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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Anonymous (68)
  
  Szulc C. (31)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (11)
  
  Berthoh Feliks (11)
  
  Deja Stanisław; 23.04.1907, Kowala (7)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (6)
  
  Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (6)
  
  Stopa F. (6)
  
  Szelest Kazimierz; 25.03.1917, Kraków (6)
  
  Lewicki W. (5)
  
  Nowiński (5)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 27.01.1913, Warsaw (5)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (5)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (5)
  
  Czardybon Bernard; 18.06.1901, Chorzów (4)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (4)
  
  Krakiewicz Feliks; 1873? (4)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (4)
  
  Russanowska B. (4)
  
  Sendler Irena; 15.02.1910, Warszawa (4)
  
  Sobierajska Irena (4)
  
  Steinhauf Renata (4)
  
  Wolny Stefan; 30.10.1903, Kamieńskie (Ukraine) (4)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (4)
  
  Łącki Mikołaj; 30.10.1888, Loyew (Belarus) (4)
  
  Banach Ludwig; 24.08.1917, Bydgoszcz (3)
  
  Banach Ludwik; 24.08.1918 (3)
  
  Barzał Czesław; 09.10.1915, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Blinstrub Aniela; 1892? (3)
  
  Brach Jan; 1919? (3)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Dankowska Jolanta (3)
  
  Duda Konrad; 02.02.1914, Wartogłowiec (Tychy) (3)
  
  Głowa Stanisław; 15.09.1898, Igołomia (3)
  
  Hys Stanisław; 19.07.1910, Sobolew (mazowieckie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Koczorowski Józef; 01.02.1919, Poznań (3)
  
  Konferowicz Wacław; 13.05.1912, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Kopta Marian; 08.12.1911, Kraków (3)
  
  Kotlarski Mieczysław; 09.10.1913, Osieczna (wielkopolskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Krokowski Jan; 08.05.1921, Nowy Sącz (3)
  
  Kukla Zbigniew; 11.08.1910, Kalwaria Zebrzydowska (3)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (3)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 04.05.1918, Kraków (3)
  
  Lorentz Stanisław; 28.04.1899, Radom (3)
  
  Ludwig Józef Paweł; 03.07.1910, Sosnowiec (3)
  
  Maliszewski Stefan; 23.05.1912, Warsaw (3)
  
  Maławska-Primas Hanna (3)
  
  Mączka Zofia; 30.11.1905, Kraków (3)
  
  Nagraba Ludwik; 19.08.1910, Kraków (3)
  
  Paczyński Józef; 29.01.1920, Wadowice (3)
  
  Pająk Wilibald; 15.12.1922, Katowice (3)
  
  Plaskura Józef; 23.01.1911, Brzeszcze (3)
  
  Plaskura Władysław; 10.05.1905, Łazy (Orłowa, Czech Republic) (3)
  
  Rajewski Ludwik; 16.12.1900, Łódź (3)
  
  Rżewski Władysław, 07.01.1894 (3)
  
  Sendecki Sylwester; 1903? (3)
  
  Sobczański J. (3)
  
  Staszkiewicz Bronisław; 18.07.1921, Żywiec (3)
  
  Strynkowski Józef; 23.02.1891, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Szyszko-Bohusz Adolf; 19.08.1883, Narva (Estonia) (3)
  
  Taul Roman; 28.02.1917, Bytom (3)
  
  Tondos Władysław; 06.10.1900, Kalina Mała (3)
  
  Wiatr Mieczysław; 02.04.1917, Stary Sącz (3)
  
  Wrona Edward; 13.10.1913, Tuchów (3)
  
  Wąsowicz Tadeusz; 29.07.1906, Limanowa (3)
  
  Węsierska Agnieszka (3)
  
  Ast Jadwiga; 24.01.1923, Żarnowiec (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Barabasz Alfred; 16.06.1913, Karwina (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Bartel Erwin; 02.03.1923, Oświęcim (2)
  
  Bartosiewicz Henryk; 1909? (2)
  
  Bartoszko Kazimierz; 09.10.1898 (2)
  
  Bas Ludwik; 18.12.1912, Kraków (2)
  
  Bida Władysław; 1886? (2)
  
  Biejat Edmund; 1891? (2)
  
  Bochenek Marta; 19.09.1892 (2)
  
  Bojm Mojżesz; 1903? (2)
  
  Boratyński Stefan (Kluska); 13.06.1917, Kraków (2)
  
  Borkowski Stefan (2)
  
  Bryński Antoni; 18.01.1899, Radom (2)
  
  Buraczyńska (Zeiske) Wojciecha; 22.04.1920, Warsaw (2)
  
  Bąk Antonina; 1902?, Puławy (lubelskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Bąk Michał; 1903? (2)
  
  Charszla Lidia (2)
  
  Ciepliński Brunon (2)
  
  Ciopińska Anna (2)
  
  Cyba Eugeniusz; 07.12.1921, Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Denisow Piotr; 1894? (2)
  
  Denkiewicz Michał; 08.09.1893, Wierzba (2)
  
  Dubas Irena; 19.10.1914, Nowy Sącz (2)
  
  Dubiel Stanisław; 13.11.1910, Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Dzido (Hassa) Jadwiga; 26.02.1918, Suchowola (Radzyń county) (2)
  
  Dąbkowska Wiktoria, 1878? (2)
  
  Dąbrowski Jan (2)
  
  Dąbski Stefan; 26.12.1919, Joanin (2)
  
  Estreicher Karol; 1905? (2)
  
  Figiel Władysław (2)
  
  Filipak Olga (2)
  
  Gerbatowska Eryka (2)
  
  Gitler-Barski Józef; 03.03.1898, Warsaw (2)
  
  Glickson Jerry (2)
  
  Kullanda Henryk (1)
Subject
- The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (299)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (262)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (256)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (236)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (223)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (213)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (191)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (185)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (174)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (167)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (130)
  
  In exile – Siberia (129)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (120)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (118)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (99)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (99)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (97)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (93)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (91)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (78)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (73)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (73)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (72)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (65)
  
  In exile – Ural (65)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (65)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (64)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (63)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (58)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (55)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (53)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (49)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (48)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (48)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (44)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (43)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Pomerania (40)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (39)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (37)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (36)
  
  The city condemned to death (35)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (34)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (34)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Lublin region (33)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (33)
  
  Firlej near Radom – the training ground of death (31)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (31)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (26)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (26)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (26)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (26)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (25)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (25)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (25)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (25)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (24)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (24)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (24)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (21)
  
  Radom – daily terror (21)
  
  Soviets in German captivity (21)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Warsaw (20)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (18)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (18)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (17)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (16)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (15)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Kraków (15)
  
  The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews (15)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – the Stanisławów area (15)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (14)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (14)
  
  The persecuted church (14)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Lesser Poland (13)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (13)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (13)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (13)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (12)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (11)
  
  Poles who saved Jews in the Kielce region (11)
  
  Lebensborn – the Germanization of Polish children (10)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Upper Silesia (10)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (10)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (10)
  
  Taken Captive (10)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (10)
  
  The Polish Righteous Among the Nations (10)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Volhynia (9)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Częstochowa region (9)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Mazovia (9)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (8)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Podlasie region (8)
  
  Browar, Czerwoniak – the Ostrów death blocks (7)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Wilno region (7)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Radom Ghetto (7)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (7)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (7)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Sachsenhausen (7)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Łódź region (7)
  
  Terror in the "incorporated lands" – the Łódź region (7)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz I (400)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (330)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (313)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (290)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (283)
  
  Warsaw (279)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (276)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (240)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (233)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (199)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (197)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (177)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (144)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (136)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (136)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (118)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (118)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (111)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (104)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (103)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (100)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (94)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (94)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (93)
  
  Siedlce (93)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (83)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (79)
  
  Kielce (79)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (75)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (75)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (73)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (72)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (70)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (67)
  
  Kraków (66)
  
  Lublin (66)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (65)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (63)
  
  KL Majdanek (63)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (60)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (59)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (57)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka (57)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (49)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (49)
  
  Radom (49)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (48)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (48)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (48)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (47)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (47)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (46)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (46)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (46)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (45)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (45)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (45)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (44)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (43)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (43)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (43)
  
  Białystok (42)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (42)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (40)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (40)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (40)
  
  Tehran (Iran) (40)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (38)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (38)
  
  Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia) (37)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (37)
  
  KL Stutthof (37)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (37)
  
  Przemyśl (37)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (37)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (36)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (36)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (36)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (36)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (36)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (36)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (36)
  
  Bochnia, train station (35)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (35)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (35)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (35)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (35)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (35)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (35)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (34)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (34)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (33)
  
  Kermine (Navoiy, Uzbekistan) (33)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (33)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (33)
  
  Sevvostlag (Russia, Magadan Oblast) (33)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (32)
  
  Bydgoszcz (32)
  
  KL Plaszow (32)
  
  Starachowice (32)
Victims
- The Poles (4864)
  
  Civilians (4722)
  
  The Civilian Population (4356)
  
  Children (1973)
  
  Women (1904)
  
  The Jews (1658)
  
  The Inteligentsia (1164)
  
  Deportees (821)
  
  The sick (778)
  
  The Sick (740)
  
  Russians/Soviets (734)
  
  Prisoners of War (668)
  
  The Russians (633)
  
  Ukrainians (593)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (458)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (434)
  
  The elderly (431)
  
  The Elderly (425)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (295)
  
  Policemen (271)
  
  Belarusians (267)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (194)
  
  The Church (181)
  
  Germans (128)
  
  Lithuanians (95)
  
  Internees (92)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (87)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (87)
  
  Hungarians (81)
  
  Czechs (80)
  
  Landowners (79)
  
  The French (68)
  
  Border Guard (55)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (49)
  
  Slovaks (48)
  
  The Dutch (48)
  
  The Communists (44)
  
  Border Protection Corps (42)
  
  The Disabled (41)
  
  Belgians (34)
  
  Latvians (34)
  
  Estonians (29)
  
  Greeks (29)
  
  Romanians (20)
  
  The elderly (16)
  
  Italians (15)
  
  The British (15)
  
  Americans (13)
  
  Norwegians (10)
  
  Prison Guard (7)
  
  Finns (6)
  
  the Chinese (6)
  
  Scouts (3)
  
  Serbs (3)
  
  Georgians (2)
Perpetrators
- SS (847)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (553)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (386)
  
  Collaboration (338)
  
  Red Army (266)
  
  Military Police (247)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (211)
  
  Soviet Militia (189)
  
  Denunciation (187)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (137)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (93)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (81)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (73)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (67)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (54)
  
  Lithuanians (49)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (42)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (32)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (25)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (20)
  
  Latvians (18)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (18)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (17)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (15)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (12)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (11)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (11)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (10)
  
  Collaborators (9)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (9)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (7)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (6)
  
  Security Office (6)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (5)
  
  Waffen-SS (5)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (4)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (4)
  
  Postal Protection (3)
  
  Administrative Police (2)
  
  Assault Units (Sturmabteilung, SA) (1)
  
  The Navy of Nazi Germany (Kriegsmarine) (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (2970)
  
  Arrest (2377)
  
  Biological extermination (2305)
  
  Execution (1762)
  
  Beating (1743)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (1507)
  
  Death by shooting (1456)
  
  Deportation/Exile (1311)
  
  Deportation (1055)
  
  Robbery (758)
  
  Cattle wagons (577)
  
  Judicial crime (549)
  
  Punishment cell (479)
  
  Mass graves (454)
  
  Cremation of corpses (388)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (387)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (376)
  
  Cremation (372)
  
  Round-up (371)
  
  Gas chambers (349)
  
  Denationalization (346)
  
  Economic exploitation (317)
  
  Displacement (299)
  
  Hanging (268)
  
  Expulsion (235)
  
  Air raids (203)
  
  Disarmament (169)
  
  Administrative persecution (164)
  
  Racial policy (154)
  
  Burning people alive (150)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (127)
  
  Medical experiments (125)
  
  Roads of death (114)
  
  "Dosing" (101)
  
  Sovietization (78)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (75)
  
  Desacration of corpses (68)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (63)
  
  Death marches (60)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (48)
  
  Germanization (48)
  
  Artillery fire (41)
  
  Artillery shelling (41)
  
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Fojcik Wilhelm 1897.04.17

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Podwołoczyska (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Tarnopol (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Złoczów (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Sądowa Wisznia (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Babin (now in Ukraine, Rivne Oblast), POW forced labor camp Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp Lwów (now in Ukraine)

Michalski Władysław 1899

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Filipowicze (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Sosenki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Tuligłowy (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Czerlany (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

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The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Kiev (Ukraine) Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp Zaporizhia (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp

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The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Radziwiłłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Wądałkowski Henryk 1903

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Babin (now in Ukraine, Rivne Oblast), POW forced labor camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

Gołąb Jan 1899

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Radziwiłłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Rodatycze (now in Ukraine), transit camp Skniłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine)

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The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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Olesko (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Babin (now in Ukraine, Rivne Oblast), POW forced labor camp Poltava (Ukraine) Kyiv (Ukraine) Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Tashlak (Toshloq, Uzbekistan) Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) Farab (Kazakhstan) Beirut (Lebanon)

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Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Kurowice (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Kozłów (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Podliski Małe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs

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The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia

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Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg, Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast)

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Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Podliski Małe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

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The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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Czortków (Ukraine) Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Sosenki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Sapożyn (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Wójtowice (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Teofipol (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Babiarz Paweł 1900.07.06

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Zborów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

Janowski Władysław 1899

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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Równe (Ukraine) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Radziwiłłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

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