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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Marcinkiewicz Stefan (4)
  
  Anonymous (3)
  
  Siedlecki Karol (3)
  
  Głowiak Stanisław; 10.02.1903, Podzwierzyniec (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Lipski Jan (2)
  
  Szczuciński (2)
  
  Zdanowicz Michał; 1899.12.11 (2)
  
  Adamowicz Alfons; 15.12.1906, Białystok (1)
  
  Affek Piotr; 1905? (1)
  
  Alchimowicz Kazimierz; 1906 (1)
  
  Aleksiejewicz Józef (1)
  
  Andrzejewski Teodor; 1904? (1)
  
  Aniszkiewicz Józef; 1895? (1)
  
  Aranowicz Jerma; 1907? (1)
  
  Babiarz Józef; 13.03.1909, Łańcut (1)
  
  Babiarz Paweł, 1900.07.06 (1)
  
  Babiński Henryk, 1911 (1)
  
  Bakun Wladyslaw, 1906 (1)
  
  Bakun Władysław; 1906 (1)
  
  Balińska Janina; 19.03.1905, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Baliński Kazimierz, 1901 (1)
  
  Banach Jan; 1894? (1)
  
  Barachowski Jan, 1900 (1)
  
  Baranowski Julian; 1902 (1)
  
  Baranowski Józef (1)
  
  Baranowski Maksymilian (1)
  
  Barczykowski Jan 1914 (1)
  
  Barczykowski Jan; 05.01.1914, Spieczyny (1)
  
  Bartosiak Kazimierz; 1898 (1)
  
  Barycki Stanisław; 1898 (1)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (1)
  
  Bałajewicz Jadwiga; 1913 (1)
  
  Bałajewicz Jadwiga; 1914 (1)
  
  Bereza Wladyslaw, 1899 (1)
  
  Berkowicz Icko; 1906, Różana (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Bernatowicz Jan; 1899 (1)
  
  Berner Aleksander; 04.03.1915, Landwarów (now in Lithuania) (1)
  
  Berner Aleksander; 04.03.1915, Landwarów (now in Lithuania) (1)
  
  Bezruczko Jan; 1899, Lachowce (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Białobocki Andrzej; 1900? (1)
  
  Bielska Krystyna (1)
  
  Bieniek Marianna; 1908, Dębska Wola (1)
  
  Bier Maksymilian; 1892? (1)
  
  Biliński Ludwik; 1919? (1)
  
  Binduga Władysław; 1915 (1)
  
  Birzański Sz. (1)
  
  Blewąska Wincenty; 1900 (1)
  
  Bluszcz Aleksander; 1899 (1)
  
  Bobrzek Wladyslaw; 08.09.1899 (1)
  
  Bochenski Jan; 28.12.1901 (1)
  
  Bodnar Michał, 1899? (1)
  
  Bohotko Józef (1)
  
  Bonchort Zygmunt, 1897? (1)
  
  Borger Ludwik; 1915? (1)
  
  Borkowski Stefan (1)
  
  Borowski Józef; 1901? (1)
  
  Bowsza Stanisław; 10.03.1904 (1)
  
  Brachaniec Leon; 1897? (1)
  
  Bratkowski Jozef; 18.02.1906 (1)
  
  Bronis Piotr; 1903? (1)
  
  Brunarska Zofia; 27.05.1923 (1)
  
  Brzeziński Roman; 16.07.1916 (1)
  
  Brzozowski Stefan; 1900? (1)
  
  Brzuszkiewicz Jan (1)
  
  Buben Wincenty (1)
  
  Buciak Józef, 1899 (1)
  
  Bugijczyk Eustachy; 13.07.1914 (1)
  
  Bujakiewicz Kazimierz, 1898 (1)
  
  Bukiewicz Marian (1)
  
  Bukowski Józef, 1898 (1)
  
  Bulko Konstanty (1)
  
  Buras Michał, 1909 (1)
  
  Busk Kazimierz; 09.01.1915, Kielce (1)
  
  Byczkowski Wiktor, 1896? (1)
  
  Bysiewicz Alfred; 1895 (1)
  
  Ceglarek Józef; 1909.02.28 (1)
  
  Chabior Piotr, 1900 (1)
  
  Chabros Józef, 1910.02.26 (1)
  
  Chacuk Michał; 07.09.1923, Starzynki (1)
  
  Charszla Lidia (1)
  
