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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Tkaczuk Modest (2)
  
  Urbanowicz Jan (2)
  
  Zdanowicz Michał; 1899.12.11 (2)
  
  Adamowicz Alfons; 15.12.1906, Białystok (1)
  
  Adamowicz Wiktor; 08.03.1903 (1)
  
  Adamusik Stanisław (1)
  
  Aleksandrów Władysław; 1919? (1)
  
  Ambroziewicz Michał; 1904? (1)
  
  Arciszewski Franciszek; 02.11.1908, Łódź (1)
  
  Arciszewski Jan, 1907, Pińsk (1)
  
  Babiarz Józef; 13.03.1909, Łańcut (1)
  
  Babicz Stanisław; 17.07.1906, Babicze (1)
  
  Badurak Brosnislaw, 1905 (1)
  
  Badurak Brosnisław; 1905 (1)
  
  Bajorek Zygmunt; 1915? (1)
  
  Balawender Antonina (1)
  
  Balińska Janina; 19.03.1905, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Balter Berek; 15.01.1909 (1)
  
  Balter Berek; 15.01.1910 (1)
  
  Banach Jan; 1894? (1)
  
  Banasiewicz Józef (1)
  
  Baranowski Antoni; 1905 (1)
  
  Baranowski Józef (1)
  
  Baranowski Maksymilian (1)
  
  Bartoszewicz Emilia; 09.11.1915 (1)
  
  Bartoszko Kazimierz; 09.10.1898 (1)
  
  Bartoszyński Józef; 1913 (1)
  
  Batura Józef; 1916 (1)
  
  Baumgarten Józefina (1)
  
  Bednarczyk Jan (1)
  
  Bednarska Wanda; 16.06.1912, Suchedniów (1)
  
  Bednarski Bronisław (1)
  
  Bernacki Michal, 1898 (1)
  
  Bernatowicz Jan; 1899 (1)
  
  Besarab Michał; 04.03.1901 (1)
  
  Bełzki Jan; 1896, Potok Górny (1)
  
  Bibiło Jadwiga; 11.07.1922, Nacewicze (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Biel Ferdynand; 1898? (1)
  
  Bielska Emilia; 1911? (1)
  
  Biełooki Wiktor; 1900 (1)
  
  Biliński Ludwik; 1919? (1)
  
  Biskup Marcin; 1909 (1)
  
  Bobowski Leszek; 1910? (1)
  
  Bobrow Eugeniusz; 1906 (1)
  
  Bochenek Jan; 1898 (1)
  
  Boguski Aleksander, 1900 (1)
  
  Bolimowska Wanda; 1923, Pomorzanka (dziś: Ukraina) (1)
  
  Bolimowska Wanda; 1923, Pomorzanka (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bondus Piotr, 1904? (1)
  
  Borasińska Helena; 05.05.1898, Goszczyno (Płocki county) (1)
  
  Borasińska Jadwiga; 06.07.1925 Sutkowszczyzna (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Borasińska Jadwiga; 06.07.1925 Sutkowszczyzna (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Borejko Anton (1)
  
  Borger Ludwik; 1915? (1)
  
  Borkowski Bronisław; 12.03.1912 (1)
  
  Boroch Michał; ? (1)
  
  Borys Pelagia; 20.08.1920, Kąty (Łomża county) (1)
  
  Bowsza Stanisław; 10.03.1904 (1)
  
  Bronowicki Stanisław; 1908 (1)
  
  Bryja Joachim (1)
  
  Bryning Sylwester; 1898 (1)
  
  Brzezicki Wacław; 1921? (1)
  
  Buba Jadwiga; 1908 (1)
  
  Buben Wincenty (1)
  
  Bubniewicz Wladyslaw; 1898? (1)
  
  Buczyński Michał; 28.09.1892 (1)
  
  Budnik Michał; 1915.01.15 (1)
  
  Budzianowski Antoni; 1886 (1)
  
  Budzyń Leokadia; 03.03.1924, Hallerowo (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bujko Wiktor (1)
  
  Burakiewicz Maria (1)
  
  Burawski Władysław (1)
  
  Burzawa Franciszek, 22.11.1892 (1)
  
  Byra Paweł, 1898 ? (1)
  
  Byłek Michał, 1917? (1)
  
  Bzik Wacław; 1909? (1)
  
  Chaczko Franciszek (1)
  
  Charytański Kazimierz; 1894.03.04 (1)
  
  Chmielewska Jadwiga (1)
  
  Chmielewski Stanisław; 1914 (1)
  
  Chmielewski Szczepan; 1899 (1)
  
  Chojecka Maria; 11.03.1903 (1)
  
