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Witness

Holender H.

Topic

Date

1942.06-1945

Location

German extermination camp of Bełżec Kraków, ghetto Wieliczka German extermination camp of Treblinka Skawina

Witness

-

Topic

Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Tarnów Ghetto

Date

-

Location

Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), Gestapo headquarters, Urszulańska Street 18

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Witness

Broel-Plater (Skassa) Maria 18.12.1913, Warsaw

Topic

Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück

Date

1941.06.13-1945.04.28

Location

KL Ravensbrück (Germany) Odrowąż (Końskie district) Terespol (Biała Podlaska district) KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Biała Podlaska, Łomaska Street 21 Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2)

Witness

Blumenthal Nachman 1901?

Topic

Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture

Date

1939.11.25-1944

Location

Częstochowa Radom Borszczów (Ukraine) German extermination camp of Sobibór German extermination camp of Treblinka German extermination camp of Bełżec German extermination camp of Majdanek Warsaw, Ghetto Przemyśl Kraków, ghetto Radom Poniatowa, German forced labor camp Warsaw, National Museum, Aleje Jerozolimskie 3 Radom Czortków (Ukraine)

Witness

Piasecka-Karolewska Helena 1915

Topic

Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück

Date

1941.02.13-1945.04.28

Location

KL Ravensbrück (Germany) Lublin, Królewska Street 10 Lublin, Lublin Castle, Zamkowa Street 9

Witness

Biskup Jan 1913?

Topic

The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas

Date

1942-1944.08.26

Location

Chmielnik (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) Bosowice Busko-Zdrój, Security Police station, 3 Maja Avenue (Batorego Street/ Mickiewicza Avenue) Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) Chmielnik (świętokrzyskie voivodeship)

Witness

Stępień Zofia 1923?

Topic

Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region

Date

1941.06-1945.05

Location

Bosowice Busko-Zdrój

Witness

Pieron Antonina 06.03.1911, Ruczynów

Topic

Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Świętokrzyskie region

Date

1943.05.23-1944.01

Location

Ruczynów KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Busko-Zdrój Kielce

Witness

Pietrzak (Skibińska) Maria Halina 05.08.1912, Mircze

Topic

Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück

Date

1941.04.16-1945.04.28

Location

KL Ravensbrück (Germany) Zamość Tomaszów Lubelski Lublin, Lublin Castle, Zamkowa Street 9

Witness

-

Topic

Disrupted childhood – the Radom region

Date

1939.09-1945.05

Location

Policzna (mazowieckie voivodeship) Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship)

Witness

Sadowski Stanisław 1908?

Topic

The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas

Date

1941.09.22-1944

Location

Busko-Zdrój Janina (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) KL Auschwitz-Birkenau

Witness

Michalczak Janusz

Topic

The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews

Date

1942-1945

Location

Kraków, Zakątek Street Michniów Warsaw Jelenia Góra Dzierążnia Huta Pieniacka (Ukraine) Radzymin Stalingrad (Volgograd, Russia) Łańcut Kraków, Wielicka Street German extermination camp of Bełżec Kraków, Zyblikiewicza Street Krasne Potockie Nowy Sącz, ghetto, Lwowska Street Kraków, ghetto

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Witness

Bogdanowicz Marian 15.08.1931, Łuków

Topic

Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland

Date

1939.09.01-1944

Location

KL Auschwitz-Birkenau KL Dachau (Germany) German extermination camp of Treblinka Łuków (lubelskie voivodeship)

Witness

Chodor Jan

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

-

Location

Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Busk (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Olesko (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Poltava (Ukraine) Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Witness

Zakrzewski Wacław

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

-

Location

Busk (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Olesko (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Zborów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Skole (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

Witness

Chabros Józef 1910.02.26

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

-

Location

Volodymyr-Volynskyi Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp Zaporizhia (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Komi Republic (Russia) Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Witness

Zieliński Józef 1900

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

-

Location

Chełm Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp Karakub (Kalmiuske, Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs

Witness

Cytrynik Dawid

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

-

Location

Taraz (Jambyl, Kazakhstan) Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Chełm Warsaw, Józef Piłsudski District Hospital no. 1, Niepodległości Avenue 218

Witness

Malicki Adam

Topic

Disrupted childhood – the Radom region

Date

1939.09.01-1945.05

Location

-

Witness

Filipiński Tomasz

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

-

Location

Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Kozłów (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs