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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Głowiak Stanisław; 10.02.1903, Podzwierzyniec (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Puka Stanisław; 24.03.1921 (2)
  
  Szczuciński (2)
  
  Ambros Florian; 1913? (1)
  
  Andruszkiewicz Józef; 1893? (1)
  
  Andrzejewski Teodor; 1904? (1)
  
  Apelbaum Leib; 1921? (1)
  
  Augustowicz Bolesław; 1912 (1)
  
  Augustyn Bolesław; 1902 (1)
  
  Awienko Henryk; 1910? (1)
  
  Bakuła Antoni; 1899 (1)
  
  Bakuła Antoni; 1900 (1)
  
  Baranowska Władysława (1)
  
  Baranowski Antoni; 1905 (1)
  
  Barczak Franciszek; 1913? (1)
  
  Barczykowski Jan 1914 (1)
  
  Barczykowski Jan; 1914 (1)
  
  Bartkiewicz Władysław; 1918?, Delatyn (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bartkiewicz Władysław; 1918?, Delatyn (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Baumgarten Józefina (1)
  
  Bałajewicz Jadwiga; 1913 (1)
  
  Bałajewicz Jadwiga; 1914 (1)
  
  Berner Aleksander; 04.03.1915, Landwarów (now in Lithuania) (1)
  
  Berner Aleksander; 04.03.1915, Landwarów (now in Lithuania) (1)
  
  Bełch Franciszek (1)
  
  Bobowski Leszek; 1910? (1)
  
  Bolimowska Wanda; 1923, Pomorzanka (dziś: Ukraina) (1)
  
  Bolimowska Wanda; 1923, Pomorzanka (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Borger Ludwik; 1915? (1)
  
  Błażewicz Romuald (1)
  
  Charytonowicz Kazimierz; 1921? (1)
  
  Chojecka Maria; 11.03.1903 (1)
  
  Chwiałkowska Zofia; 1919? (1)
  
  Cichowski Julian; 1900? (1)
  
  Ciecierska Jadwiga; 1907? (1)
  
  Cieślak Bolesław; 1907? (1)
  
  Cieślak Jan; 1905 (1)
  
  Cwiczyńska Stanisława; 29.04.1900 (1)
  
  Cybański Adam; 1907? (1)
  
  Cyganik Antoni; 1907? (1)
  
  Czaplicki Józef; 1899? (1)
  
  Czaporowski Lucjan; 13.12.1904 (1)
  
  Czekałowska Irena (1)
  
  Darasz Jan; 1901? (1)
  
  Daszkiewicz Wanda (1)
  
  Dawidowicz Edward; 06.04.1922 (1)
  
  Dmytryszyn Marian; 1916? (1)
  
  Drzyzgiewicz Zofia; 06.04.1923 (1)
  
  Duda Ferdynand (1)
  
  Dzikowski Henryk; 20.05.1922 (1)
  
  Dąbrowski Jan Adam; 1913? (1)
  
  Długoborski Mieczysław Edward; 1887? (1)
  
  Fabrykiewicz Janina; 06.09.1922, Brzeziny (Dębica county) (1)
  
  Fajer Władysław; 1903 (1)
  
  Feret Antoni; 1916? (1)
  
  Figiel Helena; 04.10.1921, Obroszyn (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Fijałkowska Stefania; 1906 (1)
  
  Fijałkowski Feliks; 1899? (1)
  
  Filip Grzegorz; 1911? (1)
  
  Flasza Józef; 13.01.1900, Tarnów (1)
  
  Fornalak Wacław; 1920? (1)
  
  Fortuna Kazimierz; 1920? (1)
  
  Foryś Antoni; 1919 (1)
  
  Fostyk Jan; 1917? (1)
  
  Fronczyk Feliks (1)
  
  Frączak Stefan; 1901 (1)
  
  Furman Jan; 1913? (1)
  
  Gaba Jan; 1908? (1)
  
  Gaczyński Zygmunt; 1901 (1)
  
  Gansiwiec Henryk; 1902? (1)
  
  Gantek Władysław; 30.12.1896 (1)
  
  Garbiak Stanislaw; 1913 (1)
  
  Garguliński Stanisław; 1911? (1)
  
  Garniewicz Stanisław; 1884 (1)
  
  Gałka Jan; 1922? (1)
  
  Giermuga Wojciech (1)
  