  Chowra Bolesław; 1904.10.24 (1)
  
  Chudoń Marian; 23.01.1909 (1)
  
  Chydzik Wilhelmina (1)
  
  Cichosz Wladysław, 1900? (1)
  
  Cichowski Julian; 1900? (1)
  
  Ciecierska Jadwiga; 1907? (1)
  
  Cieślak Bolesław; 1907? (1)
  
  Cudowska Leokadia; 15.04.1904, Rogowo (Białystok county) (1)
  
  Cudowska Leokadia; 15.04.1904, Rogowo (Białystok district) (1)
  
  Cudziło Władysław; 23.03.1909, Wodzianów (1)
  
  Cybański Adam; 1907? (1)
  
  Cybowicz Jan; 1891 (1)
  
  Cyprys Józef; 1896? (1)
  
  Cytko Jan; 1897? (1)
  
  Czajka Jan; 1896 (1)
  
  Czajkowski Tadeusz (1)
  
  Czapliński Jerzy (1)
  
  Czarnecki Jan; 1915? (1)
Subject
- The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (90)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (88)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (79)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (75)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (58)
  
  In exile – Siberia (50)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (38)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (37)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (28)
  
  In exile – Ural (25)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (23)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (16)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (15)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (14)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (12)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (10)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (8)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (8)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (6)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (5)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (4)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Republic of Mordovia (4)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (3)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (3)
  
  Deported – the Altai Krai (2)
  
  In exile – Mari El Republic (2)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Sverdlovsk Oblast (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Vologda Oblast (2)
  
  Deported – the Perm Krai (1)
  
  In exile – Far East (1)
  
  In exile – Povolzhye (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ivanovo Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ryazan Oblast (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (130)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (113)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (78)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (68)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (53)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (48)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (48)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (44)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (44)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (35)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (34)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (34)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (33)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (29)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (28)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (25)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (24)
  
  Kermine (Navoiy, Uzbekistan) (24)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (24)
  
  Tehran (Iran) (24)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (23)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (22)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (22)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (21)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (19)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (19)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (18)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (18)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (17)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (16)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (16)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (15)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (15)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (15)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (15)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (15)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (14)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (14)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (14)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (13)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (13)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (13)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no 2, Zamarstynowska Street 7/9 (13)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (13)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (13)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (13)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (13)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (13)
  
  Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia) (12)
  
  Barnaul (Russia, Altai Krai) (12)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (12)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (12)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (12)
  
  Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a (12)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (12)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (12)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (11)
  
  Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (11)
  
  Kuybyshev (Samara, Russia, Samara Oblast) (11)
  
  Nukus (Uzbekistan) (11)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania) (11)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (11)
  
  Łomża, prison, Legionów Avenue 36 (11)
  
  Berezwecz (Głębokie, now in Belarus), NKVD prison (Basilian monastery), Sovetskaya Street 201 (10)
  
  Czortków (Ukraine) (10)
  
  Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (10)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine) (10)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (10)
  
  Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) (10)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (10)
  
  Równe (Ukraine), prison, 3 Maja Street (Soborna Street 16) (10)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (10)
  
  Sevvostlag (Russia, Magadan Oblast) (10)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (10)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (10)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (now in Lithuania), internee camp (10)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (9)
  
  Białystok (9)
  
  Kagan (Uzbekistan) (9)
  
  Pavlodar (Kazakhstan) (9)
  
  Przemyśl (9)
  
  Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg, Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (9)
  
  Ukmergė (Lithuania), internee camp (9)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (9)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (8)
  
  Borysów (Belarus) (8)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (8)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (8)
  
  Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (8)
  
  Lida (now in Belarus) (8)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (8)
  
  Nowogródek (now in Belarus) (8)
  
  Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (8)
  
  Semipalatinsk (Semey, Kazakhstan) (8)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine) (8)
  
  Tashlak (Toshloq, Uzbekistan) (8)
  
  Bezymyanlag (Russia, Samara Oblast) (7)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), prison, Zygmuntowska Street (Marx Street 86-88) (7)
  
  Czortków (now in Ukraine), prison, Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) (7)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (7)
Victims
- The Poles (694)
  
  The Civilian Population (546)
  
  Women (311)
  
  Deportees (281)
  
  The Inteligentsia (220)
  
  Children (210)
  
  Ukrainians (187)
  
  The Jews (174)
  
  The Sick (171)
  
  Prisoners of War (160)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (154)
  
  The Russians (145)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (142)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (107)
  
  Belarusians (92)
  
  The Elderly (92)
  
  Policemen (88)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (49)
  
  Internees (39)
  
  The Church (33)
  
  Lithuanians (30)
  
  Landowners (28)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (24)
  
  Border Protection Corps (19)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (19)
  
  Border Guard (17)
  
  Germans (15)
  
  Latvians (9)
  
  Czechs (8)
  
  Romanians (8)
  
  Estonians (6)
  
  Hungarians (5)
  
  Finns (2)
  
  Prison Guard (2)
  
  Slovaks (1)
  
  The British (1)
Perpetrators
- People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (273)
  
  Red Army (87)
  
  Soviet Militia (66)
  
  Denunciation (56)
  
  Collaboration (52)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (49)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (18)
  
  Lithuanians (15)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (3)
  
  Latvians (2)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (2)
  
  Administrative Police (1)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (1)
  
  Postal Protection (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1)
Crimes
- Forced Labour (645)
  
  Biological extermination (592)
  
  Deportation/Exile (508)
  
  Arrest (487)
  
  Brutal Interrogation/Tortures (281)
  
  Beatings (256)
  
  Cattle wagons (211)
  
  Punishment cell (167)
  
  Judicial crime (157)
  
  Robbery (93)
  
  Disarmament (63)
  
  Shooting (54)
  
  Execution (40)
  
  Deportation (39)
  
  Roads of death (36)
  
  Sovietization (29)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (17)
  
  Air raids (9)
  
  Forced voting (9)
  
  Desacration of corpses (7)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (7)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (5)
  
  Round-up (5)
  
  Death marches (4)
  
  Armoured Weapon (3)
  
  Cremation (1)
  
  Expulsion (1)
  
  Germanization (1)
  
  Mass graves (1)
  
  Rape (1)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (1)
Place
- (Soviet) forced-labor camp (222)
  
  Prison (204)
  
  Kolkhoz (182)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (180)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (98)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (82)
  
  NKVD custody suite (82)
  
  Transit camp (60)
  
  Mine (49)
  
  Sovkhoz (46)
  
  Internment camp (36)
  
  Siberia (5)
  
  Concentration camp (3)
  
  Orphanage – dietdom (1)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (1)
  
  Police headquarters/station (1)
Content
- Amnesty (701)
  
  Anders' Army (430)
  
  Health service (417)
  
  Communist propaganda (169)
  
  First deportation (143)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (132)
  
  Epidemics (122)
  
  Polish culture in exile (92)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (74)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (73)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (55)
  
  Second deportation (52)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (38)
  
  Fourth deportation (31)
  
  Third deportation (27)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (20)
  
  Military hospital (18)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (15)
  
  Students' Army Corps (12)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (5)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (5)
  
  Aid to Jews (4)
  
  Civil resistance (3)
  
  Judenrat (2)
  
  Clandestine courses (1)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (1)
  
  Partisan warfare (1)
  
  Polish Underground State (1)
  
  Underground culture and education (1)
  
  Underground media (1)
Object type
- Account (196)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (10)
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 (702)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (699)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (56)

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Dąb Marian

The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast

1940.06-1943

Baranowicze (now in Belarus) Volgolag (Russia, Yaroslavl Oblast)

Schmidt Rudolf 17.03.1912,

The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast

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Przemyśl, prison, Rokitniańska Street 1 Jarosław (podkarpackie voivodeship) Sieniawa (Przeworsk district) Sanok Kharkiv (Ukraine) Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia)

Lisicki Antoni

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

1939-1945

Bezymyanlag (Russia, Samara Oblast)

Kuczkowski Ludwik

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

1939-1941

Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) Kłódka (now in Ukraine) Skole (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Dnipropetrovsk (Dnipro, Ukraine) Naryan-Mar (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Abez (Russia, Komi Republic)

Witczak Józef

The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia

1940.09.28-21.09.1941/1941.09.21

Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Krasnoyarsk (Russia, Krasnoyarsk Krai) Norilsk (Russia, Krasnoyarsk Krai)

Stadnik Stanisław 1911?

The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast

1939.09.13-1941.11.17

Lwów (now in Ukraine), II Dom Techników (Dormitory no. 1 of the Lwów Polytechnic), Abrahamowiczów Street 14 (Boya-Żeleńskiego Street 14) Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no 2, Zamarstynowska Street 7/9 Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) Yertsevo (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Krzemieńczuk (Ukraine) Kirov (Russia, Kirov Oblast) Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Gojos Stanisław

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

1940.09.20-1942.02.07

Zaostrowiecze (Belarus) Nieśwież (now in Belarus) Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 Moscow (Russia), the NKVD prison "Lubyanka", Bolshaya Lubyanka Street 2 Kedrovy Shor (Russia, Komi Republic) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Zarzycki Władysław

The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast

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Zacharzewski Franciszek

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

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Toroń Stanisław

In exile – Central Asia

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