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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Anonymous (73)
  
  Kostka Stanisław (7)
  
  Anastasiya, 1985 (4)
  
  Czardybon Bernard; 18.06.1901, Chorzów (4)
  
  Lorentz Stanisław; 28.04.1899, Radom (4)
  
  Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (4)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (4)
  
  Wolny Stefan; 30.10.1903, Kamieńskie (Ukraine) (4)
  
  Bogdanowicz Jan; 17.12.1894, Warsaw (3)
  
  Fastman Ludwik; 31.07.1899, Drohobycz (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (3)
  
  Kucharski Teofil; 06.02.1889, Jaszczew (3)
  
  Kukla Zbigniew; 11.08.1910, Kalwaria Zebrzydowska (3)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (3)
  
  Pacocha Leopold; 10.11.1898, Warsaw (3)
  
  Sieroszewski Władysław; 30.12.1900, Warsaw (3)
  
  Szlacheta Wacława; 23.09.1900, Warsaw (3)
  
  Szyszko-Bohusz Adolf; 19.08.1883, Narva (Estonia) (3)
  
  Wiącek Eugeniusz; 11.01.1905, Strużki (3)
  
  Al’ona, 1987 (2)
  
  Anastasiya, 1988 (2)
  
  Andriy (2)
  
  Anna, 1986 (2)
  
  Anna, 1989 (2)
  
  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)
  
  Bednarz Antoni; 1893? (2)
  
  Bekier Zofia; 17.04.1882 (2)
  
  Brach Jan; 1919? (2)
  
  Czechowicz Stanisław; 1883, Białaczów (2)
  
  Czerwonka Władysław; 22.12.1899, Mucisko (2)
  
  Dar'ya, 2002 (2)
  
  Denisow Piotr; 1894? (2)
  
  Dmitriy, 1984 (2)
  
  Dmytro, 1992 (2)
  
  Donten Lubomir; 17.07.1903, Warsaw (2)
  
  Drabek Jaroslav; 06.04.1901, Chrudim (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Dubiel Stanisław; 13.11.1910, Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (2)
  
  Estreicher Karol; 1905? (2)
  
  Filipiak Ignacy (2)
  
  Fliegel Jerzy; 02.11.1915, Ruda Śląska (2)
  
  Gałka Wacława; 10.08.1908, Warsaw (2)
  
  Grabiński Marcin; 08.11.1888 (2)
  
  Handzel Jan; 20.04.1906, Wincentów (Kielce county) (2)
  
  Handzel Jan; 20.04.1906, Wincentów (kielecki district) (2)
  
  Hys Stanisław; 19.07.1910, Sobolew (mazowieckie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Kahl Tadeusz; 27.07.1908, Kraków (2)
  
  Kamiński Roman Kazimierz; 09.07.1906, Warsaw (2)
  
  Kiełbowski Paweł; 1892? (2)
  
  Kipa Emil Józef; 17.03.1886, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Kisiel Aleksander; 31.12.1913, Wilno (now in Lithuania) (2)
  
  Kisiel Józef; 1905? (2)
  
  Koprowicz Stanisława; 17.11.1908, Dobrzyń (Lipno county) (2)
  
  Kosakiewicz Władysław; 18.09.1879 (2)
  
  Kowalska Jadwiga; 29.09.1907, Warsaw (2)
  
  Kościuszko Janina; 17.05.1897, Chrzanów? (2)
  
  Kraus Otto; 07.09.1909, Klášterní Skalice (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Kruk Jan; 09.03.1904, Serbinów (2)
  
  Kruk Józef; 01.01.1916, Serbinów (2)
  
  Kulka Erich; 18.02.1911, Vsetín (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 04.05.1918, Kraków (2)
  
  Lewak Adam; 03.09.1891, Pieniaki (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Listek Jan; 1899? (2)
  
  Liszka Edward; 25.07.1920, Kraków (2)
  
  Mandelbaum Henryk; 15.12.1922, Olkusz (2)
  
  Materkowski Antoni; 14.06.1899, Koprzywnica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Nagraba Ludwik; 19.08.1910, Kraków (2)
  
  Nagraba Ludwik; 19.08.1911 (2)
  
  Nass Róża; 09.01.1907, Biała (Bielsko-Biała) (2)
  
  Nass Róża; 09.01.1907, Biała (now: Bielsko-Biała) (2)
  
  Nataliya (2)
  
  Nowak Jan; 23.09.1908, Kraków (2)
  
  Odolska Wanda; 05.06.1909, Poltava (Ukraine) (2)
  
  Okolski Konrad; 19.02.1884, Nowostawce (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Okolski Konrad; 19.02.1884, Nowostawce (now: Ukraine) (2)
  
