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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Adamski Antoni, 1894? (1)
  
  Adamski Antoni; 1894? (1)
  
  Alchimowicz Kazimierz; 1906 (1)
  
  Aleksiejuk Mieczysław, 1908.05.03 (1)
  
  Atras Franciszek, 1900.10.08 (1)
  
  Barwicki Władysław; 1898 (1)
  
  Bednarczyk Jan (1)
  
  Bielecki Andrzej; 1893, Podhorce (1)
  
  Bogusz Zygmunt, 1897? (1)
  
  Bubniewicz Wladyslaw; 1898? (1)
  
  Bławat Michał; 1896? (1)
  
  Capiga Władysław, 1896 (1)
  
  Cepil Feliks; 1899 (1)
  
  Charytański Kazimierz; 1894.03.04 (1)
  
  Charytonowicz Kazimierz; 1921? (1)
  
  Chodorowski Jan, 1898 (1)
  
  Chołubko Jan, 1911 (1)
  
  Chęciński Paweł; 1897 (1)
  
  Cieplik Marian; 24.02.1894 (1)
  
  Cieślak Bolesław; 1907? (1)
  
  Cieślak Jan; 1905 (1)
  
  Cupryk Wladysław; 1916 (1)
  
  Cyran Walentyna; 1899, Grodno (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  CyranWalentyna; Grodno (now: Belarus), 1899 (1)
  
  Cyrek Bogumiła (1)
  
  Czajkowski Aleksander (1)
  
  Czaporowski Lucjan; 13.12.1904 (1)
  
  Czarniecki Kazimierz, 1912.12.02 (1)
  
  Czekaj Eugeniusz (1)
  
  Czekałowska Irena (1)
  
  Czerniak Zygmunt, 1906 (1)
  
  Czyżewski Piotr, 1915 (1)
  
  Daglis Stanisław; 1901 (1)
  
  Darasz Jan; 1901? (1)
  
  Dobrowolski Albert; 1900? (1)
  
  Doliński Jan; 1897 (1)
  
  Drożejko Julian; 1897 (1)
  
  Dyszlewski Wincenty (1)
  
  Dąbrowski Piotr; 1895 (1)
  
  Ebert Ernest, 1904.07.09 (1)
  
  Eichel Wincenty, 1911 (1)
  
  Ejgierd Stanisław, 1897 (1)
  
  Feldman Tyburcjusz, 1895 (1)
  
  Ficek Władysław, 1898.05.21 (1)
  
  Fieduszko Józef, 1899 (1)
  
  Filipowski Tomasz, 1899 (1)
  
  Filistowicz Witold, 1897.02.22 (1)
  
  Franusiak Kazimierz (1)
  
  Galimski Feliks; 25.09.1916 (1)
  
  Garguliński Antoni, 1898.06.06 (1)
  
  Garlicki Aleksander (1)
  
  Gaudurski Szczepan, 1895 (1)
  
  Gaweł Stanisław; 1920? (1)
  
  Giecold Bolesław; 1910? (1)
  
  Gieracha Antoni; 1916? (1)
  
  Giermuga Wojciech (1)
  
  Gliniany Mikołaj (1)
  
  Gok Józef; 26.10.1898 (1)
  
  Grot Józef; 11.01.1897 (1)
  
  Guentner Romana (1)
  
  Gutarz Grzegorz (1)
  
  Górewicz Ber; 1920 (1)
  
  Górnicki Jan; 1903 (1)
  
  Gąsowski Stanisław; 29.10.1890 (1)
  
  Głowacki Tadeusz, 1905 (1)
  
  Głąb Józef, 1894 (1)
  
  Halejko Piotr, 1902 (1)
  
  Halicki Stanisław, 1912.03.12 (1)
  
  Hamuda Czesław (1)
  
  Haubenstock Roman, 1918 (1)
  
  Hoffman Wincenty (1)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 13.11.1916, Kraków (1)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (1)
  
  Hutek Szczepan; 20.11.1909, Siekierczyna (limanowski county) (1)
  
  Hutek Szczepan; 20.11.1909, Siekierczyna (pow. limanowski) (1)
  
  Iwanow Teodor; 1908 (1)
  
  Janczarski Teofil; 1884.04.28 (1)
  
  Janczulewicz Hieronim; 1899 (1)
  
