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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Szulc C. (15)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (9)
  
  Anonymous (6)
  
  Gałecki Wiktor; 1901? (6)
  
  Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (6)
  
  Bochen Stanisław; 1901? (5)
  
  Kwiatkowski Jan; 1911? (5)
  
  Stopa F. (5)
  
  Krakiewicz Feliks; 1873? (4)
  
  Nass Róża; 09.01.1907, Biała (Bielsko-Biała) (4)
  
  Sobierajska Irena (4)
  
  Wolny Stefan; 30.10.1903, Kamieńskie (Ukraine) (4)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (4)
  
  Adler Rubin; 24.11.1909, Końskie (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Czardybon Bernard; 18.06.1901, Chorzów (3)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (3)
  
  Fastman Ludwik; 31.07.1899, Drohobycz (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Filipowska (Freund) Ilza; 14.01.1902, Wrocław (3)
  
  Gronczak Józef; 1898? (3)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (3)
  
  Kaczanowski Jan; 1913?, Rytwiany (3)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (3)
  
  Krokowski Jan; 08.05.1921, Nowy Sącz (3)
  
  Krzymiński Aleksander (3)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (3)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 04.05.1918, Kraków (3)
  
  Lewicki W. (3)
  
  Mankiewicz Franciszek; 1898 (3)
  
  Nagraba Ludwik; 19.08.1910, Kraków (3)
  
  Nelken Halina; 22.09.1925, Kraków (3)
  
  Olbrycht Jan; 06.05.1886, Zahutyń (3)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (3)
  
  Pająk Wilibald; 15.12.1922, Katowice (3)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 27.01.1913, Warsaw (3)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (3)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (3)
  
  Raczkiewicz Zbysław; 04.09.1925, Pobołowice (3)
  
  Sendecki Sylwester; 1903? (3)
  
  Sendler Irena; 15.02.1910, Warszawa (3)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć county) (3)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć district) (3)
  
  Stoeger Samuel; 14.05.1911, Kraków (3)
  
  Szałwicki Bernard; 1909? (3)
  
  Szewczak Helena; 28.02.1915, Marki (Wołomin county) (3)
  
  Tondos Władysław; 06.10.1900, Kalina Mała (3)
  
  Vogler Tauba; 18.06.1903, Kraków (3)
  
  Ast Jadwiga; 24.01.1923, Żarnowiec (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Bartel Erwin; 02.03.1923, Oświęcim (2)
  
  Bartosiewicz Henryk; 1909? (2)
  
  Bas Ludwik; 18.12.1912, Kraków (2)
  
  Bida Władysław; 1886? (2)
  
  Bielewicz Marian; 19.08.1911, Warsaw (2)
  
  Bloch Claude; 29.05.1910, Bourg-la-Reine (France) (2)
  
  Bojm Mojżesz; 1903? (2)
  
  Borowy Aleksander; 03.12.1898, Ostrów Mazowiecka (2)
  
  Brach Jan; 1919? (2)
  
  Brojanowska Jolanta (2)
  
  Brudkowska Aglaida; 19.10.1914, Żytomierz (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Brudkowska Aglaida; 19.10.1914, Żytomierz (now: Ukraine) (2)
  
  Cyba Eugeniusz; 07.12.1921, Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Cypel Władysław; 25.05.1909, Warsaw (2)
  
  Cypel Władysław; 25.05.1909, Warszawa (2)
  
  Cytron Tobiasz; 30.10.1908, Białystok (2)
  
  Czapliński Jan (2)
  
  Dembiczak Danuta (2)
  
  Denisow Piotr; 1894? (2)
  
  Drabek Jaroslav; 06.04.1901, Chrudim (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Dreslerski Józef (2)
  
  Drozdowska-Rogowicz Wanda; 11.11.1906 (2)
  
  Drygulska Jadwiga (2)
  
  Dubicki Bogusław; 1910? (2)
  
  Dubiel Stanisław; 13.11.1910, Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Dąbski Stefan; 26.12.1919, Joanin (2)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (2)
  
  Filipak Olga (2)
  
  Fliegel Jerzy; 02.11.1915, Ruda Śląska (2)
  
  Frankiewicz Janina; 13.08.1912, Wieliczka (2)
  
  Gelade Eliasz; 1894? (2)
  
  Giedroyć Kazimierz; 29.09.1908, Grodno (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Gitler-Barski Józef; 03.03.1898, Warsaw (2)
  
  Glickson Jerry (2)
  
  Gliński Bogdan; 08.12.1921, Sancygniów (2)
  
  Grabczyński Jan; 21.05.1908, Tarnów (dolnośląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Grabowski Stanisław; 14.05.1900, Grądziki (Ostrów Mazowiecka county) (2)
  
  Grzesiński Marian (2)
  
  Głowa Stanisław; 15.09.1898, Igołomia (2)
  
  Habrajski Józef; 08.03.1915, Radzionków (2)
  