  Oksana (2)
  
  Ol'ga, 1980 (2)
  
  Olbrycht Jan; 06.05.1886, Zahutyń (2)
  
  Oleh (2)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 1912? (2)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 27.01.1913, Warsaw (2)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (2)
  
  Piłsudski Marian; 15.07.1912 (2)
  
  Plaskura Władysław; 10.05.1905, Łazy (Orłowa, Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Rumunia) (2)
  
  Rablin Andrzej; 01.01.1914, Kraków (2)
  
  Roszkowska Halina; 24.02.1911, Lublin (2)
  
  Rysiński Mieczysław (2)
  
  Serek Jan; 11.11.1889, Raszówka (Mniów) (2)
  
  Stoeger Samuel; 14.05.1911, Kraków (2)
  
  Stryj Franciszek; 05.01.1912, Ruda Śląska (2)
  
  Suryn Maria Wanda; 27.08.1906, Korytków (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Szelest Kazimierz; 25.03.1917, Kraków (2)
  
  Szuszkiewicz Roman; 1907? (2)
  
  Valentyna (2)
  
  Viktoriya (2)
  
  Warchałowski Edward; 04.10.1889, Piestrzec (2)
Subject
- The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (134)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (123)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (112)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (95)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (94)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (88)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (85)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (78)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (73)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (72)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (67)
  
  The city condemned to death (65)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (63)
  
  Russian occupation – south Ukraine (62)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (62)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (61)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (53)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (52)
  
  Fighting for Kharkiv (51)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (49)
  
  Mariupol Siege (48)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (43)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (40)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (38)
  
  Fighting in Donbas (2014 and/or 2022) (28)
  
  Fighting for Kyiv (26)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (26)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (26)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (23)
  
  Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages (23)
  
  Michniów – the extermination of the Polish countryside (23)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz (23)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (22)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town (22)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (21)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (21)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (20)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (19)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (19)
  
  The persecuted church (17)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (16)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (16)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (16)
  
  Russian missile terror (15)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (15)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Żoliborz (15)
  
  In exile – Siberia (14)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (14)
  
  Treblinka – extermination camp (14)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Volhynia (13)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (13)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (13)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (13)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (12)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (12)
  
  Warsaw '44 – uprising in Praga (12)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (11)
  
  Fighting for Chernihiv (11)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (11)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (10)
  
  Battle of Mykolaiv (10)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Pomerania (10)
  
  In exile – Ural (10)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (10)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (10)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (9)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (8)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (8)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (8)
  
  Radom – daily terror (8)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (8)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (8)
  
  Fighting in Sumy Oblast (7)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (7)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – the Stanisławów area (7)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (6)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Warsaw (6)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (6)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (6)
  
  The Free City of Danzig – erasing Polishness (6)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (6)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (5)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (5)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (5)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (5)
  
  Pruszków – the town of the displaced (5)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (5)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (5)
  
  The Podlasie region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (5)
  
  Dispersed terror – KL Plaszow, the Schindler Factory sub-camp (4)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Plaszow branch in Schindler's Factory (4)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Mazovia (4)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Polesie region (4)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Zamość region (4)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (4)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (4)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Radom Ghetto (4)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (4)
  
  In revenge for assisting “Hubal” – reprisal campaigns (4)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (153)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (151)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (148)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (129)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (128)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (109)
  
  Warsaw (96)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (90)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (85)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (82)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (60)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (57)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (51)
  
  Mariupol (45)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (44)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (43)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (43)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (39)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (39)
  
  KL Plaszow (39)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (38)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (37)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 (37)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (35)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (35)
  
  Michniów (35)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (33)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (32)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (32)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (31)
  
  Kraków (30)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (30)
  
  Warsaw, SS-Stauferkaserne, Rakowiecka Street 4 (30)
  
  Kharkiv (29)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (29)
  
  KL Majdanek (28)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (28)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (28)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (27)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (27)
  
  Radom (26)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (26)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (26)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (25)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (24)
  
  Warsaw, aleja Szucha (23)
  
  Bydgoszcz (22)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (21)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (21)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (21)
  
  Kielce (20)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (20)
  
  Warsaw, Banacha Market Square, Grójecka Street 95 (20)
  
  Warsaw, Warszawa Zachodnia Station (20)
  
  Warsaw, Wolski Hospital, Płocka Street 26 (20)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (19)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (18)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (18)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (18)
  
  Warsaw, Rakowiecka Street (18)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (17)
  
  Warsaw, Długa Street 7 (17)
  
  Warsaw, St. Lazarus' Hospital, Leszno Street 127 (Leszno Street 15) (17)
  
