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Witness

Dąbrowa-Kostka Stanisława

Topic

The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews

Date

1939.09-1944.11

Location

Bochnia Przemyśl Kraków Bakończyce (Przemyśl) Nisko (podkarpackie voivodeship) Krosno (Strzyżów district)

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Witness

Giedroyć Kazimierz 29.09.1908, Grodno (now in Belarus)

Topic

Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region

Date

1944.05-1945.02

Location

Białobrzegi (Białobrzegi district)

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Witness

Katz Naftali 1914

Topic

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

Date

1940.06.29-1943

Location

Przemyśl Guzar (Uzbekistan) Tomsk (Russia, Tomsk Oblast) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Samarkand (Uzbekistan)

Witness

Kluczyński Rajmund 1900, Warsaw

Topic

Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees

Date

1939.09.19-1942

Location

Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp

Witness

Cyrocki Antoni 1909

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.19-1941.08.14

Location

Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp Sarenki Górne (Ukraine) Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Równe (Ukraine) Jarmolińce (now in Ukraine), transit camp Starobilsk (Ukraine) Proskuriv (Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Jarmolińce (now in Ukraine), transit camp

Witness

Czapiński Marian

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09-1939.10

Location

Kozelschyna (Ukraine, Poltava Oblast), transit camp

Witness

Czerniawski Michał 1922?

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

1940.05.11-1941.09.26

Location

Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) Minsk (Belarus) Kirov (Russia, Kirov Oblast) Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Lida (now in Belarus)

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Witness

Filipek Zygmunt 1920?

Topic

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

Date

1939.09.20-1942.03.05

Location

Drohiczyn (now in Belarus) Minsk (Belarus) Vitebsk (Belarus), NKVD prison, Surażska Street (Gagarina Street 2) Vitebsk (Belarus), NKVD prison, Surazhska Street (Gagarina Street 2) Moscow (Russia), the NKVD prison "Lubyanka", Bolshaya Lubyanka Street 2 Velikiye Luki (Russia, Pskov Oblast) Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp

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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

Gielwert Edward 1899?

Topic

Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees

Date

1939.09.19-1942.03

Location

Wyłkowyszki (now in Lithuania), internee camp Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp Połąga (now in Lithuania), internee camp Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan)

Witness

Garczyński Władysław

Topic

In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast

Date

1940.02.10-1942

Location

Ułanówka (Ukraine) Bubnów (Ukraine), train station Sarny (Ukraine), train station Ivaksha (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast)

Witness

Swiecicki Bohdan 1893

Topic

Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees

Date

1940.07.11-1941.09.02

Location

Kalvarija (Lithuania), internment camp Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Moscow (Russia), "Butyrka" NKVD prison, Novoslobodskaya Street 45c5 Putyvl (Ukraine), NKVD camp for POWs (Sofronievsky Monastery) Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150

Witness

Waronik Michał 11.11.1924

Topic

In exile – Povolzhye

Date

1939.09.17-1941.09.08

Location

Chapayevsk (Russia, Samara Oblast) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Witness

Wątor Franciszek 1896

Topic

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

Date

1939.09.29-1942.03.29

Location

Dubno (now in Ukraine) Yagvel (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast)

Witness

Wagner Leon 1899?

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia

Date

1939.09.01-1942.02

Location

Tłumacz (now in Ukraine) Nadwórna (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Shevchenko Maidan Street 43 Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Norilsk (Russia, Krasnoyarsk Krai)

Witness

Wojciechowicz Wacław 1899?

Topic

In exile – Central Asia

Date

1941.06.14-1942.01.26

Location

Wilno (now in Lithuania) Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) Aleysk (Russia, Altai Krai) Samarkand (Uzbekistan)

Witness

Weinlös Józef

Topic

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

Date

1941.06.25-1941.09.30

Location

Poltava (Ukraine) Proskuriv (Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Onega (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Kharkiv (Ukraine), NKVD regional administration, Zen Mironosic Street 5 Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) Kyiv (Ukraine) Lwów (now in Ukraine)

Witness

Wołoszczuk Julian 1900?

Topic

In exile – Komi Republic

Date

1940.03-1942.02.07

Location

Dnipropetrovsk (Dnipro, Ukraine) Przemyśl Hohenstein (Olsztynek), Stalag I B Margilan (Uzbekistan)

Witness

Wolski Konstanty

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.10.07-1942.07.22

Location

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

Witness

Rewiński Edward 1909?

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.19-1942.02.02

Location

Brześć (now in Belarus) Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Atbasar (Kazakhstan)

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