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Witness

Loth Felicjan 30.06.1914, Lwów (now in Ukraine)

Topic

Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks

Date

1941.02.19-1944.07.31

Location

Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 Palmiry Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26

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Witness

Rott Wiesław 14.06.1914, Lublin

Topic

Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks

Date

1944-1945

Location

Warsaw, St. Lazarus' Hospital, Leszno Street 127 (Leszno Street 15) Warsaw, Orthodox cemetery, Wolska Street 138/140 Warsaw, Franaszek factory, Wolska Street 41/45 Warsaw, Gęsiówka prison, Gęsia Street (Anielewicza Street)/ Zamenhofa Street

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Witness

Śliwicki Zygmunt 14.03.1903, Sierakowice (łódzkie voivodeship)

Topic

Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks

Date

1940.09.26-1944.07.31

Location

Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 KL Gross-Rosen KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 Pruszków, Prusa Street 3 Warsaw, Ghetto KL Stutthof Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 Palmiry KL Buchenwald (Germany) Warsaw, Hotel Polski, Długa Street 29 Orzechówka (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) Orzechówka (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship) KL Gross-Rosen Odrowąż (Końskie district) Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Magdalenka KL Ravensbrück (Germany) Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau)

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Witness

Warszawski Szyja 1911?

Topic

Treblinka – extermination camp

Date

1942.07.23-1943.08.02

Location

Kielce, Ghetto Warsaw, Ghetto German extermination camp of Treblinka Treblinka, German extermination camp Międzyrzec Podlaski, Ghetto

Witness

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Topic

Disrupted childhood – the Radom region

Date

1939.09.01-1945.05

Location

Warsaw KL Auschwitz-Birkenau

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Witness

Zelent Stanisław 14.11.1905, Brześć (now: Belarus)

Topic

Majdanek – terror and extermination

Date

1943.01.16-1944.07.22

Location

Lublin Warsaw, Ghetto KL Majdanek Majdanek, German extermination camp German extermination camp of Majdanek

Witness

Kosacki Antoni 1896?

Topic

The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas

Date

1942-1943

Location

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Witness

Jędrzejowski Ferdynand 06.01.1893, Sieniawa

Topic

Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite

Date

1939-1945

Location

Kolbuszowa (podkarpackie voivodeship)

Witness

Przybyłkiewicz Zdzisław 1908?, Tarnów

Topic

Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture

Date

1939.09.04-1944.07

Location

Lwów (now in Ukraine) KL Auschwitz-Birkenau

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Witness

Paździorny Michał 01.10.1915, Przedmieście Dynowskie

Topic

Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland

Date

1943.08.23-1943.10.15

Location

Łubno (podkarpackie voivodeship) Dynów

Witness

Ślumowska Barbara

Topic

Poles saving Jews – Warsaw

Date

1939-1943

Location

Warsaw, Chmielna Street 92 Warsaw, Ghetto

Witness

Słyk Anna

Topic

Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland

Date

1939.09-1945

Location

Bieżanów Kraków Lwów (now in Ukraine)

Witness

Tucki Józef 1917?

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09-19-1941.08.25

Location

Brzeżany (now in Ukraine) Warsaw Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Babin (now in Ukraine, Rivne Oblast), POW forced labor camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Równe (Ukraine) Korzec (now in Ukraine)

Witness

Żurowski Franciszek

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

1940.03.23 - 1941.09.23

Location

Oszmiana (now in Belarus), prison, Piłsudskiego Street (Sowiecka Street) Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Krutaya (Russia, Komi Republic) Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Aykino (Russia, Komi Republic) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Witness

Warchoł Stefan 1909

Topic

In exile – Mari El Republic

Date

1940.03-1941.08.21

Location

Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Witness

Winterman Jelkie 1921?

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

1940.07.28-1941.09.17

Location

Białystok Kniazhpogost (Russia, Komi Republic) Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Witness

Wysocki Saturnin Jan 1905?

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.23-1942.09.03

Location

Radoszyn (now in Ukraine) Kowel (now in Ukraine) Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Ostróg (now in Ukraine), transit camp (Barracks of the 19th Volhynian Uhlan Regiment) Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Warkowicze (Ukraine) Kamionka Las (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Angielówka (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Witness

Brandt Janusz 1905?

Topic

Lebensraum – the Germanization of the Zamość region

Date

1942-1943

Location

German extermination camp of Bełżec Szczebrzeszyn Zwierzyniec (Zwierzyniec commune), transit camp Biłgoraj (lubelskie voivodeship)

Witness

Bida Władysław 1886?

Topic

The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas

Date

1939-1945

Location

Zamość

Witness

Zając Michał 1913

Topic

Date

1940-1944.03

Location

Jasło Krosno Prokocim (Kraków) KL Plaszow Przeworsk