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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Siedlecki Karol (3)
  
  Głowiak Stanisław; 10.02.1903, Podzwierzyniec (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Lis Józef (2)
  
  Balińska Janina; 19.03.1905, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Bator Franciszek (1)
  
  Bojar Michał; 19.09.1901, Krasne (1)
  
  Bączkowski (1)
  
  Błaszczyk Zygmunt (1)
  
  Chodorowski Jan, 1898 (1)
  
  Czabućko Michał; 03.08.1898, Kruciłowicze (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Darasz Jan; 1901? (1)
  
  Dawidowski Franciszek (1)
  
  Dopierała Wincenty; 1908 (1)
  
  Dąbrowski Jan (1)
  
  Esman Wladysław (1)
  
  Fabiszewski Henryk; 10.02.1894 (1)
  
  Fałdyga Adam, 1893 (1)
  
  Feldman Tyburcjusz, 1895 (1)
  
  Ficek Władysław, 1898.05.21 (1)
  
  Fijakowski Błażej (1)
  
  Filipowicz Władysław, 1894.09.22 (1)
  
  Flasza Józef; 13.01.1900, Tarnów (1)
  
  Frelka Stefan; 16.12.1901 Skrzetusz (1)
  
  Gajewski Marian; 15.08.1896 (1)
  
  Garguliński Antoni, 1898.06.06 (1)
  
  Garlicki Aleksander (1)
  
  Gaudurski Szczepan, 1895 (1)
  
  Gorczyca Stanisław; 06.02.1900 (1)
  
  Gołuzd Stanisław (1)
  
  Grajnert Stanisław; 1899 (1)
  
  Grot Józef; 11.01.1897 (1)
  
  Górecki Apolinary, 1898 (1)
  
  Głowacki Tadeusz, 1905 (1)
  
  Główczyk Jan, 1894 (1)
  
  Hamuda Czesław (1)
  
  Jakubowski Joachim; 1897 (1)
  
  Januchowski Antoni; 1900 (1)
  
  Karpowicz Alfons; 16.09.1904 (1)
  
  Kaszlikowski Stanisław; 1909? (1)
  
  Kobylarz Tadeusz, 1913? (1)
  
  Kurałowicz Stanisław (1)
  
  Latawiec Ludwik; 1897 (1)
  
  Malczewska-Przybylak Jadwiga (1)
  
  Malinowski Nicefor (1)
  
  Martenka Sylwester; 14.12.1890, Rzadków (1)
  
  Matuszak Franiszek; 1896.08.16 (1)
  
  Matuszewski Alojzy; 1898 (1)
  
  Matys Jan; 1899 (1)
  
  Mendyk Feliks (1)
  
  Misiak Konstanty; 1888 (1)
  
  Miszewski Jan; 1899? (1)
  
  Mińko Bolesław; 1910? (1)
  
  Niencir Stefan (1)
  
  Nojek Leonard; 1893 (1)
  
  Nowak Jan; 1890 (1)
  
  Ochmański Stanisław (1)
  
  Olczyk Apolinary, 14.07.1896 (1)
  
  Oleszkiewicz (1)
  
  Orkisz Stanisław, 1898 (1)
  
  Osuch Rudolf; 1914 (1)
  
  Ozga Józef; 1897? (1)
  
  Ościsławski Michał, 1895 (1)
  
  Pietrzak Wacław; 1907 (1)
  
  Piotrowski Lucjan; 1910 (1)
  
  Plichta Józef; 1900 (1)
  
  Pytlak Jan; 1896 (1)
  
  Raczek Andrzej; 1911? (1)
  
  Rewranz Emil (1)
  
  Rożek Franciszek; 1896 (1)
  
  Rutkowski Władysław; 02.12.1897 (1)
  
  Rybarczyk Aleksander (1)
  
  Rybicki (1)
  
  Saj Władysław (1)
  
  Sawala Stanisław; 18.04.1900 (1)
  
  Staszak Stefan (1)
  
  Stelmaszewski Stanisław; 18.04.1897, Kutno (1)
  
  Szabowska K. (1)
  
  Słomiński Władysław (1)
  
  Tadeusiak Franciszek; 1901 (1)
  
  Taraszczewski Wacław; 1897.09.17 (1)
  
  Telega Marcin (1)
  
  Tropaczyński Józef; 1912? (1)
  
  Tumiłowicz Wacław; 1898 (1)
  
  Walsztyniak Michał; 1897 (1)
  
  Wawernia Wacław; 1894 (1)
  
  Wiecek Walenty, 1896 (1)
  
  Wieczorek Władysław, 1900.01.26 (1)
  
  Wiśniewski/Waśniowski (1)
  
  Wolanin Bronisław; 1921.06.20 (1)
  
  Wolski Konstanty (1)
  
  Wołyko Bolesław (1)
  
  Wylot Józef; 1897 (1)
  
  Wójcik Jan; 1898.05.28 (1)
  
  Zambrzycki Władysław (1)
  
  Zatorski Jan; 1901 (1)
  
  Łucek Piotr; 04.11.1893, Bełcząc (lubelskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Śniady Konstanty; 1906?, Dłutowo (1)
Subject
- Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (66)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (25)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (4)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (4)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (2)
  
  In exile – Ural (2)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Tver Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (85)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (57)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (52)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (34)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (24)
  
  Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (18)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (18)
  
  Ukmergė (Lithuania), internee camp (18)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (16)
  
  Połąga (now in Lithuania), internee camp (16)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (15)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (now in Lithuania), internee camp (11)
  
  Ulbroka (Latvia), internee camp (10)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (9)
  
  Vladimir (Russia, Vladimir Oblast) (9)
  
  Kola Penninsula (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (8)
  
