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Witness

Tołtyżewski Zygmunt 1887?

Topic

Executions in Mazovia

Date

1939.09.10-1939.09.10

Location

Piaseczno (Piaseczno county) Piaseczno (Piaseczno district), Puławska Street Piaseczno (Piaseczno district), Fabryczna Street

Witness

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Topic

Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Tarnów Ghetto

Date

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Location

Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), Gestapo headquarters, Urszulańska Street 18 Tarnów, ghetto Lwów (now in Ukraine) Pustków, forced labor camp

Witness

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Topic

Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region

Date

1939.09-1945.05

Location

Warsaw Nowa Słupia, complex of the former Benedictine Abbey on the hill of Łysa Góra, Święty Krzyż 1

Witness

Łomnicka Anna 1935?

Topic

Disrupted childhood – the Radom region

Date

1939.09.08-1945.05

Location

KL Auschwitz-Birkenau

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Witness

Orczykowski Stefan

Topic

Poles saving Jews – Warsaw

Date

1939.09.-1943.05.16

Location

Warsaw, Chłodna Street/ Wronia Street Warsaw, Warecka Street 7 Treblinka, German extermination camp Warsaw, Nowy Świat Street 49 Warsaw, Ghetto Warsaw, Grzybowski Square Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) Warsaw, Napoleona Square (Powstańców Warszawy Square) Warsaw, Próżna Street Warsaw, Świętokrzyska Street Warsaw, Twarda Street

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Witness

Czerniaków Felicja 01.06.1883, Warsaw

Topic

Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city

Date

1939.09.09-1944

Location

Warsaw, Bukowińska Street 28 Warsaw, Ghetto, Chłodna Street 24 (Chłodna Street 22) Warsaw, Kriminalpolizei Station, Aleje Ujazdowskie 7/9 Warsaw, Ghetto, Orthodox Jewish Hospital, Leszno Street 1 (aleja Solidarności 81)

Witness

Hrad-Głowacka Zofia

Topic

Date

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Location

German extermination camp of Bełżec KL Plaszow Myślenice

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Witness

Bogdanowicz Marian 15.08.1931, Łuków

Topic

Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland

Date

1939.09.01-1944

Location

KL Auschwitz-Birkenau KL Dachau (Germany) German extermination camp of Treblinka Łuków (lubelskie voivodeship)

Witness

Malicki Adam

Topic

Disrupted childhood – the Radom region

Date

1939.09.01-1945.05

Location

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Witness

Cieślak Karol 22.04.1933, Łuków

Topic

A shattered childhood – the Lublin region

Date

1939.09-1945

Location

Łuków (lubelskie voivodeship)

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Witness

Bartoszko Kazimierz 09.10.1898

Topic

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

Date

1939.10.01-1941.09.09

Location

Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 Barysaw (Belarus) Wilejka (now in Belarus) Ryazan (Russia, Ryazan Oblast), prison, Pervomayskiy prospect 27b Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Borysów (Belarus)

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Witness

Szaynoka Wanda 06.12.1898, Rubenka (Ukraine)

Topic

Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp

Date

1939.09.01-1945.04.09

Location

German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Lublin Warsaw, Aleje Jerozolimskie KL Ravensbrück (Germany) Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no. 1, Łąckiego Street (Bandery Street 1) KL Uckermark (KL Ravensbrück subcamp, Germany) Warsaw, Towarowa Street KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) Warsaw, Marszałkowska Street KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V Kyiv (Ukraine) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III

Witness

Lorens Anna 27.03.1920

Topic

Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages

Date

1943.07.12-1943.07.13

Location

Michniów Skarżysko-Kamienna Suchedniów

Witness

Morawski Adolf 15.04.1901

Topic

Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages

Date

1943.07.12-1943.07.13

Location

Suchedniów Łączna (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship)

Witness

Ostachowski Bogdan 1925?, Wilno (now in Lithuania)

Topic

Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages

Date

1940-1943.07.13

Location

Michniów Warsaw Suchedniów Bodzentyn

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Witness

Antoniak Franciszek 1901?

Topic

The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas

Date

1941-1944.10.29

Location

Radom Końskie, district hospital, Warszawska Street 25 Szydłowiec (Szydłowiec district) Szałas Hucisko (Stąporków commune) KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Stąporków Wąglów Mniów Niekłań Zagnańsk Końskie, prison, Jatkowa Street (Spółdzielcza Street 16) Sołtyków (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) Gruszka (Kielce district) Sielpia (Sielpia Wielka, Sielpia Mała) Końskie Stąporków Nowy (Stąporków) Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) Ruski Bród (mazowieckie voivodeship) Odrowąż (Końskie district)

Witness

Szmidt Antoni 1898?

Topic

Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region

Date

1939-1945

Location

Bliżyn, forced labor camp Bór (Skarżysko-Kamienna) Końskie Bliżyn, school, Piaskowa Street 6

Witness

Gryta Marcin

Topic

Majdanek – terror and extermination

Date

1942–1944

Location

KL Majdanek Lublin Kraśnik (lubelskie voivodeship)

Witness

Gajewicz Jakub 23.07.1903, Biedrzykowice

Topic

The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas

Date

1943-1944.08.25

Location

Działoszyce (district of Pińczów) Stępocice Biedrzykowice Knyszyn (Wola Knyszyńska)

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Witness

Gębczyński Kazimierz 1900?

Topic

Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw

Date

1944.08.01-1944.08.08

Location

Warsaw, Młynarska Street 20 Warsaw, Staszica Street 15 Warsaw, Kerceli Square (Kercelak Roundabout) Warsaw, Kerceli Square (Kercelak roundabout) Pruszków, Dulag 121 Jelonki (Warsaw)