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Witness

Lampert Lilianna 02.06.1931

Topic

The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews

Date

1939.09-1945

Location

Warsaw, convent of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Kazimierzowska Street 59 Szymanów (Sochaczew district), convent of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Szkolna Street 2 KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Pruszków, Dulag 121 Zaręby Kościelne Warsaw, Szkolna Street 2

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Witness

Małkowska Zofia

Topic

Poles saving Jews – Warsaw

Date

1939-1950

Location

Warsaw, Puławska Street 28 Warsaw, Warsaw School of Economics, Rakowiecka Street 6 Warsaw, Ghetto Orłowo

Witness

Kempisty Józef 18.03.1899, Ostrów Mazowiecka

Topic

Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror

Date

1939-1944

Location

Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) Sadowne (Sadowne commune) Lwów (now in Ukraine) Ostrów Mazowiecka, Kościuszki Street

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Witness

Filip Jakub 11.04.1914, Krużlowa Nizina

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia

Date

1940.04.29-1941.09.29

Location

Lwów (now in Ukraine) Starobilsk (Ukraine) Kharkiv (Ukraine) Żółkiew (Ukraine) Artyomovsk (now Bakhmut, Ukraine) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Khanty-Mansiysk (Russia, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Yugra)

Witness

Tomaszewicz Czesław 1926?

Topic

In exile – Central Asia

Date

1940.02.10-1942.02.26

Location

Lugovoy (Kazakhstan)

Witness

Siedlecki Karol

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.26-1939.10.05

Location

Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp

Witness

Żurawski Kazimierz 1920

Topic

the Gulag Archipelago – the Republic of Karelia

Date

1940.09.27-1941.11.05

Location

Bielbaltlag (Russia, Karelian ASSR)

Witness

Pudowski Józef 1919?

Topic

A race against time – the road to Anders' Army

Date

1940.01.29-1942.10.20

Location

Brześć (now in Belarus) Homel (Belarus) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Farab (Kazakhstan)

Witness

Sokołowski Tomasz

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia

Date

1939-1942.03.04

Location

Bielbaltlag (Russia, Karelian ASSR) Margilan (Uzbekistan)

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Witness

Nelken Halina 22.09.1925, Kraków

Topic

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory

Date

1944.06-1945.04

Location

KL Plaszow KL Auschwitz-Birkenau KL Malchow (KL Ravensbrück subcamp, Germany) Lipsk (Germany), labor camp Leipzig (Germany), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Buchenwald, Germany)

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Witness

Wasilewska Krystyna 05.02.1921

Topic

Radom – daily terror

Date

1939-1945

Location

Radom, Żeromskiego Street 59

Witness

Marcinek Jerzy 1913

Topic

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

Date

1939-1943.02.25

Location

Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) Brody (Ukraine) Sasów (now in Ukraine)

Witness

Konferowicz Wacław 13.05.1912, Ostrów Mazowiecka

Topic

Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region

Date

1940-1945

Location

Ostrów Mazowiecka Ostrówek, Stalag 333 German extermination camp of Treblinka

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Witness

Majewski Stanisław

Topic

Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region

Date

1942.01-1942.09

Location

Gierlachów

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Witness

Biernacka Irena 1922?

Topic

Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück

Date

1941.10.18-1943.04

Location

KL Ravensbrück (Germany) KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) Odrowąż (Końskie district)

Witness

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Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

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Location

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Witness

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Topic

Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees

Date

1939.09.21 - 1941.08

Location

Połąga (now in Lithuania), internee camp Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs

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Witness

Rudziński Stefan 1897

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.17-1941.09.01

Location

Łuck (now in Ukraine) Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp

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Witness

Bieniek Marianna 1908, Dębska Wola

Topic

Soviets in German captivity

Date

1941-1944

Location

Kielce, Fijałkowski's Barracks (Cemetery of Soviet Prisoners of War) Bukówka (Kielce)

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Witness

Rucki Michał 1911

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.19-1941.09.03

Location

Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp Zaporizhia (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs