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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Bednarczyk Jan (2)
  
  Czajkowski Aleksander (2)
  
  Czekaj Eugeniusz (2)
  
  Adamski Antoni, 1894? (1)
  
  Adamski Antoni; 1894? (1)
  
  Alchimowicz Kazimierz; 1906 (1)
  
  Barwicki Władysław; 1898 (1)
  
  Bielecki Andrzej; 1893, Podhorce (1)
  
  Bogusz Zygmunt, 1897? (1)
  
  Bubniewicz Wladyslaw; 1898? (1)
  
  Bławat Michał; 1896? (1)
  
  Cepil Feliks; 1899 (1)
  
  Charytański Kazimierz; 1894.03.04 (1)
  
  Charytonowicz Kazimierz; 1921? (1)
  
  Chęciński Paweł; 1897 (1)
  
  Cieplik Marian; 24.02.1894 (1)
  
  Cieślak Bolesław; 1907? (1)
  
  Cieślak Jan; 1905 (1)
  
  Cupryk Wladysław; 1916 (1)
  
  Cyran Walentyna; 1899, Grodno (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  CyranWalentyna; Grodno (now: Belarus), 1899 (1)
  
  Cyrek Bogumiła (1)
  
  Czaporowski Lucjan; 13.12.1904 (1)
  
  Czekałowska Irena (1)
  
  Daglis Stanisław; 1901 (1)
  
  Darasz Jan; 1901? (1)
  
  Dobrowolski Albert; 1900? (1)
  
  Doliński Jan; 1897 (1)
  
  Drożejko Julian; 1897 (1)
  
  Dyszlewski Wincenty (1)
  
  Dąbrowski Piotr; 1895 (1)
  
  Ebert Ernest, 1904.07.09 (1)
  
  Eichel Wincenty, 1911 (1)
  
  Ejgierd Stanisław, 1897 (1)
  
  Fieduszko Józef, 1899 (1)
  
  Filipowski Tomasz, 1899 (1)
  
  Filistowicz Witold, 1897.02.22 (1)
  
  Galimski Feliks; 25.09.1916 (1)
  
  Garguliński Antoni, 1898.06.06 (1)
  
  Garlicki Aleksander (1)
  
  Gaudurski Szczepan, 1895 (1)
  
  Gaweł Stanisław; 1920? (1)
  
  Giecold Bolesław; 1910? (1)
  
  Gieracha Antoni; 1916? (1)
  
  Giermuga Wojciech (1)
  
  Gliniany Mikołaj (1)
  
  Gok Józef; 26.10.1898 (1)
  
  Grot Józef; 11.01.1897 (1)
  
  Guentner Romana (1)
  
  Gutarz Grzegorz (1)
  
  Górewicz Ber; 1920 (1)
  
  Górnicki Jan; 1903 (1)
  
  Gąsowski Stanisław; 29.10.1890 (1)
  
  Głowacki Tadeusz, 1905 (1)
  
  Głąb Józef, 1894 (1)
  
  Hoffman Wincenty (1)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 13.11.1916, Kraków (1)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (1)
  
  Hutek Szczepan; 20.11.1909, Siekierczyna (limanowski county) (1)
  
  Hutek Szczepan; 20.11.1909, Siekierczyna (pow. limanowski) (1)
  
  Iwanow Teodor; 1908 (1)
  
  Janczulewicz Hieronim; 1899 (1)
  
  Janowicz Marian; 14.08.1901 (1)
  
  Janulewicz Stanisław (1)
  
  Jasiukiewicz Dominik; 02.03.1914, Dąbrowa (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Jaworski Edward (1)
  
  Jeliński Jerzy (1)
  
  Jurewicz Leonard, 1910? (1)
  
  Jurko Walentyna, 15.05.1915 (1)
  
  Kocoń Fryderyk; 28.01.1918 (1)
  
  Kościelniak Mieczysław; 28.01.1912, Kalisz (1)
  
  Kraus Otto; 07.09.1909, Klášterní Skalice (Czech Republic) (1)
  
  Kureczko Stanisław (1)
  
  Lenczewski Tadeusz; 1913?, Rzędziany (1)
  
  Makarewicz Cezary (1)
  
  Makowska Anna; 17.06.1915, Wołoszyn (1)
  
  Michalak Stanisław; 1909 (1)
  
  Mihułka Tadeusz (1)
  
  Misiak Konstanty; 1888 (1)
  
  Miłosz Jan; 1897 (1)
  
  Molus Stanisław (1)
  
  Mołczadski Mordka (1)
  
  Mustyk Piotr; 1899.06.13 (1)
  
  Naboczuk Roman; 18.11.1888 (1)
  
  Niebieszczański Jan (1)
  
  Niemiro Adam (1)
  
  Nowak Stanisław; 1895.09.18 (1)
  
  Nowicki Antoni; 1897 (1)
  
  Nowicki Bernard; 1891 (1)
  
  Osterweil Jakub; 1896 (1)
  
  Paciejewski Jan; 1899 (1)
  
  Paszkiewicz Jan; 13.06.1912 (1)
  
  Patelka Marian; 12.04.1904, Pawłowice (1)
  
  Paulo Tadeusz; 12.10.1905 (1)
  
  Pawłowski Wincenty; 1901? (1)
  
  Pawłus Bronisław (1)
  
  Paziewicz Antoni; 1900.06.07 (1)
  
  Pańczyszak Eustachy (1)
  
  Pinkowski Leon; 1893 (1)
  
  Piotrowski Henryk; 1921 (1)
Subject
- The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (38)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (21)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (17)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (14)
  
  In exile – Siberia (11)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (10)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (10)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (8)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (6)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (5)
  
  In exile – Ural (5)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (5)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (4)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (4)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (3)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (3)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (2)
  
  In exile – Mari El Republic (2)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (2)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (1)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ryazan Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Tambov Oblast (1)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (35)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (30)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (23)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (18)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (17)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (14)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (14)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (14)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (12)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (10)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (10)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (10)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (9)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (8)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (7)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (7)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (7)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (7)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (7)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (6)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (6)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (6)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (6)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (6)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (6)
  
  Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (5)
  
  Berezwecz (Głębokie, now in Belarus), NKVD prison (Basilian monastery), Sovetskaya Street 201 (5)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (5)
  
  Kermine (Navoiy, Uzbekistan) (5)
  
  Kniazhpogost (Russia, Komi Republic) (5)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (5)
  
  Orsha (Belarus) (5)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (5)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (5)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (5)
  
  Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia) (4)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (4)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (4)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (4)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (4)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (4)
  
  Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (4)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine) (4)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (4)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (4)
  
  Przemyśl, prison, Rokitniańska Street 1 (4)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (4)
  
  Równe (Ukraine), prison, 3 Maja Street (Soborna Street 16) (4)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (4)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (4)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (4)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (4)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (4)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania), Łukiszki prison, Więzienna Street ( Lukiškių Street 6) (4)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (4)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison (Castle) (4)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (3)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (3)
  
  British Mandate of Palestine (Israel) (3)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (3)
  
  Czortków (now in Ukraine), prison, Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) (3)
  
  Dubno (Ukraine), prison, Matczyńskie Street (Zamkowa Street) (3)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (3)
  
  Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (3)
  
  Homel (Belarus) (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (3)
  
  Kagan (Uzbekistan) (3)
  
  Kherson (Ukraine), prison, Perekopska Street 10 (3)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (3)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine), prison, Kolejowa Street (Nezalezhnosti Street) (3)
  
  Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) (3)
  
  Lida (now in Belarus), "Kamionka" prison, Leninskaya Street 29 (3)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no 2, Zamarstynowska Street 7/9 (3)
  
  Minsk (Belarus), "Wołodarka" prison, Waladarskaha Street 2 (3)
  
  Minsk (Belarus), NKVD remand center "Amerykanka", Hradsky Val Street 4 (3)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (3)
  
  Moscow (Russia), "Butyrka" NKVD prison, Novoslobodskaya Street 45c5 (3)
  
  Mołodeczno (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Wielki Gościniec Street 52 (3)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (3)
  
  Połock (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Zinaida Tusnolobova-Marchenko Street (3)
  
  Połąga (now in Lithuania), internee camp (3)
  
  Qo‘ng‘irot (Uzbekistan) (3)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (3)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (3)
  
  Soroklag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (3)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD prison, Kirov Street 32 (3)
  
  Turtkul (Uzbekistan) (3)
  
  Ulbroka (Latvia), internee camp (3)
  
  Unzhlag (Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (3)
  