  Janowicz Marian; 14.08.1901 (1)
  
  Janulewicz Stanisław (1)
  
  Jasiukiewicz Dominik; 02.03.1914, Dąbrowa (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Jaworski Edward (1)
  
  Jeliński Jerzy (1)
  
  Jurewicz Leonard, 1910? (1)
  
  Jurko Walentyna, 15.05.1915 (1)
  
  Kocoń Fryderyk; 28.01.1918 (1)
  
  Kościelniak Mieczysław; 28.01.1912, Kalisz (1)
  
  Kraus Otto; 07.09.1909, Klášterní Skalice (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Kureczko Stanisław (1)
  
  Lenczewski Tadeusz; 1913?, Rzędziany (1)
  
  Makarewicz Cezary (1)
  
  Makowska Anna; 17.06.1915, Wołoszyn (1)
  
  Matuszek Mieczysław (1)
  
  Matys Jan; 1899 (1)
  
  Mendakiewicz Maksymilian; 1914 (1)
  
  Michalak Stanisław; 1909 (1)
  
  Mihułka Tadeusz (1)
  
  Misiak Konstanty; 1888 (1)
  
  Miłosz Jan; 1897 (1)
  
  Molus Stanisław (1)
Subject
- The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (47)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (24)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (20)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (17)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (13)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (12)
  
  In exile – Siberia (11)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (10)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (8)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (7)
  
  In exile – Ural (6)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (6)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (6)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (5)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (5)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (5)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (4)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (4)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (3)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (3)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (2)
  
  In exile – Mari El Republic (2)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (2)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (1)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ryazan Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Tambov Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (1)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (45)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (35)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (26)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (26)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (22)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (19)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (17)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (17)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (16)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (15)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (12)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (12)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (11)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (10)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (9)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (9)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (9)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (8)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (8)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (8)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (7)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (7)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (7)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (7)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (7)
  
  Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (6)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (6)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (6)
  
  Kniazhpogost (Russia, Komi Republic) (6)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (6)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (6)
  
  Berezwecz (Głębokie, now in Belarus), NKVD prison (Basilian monastery), Sovetskaya Street 201 (5)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (5)
  
  Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (5)
  
  Kermine (Navoiy, Uzbekistan) (5)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (5)
  
  Minsk (Belarus), "Wołodarka" prison, Waladarskaha Street 2 (5)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (5)
  
  Orsha (Belarus) (5)
  
  Przemyśl, prison, Rokitniańska Street 1 (5)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (5)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (5)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (5)
  
  Turtkul (Uzbekistan) (5)
  
  Ulbroka (Latvia), internee camp (5)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania), Łukiszki prison, Więzienna Street ( Lukiškių Street 6) (5)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (5)
  
  Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia) (4)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (4)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (4)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (4)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (4)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (4)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (4)
  
  Czortków (now in Ukraine), prison, Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (4)
  
  Kagan (Uzbekistan) (4)
  
  Kherson (Ukraine), prison, Perekopska Street 10 (4)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (4)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no 2, Zamarstynowska Street 7/9 (4)
  
  Mołodeczno (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Wielki Gościniec Street 52 (4)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (4)
  
  Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a (4)
  
  Pińsk (now in Belarus), NKVD prison no 29, Brzeska/Poleska Street (4)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (4)
  
  Równe (Ukraine), prison, 3 Maja Street (Soborna Street 16) (4)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (4)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (4)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (4)
  
  Ukhto-Izhemsky Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (4)
  
  Unzhlag (Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (4)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (4)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (4)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison (Castle) (4)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (3)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (3)
  
  Białystok (3)
  
  British Mandate of Palestine (Israel) (3)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (3)
  
  Chardzhou (Türkmenabat, Turkmenistan) (3)
  
  Dubno (Ukraine), prison, Matczyńskie Street (Zamkowa Street) (3)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (3)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (3)
  
  Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (3)
  
  Homel (Belarus) (3)
  
  Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (3)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (3)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (3)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine), prison, Kolejowa Street (Nezalezhnosti Street) (3)
  
  Kraków (3)
  
  Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) (3)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (3)
  
  Lida (now in Belarus), "Kamionka" prison, Leninskaya Street 29 (3)
  
  Minsk (Belarus), NKVD remand center "Amerykanka", Hradsky Val Street 4 (3)
  
