„Chronicles of Terror”. Base of testimonies of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor

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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Anonymous (22)
  
  Szulc C. (7)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (4)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (4)
  
  Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (4)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 27.01.1913, Warsaw (4)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (4)
  
  Barzał Czesław; 09.10.1915, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Czardybon Bernard; 18.06.1901, Chorzów (3)
  
  Koczorowski Józef; 01.02.1919, Poznań (3)
  
  Konferowicz Wacław; 13.05.1912, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Kopta Marian; 08.12.1911, Kraków (3)
  
  Krokowski Jan; 08.05.1921, Nowy Sącz (3)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (3)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Maciejowski Adolf; 09.02.1910, Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Maliszewski Stefan; 23.05.1912, Warsaw (3)
  
  Maszczyk Antoni (3)
  
  Nowiński (3)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (3)
  
  Rżewski Władysław, 07.01.1894 (3)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć county) (3)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć district) (3)
  
  Staszkiewicz Bronisław; 18.07.1921, Żywiec (3)
  
  Wrona Edward; 13.10.1913, Tuchów (3)
  
  Al’ona, 1987 (2)
  
  Banach Ludwig; 24.08.1917, Bydgoszcz (2)
  
  Banach Ludwik; 24.08.1918 (2)
  
  Bartosiewicz Henryk; 1909? (2)
  
  Bartoszko Kazimierz; 09.10.1898 (2)
  
  Bicz Bolesław; 01.04.1889, Sporysz (Bielsk county) (2)
  
  Bloch Claude; 29.05.1910, Bourg-la-Reine (France) (2)
  
  Bryński Antoni; 18.01.1899, Radom (2)
  
  Budziaszek Maria; 08.09.1920, Kraków (2)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Chrościcki Julian; 26.05.1892, Szymony (2)
  
  Denkiewicz Michał; 08.09.1893, Wierzba (2)
  
  Drabek Jaroslav; 06.04.1901, Chrudim (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Dubas Irena; 19.10.1914, Nowy Sącz (2)
  
  Dudek Władysław; 16.06.1920, Radogoszcz (2)
  
  Dudek Władysław; 1920? (2)
  
  Filipowska (Freund) Ilza; 14.01.1902, Wrocław (2)
  
  Frankiewicz Janina; 13.08.1912, Wieliczka (2)
  
  Garbarczyk Andrzej (2)
  
  Gliński Bogdan; 08.12.1921, Sancygniów (2)
  
  Głowa Stanisław; 15.09.1898, Igołomia (2)
  
  Hanuszek Tadeusz; 11.07.1922, Kraków (2)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (2)
  
  Hys Stanisław; 19.07.1910, Sobolew (mazowieckie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Izbicki Michał; 05.02.1919, Janów (2)
  
  Jankowska Weronika; 1912? (2)
  
  Jaworska Bogna; 28.04.1925, Blachownia (2)
  
  Jędrusiak Michalina, 29.09.1906, Kraków (2)
  
  Kadłubowski Romuald; 27.02.1896, Słucz (2)
  
  Kahl Tadeusz; 27.07.1908, Kraków (2)
  
  Kaszyński Jan; 19.11.1920, Warsaw (2)
  
  Kiczmachowski Edward; 29.07.1920, Strasburg (2)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (2)
  
  Koczanowicz Stanisław; 05.05.1921, Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Korecki Stanisław; 06.03.1914, Wola Gręboszowska (2)
  
  Kotlarski Mieczysław; 09.10.1913, Osieczna (wielkopolskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Kołodziejczyk Aleksander; 21.01.1914, Kraków (2)
  
  Kościuszko Janina; 17.05.1897, Chrzanów? (2)
  
  Kraus Otto; 07.09.1909, Klášterní Skalice (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Kulesza Stanisław; 07.03.1907, Ponikiew Mała (2)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 04.05.1918, Kraków (2)
  
  Lamcha Zygfryd; 1915?, Germany (2)
  
  Lamcha Zygfryd; 1915?, Niemcy (2)
  
  Lasok Aniela; 1922? (2)
  
  Lechowski Maksymilian; 1900? (2)
  
  Lerczak Bolesław, 02.08.1912 (2)
  
  Liszka Edward; 25.07.1920, Kraków (2)
  
  Loth Felicjan; 30.06.1914, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Loth Felicjan; 30.06.1914, Lwów (now: Ukraine) (2)
  
  Ludwig Józef Paweł; 03.07.1910, Sosnowiec (2)
  
