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Witness

Kapała Stefan

Topic

Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region

Date

1939-1943

Location

Lublin KL Majdanek Warsaw, Hoża Street 41

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Witness

Kruszewski Mieczysław

Topic

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

Date

1939-1943

Location

Kharkiv (Ukraine) Sambor (now in Ukraine) Winnica (now in Ukraine) Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast)

Witness

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Topic

Date

1939-1943

Location

Warsaw, Bersohn and Bauman Children's Hospital, Śliska Street 51 Warsaw, Great Synagogue, Tłomackie Street 7 Oświęcim Kalisz Włocławek Gdańsk Poznań Łódź

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Witness

Brzozowski Jan 1895?

Topic

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

Date

1939-1943

Location

Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 Ryazan (Russia, Ryazan Oblast) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Witness

Biesiada Józef 19.03.1903, Stanisławów (pow. miński)

Topic

Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror

Date

1939-1943

Location

Ostrów Mazowiecka

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Witness

Rudowski Maksymilian 1881

Topic

The persecuted church

Date

1939.10-1943

Location

Warsaw, Central Jail, Daniłowiczowska Street 7 KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) Warsaw, Central Detention Center, Daniłowiczowska Street 7 Warsaw, Evangelical-Augsburg Church of the Holy Trinity, Małachowskiego Square 1 Warsaw, Evangelical-Reformed Church, Leszno Street 16 (al. "Solidarności" 74) Warsaw, Evangelical Hospital, Karmelicka Street 10 (Nowolipie Street 9/11)

Witness

Cwek Zygmunt

Topic

A race against time – the road to Anders' Army

Date

1939-1943

Location

Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19

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Witness

Skarzyński Aleksander

Topic

the Gulag Archipelago – the Krasnoyarsk Krai

Date

1939-1943

Location

Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) Ławoczne (Ukraine) Skole (Ukraine), Groedel Palace (NKVD headquarters), Knyaz Svyatoslav Street 40 Krasnoyarsk (Russia, Krasnoyarsk Krai) Norilsk (Russia, Krasnoyarsk Krai) Krasnoyarsk (Russia, Krasnoyarsk Krai) Dudinka (Russia, Krasnoyarsk Krai)

Witness

Smoliński Jan 1913?

Topic

A race against time – the road to Anders' Army

Date

1939-1943

Location

Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Tashkent (Uzbekistan)

Witness

Krogulski Robert Ludwik

Topic

The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Mazovia

Date

1939-1943

Location

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Witness

Sokołowski Andrzej

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

1939-1943

Location

Lwów (now in Ukraine) Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic)

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Witness

Waniewski Władysław 17.01.1917, Ostrów Mazowiecka

Topic

Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror

Date

1939-1943

Location

Ostrów Mazowiecka Komorowo (Ostrów Mazowiecka district) Ostrów Mazowiecka, Jewish cemetery, Wołodyjowskiego Street

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Witness

Pryzwan Michał 04.11.1898, Lebiedzie (mazowieckie voivodeship)

Topic

Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror

Date

1939-1943

Location

Ostrów Mazowiecka Brok (mazowieckie voivodesip) Ostrów Mazowiecka, Jewish cemetery, Wołodyjowskiego Street Czerwin Wyszków (Wyszków district)

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Witness

Laskowski Stanisław 20.09.1887, Pomyjków?

Topic

Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror

Date

1939-1943

Location

Ostrów Mazowiecka, Jewish cemetery, Wołodyjowskiego Street Warsaw

Witness

Wilczyński Józef 19.03.1911, Ostrów Mazowiecka

Topic

Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror

Date

1939-1943

Location

Ostrów Mazowiecka

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Witness

Łącki Mikołaj 30.10.1888, Loyew (Belarus)

Topic

Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city

Date

1939-1943

Location

Warsaw, Ghetto

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Witness

Weichert Michał 05.05.1890, Stare Miasto (now in Ukraine)

Topic

Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city

Date

1939.09.02-1943.11

Location

Treblinka, German extermination camp German extermination camp of Treblinka Warsaw, Ghetto Łęczna, forced labor camp Końskowola, forced labor camp Skarżysko-Kamienna Treblinka, German extermination camp

Witness

Ślumowska Barbara

Topic

Poles saving Jews – Warsaw

Date

1939-1943

Location

Warsaw, Ghetto

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Witness

Łącki Mikołaj 30.10.1888, Loyew (Belarus)

Topic

Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture

Date

1939.10-1943

Location

Warsaw, Ghetto Warsaw, Synagogue, Muranowski Square 16

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Witness

Zakrzewski Romuald 18.11.1912, Bartkowa Rudnia (now in Ukraine)

Topic

Warsaw death ring – mass executions

Date

1939-1943

Location

Kabacki Forest (Warsaw)