  Hys Stanisław; 19.07.1910, Sobolew (mazowieckie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Izbicki Michał; 05.02.1919, Janów (2)
  
  Janssens Jean; 30.03.1904 Ougrée (Belgium) (2)
  
  Jaworska Bogna; 28.04.1925, Blachownia (2)
  
  Jeleń Piotr; 15.01.1921, Kraków (2)
  
  Jeleń Piotr; 1919? (2)
  
  Jędrusiak Michalina, 29.09.1906, Kraków (2)
  
  Kahl Tadeusz; 27.07.1908, Kraków (2)
  
  Kajszczak Marian (2)
  
  Kapała Stefan (2)
  
  Karczewska-Bełczowska Barbara; 1930; Warsaw (2)
  
  Kaszyński Jan; 19.11.1920, Warsaw (2)
Subject
- Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (180)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (140)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (114)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (112)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (111)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (107)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (107)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (65)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (57)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (51)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (49)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (41)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (40)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (39)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (39)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (38)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (34)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (34)
  
  In exile – Siberia (32)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (30)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (30)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (30)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (28)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (27)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (25)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (25)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (23)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (22)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (22)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (20)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (20)
  
  The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews (20)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (19)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Radom Ghetto (18)
  
  In exile – Ural (18)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Kraków (18)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (17)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (16)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (16)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (16)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – the Stanisławów area (16)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (15)
  
  Poles who saved Jews in the Kielce region (15)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (15)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (14)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (13)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (13)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Podlasie region (12)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (12)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (11)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (11)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Upper Silesia (11)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Mazovia (11)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (10)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Radom Ghetto (10)
  
  The Polish Righteous Among the Nations (10)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (10)
  
  The city condemned to death (10)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (9)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Gliwice (9)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (9)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Białystok Ghetto (9)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Tarnów Ghetto (9)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (9)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Częstochowa region (8)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Nowogród region (8)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (8)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (7)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (7)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Volhynia (7)
  
  Radom – daily terror (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (7)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Częstochowa Ghetto (7)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – the Lublin region (7)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (6)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (6)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Radom region (6)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Kłobuck Ghetto (6)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Tarnopol region (6)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Łódź region (6)
  
  Radom bathed in blood – the prison in the former convent buildings (6)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (6)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Upper Silesia (6)
  
  Upper Silesia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (6)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (5)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Kielce Ghetto (5)
  
  In exile – Mari El Republic (5)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Greater Poland (5)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Kielce region (5)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Wilno region (5)
  
  Soviets in German captivity (5)
  
  Wawer Massacre '39 (5)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (5)
  
  Dispersed terror – KL Plaszow, the Schindler Factory sub-camp (4)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Plaszow branch in Schindler's Factory (4)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Ravensbrück branch in KL Malchow (4)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Pomerania (4)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (4)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz I (340)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (335)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (326)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (274)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (195)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (169)
  
  Warsaw (168)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (162)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (98)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (97)
  
  KL Plaszow (86)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (85)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (84)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (84)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (72)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (69)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (65)
  
  KL Majdanek (65)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (65)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (63)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (62)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (60)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (55)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (54)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (53)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (51)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (49)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (47)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (47)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (46)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (44)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (41)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (40)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (39)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (37)
  
  Kraków (37)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (36)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (36)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (35)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (34)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (33)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (30)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (29)
  
  Lublin (29)
  
  Radzymin (29)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (29)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (27)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (27)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (27)
  
  Bydgoszcz (26)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (26)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (25)
  
  Łódź (25)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (24)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (24)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (24)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (23)
  
  Radom (23)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (23)
  
  Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (21)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (21)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (20)
  
  Bochnia, train station (20)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (20)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (20)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (20)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (20)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (20)
  
  Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (19)
  
  Częstochowa (19)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (19)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (19)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (18)
  
  Rajsko, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (18)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (18)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (18)
  
  Białystok (17)
  
  Bliżyn, forced labor camp (17)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (17)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (17)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (17)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (17)
  
  Mechelen (Belgium), transit camp (16)
  
  Radom, Ghetto Śródmieście (16)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (16)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (16)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (15)
  
  KL Stutthof (15)
  
  Katowice (15)
  
  Kielce, the "Hasag-Granat" factory, Karczówkowska Street (15)
  
  Poznań (15)
  
  Przemyśl (15)
  
  Radom, Gestapo headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (15)
  
  Radom, Ghetto Glinice (15)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (15)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (15)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (15)
  
  Berlin (Germany) (14)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (14)
  
  KL Malchow (KL Ravensbrück subcamp, Germany) (14)
Victims
- Civilians (2276)
  
  The Jews (2273)
  
  The Civilian Population (2068)
  
  The Poles (1733)
  
  Women (1141)
  
  Children (692)
  
  The Inteligentsia (576)
  
  The sick (449)
  
  The Sick (426)
  
  Russians/Soviets (401)
  
  The Russians (348)
  
  Ukrainians (281)
  
  Prisoners of War (241)
  
  The Elderly (231)
  
  The elderly (154)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (148)
  
