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Witness

Plebański Stanisław 20.07.1889

Topic

Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście

Date

1944.08.05-1944.08.30

Location

Warsaw, Marszałkowska Street 31 Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 Warsaw, Marszałkowska Street/ Litewska Street Warsaw, Marszałkowska Street Warsaw, Unii Lubelskiej Square

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Witness

Pogorzelski Konstanty 05.03.1883, Dębe (Wołomin county)

Topic

Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście

Date

1944.08.02-1944.08.05

Location

Warsaw, Zbawiciela Square Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 Warsaw, Church of the Holiest Saviour, Marszałkowska Street 37 Warsaw, Unii Lubelskiej Square Warsaw, Zbawiciela Square Warsaw, Litewska Street

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Witness

Włodarczyk Franciszek 1904?

Topic

Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście

Date

1944.08.05

Location

Warsaw, Church of the Holiest Saviour, Marszałkowska Street 37 Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 Warsaw, Zbawiciela Square

Witness

Dudek (Czarkowski) Antoni 22.04.1928, Rozdrażewek

Topic

Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście

Date

1944.08.01-1944.10.02

Location

Warsaw, Zbawiciela Square Warsaw, Anca Pharmacy, Marszałkowska Street 21

Witness

Anonymous

Topic

Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz

Date

1944.08.01-1944.09.15

Location

Warsaw, Dembińskiego Street 2/4 Warsaw, Marii Kazimiery Street 29 Warsaw, Brustman Ponds Warsaw, Marii Kazimiery Street 3 Warsaw, Oksywska Street Warsaw, Gdańska Street Warsaw, Marii Kazimiery Street 1 Warsaw, Jana III Sobieskiego Street/ Międzychodzka Street Warsaw, Józef Piłsudski Academy of Physcial Education, Marymoncka Street 34 Warsaw, Gdańska Street/ Kaskadowa Street Warsaw, "Blaszanka" Factory, Gwiaździsta Street 71 Warsaw, Gdańska Street/ Paska Street Warsaw, Kolektorska Street 9/11 Warsaw, Marymoncka Street 66

Witness

Gelade Eliasz 1893?

Topic

Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto

Date

1940.10-1944.11

Location

Warsaw Piotrków Trybunalski, Manufaktura, Sulejowska Street 45 Piotrków Trybunalski, ghetto Piotrków Trybunalski, Great Synagogue, Jerozolimska Street 29 Piotrków Trybunalski, Jerozolimska Street

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Witness

Hołuj Tadeusz 23.11.1916, Kraków

Topic

Resistance movement in Auschwitz

Date

1932-1945

Location

Trzebinia (małopolskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Sosnowiec (Śląskie Voivodeship) KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Dachau (Germany) Toulouse (France) German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Kraków Łódź KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp Kraków, Marshal Józef Piłsudski Retreat of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers, Łobzowska Street 3 KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" Toulon (France) KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) Będzin

Witness

Seyfried Edmund 15.02.1889, Lwów (now in Ukraine)

Topic

Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture

Date

-

Location

Warsaw Pustków, forced labor camp Lublin Częstochowa Radom Warsaw Jasło Nowy Sącz Nowy Sącz Starachowice Lublin Radom Starachowice Częstochowa Sanok Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 KL Plaszow Palmiry KL Auschwitz-Birkenau German extermination camp of Bełżec German extermination camp of Sobibór Zwierzyniec (Zwierzyniec commune), transit camp Zamość, resettlement camp, Okrzei Street Chełm Kielce Ostrów Wielkopolski

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Witness

Zomocińska Wiktoria 23.11.1890, Ciechanów

Topic

Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów

Date

1944.08.01-1944.08.05

Location

Warsaw, Olesińska Street 7 Warsaw, Grażyny Street Warsaw, Asfaltowa Street Warsaw, Krasickiego Street

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Witness

Skiba Helena 25.09.1908, Laski (Grójec county)