  Chmielarski Józef; 1898 (1)
  
  Chodor Jan (1)
  
  Chodorowski Stanisław; 1900 (1)
  
  Chojna Michał (1)
  
  Chojnowski Stanisław, 1912.08.16 (1)
  
  Chomicz Eustachy; 1905 (1)
  
  Chydzik Wilhelmina (1)
  
  Chyliński Julian; 1898? (1)
  
  Cichno Jan; 1900? (1)
  
  Cichosz Wladysław, 1900? (1)
  
  Cichy Paweł; 1910 (1)
  
  Ciesielski Antoni; 1911.03.03 (1)
  
  Cyran Tadeusz (1)
  
  Cyrański Józef; 1902? (1)
  
  Cyrocki Antoni; 1909 (1)
  
  Czajkowski Leon; 10.01.1913, Dobra (1)
  
  Czajkowski Mikołaj; 1926? (1)
  
  Czarniecki Kazimierz, 1912.12.02 (1)
  
  Czerniewski Andrzej, 1897.11.22 (1)
  
  Czernuszczyk Paweł, 1917.08.22 (1)
Subject
- The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (473)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (72)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (21)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (13)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (7)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (6)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (4)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (3)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (2)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (2)
  
  Soviets in German captivity (2)
  
  Taken Captive (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (2)
  
  Prisoners of war – transit camps in Kielce (1)
  
  Pruszków – the town of the displaced (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Sverdlovsk Oblast (1)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (1)
  
  The Polish Righteous Among the Nations (1)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (1)
  
  The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (314)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (162)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (162)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (120)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (94)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (84)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (83)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (77)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (68)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (65)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (61)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (60)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (50)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (45)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (41)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (41)
  
  Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (39)
  
  Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (38)
  
  Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (38)
  
  Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (37)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (37)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (35)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (34)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (34)
  
  Olesko (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (34)
  
  Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (32)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (32)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (30)
  
  Radziwiłłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (30)
  
  Ostróg (now in Ukraine), transit camp (Barracks of the 19th Volhynian Uhlan Regiment) (29)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (29)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (28)
  
  Zborów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (27)
  
  Kozelschyna (Ukraine, Poltava Oblast), transit camp (24)
  
  Podliski Małe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (24)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (23)
  
  Proskuriv (Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (22)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (21)
  
  Czerlany (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (21)
  
  Teofipol (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (21)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (20)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (20)
  
  Ukmergė (Lithuania), internee camp (20)
  
  Busk (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (19)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (19)
  
  Podwołoczyska (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (19)
  
  Połąga (now in Lithuania), internee camp (19)
  
  Ostra Góra (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (18)
  
  Zaporizhia (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (18)
  
  Złoczów (now in Ukraine) (18)
  
  Zahorce Wielkie (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (17)
  
  Angielówka (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (16)
  
  Babin (now in Ukraine, Rivne Oblast), POW forced labor camp (15)
  
  Filipowicze (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (15)
  
  Mościska (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (15)
  
  Tudorów (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (15)
  
  Karakub (Kalmiuske, Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (14)
  
  Werba (Ukraine) (14)
  
  Hermanów (Tarasiwka, now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (13)
  
  Niesłuchów (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (13)
  
  Skniłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (13)
  
  Tuligłowy (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (13)
  
  Warkowicze (Ukraine) (13)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (now in Lithuania), internee camp (13)
  
  Złoczów (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (13)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (12)
  
  Gródek Jagielloński (Gródek, now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (12)
  
  Kozłów (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (12)
  
  Kurowice (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (12)
  
  Skole (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (12)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine) (12)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, Ukraine), transit camp (12)
  
  Chełm (11)
  
  Jaryczów Stary (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (11)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (11)
  
  Korzec (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (11)
  
  Marhanets (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (11)
  
  Sądowa Wisznia (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (11)
  
  Vladimir (Russia, Vladimir Oblast) (11)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine) (11)
  
  Kamionka Las (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (10)
  
  Ponikwa (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (10)
  
  Sosenki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (10)
  
  Stołpce (now in Belarus) (10)
  
  Wójtowice (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (10)
  
  Żydatycze (Hamaliyivka, Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (10)
  
  Janów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (9)
  
  Kniazhpogost (Russia, Komi Republic) (9)
  
  Kostopol (now in Ukraine) (9)
  
  Kulautuva (Lithuania), internment camp (9)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (9)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (9)
  