  Vologda (Russia, Vologda Oblast) (3)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (3)
  
  Złoczów (now in Ukraine), NKVD remand center (Castle), Tarnopolska Street 4 (3)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine), prison (Bridgettine Convent), Brygidek Street (Kafedralna Street 16) (3)
  
  Angielówka (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (2)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (2)
  
  Ayagoz (Kazakhstan) (2)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD remand center, Fralankowa Street 50 (2)
  
  Borysów (Belarus) (2)
Victims
- The Poles (193)
  
  The Civilian Population (164)
  
  The Inteligentsia (99)
  
  Women (84)
  
  Ukrainians (82)
  
  The Jews (77)
  
  Deportees (69)
  
  Children (66)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (66)
  
  The Sick (57)
  
  Russians/Soviets (50)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (49)
  
  Prisoners of War (46)
  
  Belarusians (45)
  
  Policemen (44)
  
  The Russians (44)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (35)
  
  The Elderly (25)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (24)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (20)
  
  The Church (19)
  
  Landowners (14)
  
  Border Guard (12)
  
  Internees (11)
  
  Lithuanians (10)
  
  Border Protection Corps (8)
  
  Germans (8)
  
  Latvians (6)
  
  Czechs (3)
  
  Estonians (3)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (3)
  
  Belgians (2)
  
  Greeks (2)
  
  Hungarians (2)
  
  The Dutch (2)
  
  The French (2)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (2)
  
  Italians (1)
  
  Prison Guard (1)
  
  Slovaks (1)
  
  The British (1)
  
  The Communists (1)
Perpetrators
- Denunciation (193)
  
  Collaboration (49)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (44)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (40)
  
  Red Army (39)
  
  Soviet Militia (25)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (14)
  
  Lithuanians (9)
  
  SS (5)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (3)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (2)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (1)
  
  Postal Protection (1)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (1)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (1)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1)
Crimes
- Forced Labour (170)
  
  Biological extermination (169)
  
  Arrest (155)
  
  Brutal Interrogation/Tortures (106)
  
  Deportation/Exile (99)
  
  Beatings (90)
  
  Judicial crime (75)
  
  Punishment cell (70)
  
  Cattle wagons (46)
  
  Robbery (40)
  
  Disarmament (19)
  
  Shooting (16)
  
  Execution (10)
  
  Sovietization (9)
  
  Deportation (6)
  
  Roads of death (6)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (6)
  
  Cremation (5)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (5)
  
  Economic exploitation (3)
  
  Gas chambers (3)
  
  Mass graves (3)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (3)
  
  Administrative persecution (2)
  
  Air raids (2)
  
  Armoured Weapon (2)
  
  Death marches (2)
  
  Desacration of corpses (2)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (2)
  
  Racial policy (2)
  
  "Dosing" (1)
  
  Burning people alive (1)
  
  Denationalization (1)
  
  Germanization (1)
  
  Hanging (1)
  
  Medical experiments (1)
  
  Rape (1)
  
  Round-up (1)
Place
- Prison (58)
  
  NKVD custody suite (57)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (51)
  
  Kolkhoz (44)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (41)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (28)
  
  Transit camp (15)
  
  Mine (13)
  
  Internment camp (12)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (9)
  
  Concentration camp (6)
  
  Sovkhoz (5)
  
  Extermination camp (2)
  
  Forced labor (2)
  
  Ghetto (1)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (1)
Content
- Health service (137)
  
  Amnesty (68)
  
  Anders' Army (50)
  
  First deportation (35)
  
  Epidemics (30)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (26)
  
  Polish culture in exile (26)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (23)
  
  Communist propaganda (21)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (19)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (9)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (7)
  
  Third deportation (6)
  
  Civil resistance (5)
  
  Extermination of Jews (5)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (4)
  
  Obliterating the traces (4)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (4)
  
  Second deportation (4)
  
  obliterating the traces (4)
  
  Underground media (3)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (3)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (2)
  
  Fourth deportation (2)
  
  Polish Underground State (2)
  
  Rescue of Jews (2)
  
  Aktion Zamość (1)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (1)
  
  Partisan warfare (1)
  
  Students' Army Corps (1)
  
  Underground culture and education (1)
Object type
- Account (57)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (6)
  
  Brief (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 (184)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (5)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (1)
  
  Katyn Museum (1)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (187)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (4)