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Witness

Nawoj Ludwik

Topic

In exile – Ural

Date

1940.02.07 - 1942.01.07

Location

Sverdlovsk Oblast (Russia) Tashlak (Toshloq, Uzbekistan)

Witness

Michalski Walerian 1903?

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.18-1943

Location

Dubno (now in Ukraine) Przemyśl Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp Filipowicze (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Niesłuchów (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Nowosielce-Żurawno (Nowosielce, now in Ukraine) Hermanów (Tarasiwka, now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Tarnopol (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Kyiv (Ukraine)

Witness

Handel Zygmunt

Topic

In exile – Siberia

Date

-

Location

Kyiv (Ukraine) Tomsk (Russia, Tomsk Oblast) Chet-Pieski (Russia, Tomsk Oblast)

Witness

-

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

-

Location

Lwów (now in Ukraine) Stryj (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Trybunalska Street (Ołesnyćkoho Street 4) Kharkiv (Ukraine) Moscow (Russia) Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Abez (Russia, Komi Republic) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

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Witness

Czerwińska Zofia 20.09.1903, Dąbrowa Górnicza

Topic

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory

Date

1943.07-1943.12

Location

KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp

Witness

Zienkiewicz Antoni

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.18 - 1941.08.25

Location

Kostopol (now in Ukraine) Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Kniazhpogost (Russia, Komi Republic) Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs

Witness

-

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast

Date

-

Location

Yertsevo (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) Inta (Russia, Komi Republic) Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic)

Witness

Raczyński Jan 1897

Topic

In exile – Siberia

Date

-

Location

Tayga (Russia, Kemerovo Oblast)

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Witness

Heliczer Helena 27.07.1890, Jezierna (now in Ukraine)

Topic

Forced laborers in the Third Reich

Date

1942.09-1943.02.19

Location

Czortków (Ukraine) Jezierna (Ukraine) Barszczowice (now in Ukraine), train station Tarnopol (Ukraine) Borki Wielkie (Ukraine) Kozłów (Ukraine)

Witness

-

Topic

A race against time – the road to Anders' Army

Date

-

Location

Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99)

Witness

-

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia

Date

-

Location

Dudinka (Russia, Krasnoyarsk Krai) Farab (Turkmenistan)

Witness

-

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast

Date

-

Location

-

Witness

Bujakiewicz Kazimierz 1898

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.18-1941.08.24

Location

Dubno (now in Ukraine) Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Zborów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

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Witness

Flint Szmul 1920?

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

1940.05.20-1941.09.12

Location

Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) Warsaw Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Zgierz (łódzkie voivodeship)

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Witness

Feldman Irena 21.02.1909, Warsaw

Topic

In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast

Date

1940.06.29-1941.12.05

Location

Plesetsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Białystok Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Kuybyshev (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Kokand (Uzbekistan)

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Witness

Gryksztas Władysław 1912, Odessa (Ukraine)

Topic

In exile – Central Asia

Date

1941.04.10-1943

Location

Lwów (now in Ukraine) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Aktobe (Kazakhstan) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Alma-Ata (Almaty, Kazakhstan)

Witness

Niegolewski Tadeusz

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast

Date

1939.10.28 - 1941.11.11

Location

Worochta (now in Ukraine) Nadwórna (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Shevchenko Maidan Street 43 Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 Odessa (Ukraine), NKVD prison, Lustdorfskaya Doroga 9 Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Witness

Sankowicz Mendel

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Date

1940.06.26-1941.07.28

Location

-

Witness

Chrzan Józef 1890.11.08

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Date

1940.09.10-1941.09.24

Location

Dubno (Ukraine), prison, Matczyńskie Street (Zamkowa Street) Unzhlag (Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Witness

Rotenberg Mosies 1908

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Date

1940.06.24-1942.01

Location

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