- The witness was deported to Kazakhstan together with other Polish women, where they had to perform various kinds of labor. They survived mostly thanks to parcels from Poland.
- The witness was deported to the Altai Krai in June 1941. The local NKVD was hostile towards the Poles. She tells about one of her fellow exiles who had to leave her 11-year-old paralyzed daughter at home. She was released a month after the amnesty and hindered from reaching the Polish Army; the Soviets refused to issue her the documents.
- The witness was deported to the Arkhangelsk Oblast together with her mother. She worked at logging. The relations with Belarusians were terrible. After the amnesty she sold her clothes to get money and went to Buzuluk, while her mother remained in the poselok.
- The witness was deported to the Gorky Oblast in February 1940; he toiled in the forest. The work quotas were manageable, the wages were decent, and the barracks were quite good, though dirty. He was released in October 1941.
- The witness was deported to the special settlement of Oktyabrsk together with other employees of the forest administration in Białowieża. The majority of prisoners were Poles, but there were also Belarusians and Ukrainians. Polish culture was not cultivated, but there was ample access to Russian literature. The relations between Poles were bad; some promptly chose the Soviet side. He was released in August 1941 and initially sent to the Jambyl Region, where his one-year-old child died. He joined the Polish Army in January 1942.
- The witness was deported to Turtkul, but escaped to Stanisławów and remained in hiding. She was denounced by Ukrainians; she was then held in many prisons all over the USSR. She was released on the basis of the amnesty and joined the Polish Army.
- The witness was deported to Ukhta, where he worked extracting oil in a mine. During night shifts, the Poles would spontaneously gather to take part in discussions and sing patriotic songs. The NKVD was hostile towards the Poles and made them perform the hardest labor. On 24 August 1941, all 2,000 Poles were released; they did not know where the Polish Army was being formed, so they dispersed throughout Russia. He went to Pavlodar and was next sent to Tatishchev, but on the way there he was told to go south and work in kolkhozes; in January 1942, he escaped to Buzuluk.
- The witness was deported together with her family to the Perm Oblast, where she worked at logging. She describes the slow biological extermination carried out by the communist authorities. Eventually she joined the Women’s Auxiliary Service in Tehran.
- The witness was deported together with her husband; after a few days on the road, she fell gravely ill and was taken to the hospital in Liski. Next she was sent to a poselok. On 15 September 1941 she was released and joined the Women’s Auxiliary Service.
- The witness was deported together with his family and approx. 6,000 other Poles in April 1940 to a kolkhoz in Northern Kazakhstan. He describes the very difficult living conditions, high mortality rate, and the Soviets’ hostile and contemptuous attitudes towards Poles. He gives the names of several Polish families from the same kolkhoz. He also provides information on the typhoid fever epidemic in Anders’ Army, along with the names of several victims.
- The witness was deported together with his family for labor at logging, because he was a military settler and had volunteered to the army during the Polish-Soviet War in 1920. The deportees had to work very hard, regardless of their sex and age. The families were purposefully separated during work so as to prevent them from communicating. The wages were too low to live on.
- The witness was deported together with his family in the second wave of deportations because his brother was a policeman. He worked in a poselok in conditions which deprived him of his health and will to live. He was brutally interrogated. He joined the Polish Army together with his brother, leaving his family behind in Kazakhstan.
- The witness was deported together with his family to labor camp on the Irtysh River (Kazakhstan). The living conditions in the barracks were deplorable. He toiled hard at logging. There were 10% of Poles – families of policemen, servicemen and foresters. The NKVD was hostile towards the Poles. When he learned about the amnesty, he escaped from the camp to Uzbekistan.
- The witness was deported with his family and half of the residents from the neighborhood to a poselok where children and the elderly were dying from exhaustion, and medications were available only for the army. Released, he worked in a kolkhoz. Finally, deliverance came and he joined Anders’ Army.