  Warsaw, Wolska Street (17)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (16)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (16)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (16)
  
  Starachowice (16)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (16)
  
  Warsaw, Górczewska Street (16)
  
  Warsaw, Marszałkowska Street (16)
  
  Łuków (lubelskie voivodeship) (16)
  
  Bochnia, train station (15)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (15)
  
  Częstochowa (15)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (15)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (15)
  
  Kherson (15)
  
  Lublin (15)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (15)
  
  Mniów (15)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (15)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (15)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (15)
  
  Warsaw, Karolkowa Street (15)
  
  Warsaw, St. Stanislaus' Hospital, Wolska Street 37 (15)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) (15)
  
  Biała Podlaska (14)
  
  Hrubieszów (14)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (14)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (14)
  
  Warsaw, Mokotów Prison, Rakowiecka Street 37 (14)
  
  Warsaw, Młynarska Street (14)
  
  Warsaw, Pole Mokotowskie (14)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's Church, Wolska Street 76 (14)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (13)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (13)
  
  Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (13)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (13)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (13)
Oblast
- Donetsk (64)
  
  Kharkiv (58)
  
  Kherson (58)
  
  Zaporizhia (41)
  
  Kyiv (30)
  
  Luhansk (23)
  
  Kyiv Oblast (17)
  
  Chernihiv (11)
  
  Mykolaiv (11)
  
  Mikołajowski (9)
  
  Sumy (7)
  
  Dnipropetrovsk (5)
  
  Zhytomyr (3)
  
  Lviv (2)
  
  Rivne (1)
Raion
- Mariupol (48)
  
  Kharkiv (40)
  
  Kherson (27)
  
  Bucha (16)
  
  Kakhovka (14)
  
  Severodonetsk (13)
  
  Izium (10)
  
  Melitopol (10)
  
  Chernihiv (9)
  
  Berdyansk (7)
  
  Kiev (7)
  
  Kyiv (7)
  
  Beryslav (6)
  
  Donetsk (6)
  
  Henichesk (6)
  
  Kramatorsk (6)
  
  Vasylivka (6)
  
  Mykolaiv (5)
  
  Polohy (5)
  
  Svatove (5)
  
  Mikołajów (4)
  
  Nikopol (4)
  
  Bashtanka (3)
  
  Brovary (3)
  
  Skadovsk (3)
  
  Sumy (3)
  
  Horlivka (2)
  
  Kupyansk (2)
  
  Volnovakha (2)
  
  Vyshhorod (2)
  
  Zaporizhia (2)
  
  Zhytomyr (2)
  
  Bila Tserkva (1)
  
  Bohoduhiv (1)
  
  Chuhuiv (1)
  
  Fastiv (1)
  
  Markivka (1)
  
  Pawlohrad (1)
  
  Pervomaisk (1)
  
  Rivne (1)
  
  Rozivka (1)
  
  Shchastia (1)
  
  Voznesensk (1)
  
  Сhuhuiv (1)
Victims
- Civilians (2195)
  
  The Poles (1861)
  
  The Civilian Population (1808)
  
  Women (1231)
  
  Children (1124)
  
  The Jews (557)
  
  Ukrainians (441)
  
  The Inteligentsia (424)
  
  The sick (419)
  
  The Sick (368)
  
  The elderly (352)
  
  The Elderly (272)
  
  Russians/Soviets (229)
  
  Prisoners of War (218)
  
  The Russians (201)
  
  The Church (161)
  
  Deportees (130)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (114)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (91)
  
  Policemen (72)
  
  Germans (62)
  
  Hungarians (60)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (57)
  
  Belarusians (53)
  
  Czechs (48)
  
  The French (46)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (41)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (40)
  
  The Disabled (36)
  
  Slovaks (32)
  
  Belgians (31)
  
  The Dutch (30)
  
  Lithuanians (28)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (27)
  
  Greeks (24)
  
  Internees (21)
  
  Landowners (20)
  
  The Communists (19)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (18)
  
  Italians (17)
  
  Border Guard (14)
  
  Americans (10)
  
  Border Protection Corps (10)
  
  Norwegians (8)
  
  Latvians (7)
  
  Estonians (6)
  
  The British (6)
  
  Romanians (5)
  
  Internally displaced persons (3)
  
  Bulgarians (1)
  
  Crimean Tatars (1)
  
  Finns (1)
  
  Prison Guard (1)
  
  Scouts (1)
  
  Serbs (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (570)
  
  Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (300)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (257)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (240)
  
  Military Police (209)
  
  Collaboration (151)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (139)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (86)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (81)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (75)
  
  Red Army (74)
  
  Soviet Militia (73)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (72)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (62)
  
