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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Czajkowski Aleksander (2)
  
  Głowiak Stanisław; 10.02.1903, Podzwierzyniec (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Puka Stanisław; 24.03.1921 (2)
  
  Szczuciński (2)
  
  Tchórzewski Józef (2)
  
  Toby Hirsz (2)
  
  Kullanda Henryk (1)
  
  Aleksiejewicz Józef (1)
  
  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)
  
  Baranowski Julian; 1902 (1)
  
  Baranowski Józef (1)
  
  Barbachowski Wladyslaw; 1903 (1)
  
  Barczak Franciszek; 03.04.1913, Świeca (1)
  
  Barczykowski Jan 1914 (1)
  
  Barczykowski Jan; 05.01.1914, Spieczyny (1)
  
  Baroni Jan; 1985 (1)
  
  Bartkiewicz Władysław; 1918?, Delatyn (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bartkiewicz Władysław; 1918?, Delatyn (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bartosiak Kazimierz; 1898 (1)
  
  Bartoszyński Józef; 1913 (1)
  
  Baumgarten Józefina (1)
  
  Bałajewicz Jadwiga; 1913 (1)
  
  Bałajewicz Jadwiga; 1914 (1)
  
  Beker Władysław; 1911 (1)
  
  Bereza Wladyslaw, 1899 (1)
  
  Bereziuk Marian, 1922 (1)
  
  Berner Aleksander; 04.03.1915, Landwarów (now in Lithuania) (1)
  
  Berner Aleksander; 04.03.1915, Landwarów (now in Lithuania) (1)
  
  Bełch Franciszek (1)
  
  Bielecki Andrzej; 1893, Podhorce (1)
  
  Blachuta Czesław; 1923? (1)
  
  Blewąska Wincenty; 1900 (1)
  
  Bobowski Leszek; 1910? (1)
  
  Bochenski Jan; 28.12.1901 (1)
  
  Bochno Michal, 1903? (1)
  
  Bojarski Jan, 1899 (1)
  
  Bolimowska Wanda; 1923, Pomorzanka (dziś: Ukraina) (1)
  
  Bolimowska Wanda; 1923, Pomorzanka (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bondus Piotr, 1904? (1)
  
  Bongold Jakub; 1900 (1)
  
  Borger Ludwik; 1915? (1)
  
  Brachaniec Leon; 1897? (1)
  
  Brzuszkiewicz Jan (1)
  
  Buczkowski Franciszek (1)
  
  Buczyński Michał; 28.09.1892 (1)
  
  Budzianowski Antoni; 1886 (1)
  
  Burda Augustyn, 1901? (1)
  
  Byczkowski Wiktor, 1896? (1)
  
  Bławat Michał; 1896? (1)
  
  Błażek Władysław; 1897? (1)
  
  Błażewicz Romuald (1)
  
  Capecki Franciszek; 1897 (1)
  
  Cepil Feliks; 1899 (1)
  
  Charytonowicz Kazimierz; 1921? (1)
  
  Chmielewski Szczepan; 1899 (1)
  
  Chodorowski Stanisław; 1900 (1)
  
  Chojecka Maria; 11.03.1903 (1)
  
  Chowra Bolesław; 1904.10.24 (1)
  
  Chrzan Józef; 1890.11.08 (1)
  
  Chwiałkowska Zofia; 1919? (1)
  
  Cichowski Julian; 1900? (1)
  
  Ciecierska Jadwiga; 1907? (1)
  
  Ciesielski Antoni; 1911.03.03 (1)
  
  Cieślak Bolesław; 1907? (1)
  
  Cieślak Jan; 1905 (1)
  
  Cioch Franciszek, 1897 (1)
  
  Ciulik Fryderyk;1917.01.18 (1)
  
  Ciągło Jan; 01.12.1899 (1)
  
  Cupryk Wladysław; 1916 (1)
  
  Cwiczyńska Stanisława; 29.04.1900 (1)
  
  Cybański Adam; 1907? (1)
  
  Cyganik Antoni; 27.03.1909, Chrzanów (1)
  
  Cygielman Szylem (1)
  
  Cyrański Józef; 1902? (1)
  
  Czabak Julian; 1897? (1)
  
  Czaplicki Józef; 1899? (1)
  
  Czaporowski Lucjan; 13.12.1904 (1)
  
  Czekałowska Irena (1)
  
  Czerniak Mieczysław; 1906? (1)
  
  Darasz Jan; 1901? (1)
  