  Mołodeczno (now in Belarus) (8)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (8)
  
  Kulautuva (Lithuania), internment camp (7)
  
  Wojtkuszki (Lithuania), internment camp (7)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (6)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (6)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (6)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (6)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (5)
  
  Ostashkov (Russia, Tver Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (5)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (5)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (5)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania) (5)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (4)
  
  Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (4)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (4)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast) (4)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (4)
  
  Biała (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (3)
  
  Kollag (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (3)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (3)
  
  Kurowice (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (3)
  
  Lida (now in Belarus) (3)
  
  Litene (Latvia), internment camp (3)
  
  Marhanets (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (3)
  
  Nowogródek (now in Belarus) (3)
  
  Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (3)
  
  Ostróg (now in Ukraine), transit camp (Barracks of the 19th Volhynian Uhlan Regiment) (3)
  
  Podliski Małe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (3)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (3)
  
  Łomża, prison, Legionów Avenue 36 (3)
  
  Babynino (Russia, Kaluga Oblast, Babyninsky District) (2)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (2)
  
  Jelenovka (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (2)
  
  Kaunas (Lithuania) (2)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (2)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (2)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Lilaste (Latvia), internment camp (2)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (2)
  
  Minsk (Belarus), "Wołodarka" prison, Waladarskaha Street 2 (2)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), NKVD prison, Radisheva Street 32 (2)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (2)
  
  Olita (Lithuania), internee camp (2)
  
  Smolensk (Russia, Smolensk Oblast) (2)
  
  Taraz (Jambyl, Kazakhstan) (2)
  
  Tomsk (Russia, Tomsk Oblast), NKVD prison, Leninsky Prospekt 44 (2)
  
  Tudorów (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (2)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (2)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine) (2)
  
  Yaroslavl (Russia, Yaroslavl Oblast) (2)
  
  Złoczów (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (2)
  
  Śniatyń (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Żydatycze (Hamaliyivka, Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (2)
  
  Akmolinsk (Astana, Kazakhstan) (1)
  
  Alma-Ata (Almaty, Kazakhstan) (1)
  
  Aralsk (Kazakhstan) (1)
  
  Arzamas II (train station, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Arzamassky District) (1)
  
  Astana (Kazakhstan) (1)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (1)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD remand center, Fralankowa Street 50 (1)
  
  Bukhara Oblast (Uzbekistan) (1)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (1)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (1)
  
  Chukotka Autonomous Okrug (Russia) (1)
  
  Czorsztyn (1)
  
  Czortków (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Czortków (now in Ukraine), Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) (1)
  
  Daugavpils (Latvia), internment camp (1)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (1)
  
  Filipowicze (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (1)
  
  Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (1)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (1)
  
  Gwozdów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (1)
  
  Horodnia (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Hołyczówka (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (1)
  
  Ivanovo (Russia, Ivanovo Oblast) (1)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (1)
  
  Jagodzin (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Jagodzin (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Jaryczów Stary (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (1)
  
  Jedwabne (1)
Victims
- Border Guard (128)
  
  The Poles (126)
  
  Policemen (99)
  
  Internees (74)
  
  The Inteligentsia (69)
  
  Prisoners of War (64)
  
  Civilians (47)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (47)
  
  Border Protection Corps (33)
  
  The Civilian Population (32)
  
  The Jews (24)
  
  Ukrainians (23)
  
  Belarusians (21)
  
  Deportees (18)
  
  The Church (15)
  
  The sick (15)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (14)
  
  The Sick (13)
  
  Women (12)
  
  Children (8)
  
  Germans (6)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (6)
  
  Russians/Soviets (5)
  
  The Russians (5)
  
  Prison Guard (4)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (3)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (2)
  
  The Elderly (2)
  
  The elderly (2)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (2)
  
  Landowners (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Lithuanians (1)
  
  Romanians (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- Lithuanians (34)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (34)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (33)
  
  Red Army (31)
  
  Denunciation (17)
  
  Collaboration (11)
  
  Soviet Militia (6)
  
  Latvians (5)
  
  Collaborators (2)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (1)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (1)
Crimes
- Biological extermination (107)
  
  Forced labor (106)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (72)
  
  Arrest (49)
  
  Deportation/Exile (41)
  
  Cattle wagons (39)
  
  Beating (35)
  
  Punishment cell (24)
  
  Judicial crime (15)
  
  Robbery (14)
  
  Disarmament (10)
  
  Death by shooting (7)
  
  Deportation (7)
  
  Execution (4)
  
  Armored weapons (3)
  
  Air raids (2)
  
  Roads of death (2)
  
  Death marches (1)
  
  Forced voting (1)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (1)
Place
- Internment camp (70)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (67)
  
  Transit camp (37)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (36)
  
  Prison (13)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (12)
  
  Kolkhoz (10)
  
  NKVD custody suite (6)
  
  Mine (5)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (4)
  
  Sovkhoz (1)
Content
- Health service (93)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (36)
  
  Anders' Army (35)
  
  Polish culture in exile (29)
  
  Communist propaganda (21)
  
  Amnesty (19)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (17)
  
  Epidemics (11)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (5)
  
  First deportation (4)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (3)
  
  Fourth deportation (2)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (2)
  
  Underground culture and education (2)
  
  Civil resistance (1)
  
  Partisan warfare (1)
  
  Third deportation (1)
  
  Underground media (1)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (1)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (1)
Object type
- Account (43)
  
  Report (43)
  
  Summary (43)
  
  Brief (4)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (2)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Independent Historical Office of the Command of the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union/Documentation Office of the Polish Army in the East (124)
  
  Katyn Museum (4)
Medium
- Text (128)
  
  Image (3)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (127)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (1)