  Denunciation (57)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (42)
  
  Donetsk People’s Militia (all military formations of so-called separatist republics DNR and LNR) (37)
  
  Kadyrovites (35)
  
  Collaborators (33)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (23)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (22)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (20)
  
  The Russian National Liberation Army (RONA) (18)
  
  Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (16)
  
  Lithuanians (16)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (16)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (15)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (13)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (12)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (10)
  
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Feinsilber Alter (Jankowski Stanisław) 23.10.1910, Stoczek Łukowski

Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation

1936-1945.03

Drancy (France), transit camp KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) Łódź Compiègne (France), transit camp KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” Treblinka Argelès-sur-Mer (France) Gurs (France) Saint Cyprien (France)

Piątkowska Antonina 24.12.1900, Warsaw

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory

1942.04.27-1945.01.18

KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz I, roll call square KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager KL Ravensbrück (Germany) German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Dresden (Germany) Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Gross-Rosen

Stołecki Paweł 29.03.1920, Imielin (Warsaw)

Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp

1940-1945

KL Auschwitz I Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Ebensee (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz)

Piasecki Józef 24.04.1893, Lwów

Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp

1940.10.15-1944.10.25

KL Auschwitz I KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp

Krzetuski Artur 08.11.1897, Lwów (now: Ukraine)

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory

1940.05.21-1944.10

KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau)

Rachwał Stanisława 29.06.1906, Rudki (now in Ukraine)

Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

1942.10.12-1945.05.24

Bydgoszcz Nakło nad Notecią KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) KL Melk (Austria) KL Buchenwald (Germany) KL Ravensbrück (Germany) Rajsko (Oświęcim district) Poręba (district of Pszczyna) Poznań Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) Bełżec, German extermination camp Kraków, Sobieskiego Street 5 KL Auschwitz I KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I Bochnia, train station Pruszków, Dulag 121 KL Plaszow KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) Berlin (Germany) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Lagerhaus German extermination camp of Bełżec Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp German extermination camp of Majdanek German extermination camp of Treblinka Majdanek, German extermination camp Treblinka, German extermination camp Wodzisław Śląski Drezdenko Drancy (France) Brussels (Belgium) Zagreb (Croatia) KL Herzogenbusch (Netherlands) Łódź KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) Brzeszcze Pszczyna

Fiderkiewicz Alfred 2.07.1886, Horodenka (now: Ukraine)

Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau

1939.09-1945.01.31

Żyrardów Sochaczew Milanówek, Żwirowa Street (Fiderkiewicza Street) Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 Grodzisk Mazowiecki KL Buchenwald (Germany) KL Dachau (Germany) KL Majdanek KL Auschwitz I KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) Pruszków, Dulag 121 KL Auschwitz I, roll call square KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I Mszczonów KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau

Szczuka Tadeusz 05.09.1921, Sałtyków

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death

1942-1942

KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau

Zechel Moïse (Michel) 04.01.1899, Kiszyniów (Mołdawia)

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory

1940-1945

KL Auschwitz-Birkenau La Roche-en-Ardenne (Belgium) Mechelen (Belgium), transit camp Liège (Belgium), citadel Jaworzno, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Breendonk (Belgium), transit camp vBreendonk (Belgium), transit camp

Plaskura Władysław 10.05.1905, Łazy (Orłowa, Czech Republic)

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death

1940.06.20-1944.12

KL Auschwitz I, roll call square KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 Łambinowice Nowy Wiśnicz

Wrotniak Julia 28.12.1916, Zamość

Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation

1942.10.07-1945.01

Warsaw KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) KL Auschwitz I Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Lublin, Lublin Castle, Zamkowa Street 9 KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V Wilno (now in Lithuania) KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 KL Auschwitz I, roll call square

Karcz Jan 27.08.1915, Skalbmierz

Mass extermination - KL Neuengamme

1940.04.06-1945.05.03

KL Gross-Rosen Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 KL Auschwitz-Birkenau KL Auschwitz I Skalbmierz KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I Kraków, Pomorska Street 2 KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V Hamburg (Germany) KL Neuengamme (Germany) KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) Rajsko, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Lübeck (Germany) Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Bay of Lübeck (Germany) KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) Bochnia, train station KL Gross-Rosen

Pielach Bolesław 30.12.1907, Głuszczyzna

1940.06.24-1945.05.11

Berlin (Germany) KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) KL Dachau (Germany) KL Buchenwald (Germany)

Świderek Maria 09.02.1905

Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp

1942.03.19

German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt

Roszkowska Halina 24.02.1911, Lublin

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory

1942.12.12-1945.05.02

KL Ravensbrück (Germany) KL Neustadt-Glewe (Germany) KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau)

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