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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (2)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 04.05.1918, Kraków (2)
  
  Banasiewicz Józef (1)
  
  Biliński Ludwik; 1919? (1)
  
  Bochno Michał, 1903? (1)
  
  Bogucki Jan; 1913? (1)
  
  Burda Augustyn, 1901? (1)
  
  Chodoff Bernard; 1891 (1)
  
  Chojecka Maria; 11.03.1903 (1)
  
  Cieplik Marian; 24.02.1894 (1)
  
  Cyran Walentyna; 1899, Grodno (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  CyranWalentyna; Grodno (now: Belarus), 1899 (1)
  
  Dziedziejew Zofia; 15.07.1908 (1)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (1)
  
  Frąckiewicz Piotr; 1896 (1)
  
  Gac Jan, 1898 (1)
  
  Galantowicz Genowefa; 09.10.1917 Wilno (now in Lithuania) (1)
  
  Gołuński Walerian; 26.11.1913, Stara Kiszewa (1)
  
  Gołąb Maria; 08.09.1902 (1)
  
  Grosman Hersz, 1915 (1)
  
  Głuszak Józef; 27.10.1913, Koszyce Małe (1)
  
  Hafftke Elżbieta; 1912 (1)
  
  Hafftke Jadwiga; 1911 (1)
  
  Hafftke Lena; 1910 (1)
  
  Hoffman Zofia (1)
  
  Horynica Ludwik (1)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 13.11.1916, Kraków (1)
  
  Jurewicz Maria, 14.10.1907 (1)
  
  Kardasz Adam (1)
  
  Klewczenia Jan; 1911? (1)
  
  Klimek Henryk; 1900 (1)
  
  Korsak-Bartonezz Fryderyk Jan; 14.10.1891 (1)
  
  Kubuła Marian; 24.04.1909, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Künstler Stanisław (1)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 1917? (1)
  
  Langbein Hermann; 18.05.1912, Vienna (Austria) (1)
  
  Langbein Hermann; 18.05.1912, Wiedeń (Austria) (1)
  
  Marciniak Józef; 13.03.1891 (1)
  
  Mazurkiewicz Józef; 1904 (1)
  
  Mańdziuk Mirosława Maria; 1901? (1)
  
  Miszewski Jan; 1899? (1)
  
  Młynarski Marian (1)
  
  Nowak Jerzy (1)
  
  Nowak Józef; 1896 (1)
  
  Oczkoś Roman; 13.12.1899, Niedzieliska (lubelskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Oldak Wacław; 1905? (1)
  
  Osuch Kazimierz; 30.03.1899 (1)
  
  Pawliczek Hanna; 27.04.1916 (1)
  
  Pawlik Władysław; 1906? (1)
  
  Pałuszka Stanisław, 1899? (1)
  
  Pelipczak Leokadia; 27.12.1919 (1)
  
  Pliszka Franciszek; 1906? (1)
  
  Powiecki Franciszek Teofil; 21.02.1900, Gliwice (1)
  
  Rechowicz Rafał; 1916 (1)
  
  Seyfried Edmund; 15.02.1889, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Siwy Szymon; 1907? (1)
  
  Smoliński Jan; 1913? (1)
  
  Stelmaszewski Stanisław; 18.04.1897, Kutno (1)
  
  Szarecki Bolesław; 1874, Minsk (Belarus) (1)
  
  Szemiot Wacław; 25.06.1911, Grandzicie (1)
  
  Szkodziński Marian; 1924? (1)
  
  Szmajda Antoni; 1907? (1)
  
  Szostak Józef; 1906? (1)
  
  Szpak Franciszek; 1900 (1)
  
  Tchórzewski Józef (1)
  
  Terlecki Wacław; 1907 (1)
  
  Uszacki Leon; 1918 (1)
  
  Waserberger Leon (1)
  
  Wasiewicz Mieczysław; 18.02.1919 (1)
  
  Weissglas Jan Ludwik, 1912 (1)
  
  Werdum Piotr; 1911 (1)
  
  Wierzbicki Hieronim; 1897.07.17 (1)
  
  Wierzchoń Bolesław; 04.01.1908 (1)
  
  Willmann Szymon, 1901 (1)
  
  Winnicki Jerzy; 1902 (1)
  
  Wiszniowski Alojzy; 1914? (1)
  
  Wiśniewski Józef, 1891 (1)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Woś Franciszek; 1917? (1)
  
  Wrona Edward; 13.10.1913, Tuchów (1)
  
  Zacharzewski Witold (1)
  
  Zaprudnik Leon, 1914 (1)
  
  Zdunek Szczepan, 1892 (1)
  
  Ziembiński Marian, 1888 (1)
  
  Ziemlińska Czesława; 1900 (1)
  
  Zwolski Czesław (1)
  
  Śmierczyk Henryk, 1913? (1)
Subject
- The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (13)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (11)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (9)
  
  In exile – Siberia (9)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (7)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (6)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (6)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (6)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (6)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (4)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (4)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (4)
  
  In exile – Ural (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (3)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (2)
  
  In exile – Povolzhye (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Republic of Mordovia (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (2)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (1)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (1)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (1)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Kraków (1)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (1)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (1)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (20)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (19)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (12)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (11)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (11)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (11)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (10)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (9)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (8)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (7)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (7)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (6)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (6)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (6)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (6)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (6)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (6)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (5)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (5)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (5)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania), Łukiszki prison, Więzienna Street ( Lukiškių Street 6) (5)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (4)
  
  Barnaul (Russia, Altai Krai) (4)
  
  Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (4)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (4)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (4)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (4)
  
  Kraków (4)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (4)
  
  Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a (4)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (4)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (4)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (4)
  
  Tehran (Iran) (4)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (4)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (4)
  
  Alma-Ata (Almaty, Kazakhstan) (3)
  
  Czortków (now in Ukraine), Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) (3)
  
  Farab (Turkmenistan), train station (3)
  
  Irkutsk (Russia, Irkutsk Oblast) (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (3)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (3)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (3)
  
  Kermine (Navoiy, Uzbekistan) (3)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (3)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (3)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (3)
  
  Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) (3)
  
  Kuybyshev (Samara, Russia, Samara Oblast) (3)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (3)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (3)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (3)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (3)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (3)
  
  Semipalatinsk (Semey, Kazakhstan) (3)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (3)
  
  Teofipol (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (3)
  
  Bandar-e Pahlavi (Bandar-e Anzali, Iran) (2)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (2)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (2)
  
  Buczacz (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (2)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (2)
  
  Czortków (now in Ukraine), prison, Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) (2)
  
  Dnipropetrovsk (Dnipro, Ukraine), NKVD Headquarters, Chkalov Street (Sviatoslav Chorobroho Street 23) (2)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (2)
  
  Gródek Jagielloński (Gródek, Ukraine) (2)
  
  Gródek Jagielloński (Ukraine) (2)
  
  Husiatyn (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (2)
  
  Jawiszowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (2)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (2)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (2)
  
  Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (2)
  
  Leningrad (Saint Petersburg, Russia) (2)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (2)
  
  Minsk (Belarus), "Wołodarka" prison, Waladarskaha Street 2 (2)
  
  Moscow (Russia), "Butyrka" NKVD prison, Novoslobodskaya Street 45c5 (2)
  
  Nukus (Uzbekistan) (2)
  
  Onieglag corrective forced labor camp (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (2)
  
  Petropavlovsk (Kazakhstan) (2)
  
  Putyvl (Ukraine), NKVD camp for POWs (Sofronievsky Monastery) (2)
  
  Radziwiłłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (2)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (2)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (2)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (2)
  
  Sevvostlag (Russia, Magadan Oblast) (2)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (2)
  
  Shahrisabz (Uzbekistan) (2)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (2)
  
  Skole (Ukraine), Groedel Palace (NKVD headquarters), Knyaz Svyatoslav Street 40 (2)
  
  Sosnowiec (Śląskie Voivodeship) (2)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Taraz (Jambyl, Kazakhstan) (2)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), Gestapo headquarters, Urszulańska Street 18 (2)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (2)
  
  Tarnów, Gestapo Headquarters, Urszulańska Street 18 (2)
  
  Temlag (Russia, Republic of Mordovia) (2)
Victims
- The Poles (114)
  
  Civilians (102)
  
  The Civilian Population (72)
  
  The Inteligentsia (61)
  
  Women (59)
  
  Children (40)
  
  Deportees (38)
  
  Russians/Soviets (38)
  
  The Jews (37)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (36)
  