- The witness was disarmed on 18 September 1939. He worked at airport construction in Czerlany. He describes conditions at the camp: failure to go to work was punished with incarceration in a punishment cell. They had the eagles torn off of their military hats and had to work hard in the cold without proper clothing and shoes. He was released from the camp in Starobelsk and joined the Polish Army there.
- The witness was employed at the camp until 1943, when they banned Polish women from working at the camp. She describes in detail what the camp looked like, where the administration was etc. She testifies that dead bodies were stripped naked, put into crates and buried somewhere by the forest. Since she worked at the kitchen, she stole as much food as she could to help inmates in dire need – together with other women, they would smuggle food in rubbish bins. They also organized secret help for children from the camp, who had neither shoes nor proper clothes.
- The witness was employed at the sawmill in Bliżyn; he was imprisoned at the local labor camp for leaving his place of work without permission. He testifies about the living conditions at the camp.
- The witness was forced to drive the Germans around local villages in search of particular Poles. He testifies about the burning of the families of Popiel and Janus and their houses.
- The witness was imprisoned at KL Majdanek since 1940. He testifies that Erich Muhsfeldt arrived at the camp in February 1942. Before the crematorium was built, the Soviet POWs were hanged in a wooden house near the field. Muhsfeldt would chose people for carrying out the executions. The first transports contained Jews from Lublin and Czech Jews. According to the witness, Muhsfeldt derived particular pleasure from shooting children whom he had previously held in his arms. The witness tells about the mass executions of Jews.
- The witness was imprisoned at the camp in Bliżyn; he speaks very positively about the camp.
- The witness was imprisoned at the camp in Bliżyn; he testifies about his life and work at the camp.
- The witness was imprisoned in Baranowicze and in a labor camp on the Volga. He describes among others the deplorable living conditions, the callousness and cruelty of the NKVD (also towards the Jews) and the high mortality rate among the exiles.
- The witness was imprisoned in Berezwecz, and was later sent to various labor camps and kolkhozes. He describes among others the very difficult living conditions, prohibition of religious practices, cruelty and a typhoid fever epidemic that claimed the lives of his close family members.
- The witness was imprisoned in Święciany and in a forced labor camp in the area of Yertsevo. He describes among others the difficult working conditions, the composition of prisoners, and the NKVD authorities’ attitudes towards Poles.
- The witness was imprisoned in three labor camps for POWs (Hoszcza, Zborów, Brody). He describes among others the living conditions and daily life in each of the camps.
- The witness was in Poland when the war broke out. He comes from Vinnytsia and studies in Łódź.
- The witness was incarcerated in several prisons and camps, and he describes them one after another: Palanga, Vilkaviškis, Yukhnov, Murmansk, Ponoy (an extensive description of extremely difficult conditions), Arkhangelsk, Talitsa. He also mentions the national composition of exiles, the daily routine at a camp and the accessibility of medical assistance.
- The witness was informed late at night by a friend that cars would be passing through the village on the following morning. The witness immediately fled from Mniów, where he lived at the time. In the morning, the gendarmerie came to the village and burned its residents.
- The witness was initially interned in Lithuania, but was sent to Russia after the invasion by the Red Army. He was staying in Yukhnov, where he was interrogated by the NKVD. He was released following the amnesty.
- The witness was interned for nine months in Lithuania. In July 1940, the Soviets deported him to Kozelsk, where he found inscriptions made by his predecessors, informing about 5,500 officers who had been brought there from Starobelsk and taken in an unknown direction on 15 May 1940. At the outbreak of the German-Russian war, the witness was transported to Gryazovets. He describes among others the exhausting transport, good mutual relations between the prisoners, clandestine cultural life, and the interrogations by the NKVD.
- The witness was interned in Latvia, and then sent deep into the USSR to a forced labor camp. He worked at road construction; there was communist and anti-Polish propaganda at the camp. During interrogations, the prisoners were divided into two groups: the German partition and the Russian partition. The witness gave a false address and was assigned to the German group, but a Pole (personal details provided) reported him and he got reassigned to the Soviet group, where he was tortured and forced to sign a confession. Next he was taken to Ponoy; he spent several days on board a ship without food and with restricted access to fresh air. Then he was sent to Arkhangelsk, and from there to a camp in Talitsa. A Polish colonel came there one day and told the prisoners that a Polish army was being formed.
