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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Puka Stanisław; 24.03.1921 (2)
  
  Aleksandrów Władysław; 1919? (1)
  
  Androchowicz Kazimiera; 1904, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Androchowicz Kazimiera; 1904, Lwów (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Augustyn Bolesław; 1902 (1)
  
  Aunszlok Kazimierz (1)
  
  Balawajder Franciszek (1)
  
  Balińska Janina; 19.03.1905, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899 (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899?, Brynica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Baranowska Władysława (1)
  
  Bauer Ludmiła; 28.01.1922 (1)
  
  Bazylewicz Aleksy, 1892 (1)
  
  Bednarska Wanda; 16.06.1912, Suchedniów (1)
  
  Bednarz Marian (1)
  
  Bereziuk Marian, 1922 (1)
  
  Bernatowicz Jan; 1899 (1)
  
  Bezruczko Jan; 1899, Lachowce (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bielski Emil, 1898 (1)
  
  Biełooki Wiktor; 1900 (1)
  
  Bińczak Bolesław; 11.10.1899, Dąbrówka (1)
  
  Boguski Aleksander, 1900 (1)
  
  Bohdziewicz Jan, 1891? (1)
  
  Bolesław Rafał; 1901 (1)
  
  Bonchort Zygmunt, 1897? (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)
  
  Borger Ludwik; 1915? (1)
  
  Bryja Joachim (1)
  
  Buczyński Michał; 28.09.1892 (1)
  
  Bujak Aleksander, 10.02.1914 (1)
  
  Burakiewicz Maria (1)
  
  Bławat Franciszek (1)
  
  Błażewicz Romuald (1)
  
  Chmielewski Szczepan; 1899 (1)
  
  Chojecka Maria; 11.03.1903 (1)
  
  Choma Piotr (1)
  
  Chudecki Tadeusz (1)
  
  Chudzikiewicz Zdzisław; 03.03.1922, Lublin (1)
  
  Ciągło Jan; 01.12.1899 (1)
  
  Cudowska Leokadia; 15.04.1904, Rogowo (Białystok county) (1)
  
  Cudowska Leokadia; 15.04.1904, Rogowo (Białystok district) (1)
  
  Cupryk Wladysław; 1916 (1)
  
  Cyganik Antoni; 27.03.1909, Chrzanów (1)
  
  Cygielman Szylem (1)
  
  Cyran Walentyna; 1899, Grodno (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  CyranWalentyna; Grodno (now: Belarus), 1899 (1)
  
  Cytowicz Michał; 1897 (1)
  
  Czajka Jan; 1896 (1)
  
  Czajkowski Aleksander (1)
  
  Czapiński Marian; 1901? (1)
  
  Czekałowska Irena (1)
  
  Czerniak Zygmunt, 1906 (1)
  
  Darasz Jan; 1901? (1)
  
  Daszkiewicz Wanda (1)
  
  Deputat Włodzimierz (1)
  
  Dmowski Jan; 1901 (1)
  
  Dobosz Franciszek (1)
  
  Dobosz Józef; 1897 (1)
  
  Dobrzański Jan; 1914 (1)
  
  Drabek Jan; 1901 (1)
  
  Drzewoszewski Józef (1)
  
  Dubieszko Stanisław; 1902? (1)
  
  Duda Ferdynand (1)
  
  Dworzak Bazyli; 1898.12.25 (1)
  
  Dykas Wawrzyniec; 1900? (1)
  
  Dziad Franciszek; 1898 (1)
  
  Dzik Franciszek; 1896 (1)
  
  Ejgierd Stanisław, 1897 (1)
  
  Epsztein Ewa; 19.08.1922, Rozprza (1)
  
  Epsztejn Abraham, 1911 (1)
  
  Fedorowicz Mieczysław, 1892 (1)
  
  Feliczak Jan, 1904 (1)
  
  Figiel Helena; 04.10.1921, Obroszyn (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Fijakowski Błażej (1)
  
  Finkler Gustaw (1)
  
  Firlit Seweryna; 1924 (1)
  
