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Witness

Kościelniak Mieczysław 28.01.1912, Kalisz

Topic

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death

Date

1941.03.06-1945.05.06

Location

Kalisz KL Melk (Austria) KL Melk (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I KL Ravensbrück (Germany) KL Auschwitz I KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) Pszczyna KL Ebensee (Austria) KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Buchenwald (Germany) KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof KL Gross-Rosen KL Ebensee (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria)

Witness

Weissglas Jan Ludwik 1912

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

-

Location

Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a Czortków (now in Ukraine), Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) Ukhto-Izhemsky Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic)

Witness

Wiśniewska Stefania 1897?

Topic

Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Lublin region

Date

1943-1943

Location

Biłgoraj (lubelskie voivodeship) Wołyń (Ukraine)

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Witness

Wawrzak Jan 1888?, Karolin (Zwoleń district)

Topic

The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas

Date

1942.03.18-1944.02.18

Location

Karolin (Zwoleń district) Sydół Ciepielów (mazowieckie voivodeship) Kazanów (mazowieckie voivodeship) Wacławów (Zwoleń district) Ranachów-Wieś

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Witness

Wawrzak Teofil 1892?, Karolin (Zwoleń district)

Topic

The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas

Date

1942.03.18-1944.02.18

Location

Karolin (Zwoleń district)

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Witness

Szewczyk Józef 1902?, Sycyna (mazowieckie voivodeship)

Topic

The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas

Date

1942.03.18-1942.03.18

Location

Karolin (Zwoleń district) Sydół Osiny (Zwoleń district) Ciepielów (mazowieckie voivodeship) Kazanów (mazowieckie voivodeship) Wacławów (Zwoleń district) Ranachów-Wieś

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Witness

Wach Adam 1883?, Sycyna (mazowieckie voivodeship)

Topic

The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas

Date

1942.03.18-1944.02.18

Location

Karolin (Zwoleń district)

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Witness

Wach Anna 1893?, Tczów

Topic

The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas

Date

1942.03.18-1944.02.18

Location

Pcin Karolin (Zwoleń district)

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Witness

Kwapiński Stanisław 1908?, Karolin (Zwoleń district)

Topic

The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas

Date

1942.03.18-1944.02.18

Location

Karolin (Zwoleń district)

Witness

Ślepokóra Gustaw 25.10.1919; Rawa Ruska (Ukraine)

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

1940.05.09-1942.10.16

Location

Rawa Ruska (Ukraine), NKVD prison Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no 2, Zamarstynowska Street 7/9 Lwów (Ukraine), prison, Jachowicza Street 5 (Kuczery Street 5) Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD prison, Kirov Street 32 Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) Chokpak (Kazakhstan)

Witness

Wiktorczyk Jan 1922?

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia

Date

1940.04.10-1941.09.09

Location

Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 Kharkiv (Ukraine) Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Witness

Jachym Mieczysław

Topic

Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland

Date

1941-1945.06

Location

Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship)

Witness

Tropaczyński Józef 1912?

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Far East

Date

1940.05.18-1941.11.12

Location

Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no 2, Zamarstynowska Street 7/9 Horodnia (Ukraine) Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) Nakhodka (Russia, Primorsky Krai) Sevvostlag (Russia, Magadan Oblast) Akmolinsk (Astana, Kazakhstan) Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) Chukotka Autonomous Okrug (Russia) Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Guzar (Uzbekistan)

Witness

Fedorowicz Marta

Topic

Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region

Date

1939-1945

Location

Treblinka, German extermination camp Brześć (now in Belarus)

Witness

Tielesz Włodzimierz 01.04.1911

Topic

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

Date

1939.09-1943

Location

Białystok Wołkowysk (Belarus) Baranowicze (now in Belarus) Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 Minsk (Belarus) Kirov (Russia, Kirov Oblast) Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Kagan (Uzbekistan) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

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Witness

Rysiński Mieczysław

Topic

Date

1939.09-1945

Location

Sulejów Sulejów, Błonie Street Obdzierz (Sulejów) Piotrków Trybunalski

Witness

Porzycka Janina

Topic

The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews

Date

1939-1945

Location

KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Henryków (Warsaw), Modlińska Street Łudy (Warsaw), parish of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Klasyków Street 21/23 Warsaw, Ghetto Płudy (Warsaw), school of the Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary, Klasyków Street 52/54

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Witness

Lenczewski Waclaw 14.07.1910

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Ural

Date

1939.09.17-1943

Location

Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) Minsk (Belarus), "Wołodarka" prison, Waladarskaha Street 2 Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) Rzędziany

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Witness

Łukaszewski Antoni

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

1940.06.22-1941.09.18

Location

Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) Równe (Ukraine) Kostopol (now in Ukraine) Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) Penza (Russia, Penza Oblast)

Witness

Czerenkiewicz Michał 21.11.1911, Wołkowyja

Topic

Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland

Date

1939.09.01-1945.10

Location

Wołkowyja Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Werlas Jarmolińce (now in Ukraine), transit camp Sanok Zawóz Lesko Solina Lwów (now in Ukraine) Warsaw, Ghetto Zasław (Zagórz)