- The witness was interned in Lithuania and in 1940 sent to Kozelsk. He describes life at the camp and mentions missing officers. Next he was deported to the Kola Peninsula, where he experienced hard work and deplorable living conditions. After the outbreak of the German-Soviet war, he joined the Polish Army.
- The witness was interned in Lithuania in the camps in Palanga and Vilkaviškis. Next he was deported by the Russians to Yukhnov, and from there to the camps, among others in Murmansk. He describes the conditions in subsequent camps, interrogations and mutual relations between the POWs. He claims that he could trust only his good colleagues from the regiment, as the higher-ranking men were informants.
- The witness was sent from her village to nearby Iłowo to work at the farm of Volksdeutsche. Her brother was imprisoned at the camp there; he told her about the children’s barrack and the high mortality rate, which was due to hunger. Next she was sent for forced labor to Giżycko; she had to toil hard despite recent surgery.
- The witness was sent to a village in the Komi Republic in 1940. She worked in a kolkhoz, which she describes in brief words. In 1941 she was released, and in 1942 joined the army in Tehran.
- The witness was sentenced for unnamed offences in mid-February 1941 and sent to labor camps in the Sverdlovsk Oblast, where he worked at factory construction. He describes the national composition of prisoners and daily routine. He was released in August 1941 and joined the army in October 1942.
- The witness was sentenced to two years for illegal slaughter in 1943. While serving his sentence, he witnessed numerous shootings and beatings in the Pińczów prison. On orders from the prison authorities, he often buried the bodies of the murdered prisoners. He testifies about several people who ran the prison and describes their methods of persecution.
- The witness was taken captive by the Soviets on 13 September 1939. He describes his stay in the Białystok prison, his work in Pechorlag, and the hardships of life at a penal camp. He also testifies that the camp personnel was scornful of religious objects and shattered the Poles’ hopes of ever returning home.
- The witness was taken for forced labor in October 1942. She knows little about the ghetto in Stopnica; she testifies about administrative harassment and quotas imposed on Jews. Next she describes the conditions of work in Skarżysko[-Kamienna] and Częstochowa; she received very meager food. In Częstochowa it was even worse, as the laborers were regularly beaten.
- The witness was taken into Soviet captivity in Lwów (he misstates the date as 28 August 1939) and was then transferred to Shepetivka, Novgorod and Zaporizhzhia, from where he was sent to the North (Arkhangelsk Oblast and/or Komi Republic). He describes the living conditions and starving food rations, as well as offensive and cruel behavior of the NKVS. On 25 August 1941 he was accepted into the Polish Army at the camp in Vyazniki.
- The witness was taken into Soviet captivity in Włodzimierz and driven on foot to Lutsk. He was abused on the way; he received neither food nor water. The conditions at Lutsk were deplorable. In Shepetivka he fell so seriously ill that he was taken to the hospital in Brody, where he spent eight months; he became a wreck of a man.
- The witness was the wife of a doctor who took care of the children at the camp; to stay with her husband, she worked as a nurse. She says that the majority of children had Russian mothers, who sometimes returned to the camp from forced labor to claim their children, but the children did not recognize them; the mothers were often sent for forced labor, and the children were left at the camp. The children had to be addressed exclusively in German. Her husband was urged to sign the Volksliste.
- The witness was tried by a military tribunal and sentenced to forced labor. He was deported for work in a mine in the Komi Republic. He describes brutal interrogations, among other things.
- The witness was wanted by the Germans as a member of the Home Army; his mother was killed during a search of his family home, when he was at the neighbors’ house.
- The witness went from Kyiv to Poland through Belarus. There are no other details.