  Daszkiewicz Wanda (1)
  
  Dawidowicz Edward; 06.04.1922 (1)
  
  Debko Józef; 1903 (1)
  
  Denis Władysław (1)
  
  Dmytryszyn Marian; 1916? (1)
  
  Dobosz Józef; 1897 (1)
  
  Dobrzański Jan; 1914 (1)
  
  Drabek Jan; 1901 (1)
  
  Draws Leon; 1908 (1)
  
  Drzyzgiewicz Zofia; 06.04.1923 (1)
  
  Dubiński Antoni; 1902 (1)
Subject
- The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (168)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (104)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (64)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (41)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (39)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (29)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (24)
  
  In exile – Ural (24)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (23)
  
  In exile – Siberia (21)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (20)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (15)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (15)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (10)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (9)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (9)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (6)
  
  Lebensborn – the Germanization of Polish children (5)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (5)
  
  In exile – Far East (4)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (4)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (4)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (4)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (3)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (2)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Sverdlovsk Oblast (2)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (1)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (1)
  
  Deported – the Perm Krai (1)
  
  Deported – the Volgograd Oblast (1)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Babice (1)
  
  Dispersed terror – the sub-camp of KL Auschwitz in Babice (1)
  
  In exile – Mari El Republic (1)
  
  In exile – Povolzhye (1)
  
  In exile – Volgograd Oblast (1)
  
  Lebensraum – the Germanization of the Zamość region (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (1)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Republic of Mordovia (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (1)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (1)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  the Gulag Archipelago – the Republic of Karelia (1)
  
  the Gulag Archipelago – the Ukraine (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (128)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (121)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (87)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (66)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (57)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (43)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (41)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (38)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (38)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (37)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (35)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (32)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (31)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (31)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (30)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (29)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (29)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (29)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (26)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (24)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (24)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (23)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (23)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (23)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (22)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (22)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (22)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (22)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (20)
  
  Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (18)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (18)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine) (17)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (17)
  
  Nakhodka (Russia, Primorsky Krai) (17)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (17)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (16)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (16)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (15)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (15)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (15)
  
  Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (15)
  
  Ostróg (now in Ukraine), transit camp (Barracks of the 19th Volhynian Uhlan Regiment) (15)
  
  Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (15)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (14)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (14)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (14)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no 2, Zamarstynowska Street 7/9 (14)
  
  Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (14)
  
  Radziwiłłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (14)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (13)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (13)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (12)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (12)
  
  Kherson (Ukraine), prison, Perekopska Street 10 (12)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (12)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (12)
  
  Olesko (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (12)
  
  Podliski Małe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (12)
  
  Sevvostlag (Russia, Magadan Oblast) (12)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine) (12)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (12)
  
  Kermine (Navoiy, Uzbekistan) (11)
  
  Ostra Góra (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (11)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (11)
  
  Złoczów (now in Ukraine) (11)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (10)
  
  Kniazhpogost (Russia, Komi Republic) (10)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (10)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (10)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (9)
  
  Mościska (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (9)
  
  Podwołoczyska (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (9)
  
  Równe (Ukraine), prison, 3 Maja Street (Soborna Street 16) (9)
  
  Tashlak (Toshloq, Uzbekistan) (9)
  
  Werba (Ukraine) (9)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison (Castle) (9)
  
  Zborów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (9)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine), prison (Bridgettine Convent), Brygidek Street (Kafedralna Street 16) (9)
  
  Białystok (8)
  
  Czortków (Ukraine) (8)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine) (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (8)
  
  Kołomyja (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, aleja Wolności (Lesi Ukrainki Street 32) (8)
  
  Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) (8)
  
  Omsk (Russia, Omsk Oblast) (8)
  
  Przemyśl (8)
  
  Przemyśl, prison, Rokitniańska Street 1 (8)
  
  Unzhlag (Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (8)
  
  Warsaw (8)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, Ukraine), transit camp (8)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (8)
  
  Zahorce Wielkie (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (8)
  
  Zaporizhia (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (8)
  
  Angielówka (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (7)
  
  Babin (now in Ukraine, Rivne Oblast), POW forced labor camp (7)
  
  Brody (Ukraine) (7)
  
  Chardzhou (Türkmenabat, Turkmenistan) (7)
  
  Czerlany (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (7)
  
  Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (7)
  
  Kostanay Oblast (Kazakhstan) (7)
Victims
- Ukrainians (677)
  
  The Poles (674)
  
  The Civilian Population (484)
  