  Materkowski Antoni; 14.06.1899, Koprzywnica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Mikoda Bolesław; 14.05.1925, Bielsk (2)
  
  Mikołajski Zdzisław; 28.09.1913, Kraków (2)
  
  Misztal Konstanty; 28.01.1920, Warsaw (2)
  
  Mączka Zofia; 30.11.1905, Kraków (2)
  
  Nadrykowski Józef; 1893? (2)
  
  Nass Róża; 09.01.1907, Biała (Bielsko-Biała) (2)
  
  Niedojadło Eugeniusz; 21.11.1919, Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Olbrycht Jan; 06.05.1886, Zahutyń (2)
  
  Paczyński Józef; 29.01.1920, Wadowice (2)
  
  Pająk Franciszek (2)
  
  Palińska Kazimiera; 03.03.1883, Świr (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Paudyn Tadeusz; 16.12.1899, Radom (2)
  
  Plaskura Władysław; 10.05.1905, Łazy (Orłowa, Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Podgórski Antoni; 10.02.1890 (2)
  
  Podgórski Jan; 17.12.1901, Kraków (2)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (2)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 1911? (2)
  
  Pozimski Jerzy; 05.05.1913, Szarlej (Piekary Śląskie) (2)
  
  Prawer Seweryn; 1903? (2)
  
  Prząda Marian; 12.09.1920, Kraków (2)
  
  Puka Stanisław; 24.03.1921 (2)
  
  Rablin Andrzej; 01.01.1914, Kraków (2)
  
  Rajewski Ludwik; 16.12.1900, Łódź (2)
  
  Ratajczak Ignacy; 14.07.1903 (2)
Subject
- The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (326)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (260)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (221)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (133)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (128)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (96)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (95)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (90)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (84)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (80)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (60)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (58)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (53)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (52)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (42)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (39)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (38)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (35)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (34)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (32)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (31)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (29)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Majdanek (28)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (28)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (27)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (25)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (24)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (23)
  
  Russian occupation – south Ukraine (23)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (21)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (19)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (18)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (17)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (17)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (17)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (16)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (16)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (15)
  
  In exile – Siberia (14)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (14)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (14)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (13)
  
  Radom bathed in blood – the prison in the former convent buildings (13)
  
  Soldier's House, Fort VII, Żabikowo – the trail of death in Greater Poland (13)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (12)
  
  Stadion Leśny, Słowik, Herby – execution sites in Kielce (12)
  
  In exile – Ural (11)
  
  Radom – daily terror (11)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (11)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (11)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (10)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ryazan Oblast (10)
  
  Browar, Czerwoniak – the Ostrów death blocks (9)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (9)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Sachsenhause (9)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Sachsenhausen (9)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (9)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (9)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (8)
  
  Fighting in Donbas (2014 and/or 2022) (8)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (8)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (8)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (8)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (8)
  
  The persecuted church (8)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (7)
  
  Mariupol Siege (7)
  
  A mass extermination – KL Flossenbürg (6)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Gliwice (6)
  
  Fighting for Kharkiv (6)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (6)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (6)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – the Stanisławów area (6)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Lublin region (6)
  
  Treblinka – extermination camp (6)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (5)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (5)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (5)
  
  Fighting for Kyiv (4)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (4)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (4)
  
  Lebensraum – the Germanization of the Zamość region (4)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Flossenbürg (4)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Częstochowa region (4)
  
  Pomiechówek Fort – the Mazovian torture complex (4)
  
  Russian occupation – Kharkiv Oblast (4)
  
  Soviets in German captivity (4)
  
  The city condemned to death (4)
  
  The tragedy of the Radom Arms Factory (4)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (4)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (3)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Neuengamme (3)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (3)
  
  The Free City of Danzig – erasing Polishness (3)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Radom region (3)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (3)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (3)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (3)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (3)
  
  A mass extermination – KL Mauthausen-Gusen (2)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz I (360)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (303)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (290)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (261)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (246)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (227)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (218)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (199)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (147)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (118)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (117)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (111)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (110)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (108)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (96)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (95)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (92)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (87)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (85)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (77)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (77)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (75)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (72)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (72)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (70)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (67)
  
  KL Majdanek (60)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (60)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (58)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (57)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (56)
  
  Warsaw (56)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (56)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (55)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (53)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (53)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (51)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (51)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (49)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (49)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (46)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (45)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (44)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (44)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (43)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (42)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (41)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (40)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (40)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (40)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (39)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (39)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (36)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (35)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (35)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (35)
  