Topic

Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków

Date

1944.08.20-1944.08.20

Location

Warsaw, Wilanowska Street 22 Warsaw, Wilanowska Street 18 Warsaw, Okrąg Street 4

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Witness

Wyglądała Stefan 25.10.1910

Topic

Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks

Date

1940.01.31-1944.02.28

Location

Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 KL Auschwitz-Birkenau KL Gross-Rosen KL Flossenbürg (Germany) Majdanek, German extermination camp Warsaw, Ghetto Warsaw, barracks of the Hussar Regiment, 29 Listopada Street

Witness

Anonymous

Topic

Fighting in Donbas (2014 and/or 2022)

Date

-

Location

Donetsk

Witness

Oleksandr 1968

Topic

Russian occupation – Kharkiv Oblast

Date

-

Location

Mykolaivka

Witness

Stuhr Oskar Tadeusz 08.10.1891, Kraków

Topic

Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite

Date

1939.11.06-1944.11

Location

Kraków, Collegium Novum of the Jagiellonian University, Gołębia Street 24 Bydgoszcz Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) KL Auschwitz I Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I Nowy Wiśnicz, forced labor camp KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) Leksandrowa, cemetery of the victims of the Second World War KL Dachau (Germany) KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Odrowąż (Końskie district) KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, SS-Stabsgebaude Kraków, Kanoniczna Street 11 Bochnia, train station Kraków, Kalwaryjska Street 12

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Witness

Ośko Wacław 20.04.1901, Ksawerów (Białobrzegi county)

Topic

Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town

Date

1944.08.01-1944.08.30

Location

Warsaw, Okopowa Street Warsaw, Przyrynek Street 4 Warsaw, Warszawa Zachodnia Station Pruszków, Dulag 121

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Witness

Chmielewska Stefania 22.03.1898, Płock

Topic

Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town

Date

1944.08.01-1944.08.30

Location

Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście Street Warsaw, Przyrynek Street 4 Warsaw, Tamka Street Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście Street 61 Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście Street 61 Warsaw, Trębacka Street Warsaw, Miodowa Street Warsaw, Górczewska Street Warsaw, Warszawa Zachodnia Station Warsaw, Wolska Street Warsaw, Złota Street 38 Warsaw, Śmiała Street 43

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Witness

Dąbrowska (Lewandowska) Władysława 1905

Topic

Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück

Date

1941.03.01-1945.04.30

Location

KL Ravensbrück (Germany) Lublin, Lublin Castle, Zamkowa Street 9 Puławy

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Witness

Sieroszewski Władysław 30.12.1900, Warsaw

Topic

Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw

Date

1944.08.01-1944.08.14

Location

Warsaw, Uniwersytecka Street Warsaw, Wawelska Street Warsaw, Dormitory, Akademicka Street 5 Warsaw, Banacha Market Square, Grójecka Street 95 Warsaw, SS Barracks, Wawelska Street 56 Warsaw, Prokuratorska Street Warsaw, Pługa Street Warsaw, Pole Mokotowskie [Mokotów Field] Warsaw, Mianowskiego Street 24 Warsaw, Navy Headquarters Building, Żwirki i Wigury Street 105 Warsaw, Pole Mokotowskie

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Witness

Sobolewska Alicja Zofia 13.11.1913, Warsaw

Topic

Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście

Date

1944.07.31-1944.08.07

Location

Włochy (Warsaw) Warsaw, Luxembourg Gallery, Senatorska Street 29 Warsaw, Order of Malta Hospital, Senatorska Street 34/36/38/40 Warsaw, Żelaznej Bramy Square

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Witness

Strzelczyk Władysław 25.01.1887, Bartniki (Żyrardów county)

Topic

Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście

Date

1944.08.01-1944.08.08

Location

Warsaw, Przechodnia Street 6 Warsaw, Hale Mirowskie [trade halls] Warsaw, Chłodna Street Warsaw, Skierniewicka Street/ Wolska Street Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 Warsaw, Ptasia Street