  Deportees (142)
  
  Hungarians (121)
  
  The Church (121)
  
  Belarusians (112)
  
  Germans (103)
  
  The elderly (102)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (99)
  
  Czechs (97)
  
  The French (85)
  
  Slovaks (76)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (74)
  
  Policemen (72)
  
  Belgians (69)
  
  The Dutch (62)
  
  Greeks (50)
  
  The Disabled (48)
  
  Lithuanians (47)
  
  The Communists (45)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (41)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (35)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (30)
  
  Landowners (28)
  
  Italians (22)
  
  Latvians (17)
  
  Americans (16)
  
  Romanians (16)
  
  The British (14)
  
  Norwegians (12)
  
  Internees (11)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (11)
  
  Border Protection Corps (9)
  
  Estonians (9)
  
  Border Guard (6)
  
  Finns (3)
  
  Prison Guard (3)
  
  Serbs (2)
  
  the Chinese (2)
  
  Bulgarians (1)
  
  Georgians (1)
  
  Scouts (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (729)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (260)
  
  Collaboration (174)
  
  Military Police (166)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (118)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (95)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (92)
  
  Denunciation (77)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (64)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (61)
  
  Soviet Militia (49)
  
  Red Army (48)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (46)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (34)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (30)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (24)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (22)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (22)
  
  Lithuanians (20)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (15)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (13)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (12)
  
  Latvians (11)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (11)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (11)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (11)
  
  Security Office (8)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (8)
  
  Waffen-SS (7)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (5)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (4)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (3)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (3)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (3)
  
  Postal Protection (2)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (2)
  
  Assault Units (Sturmabteilung, SA) (1)
  
  Collaborators (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Execution (1157)
  
  Forced labor (1157)
  
  Death by shooting (1010)
  
  Beating (972)
  
  Arrest (872)
  
  Biological extermination (838)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (757)
  
  Deportation (506)
  
  Robbery (432)
  
  Gas chambers (378)
  
  Cremation of corpses (344)
  
  Cremation (324)
  
  Deportation/Exile (268)
  
  Mass graves (229)
  
  Hanging (219)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (204)
  
  Judicial crime (201)
  
  Cattle wagons (180)
  
  Economic exploitation (165)
  
  Displacement (152)
  
  Round-up (146)
  
  Punishment cell (143)
  
  Expulsion (136)
  
  Medical experiments (134)
  
  Racial policy (129)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (122)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (118)
  
  Administrative persecution (102)
  
  Burning people alive (101)
  
  "Dosing" (96)
  
  Death marches (66)
  
  Desacration of corpses (61)
  
  Air raids (52)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (52)
  
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Dziopek Jan 27.10.1889, Borek Stary

Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp

1940.08.21-1945.06.16

Warsaw KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II KL Auschwitz-Birkenau KL Melk (Austria) KL Auschwitz I Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I KL Auschwitz I, roll call square KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) Jawiszowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt Arbeitslager Gleiwitz I (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) Arbeitslager Gleiwitz II (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Arbeitslager Gleiwitz III (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Arbeitslager Gleiwitz IV (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Melk (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) KL Ebensee (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) Jasło, temporary remand prison, Staszica Street 3 Gorlice, Gestapo headquarters, Legionów Street 8 KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 KL Ravensbrück (Germany) Babice, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” Poręba (district of Pszczyna) Linz (Austria) Pszczyna Nowy Wiśnicz Libusza Ostrava (Czech Republic) Wels (Austria) Lambach (Austria) Gmunden (Austria)

Wutke Paweł 1893

The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast

1939.08.30 - 1942.03.26

Baranowicze (now in Belarus) Kowel (now in Ukraine) Chełm Brześć (now in Belarus) Orsha (Belarus) Moscow (Russia) Vologda (Russia, Vologda Oblast) Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Yertsevo (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Bukhara (Uzbekistan) Kagan (Uzbekistan) Lugovoy (Kazakhstan)

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1940.03.20-1942.02.10

Równe (Ukraine), prison, 3 Maja Street (Soborna Street 16) Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) Korzec (now in Ukraine) Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Chardzhou (Türkmenabat, Turkmenistan) Guzar (Uzbekistan)

Rokieta Stanisław 1900?

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

1939.09.13-1942.02.12

Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) Minsk (Belarus) Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) Margilan (Uzbekistan) Kazakhstan, Pavlodar Oblast

Rajewski Ludwik 16.12.1900, Łódź

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death

1940.05.10-1944.10.25

Warsaw, Daniłowiczowska Street KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) KL Auschwitz I KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) KL Ravensbrück (Germany) Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 Bochnia, train station KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) KL Auschwitz I, roll call square KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Dresden (Germany) Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp KL Gross-Rosen

Wolman Jakub 13.07.1914

Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp

1940.04-1945.01.27

KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I KL Buchenwald (Germany) KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I KL Auschwitz I, roll call square KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Bratislava (Slovakia) Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp Žilina (Slovakia) Bronna Góra (Belarus)

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