  Sevvostlag (Russia, Magadan Oblast) (35)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (35)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (34)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (34)
  
  KL Plaszow (34)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (34)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (34)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (34)
  
  Bochnia, train station (33)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (33)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (33)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (32)
  
  Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a (31)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (30)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (30)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (30)
  
  Kraków (30)
  
  Nakhodka (Russia, Primorsky Krai) (30)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (29)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no 2, Zamarstynowska Street 7/9 (29)
  
  Radom, Gestapo headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (28)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (28)
  
  Bydgoszcz (27)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (27)
  
  Minsk (Belarus), "Wołodarka" prison, Waladarskaha Street 2 (27)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (27)
  
  Łomża, prison, Legionów Avenue 36 (27)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (26)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (26)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (26)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (26)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (26)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania), Łukiszki prison, Więzienna Street ( Lukiškių Street 6) (26)
  
  Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (25)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (25)
  
  Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (25)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (24)
  
  Czortków (now in Ukraine), Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) (24)
  
  Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (24)
  
  Przemyśl, prison, Rokitniańska Street 1 (24)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (23)
  
  Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 (23)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (23)
  
  Berezwecz (Głębokie, now in Belarus), NKVD prison (Basilian monastery), Sovetskaya Street 201 (22)
Oblast
- Zaporizhia (13)
  
  Donetsk (11)
  
  Kherson (11)
  
  Kharkiv (10)
  
  Luhansk (6)
  
  Kyiv (4)
  
  Kyiv Oblast (2)
  
  Sumy (2)
  
  Mykolaiv (1)
Raion
- Mariupol (7)
  
  Kherson (5)
  
  Vasylivka (5)
  
  Kharkiv (4)
  
  Bucha (3)
  
  Kakhovka (3)
  
  Svatove (3)
  
  Berdyansk (2)
  
  Beryslav (2)
  
  Donetsk (2)
  
  Izium (2)
  
  Kramatorsk (2)
  
  Kupyansk (2)
  
  Melitopol (2)
  
  Severodonetsk (2)
  
  Сhuhuiv (2)
  
  Kiev (1)
  
  Kyiv (1)
  
  Markivka (1)
  
  Mykolaiv (1)
  
  Polohy (1)
  
  Romny (1)
  
  Skadovsk (1)
  
  Zaporizhia (1)
Victims
- The Poles (2343)
  
  Civilians (2202)
  
  The Civilian Population (1798)
  
  Women (942)
  
  The Jews (935)
  
  The Inteligentsia (799)
  
  Children (581)
  
  The sick (576)
  
  Russians/Soviets (558)
  
  The Sick (522)
  
  Ukrainians (480)
  
  The Russians (424)
  
  Prisoners of War (420)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (360)
  
  The elderly (274)
  
  Policemen (242)
  
  The Elderly (236)
  
  Deportees (218)
  
  Belarusians (196)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (158)
  
  The Church (139)
  
  Germans (122)
  
  Internees (115)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (112)
  
  Hungarians (93)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (93)
  
  Czechs (86)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (83)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (75)
  
  Lithuanians (73)
  
  Border Guard (72)
  
  The French (69)
  
  Landowners (66)
  
  Slovaks (53)
  
  Border Protection Corps (51)
  
  Belgians (48)
  
  The Dutch (45)
  
  Greeks (41)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (41)
  
  The Disabled (40)
  
  The Communists (35)
  
  Latvians (33)
  
  Estonians (25)
  
  Romanians (18)
  
  Italians (17)
  
  Americans (13)
  
  Norwegians (12)
  
  The British (12)
  
  Prison Guard (7)
  
  Finns (5)
  
  the Chinese (4)
  
  Georgians (2)
  
  Serbs (2)
  
  Scouts (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (691)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (310)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (262)
  
  Collaboration (201)
  
  Denunciation (188)
  
  Red Army (153)
  
  Soviet Militia (126)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (125)
  
  Military Police (121)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (83)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (79)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (64)
  
  Lithuanians (60)
  
  Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (55)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (41)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (38)
  
  Collaborators (35)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (20)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (15)
  
  Donetsk People’s Militia (all military formations of so-called separatist republics DNR and LNR) (14)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (13)
  
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Crimes
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  obliterating the traces (86)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (58)
  
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  the People's Army (Armia Ludowa, AL) (3)
  
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  Lemkin Center (57)
  
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  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (27)
  
  Collection of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland. Research and investigative files (24)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (17)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (15)
  
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  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland 1949–1984 (3)
  
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  District Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation – Institute of National Remembrance in Białystok (1)
  
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