  Tarnopol (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (9)
  
  Winnica (now in Ukraine) (9)
  
  Wojtkuszki (Lithuania), internment camp (9)
  
  Antopol (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (8)
  
  Brody (Ukraine) (8)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (8)
  
  Jelenovka (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (8)
  
  Kupcze (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (8)
Victims
- The Poles (636)
  
  Prisoners of War (542)
  
  Ukrainians (229)
  
  The Jews (189)
  
  Belarusians (187)
  
  The Inteligentsia (177)
  
  Policemen (137)
  
  Civilians (122)
  
  The Civilian Population (114)
  
  Internees (94)
  
  The sick (87)
  
  The Sick (79)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (71)
  
  Border Guard (63)
  
  Border Protection Corps (39)
  
  Women (34)
  
  Germans (29)
  
  Russians/Soviets (25)
  
  The Russians (22)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (20)
  
  The Church (20)
  
  Children (19)
  
  Deportees (19)
  
  The elderly (12)
  
  The Elderly (11)
  
  Lithuanians (9)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (9)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (7)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (6)
  
  Prison Guard (6)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (5)
  
  Landowners (4)
  
  Czechs (3)
  
  Americans (1)
  
  Estonians (1)
  
  Hungarians (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Romanians (1)
  
  Slovaks (1)
  
  The French (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- Red Army (329)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (131)
  
  Lithuanians (54)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (54)
  
  Collaboration (44)
  
  Denunciation (41)
  
  Soviet Militia (15)
  
  Collaborators (5)
  
  Latvians (3)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (3)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (2)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (2)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (2)
  
  SS (2)
  
  Administrative Police (1)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (1)
  
  Military Police (1)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (1)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (1)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (1)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (616)
  
  Biological extermination (557)
  
  Disarmament (283)
  
  Arrest (252)
  
  Deportation/Exile (191)
  
  Punishment cell (188)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (185)
  
  Beating (177)
  
  Cattle wagons (151)
  
  Roads of death (139)
  
  Death by shooting (137)
  
  Execution (127)
  
  Robbery (59)
  
  Air raids (38)
  
  Judicial crime (35)
  
  Deportation (16)
  
  Death marches (8)
  
  Desacration of corpses (7)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (7)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (6)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (6)
  
  Round-up (6)
  
  Armored weapons (4)
  
  Displacement (3)
  
  Expulsion (3)
  
  Racial policy (3)
  
  Sovietization (3)
  
  Administrative persecution (2)
  
  Economic exploitation (2)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (2)
  
  Germanization (2)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (2)
  
  Burning people alive (1)
  
  Gas chambers (1)
  
  Hanging (1)
  
  Mass graves (1)
  
  Rape (1)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (1)
Place
- Forced labor camps for POWs (588)
  
  Transit camp (316)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (160)
  
  Mine (128)
  
  Internment camp (87)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (80)
  
  Prison (45)
  
  Kolkhoz (20)
  
  Forced labor (12)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (11)
  
  NKVD custody suite (6)
  
  Concentration camp (5)
  
  Labor camp (4)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (4)
  
  Ghetto (3)
  
  Sovkhoz (2)
  
  Extermination camp (1)
  
  Siberia (1)
Content
- Health service (378)
  
  Anders' Army (167)
  
  Amnesty (133)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (116)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (104)
  
  Polish culture in exile (73)
  
  Communist propaganda (63)
  
  Epidemics (54)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (19)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (16)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (11)
  
  Military hospital (8)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (6)
  
  Civil resistance (4)
  
  First deportation (4)
  
  Rescue of Jews (4)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (4)
  
  Second deportation (3)
  
  Students' Army Corps (3)
  
  Underground culture and education (3)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (3)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (2)
  
  Central Welfare Council (2)
  
  Fourth deportation (2)
  
  Aktion Zamość (1)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (1)
  
  Extermination of Jews (1)
  
  General Plan East (Generalplan Ost) (1)
  
  Obliterating the traces (1)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (1)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (1)
  
  Partisan warfare (1)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
  
  Third deportation (1)
  
  obliterating the traces (1)
Object type
- Account (252)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (10)
  
  Brief (3)
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 (627)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (3)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Poland (3)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (2)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (2)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite Crimes in Warsaw (1)
  
  Katyn Museum (1)
Medium
- Text (639)
  
  Image (21)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (620)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (17)