  Flint Szmul; 1920? (1)
  
  Frankiewicz Eliasz, 1899 (1)
  
  Frankiewicz Feliks, 1922 (1)
  
  Frenkiel Stanisław, 1918 (1)
  
  Fudali Stefania (1)
  
  Galantowicz Genowefa; 09.10.1917 Wilno (now in Lithuania) (1)
  
  Garbiak Stanislaw; 1913 (1)
  
  Garguliński Stanisław; 1911? (1)
  
  Gaweł Stanisław; 1920? (1)
  
  Gazda Antoni, 1891 (1)
  
  Giermuga Wojciech (1)
  
  Gincza Bogusław; 1925? (1)
  
  Gojos Stanisław (1)
  
  Gorzkowicz Tadeusz; 06.11.1918, Borysław (now in Ukraina) (1)
  
  Gospodarczyk Józef (1)
  
  Grabiec Bolesław, 1902 (1)
  
  Grodzińska Janina; 25.04.1923 (1)
  
  Grodzińska Olga; 15.11.1902 (1)
  
  Grosman Hersz, 1915 (1)
  
  Grunwald Antoni, 1897 (1)
  
  Grzelak Wacław; 1901? (1)
  
  Grzybowski Klemens (1)
Subject
- The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (79)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (43)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (32)
  
  In exile – Siberia (25)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (24)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (23)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (23)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (21)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (14)
  
  In exile – Ural (13)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (11)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (11)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (9)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (8)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (8)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (6)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (6)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (6)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (5)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (5)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (5)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (3)
  
  Deported – the Altai Krai (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ryazan Oblast (2)
  
  Deported – the Perm Krai (1)
  
  In exile – Far East (1)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Mari El Republic (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Republic of Mordovia (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Sverdlovsk Oblast (1)
  
  the Gulag Archipelago – the Krasnoyarsk Krai (1)
  
  the Gulag Archipelago – the Republic of Karelia (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (75)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (59)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (42)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (41)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (37)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (32)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (31)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (26)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (23)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (22)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (21)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (19)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (18)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (17)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (17)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (16)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (16)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (15)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (15)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (14)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (13)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (12)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (12)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (12)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (11)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (11)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (10)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (10)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (10)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (10)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (9)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (9)
  
  Kherson (Ukraine), prison, Perekopska Street 10 (9)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (9)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (9)
  
  Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a (9)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (9)
  
  Tehran (Iran) (9)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (9)
  
  Abez (Russia, Komi Republic) (8)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (8)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (8)
  
  Kagan (Uzbekistan) (8)
  
  Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) (8)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (8)
  
  Petropavlovsk (Kazakhstan) (8)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (8)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (8)
  
  Warsaw (8)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (8)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (8)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (7)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (7)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (7)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (7)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no 2, Zamarstynowska Street 7/9 (7)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (7)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (7)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (7)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (6)
  
  Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (6)
  
  Kermine (Navoiy, Uzbekistan) (6)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (6)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (6)
  
  Nakhodka (Russia, Primorsky Krai) (6)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (6)
  
  Nukus (Uzbekistan) (6)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (6)
  
  Poldnevitsa (Russia, Kostroma Oblast) (6)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (6)
  
  Turkistan (Kazakhstan) (6)
  
  Unzhlag (Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (6)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania) (6)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine), prison (Bridgettine Convent), Brygidek Street (Kafedralna Street 16) (6)
  
  Aykino (Russia, Komi Republic) (5)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (5)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (5)
  
  Leningrad (Saint Petersburg, Russia) (5)
  
  Przemyśl (5)
  
  Sevvostlag (Russia, Magadan Oblast) (5)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (5)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison (Castle) (5)
  
  Złoczów (now in Ukraine) (5)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (5)
  
  Barnaul (Russia, Altai Krai) (4)
  
  Bezymyanlag (Russia, Samara Oblast) (4)
  
  British Mandate of Palestine (Israel) (4)
  
  Farab (Turkmenistan) (4)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (4)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (4)
  
  Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (4)
  
  Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (4)
  