  Nukus (Uzbekistan) (3)
  
  Połock (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Zinaida Tusnolobova-Marchenko Street (3)
  
  Qo‘ng‘irot (Uzbekistan) (3)
Victims
- The Poles (234)
  
  Civilians (196)
  
  The Civilian Population (182)
  
  The Inteligentsia (121)
  
  Ukrainians (102)
  
  The Jews (95)
  
  Women (94)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (83)
  
  Deportees (81)
  
  Children (74)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (61)
  
  The sick (60)
  
  Policemen (57)
  
  The Sick (57)
  
  Russians/Soviets (56)
  
  Belarusians (55)
  
  Prisoners of War (49)
  
  The Russians (43)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (42)
  
  The elderly (31)
  
  The Elderly (31)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (30)
  
  The Church (23)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (22)
  
  Internees (18)
  
  Border Guard (16)
  
  Landowners (15)
  
  Lithuanians (12)
  
  Border Protection Corps (9)
  
  Germans (8)
  
  Latvians (6)
  
  Czechs (4)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (4)
  
  Estonians (3)
  
  Belgians (2)
  
  Greeks (2)
  
  Hungarians (2)
  
  The Dutch (2)
  
  The French (2)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (2)
  
  Italians (1)
  
  Prison Guard (1)
  
  Slovaks (1)
  
  The British (1)
  
  The Communists (1)
Perpetrators
- Denunciation (234)
  
  Collaboration (58)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (50)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (45)
  
  Red Army (42)
  
  Soviet Militia (32)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (17)
  
  Lithuanians (13)
  
  Collaborators (5)
  
  SS (5)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (3)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (2)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (1)
  
  Postal Protection (1)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (1)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (1)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (208)
  
  Biological extermination (204)
  
  Arrest (182)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (131)
  
  Deportation/Exile (112)
  
  Beating (106)
  
  Judicial crime (99)
  
  Punishment cell (79)
  
  Cattle wagons (55)
  
  Robbery (54)
  
  Disarmament (23)
  
  Death by shooting (18)
  
  Execution (11)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (9)
  
  Sovietization (9)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (8)
  
  Deportation (6)
  
  Roads of death (6)
  
  Air raids (5)
  
  Cremation (5)
  
  Cremation of corpses (5)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (5)
  
  Desacration of corpses (3)
  
  Economic exploitation (3)
  
  Gas chambers (3)
  
  Mass graves (3)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (3)
  
  Administrative persecution (2)
  
  Armored weapons (2)
  
  Death marches (2)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (2)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (2)
  
  Racial policy (2)
  
  Round-up (2)
  
  "Dosing" (1)
  
  Burning people alive (1)
  
  Denationalization (1)
  
  Forced voting (1)
  
  Germanization (1)
  
  Hanging (1)
  
  Medical experiments (1)
  
  Rape (1)
Place
- NKVD custody suite (74)
  
  Prison (73)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (57)
  
  Kolkhoz (54)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (42)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (34)
  
  Transit camp (20)
  
  Mine (18)
  
  Internment camp (17)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (9)
  
  Concentration camp (6)
  
  Sovkhoz (6)
  
  Extermination camp (2)
  
  Forced labor (2)
  
  Ghetto (1)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (1)
Content
- Health service (172)
  
  Amnesty (68)
  
  Anders' Army (51)
  
  First deportation (43)
  
  Epidemics (38)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (36)
  
  Polish culture in exile (34)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (32)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (22)
  
  Communist propaganda (21)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (9)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (8)
  
  Third deportation (8)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (7)
  
  Civil resistance (5)
  
  Extermination of Jews (5)
  
  Obliterating the traces (4)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (4)
  
  Second deportation (4)
  
  obliterating the traces (4)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (3)
  
  Underground media (3)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (3)
  
  Fourth deportation (2)
  
  Polish Underground State (2)
  
  Rescue of Jews (2)
  
  Aktion Zamość (1)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (1)
  
  Military hospital (1)
  
  Partisan warfare (1)
  
  Students' Army Corps (1)
  
  Underground culture and education (1)
Object type
- Account (85)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (6)
  
  Brief (3)
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 (225)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (5)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (1)
  
  Katyn Museum (1)
Medium
- Text (234)
  
  Image (4)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (225)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (7)