  Giesner Romuald; 1925? (1)
  
  Ginel Bolesław; 1910 (1)
  
  Glezner Zygmunt; 17.09.1911, Warsaw (1)
  
  Gmyzo Antoni; 1912 (1)
  
  Godlewski Izydor; 1919? (1)
  
  Gogolewski Roman; 1911 (1)
  
  Goliński Franciszek; 1900? (1)
  
  Golonka Jan; 1898? (1)
  
  Gorczyński Zdzisław; 1924? (1)
  
  Gołębiewski Wiktor; 1920? (1)
  
  Grendo Bronisław; 06.07.1905 (1)
  
  Grodzińska Janina; 25.04.1923 (1)
  
  Grodzińska Olga; 15.11.1902 (1)
  
  Gryksztas Władysław; 1912, Odessa (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Grzelak Wacław; 1901? (1)
  
  Grzybowski Klemens (1)
  
  Guziewicz Henryk; 1918? (1)
  
  Górajek Kazimierz; 03.03.1915 (1)
  
  Górski Stanisław; 1903 (1)
  
  Gütig Eryk; 1912 (1)
  
  Gębala Eugeniusz; 18.06.1915 (1)
  
  Głowacki Józef (1)
  
  Głowacki Stefan; 1901? (1)
  
  Głuch Henryk; 12.07.1896, Jaworzno (1)
Subject
- The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (75)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (51)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (49)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (30)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (24)
  
  In exile – Ural (16)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (16)
  
  In exile – Siberia (14)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (13)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (11)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (10)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (10)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (6)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (5)
  
  Lebensborn – the Germanization of Polish children (5)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (3)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (3)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (2)
  
  In exile – Far East (2)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (2)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Sverdlovsk Oblast (2)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (1)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Babice (1)
  
  In exile – Mari El Republic (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (1)
  
  Resistance, documentation, solidarity – the underground activity at Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Republic of Mordovia (1)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (57)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (54)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (50)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (31)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (25)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (24)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (24)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (23)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (21)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (21)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (20)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (19)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (18)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (18)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (17)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (17)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (17)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (16)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (14)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (13)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine) (13)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (13)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (13)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (12)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (12)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (12)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine) (12)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (12)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (11)
  
  Kermine (Navoiy, Uzbekistan) (11)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no 2, Zamarstynowska Street 7/9 (11)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (11)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (10)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (10)
  
  Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (10)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (10)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (10)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (10)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (10)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (9)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (9)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (9)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (9)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (9)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (8)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (8)
  
  Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (8)
  
  Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (8)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (7)
  
  Czortków (Ukraine) (7)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine) (7)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (7)
  
  Kostanay Oblast (Kazakhstan) (7)
  
  Nakhodka (Russia, Primorsky Krai) (7)
  
  Ostróg (now in Ukraine), transit camp (Barracks of the 19th Volhynian Uhlan Regiment) (7)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (7)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (7)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (6)
  
  Babin (now in Ukraine, Rivne Oblast), POW forced labor camp (6)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (6)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (6)
  
  Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (6)
  
  Jarmolińce (now in Ukraine), transit camp (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (6)
  
  Kherson (Ukraine), prison, Perekopska Street 10 (6)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (6)
  
  Kołomyja (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, aleja Wolności (Lesi Ukrainki Street 32) (6)
  
  Odessa (Ukraine), NKVD prison, Lustdorfskaya Doroga 9 (6)
  
  Podliski Małe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (6)
  
  Radziwiłłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (6)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (6)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD prison, Kirov Street 32 (6)
  
  Tehran (Iran) (6)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (6)
  
  Złoczów (now in Ukraine) (6)
  
  Białystok (5)
  
  Brody (Ukraine) (5)
  
  Chardzhou (Türkmenabat, Turkmenistan) (5)
  
  Dnipropetrovsk (Dnipro, Ukraine), NKVD Headquarters, Chkalov Street (Sviatoslav Chorobroho Street 23) (5)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (5)
  
  Iłowo-Osada (subcamp of KL Soldau transit camp), Szkolna Street (Leśna Street) (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (5)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (5)
  
  Marhanets (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (5)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (5)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (5)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (5)
  
  Olesko (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (5)
  
  Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (5)
  
  Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a (5)
  
  Pavlodar (Kazakhstan) (5)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (5)
  
  Proskuriv (Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (5)
  