  The Jews (376)
  
  The Inteligentsia (257)
  
  Belarusians (249)
  
  Prisoners of War (219)
  
  Russians/Soviets (206)
  
  Women (202)
  
  The Russians (193)
  
  Deportees (189)
  
  The Sick (179)
  
  Children (156)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (143)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (93)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (92)
  
  Policemen (87)
  
  The Elderly (76)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (68)
  
  Germans (46)
  
  Lithuanians (39)
  
  The Church (36)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (34)
  
  Landowners (24)
  
  Border Guard (19)
  
  Internees (18)
  
  Latvians (17)
  
  Czechs (14)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (14)
  
  Border Protection Corps (13)
  
  Hungarians (11)
  
  Romanians (11)
  
  Estonians (10)
  
  Slovaks (6)
  
  Italians (5)
  
  The Disabled (5)
  
  The French (4)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (4)
  
  Americans (3)
  
  Scouts (3)
  
  The British (3)
  
  the Chinese (3)
  
  Belgians (2)
  
  Finns (2)
  
  Prison Guard (2)
  
  The Dutch (2)
  
  Greeks (1)
  
  Norwegians (1)
  
  The Communists (1)
Perpetrators
- People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (190)
  
  Red Army (138)
  
  Denunciation (82)
  
  Soviet Militia (72)
  
  Collaboration (60)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (46)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (34)
  
  SS (10)
  
  Lithuanians (6)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (6)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (4)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (4)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (3)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (2)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (2)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (2)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (2)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Military Police (1)
  
  Postal Protection (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Forced Labour (612)
  
  Biological extermination (602)
  
  Arrest (473)
  
  Deportation/Exile (381)
  
  Brutal Interrogation/Tortures (296)
  
  Beatings (264)
  
  Punishment cell (205)
  
  Judicial crime (142)
  
  Cattle wagons (137)
  
  Disarmament (128)
  
  Robbery (118)
  
  Execution (85)
  
  Shooting (76)
  
  Roads of death (58)
  
  Deportation (25)
  
  Sovietization (23)
  
  Air raids (18)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (16)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (15)
  
  Round-up (10)
  
  Mass graves (8)
  
  Cremation (7)
  
  Death marches (7)
  
  Desacration of corpses (7)
  
  Forced voting (7)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (7)
  
  Medical experiments (6)
  
  Rape (6)
  
  "Dosing" (5)
  
  Gas chambers (5)
  
  Germanization (5)
  
  Armoured Weapon (4)
  
  Expulsion (4)
  
  Economic exploitation (3)
  
  Hanging (3)
  
  Racial policy (3)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (3)
  
  Administrative persecution (2)
  
  Denationalization (2)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (2)
  
  Burning people alive (1)
Place
- Forced labor camps for POWs (175)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (169)
  
  Prison (165)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (142)
  
  Kolkhoz (128)
  
  Transit camp (121)
  
  NKVD custody suite (94)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (72)
  
  Mine (52)
  
  Sovkhoz (33)
  
  Internment camp (14)
  
  Concentration camp (11)
  
  Extermination camp (6)
  
  Forced labor (4)
  
  Labor camp (3)
  
  Ghetto (2)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (2)
  
  Police headquarters/station (2)
  
  Siberia (2)
  
  Center for the Germanization of children (1)
  
  Orphanage – dietdom (1)
  
  Sewers (1)
Content
- Health service (448)
  
  Anders' Army (269)
  
  Amnesty (204)
  
  Polish culture in exile (103)
  
  Epidemics (102)
  
  Communist propaganda (101)
  
  First deportation (98)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (91)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (83)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (50)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (50)
  
  Second deportation (28)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (19)
  
  Third deportation (18)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (17)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (14)
  
  Extermination of Jews (8)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (7)
  
  Civil resistance (7)
  
  Fourth deportation (7)
  
  Students' Army Corps (6)
  
  Military hospital (5)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (5)
  
  Obliterating the traces (4)
  
  Polish Underground State (4)
  
  obliterating the traces (4)
  
  Rescue of Jews (3)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (3)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (3)
  
  Aktion Zamość (2)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (2)
  
  Aid to Jews (1)
  
  Central Welfare Council (1)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (1)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (1)
  
  Judenrat (1)
  
  Partisan warfare (1)
  
  Underground media (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1)
Object type
- Account (128)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (24)
  
  Brief (3)
  
  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 (657)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (9)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (3)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (2)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (669)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (8)