- The witness went through the children’s camp in Iłowo, but she does not remember it. She knows that a Russian surname was written above her bed at the camp, from which she surmises that her mother came from the USSR.
- The witness worked at a hospital in Pokrovsk, where she saw wounded and killed civilians after the shelling of the city by Russian forces.
- The witness worked at the German transit camp for children in Iłowo in the years 1942–1945. He does not know whether children from the Zamość region were kept there.
- The witness worked for the Central Welfare Council during the occupation. He testifies about the repression organized by the German authorities after members of the underground carried out the death sentence against Igo Sym. He also describes his visit at the Pruszków transit camp, as well as the Germans’ particular cruelty towards Poles at this place and during the Warsaw Uprising.
- The witness worked for the Germans stationed at the school in Końskie. There was a large pit in the yard, where the Germans buried the bodies of those executed in the school, covering them with lime.
- The witness, a 19-year-old woman, was deported from the German-occupied territories to Sukhoi Log.
- The witness, a camp doctor, describes the tuberculosis barrack – which was separated, as the patients were forbidden to mix with other inmates; perhaps half of them survived – and the children’s barrack. The sister in charge was Matylda, who stole medications and was hated even by the Germans, who wanted to prevent her escape during the evacuation so that she would be held responsible for her actions. Pregnant women were brought to the camp; after they gave birth, they had to return to their place of employment without any hope of reuniting with the child. The witness claims that the children were sufficiently taken care of, because they were to be used to boost the population of the German nation after their wartime losses.
- The witness, a caretaker from Brody, was arrested during a manhunt. He was moved from one Lwów prison to another, and later, until the outbreak of the Russian-German war, he worked at airport construction in Uman. He was then taken by train to Mariupol, where he worked at a factory. He tells about his friend from Lwów who attempted escape, but was caught in three days and locked in a punishment cell, and then taken to an unknown destination shortly before the amnesty was announced. They should have been transported to the Polish Army, but instead they were taken to various kolkhozes and labor sites. When he asked for his wages, he did not receive any because, as he claims, he wanted to join the Polish Army. He describes the hardships suffered by a free man in Soviet Russia and his peregrination around the kolkhozes.
- The witness, a carpenter, was arrested and deported. He was imprisoned in Stanisławów, Starobelsk and Kolyma. There was hard work and torture during interrogations. He was released twice. On 1 January 1942, he left Kolyma. He reached Anders’ Army on 20 February 1942.
- The witness, a civil servant, was arrested and convicted for his public service. he describes the conditions in the prison and the camps.
- The witness, a colonel, gives a detailed description of the conditions, the number of prisoners and the daily life at the POW camps, among others in Kozielszczyzna.
- The witness, a colonel, was disarmed on 27 September 1939. Following interrogation by the Soviets, he was sent to a transit camp in Fridrikhivka, and a few days later transferred to a POW camp in Putyvl. Next he was imprisoned in the camps in Kozelsk, Yukhnov and Gryazovets, and in a prison in Moscow. He describes the difficult living conditions, forced labor, and the NKVD’s ruthlessness towards the highest-ranking Polish officers. In April 1941, together with other officers, he was again sent to Putyvl, where he was treated very well. He stayed there until June 1941, when he was again transferred to the camp in Gryazovets. In September 1941, together with other Polish prisoners, he set off – as the commandant of the transport – to Totskoye.
- The witness, a farmer, was forced to serve 9 months in the Red Army. Later he performed forced labor at an airport construction site and then building barracks in Nizhny Tagil. He was released on 28 February 1942.
- The witness, a forest ranger, was deported on 10 February 1940 to the Irkutsk Oblast, where he worked in the forest and at loading wagons. He was released in September 1941 and enlisted in the 10th Infantry Division in Lugovoy.
- The witness, a former policeman, was interned in Lithuania (Palanga, Vilkaviškis), then sent to a camp at Kozelsk and next to a camp in the Kola Peninsula. He describes the deplorable living conditions in those places and meager food. On 24 August 1941 he joined the 5th Division in Tatishchev.