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Witness

Polkowski Wacław 24.09.1886, Warsaw

Topic

Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture

Date

1939.10-1945.01

Location

Rembertów (Warsaw)

Witness

Pastuszko Marian 1904?

Topic

The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas

Date

1943.05-1943.07

Location

Bór Kunowski Marcule Krynka Nietulisko Duże Gębice (świętokrzyskie voivodeship)

Witness

Listek Jan 1899?

Topic

The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas

Date

1943.07.03-1943.07.03

Location

Marcule Brody (Starachowice county) Brody (Starachowice district)

Witness

Domasik Stanisław 1884, Witkowice (Oświęcim county)

Topic

The persecuted church

Date

1939-1945

Location

KL Auschwitz-Birkenau

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Witness

Lesisz Jan 24.06.1873, Dębno (Nowa Słupia district)

Topic

The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas

Date

1943.06.29-1943.06.29

Location

Dębno (commune of Nowa Słupia), St. Michael's Church, Dębno 49

Witness

Świetlik Stefan 24.03.1922, Dębno (Nowa Słupia district)

Topic

The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas

Date

1943.06.29-1943.06.29

Location

Dębno (commune of Nowa Słupia), St. Michael's Church, Dębno 49

Witness

Kita Jan 27.07.1907, Dębno (Nowa Słupia district)

Topic

The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas

Date

1943.06.29-1943.06.29

Location

Dębno (commune of Nowa Słupia), St. Michael's Church, Dębno 49

Witness

Janus Anna 23.04.1920, Wincentów (Kielce county)

Topic

The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas

Date

1944.08.02-1944.08.02

Location

Wincentów (district of Kielce) Piekoszów

Witness

Handzel Jan 20.04.1906, Wincentów (kielecki district)

Topic

The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas

Date

1943.07.16-1944.08.22

Location

Piekoszów Wincentów (district of Kielce)

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Witness

Majchrzyk Antonina 1884?, Łosienek

Topic

The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas

Date

1944.08.22-1944.08.22

Location

Piekoszów Wincentów (district of Kielce)

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Witness

Górski Antoni Stanisław 18.08.1914, Warsaw

Topic

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death

Date

1940.08.15-1941.12.31

Location

KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz-Birkenau KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Buchenwald (Germany) Warsaw, Aleje Ujazdowskie KL Auschwitz I, roll call square Skierniewice Warsaw, Matejki Street Warsaw, Piusa XI Street (Piękna Street) Warsaw, Górnośląska Street Warsaw, Marszałkowska Street Warsaw, Warszawa Zachodnia Station

Witness

Reczyńska Zdzisława

Topic

Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region

Date

1939.09.01-1945.05

Location

Starachowice KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Warsaw

Witness

Płoski Stanisław 04.12.1899, Bryansk (Russia)

Topic

The city condemned to death

Date

1939.09.01-1944.01

Location

KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) Bydgoszcz Warsaw, Lwowska Street 1 Kabacki Forest (Warsaw) Palmiry Warsaw, Ghetto Warsaw, Żoliborz Warszawa, Leszno Street 53/55 (al. "Solidarności" 127) Warsaw, Ochota Warsaw, Kerceli Square (Kercelak roundabout) Warsaw, Bielany Warsaw, Puławska Street Warsaw, Napoleona Square (Powstańców Warszawy Square) Warsaw, Nalewki Street 9 Warsaw, Dulag, Skaryszewska Street 8 Warsaw, Grójecka Street 38 Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) Odrowąż (Końskie district) KL Auschwitz-Birkenau

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Witness

Bytow Alina

Topic

A shattered childhood – the Lublin region

Date

1939-1945

Location

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Witness

Zając Michał 1913

Topic

Date

1940-1944.03

Location

Jasło Krosno Prokocim (Kraków) KL Plaszow Przeworsk

Witness

Kleinstein Mojżesz 05.11.1927, Kielce

Topic

Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation

Date

1942.04.23-1945.01.28

Location

Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 KL Auschwitz-Birkenau German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I KL Auschwitz I Wilcza Góra (śląskie voivodeship) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz)

Witness

Chlebowski Jan 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship)

Topic

To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau

Date

1940.05.06-1945.01.18

Location

Przemyśl, prison, Rokitniańska Street 1 KL Auschwitz I Dubiecko, judicial custody KL Auschwitz I, roll call square Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau

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Witness

Krukowska Irena

Topic

Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region

Date

1939.09.01-1945.05

Location

Wierzbnik (Starachowice)

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Witness

Marciniak Józef 13.03.1891

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Ural

Date

1939.10.26-1942.04.07

Location

Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) Równe (Ukraine) Kharkiv (Ukraine) Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Bekabad (Uzbekistan) Vrevsky (Almazar, Uzbekistan) Tielman naseliony punkt (Uzbekistan) Naselennyy punkt imeni Telmana (Uzbekistan)

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Witness

Wdzięczny Kazimierz 19.01.1908, Warsaw

Topic

Majdanek – terror and extermination

Date

1942.09.29-1944.04.06

Location

KL Majdanek KL Gross-Rosen Majdanek, German extermination camp Lublin German extermination camp of Majdanek KL Flossenbürg (Germany) KL Gross-Rosen