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (7)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (7)
  
  Sverdlovsk Oblast (Russia) (7)
  
  Turtkul (Uzbekistan) (7)
  
  Vologda Oblast (Russia) (7)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (7)
  
  Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (6)
  
  Kharitonovo (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (6)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (6)
  
  Lida (now in Belarus) (6)
  
  North Kazakhstan Region (Kazakhstan) (6)
  
  Quizil Ribat (Iraq) (6)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (6)
  
  Taraz (Jambyl, Kazakhstan) (6)
  
  Turkistan (Kazakhstan) (6)
  
  Unzhlag (Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (6)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (6)
  
  Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk, Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (6)
  
  Aktobe (Kazakhstan) (5)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (5)
  
  Berezwecz (Głębokie, now in Belarus), NKVD prison (Basilian monastery), Sovetskaya Street 201 (5)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (5)
  
  Dzhambul (Taraz, Kazakhstan) (5)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (5)
  
  Irkutsk (Russia, Irkutsk Oblast) (5)
  
  Kirov (Russia, Kirov Oblast) (5)
  
  Krzemieniec (Ukraine), NKVD prison, Sanatorijna Street 1 (5)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no 2, Zamarstynowska Street 7/9 (5)
  
  Maykain (Kazakhstan) (5)
  
  Minsk (Belarus), "Wołodarka" prison, Waladarskaha Street 2 (5)
  
  Mołodeczno (now in Belarus) (5)
Victims
- Deportees (919)
  
  The Poles (916)
  
  Civilians (880)
  
  The Civilian Population (833)
  
  Women (680)
  
  Children (545)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (457)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (273)
  
  The sick (238)
  
  The Inteligentsia (237)
  
  The Sick (228)
  
  Ukrainians (211)
  
  The elderly (210)
  
  The Elderly (203)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (169)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (164)
  
  The Jews (154)
  
  Russians/Soviets (118)
  
  The Russians (101)
  
  Policemen (96)
  
  Belarusians (94)
  
  Prisoners of War (53)
  
  Landowners (35)
  
  Lithuanians (27)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (25)
  
  Internees (19)
  
  The Church (19)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (18)
  
  Germans (15)
  
  Border Guard (14)
  
  Border Protection Corps (7)
  
  Estonians (7)
  
  Latvians (6)
  
  Czechs (3)
  
  Finns (1)
  
  Hungarians (1)
  
  Romanians (1)
Perpetrators
- People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (238)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (189)
  
  Soviet Militia (122)
  
  Denunciation (81)
  
  Red Army (61)
  
  Collaboration (51)
  
  Lithuanians (18)
  
  Collaborators (6)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (6)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (5)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (4)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (2)
  
  Administrative Police (1)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (1)
  
  SS (1)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (867)
  
  Deportation/Exile (864)
  
  Biological extermination (798)
  
  Arrest (528)
  
  Cattle wagons (300)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (187)
  
  Beating (164)
  
  Judicial crime (140)
  
  Punishment cell (130)
  
  Robbery (126)
  
  Sovietization (59)
  
  Deportation (53)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (28)
  
  Death by shooting (25)
  
  Execution (20)
  
  Forced voting (16)
  
  Roads of death (15)
  
  Disarmament (11)
  
  Air raids (9)
  
  Desacration of corpses (9)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (9)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (8)
  
  Collectivization (7)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (7)
  
  Round-up (6)
  
  Armored weapons (4)
  
  Artillery fire (1)
  
  Artillery shelling (1)
  
  Cremation (1)
  
  Cremation of corpses (1)
  
  Displacement (1)
  
  Expulsion (1)
  
  Mass graves (1)
  
  Racial policy (1)
  
  Rape (1)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (1)
Place
- Spetsposelok (special settlement) (561)
  
  Kolkhoz (328)
  
  Prison (102)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (89)
  
  Sovkhoz (85)
  
  Mine (73)
  
  NKVD custody suite (61)
  
  Transit camp (20)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (19)
  
  Internment camp (18)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (14)
  
  Siberia (6)
  
  Orphanage – dietdom (5)
  
  Police headquarters/station (3)
  
  Ghetto (1)
Content
- Health service (511)
  
  First deportation (449)
  
  Anders' Army (359)
  
  Amnesty (315)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (160)
  
  Epidemics (136)
  
  Communist propaganda (134)
  
  Second deportation (116)
  
  Polish culture in exile (115)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (98)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (96)
  
  Third deportation (77)
  
  Fourth deportation (68)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (26)
  
  Military hospital (22)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (20)
  
  Students' Army Corps (12)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (9)
  
  Civil resistance (7)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (4)
  
  Aid to Jews (4)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (4)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (3)
  
  Rescue of Jews (2)
  
  Underground culture and education (2)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (2)
  
  Clandestine courses (1)
  
  Judenrat (1)
  
  Obliterating the traces (1)
  
  Partisan warfare (1)
  
  Polish Underground State (1)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
  
  Underground media (1)
  
  obliterating the traces (1)
  
  the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
Object type
- Account (399)
  
  Brief (13)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (9)
  
  Press clipping (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 (904)
  
  Katyn Museum (12)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (1)
Medium
- Text (919)
  
  Image (18)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (906)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (12)