  Ukrainians (36)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (33)
  
  The sick (32)
  
  The Sick (27)
  
  The Russians (25)
  
  Prisoners of War (22)
  
  Policemen (20)
  
  The elderly (17)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (16)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (14)
  
  The Elderly (14)
  
  Belarusians (13)
  
  Landowners (10)
  
  The Church (10)
  
  Lithuanians (8)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (7)
  
  Germans (6)
  
  Internees (6)
  
  The Communists (6)
  
  The French (4)
  
  Border Guard (3)
  
  Border Protection Corps (3)
  
  Czechs (3)
  
  Hungarians (3)
  
  Georgians (2)
  
  Greeks (2)
  
  Slovaks (2)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (2)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Prison Guard (1)
  
  The British (1)
  
  The Disabled (1)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (32)
  
  Red Army (18)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (16)
  
  Collaboration (14)
  
  Denunciation (13)
  
  SS (11)
  
  Soviet Militia (11)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (7)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (6)
  
  Collaborators (4)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (4)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (4)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (2)
  
  Lithuanians (2)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (2)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (2)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (1)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (1)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (1)
  
  The Russian National Liberation Army (RONA) (1)
  
  Waffen-SS (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (104)
  
  Biological extermination (96)
  
  Arrest (90)
  
  Deportation/Exile (61)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (52)
  
  Beating (51)
  
  Cattle wagons (37)
  
  Judicial crime (36)
  
  Punishment cell (28)
  
  Robbery (24)
  
  Death by shooting (18)
  
  Execution (17)
  
  Deportation (7)
  
  Disarmament (7)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (7)
  
  Cremation (6)
  
  Cremation of corpses (6)
  
  Gas chambers (6)
  
  "Dosing" (4)
  
  Economic exploitation (4)
  
  Forced voting (4)
  
  Hanging (4)
  
  Mass graves (4)
  
  Racial policy (4)
  
  Roads of death (4)
  
  Round-up (4)
  
  Sovietization (4)
  
  Administrative persecution (3)
  
  Air raids (3)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (3)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (3)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (3)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (3)
  
  Burning people alive (2)
  
  Desacration of corpses (2)
  
  Displacement (2)
  
  Espionage for the Third Reich (2)
  
  Expulsion (2)
  
  Germanization (2)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (2)
  
  Medical experiments (2)
  
  Rape (2)
  
  Artillery fire (1)
  
  Artillery shelling (1)
  
  Collectivization (1)
Place
- Kolkhoz (33)
  
  Prison (31)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (25)
  
  NKVD custody suite (23)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (13)
  
  Transit camp (12)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (11)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (10)
  
  Sovkhoz (10)
  
  Concentration camp (9)
  
  Mine (8)
  
  Extermination camp (7)
  
  Internment camp (6)
  
  Labor camp (4)
  
  Forced labor (2)
  
  Police headquarters/station (2)
  
  Ghetto (1)
  
  Orphanage – dietdom (1)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (1)
  
  Sewers (1)
Content
- Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (116)
  
  Health service (83)
  
  Anders' Army (33)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (30)
  
  Epidemics (28)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (28)
  
  Amnesty (23)
  
  First deportation (20)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (20)
  
  Communist propaganda (13)
  
  Polish culture in exile (10)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (9)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (9)
  
  Civil resistance (8)
  
  Extermination of Jews (8)
  
  Polish Underground State (6)
  
  Third deportation (6)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (6)
  
  Obliterating the traces (5)
  
  Underground media (5)
  
  obliterating the traces (5)
  
  Fourth deportation (4)
  
  Aktion Zamość (3)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (2)
  
  Military hospital (2)
  
  Rescue of Jews (2)
  
  Second deportation (2)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (2)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (2)
  
  Students' Army Corps (2)
  
  Underground courts (2)
  
  Underground culture and education (2)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (2)
  
  Central Welfare Council (1)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (1)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (1)
  
  Intelligentsia Action (Intelligenzaktion) (1)
  
  Judenrat (1)
  
  National Armed Forces (1)
  
  Ochota Massacre (1)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (1)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
Object type
- Account (53)
  
  Report (53)
  
  Summary (53)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (9)
  
  Brief (2)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings, given without an oath (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 (103)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (10)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (2)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (1)
Medium
- Text (116)
  
  Image (4)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (110)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (6)