  Przemyśl (5)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), prison, Dworecka Street 116 (5)
  
  Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg, Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (5)
  
  Tashlak (Toshloq, Uzbekistan) (5)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (now in Lithuania), internee camp (5)
Victims
- Ukrainians (375)
  
  The Poles (366)
  
  The Civilian Population (258)
  
  The Jews (188)
  
  Belarusians (135)
  
  The Inteligentsia (131)
  
  The Russians (119)
  
  Deportees (116)
  
  Women (115)
  
  The Sick (107)
  
  Prisoners of War (103)
  
  Children (83)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (66)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (50)
  
  The Elderly (46)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (43)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (41)
  
  Policemen (40)
  
  Germans (25)
  
  The Church (18)
  
  Lithuanians (17)
  
  Internees (13)
  
  Border Guard (11)
  
  Czechs (11)
  
  Landowners (11)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (10)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (10)
  
  Border Protection Corps (8)
  
  Hungarians (8)
  
  Latvians (7)
  
  Romanians (6)
  
  Slovaks (6)
  
  Italians (5)
  
  The Disabled (4)
  
  The French (4)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (4)
  
  Americans (3)
  
  Estonians (3)
  
  The British (3)
  
  Belgians (2)
  
  The Dutch (2)
  
  the Chinese (2)
  
  Finns (1)
  
  Greeks (1)
  
  Norwegians (1)
  
  The Communists (1)
Perpetrators
- People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (186)
  
  Red Army (37)
  
  Soviet Militia (34)
  
  Collaboration (33)
  
  Denunciation (21)
  
  SS (9)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (7)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (5)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (3)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (2)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (2)
  
  Lithuanians (2)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (2)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (2)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Military Police (1)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (1)
  
  Postal Protection (1)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (1)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Forced Labour (323)
  
  Biological extermination (311)
  
  Arrest (248)
  
  Deportation/Exile (248)
  
  Brutal Interrogation/Tortures (146)
  
  Beatings (143)
  
  Punishment cell (107)
  
  Cattle wagons (68)
  
  Judicial crime (61)
  
  Robbery (52)
  
  Execution (51)
  
  Shooting (43)
  
  Disarmament (37)
  
  Roads of death (33)
  
  Deportation (24)
  
  Sovietization (16)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (12)
  
  Air raids (10)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (10)
  
  Cremation (7)
  
  Death marches (7)
  
  Mass graves (7)
  
  Medical experiments (6)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (6)
  
  "Dosing" (5)
  
  Gas chambers (5)
  
  Armoured Weapon (4)
  
  Desacration of corpses (4)
  
  Germanization (4)
  
  Rape (4)
  
  Round-up (4)
  
  Economic exploitation (3)
  
  Forced voting (3)
  
  Hanging (3)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (3)
  
  Expulsion (2)
  
  Racial policy (1)
Place
- (Soviet) forced-labor camp (142)
  
  Prison (131)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (80)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (79)
  
  Kolkhoz (72)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (70)
  
  Transit camp (49)
  
  Sovkhoz (18)
  
  Mine (17)
  
  Concentration camp (10)
  
  Internment camp (10)
  
  Extermination camp (6)
  
  NKVD custody suite (6)
  
  Forced labor (3)
  
  Labor camp (3)
  
  Siberia (2)
  
  Ghetto (1)
  
  Orphanage – dietdom (1)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (1)
  
  Police headquarters/station (1)
  
  Sewers (1)
Content
- Anders' Army (263)
  
  Health service (217)
  
  Amnesty (126)
  
  Communist propaganda (100)
  
  Epidemics (66)
  
  First deportation (57)
  
  Polish culture in exile (57)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (49)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (47)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (41)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (34)
  
  Second deportation (27)
  
  Third deportation (12)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (12)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (10)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (7)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (7)
  
  Civil resistance (6)
  
  Extermination of Jews (6)
  
  Students' Army Corps (5)
  
  Fourth deportation (4)
  
  obliterating the traces (4)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (3)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (3)
  
  Military hospital (2)
  
  Aid to Jews (1)
  
  Aktion Zamość (1)
  
  Central Welfare Council (1)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (1)
  
  Judenrat (1)
  
  Polish Underground State (1)
  
  Rescue of Jews (1)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (1)
Object type
- Account (42)
  
  Testimony (23)
  
  Brief (1)
  
  Press clipping (1)
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 (361)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (9)