  Karlag (Kazakhstan) (4)
  
  Kniazhpogost (Russia, Komi Republic) (4)
  
  Kozelschyna (Ukraine, Poltava Oblast), transit camp (4)
  
  Kołomyja (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, aleja Wolności (Lesi Ukrainki Street 32) (4)
  
  Lida (now in Belarus) (4)
  
  Lwów (Ukraine), prison, Jachowicza Street 5 (Kuczery Street 5) (4)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no. 1, Łąckiego Street (Bandery Street 1) (4)
  
  Marhanets (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (4)
Victims
- The Poles (395)
  
  Civilians (339)
  
  The Civilian Population (278)
  
  The sick (181)
  
  Women (169)
  
  The Sick (164)
  
  The Inteligentsia (163)
  
  Deportees (153)
  
  Ukrainians (132)
  
  Children (129)
  
  The Jews (127)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (102)
  
  Russians/Soviets (102)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (100)
  
  The Russians (79)
  
  Prisoners of War (70)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (67)
  
  Belarusians (64)
  
  Policemen (63)
  
  The elderly (52)
  
  The Elderly (45)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (40)
  
  Lithuanians (28)
  
  The Church (21)
  
  Landowners (20)
  
  Internees (18)
  
  Germans (16)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (16)
  
  Border Guard (11)
  
  Border Protection Corps (11)
  
  Latvians (8)
  
  Estonians (7)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (7)
  
  Romanians (5)
  
  Czechs (4)
  
  Hungarians (3)
  
  Finns (1)
  
  Georgians (1)
  
  Prison Guard (1)
  
  The British (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (103)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (57)
  
  Red Army (53)
  
  Denunciation (52)
  
  Soviet Militia (48)
  
  Collaboration (25)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (16)
  
  Lithuanians (7)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (6)
  
  Collaborators (3)
  
  Administrative Police (2)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (2)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
Crimes
- Biological extermination (360)
  
  Forced labor (359)
  
  Arrest (304)
  
  Deportation/Exile (237)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (194)
  
  Beating (179)
  
  Cattle wagons (140)
  
  Judicial crime (127)
  
  Punishment cell (120)
  
  Robbery (79)
  
  Death by shooting (35)
  
  Disarmament (29)
  
  Execution (29)
  
  Roads of death (28)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (18)
  
  Sovietization (16)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (14)
  
  Deportation (13)
  
  Desacration of corpses (11)
  
  Air raids (8)
  
  Forced voting (8)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (6)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (6)
  
  Round-up (5)
  
  Collectivization (2)
  
  Armored weapons (1)
  
  Cremation (1)
  
  Cremation of corpses (1)
  
  Death marches (1)
  
  Displacement (1)
  
  Expulsion (1)
  
  Germanization (1)
  
  Mass graves (1)
  
  Racial policy (1)
  
  Rape (1)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (1)
Place
- Prison (105)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (104)
  
  Kolkhoz (103)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (100)
  
  NKVD custody suite (80)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (49)
  
  Transit camp (45)
  
  Mine (42)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (30)
  
  Sovkhoz (26)
  
  Internment camp (15)
  
  Orphanage – dietdom (4)
  
  Concentration camp (2)
  
  Siberia (2)
  
  Police headquarters/station (1)
  
  Sewers (1)
Content
- Epidemics (396)
  
  Health service (270)
  
  Anders' Army (146)
  
  Amnesty (130)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (90)
  
  First deportation (68)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (65)
  
  Polish culture in exile (61)
  
  Communist propaganda (56)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (35)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (30)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (28)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (22)
  
  Second deportation (16)
  
  Fourth deportation (12)
  
  Third deportation (11)
  
  Military hospital (8)
  
  Students' Army Corps (8)
  
  Civil resistance (6)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (4)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (2)
  
  Judenrat (2)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (2)
  
  Polish Underground State (2)
  
  Underground culture and education (2)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (1)
  
  Partisan warfare (1)
Object type
- Account (175)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (4)
  
  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 (396)
Medium
- Text (396)
  
  Image (13)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (385)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (10)