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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Anonymous (49)
  
  Szulc C. (48)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (10)
  
  Sobierajska Irena (9)
  
  Steinhauf Renata (7)
  
  Nowiński (6)
  
  Berthoh Feliks (4)
  
  Sendler Irena; 15.02.1910, Warszawa (4)
  
  Łącki Mikołaj; 30.10.1888, Loyew (Belarus) (4)
  
  Lorentz Stanisław; 28.04.1899, Radom (3)
  
  Maławska-Primas Hanna (3)
  
  Narloch Bronisława (3)
  
  Russanowska B. (3)
  
  Szyszko-Bohusz Adolf; 19.08.1883, Narva (Estonia) (3)
  
  Węsierska Agnieszka (3)
  
  Ast Jadwiga; 24.01.1923, Żarnowiec (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Bartoszko Kazimierz; 09.10.1898 (2)
  
  Barzał Czesław; 09.10.1915, Ostrów Mazowiecka (2)
  
  Bida Władysław; 1886? (2)
  
  Biejat Edmund; 1891? (2)
  
  Borkowski Stefan (2)
  
  Bąk Michał; 1903? (2)
  
  Charszla Lidia (2)
  
  Ciepliński Brunon (2)
  
  Ciopińska Anna (2)
  
  Dankowska Jolanta (2)
  
  Dreslerski Józef (2)
  
  Dąbkowska Wiktoria, 1878? (2)
  
  Dąbrowski Jan (2)
  
  Estreicher Karol; 1905? (2)
  
  Figiel Władysław (2)
  
  Grzesiński Marian (2)
  
  Głowiak Stanisław; 10.02.1903, Podzwierzyniec (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Herbich Kazimierz; 29.03.1894 (2)
  
  Jasińska Zofia (2)
  
  Kamińska Apolonia (2)
  
  Kapała Stefan (2)
  
  Kipa Emil Józef; 17.03.1886, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Kot Franciszek; 20.01.1904, Kosewo (Ostrów Mazowiecka county) (2)
  
  Kowalczyk Józef (2)
  
  Koziar Jan (2)
  
  Kucharski Teofil; 06.02.1889, Jaszczew (2)
  
  Kulicki Władysław (2)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Lechowski Maksymilian; 1900? (2)
  
  Libkind-Lubodziecki Stanisław; 24.01.1879, Warsaw (2)
  
  Lipski Jan (2)
  
  Martynuska Janina (2)
  
  Maślankiewicz Jan; 01.09.1916, Warsaw (2)
  
  Maślankiewicz Jan; 01.09.1916, Warszawa (2)
  
  Michałowicz Mieczysław Jan; 10.09.1876, Petersburg (Russia) (2)
  
  Michelis Zygmunt; 17.03.1880, Bycz (kujawsko-pomorskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Miklaszewska Antonina (2)
  
  Morawski Zdzisław; 11.01.1927, Mała Wieś (Grójec county) (2)
  
  Orłowska Janina (2)
  
  Osawski Zygmunt, 1892? (2)
  
  Palińska Kazimiera; 03.03.1883, Świr (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Penson Jakub; 23.04.1899, Płock (2)
  
  Pieńkowski Jan; 15.04.1888, Kosewo (Ostrów Mazowiecka county) (2)
  
  Przygoda Józef; 05.02.1909 (2)
  
  Przygodzki Jacek (2)
  
  Płoski Stanisław; 04.12.1899, Bryansk (Russia) (2)
  
  Rabiej Ryszard (2)
  
  Raczkiewicz Zbysław; 04.09.1925, Pobołowice (2)
  
  Rysiński Mieczysław (2)
  
  Schrott Ksawera; 1879? (2)
  
  Schwinke Franciszek; 1901? (2)
  
  Sendecki Sylwester; 1903? (2)
  
  Siedlecki Karol (2)
  
  Sulewski Paweł (2)
  
  Szenajch Władysław Ludwik; 13.05.1879, Warsaw (2)
  
  Słuchoński Artur; 02.03.1898 (2)
  
  Wallisch Irena (2)
  
  Warchałowski Edward; 04.10.1889, Piestrzec (2)
  
  Warszawer Zygmunt (2)
  
  Wojciechowski Marceli, 1902? (2)
  
  Wolter Władysław; 05.02.1897, Kraków (2)
  
  Wąsowicz Tadeusz; 29.07.1906, Limanowa (2)
  
  Zagórska Antonina; 1888?, Niestachów (2)
  
  Zieliński Antoni (2)
  
  Łańczak Władysław (2)
  
  Śliwiński J. (2)
  
  "Bartosz" (1)
  
  Abramczuk Jan, 06.08.1933, Przewłoka (1)
  
  Abramczyk Stanisław (1)
  
  Adamczuk Barbara (1)
  
  Adamczyk Jadwiga (1)
  
  Adamczyk Karol (1)
  
  Adamowicz Wiktor; 08.03.1903 (1)
  
  Adamska Alicja (1)
  
  Adler Stanisław; 08.02.1901, Warsaw (1)
  
  Affek Halina (1)
  
  Affek Piotr; 1905? (1)
  
  Aksnowicz Alfons; 21.01.1920 (1)
  
  Alaba Bogusław, 06.08.1930, Wodynie-Siedlce (1)
  
  Alchimowicz Kazimierz; 1906 (1)
  
  Aleksandrów Władysław; 1919? (1)
  
  Aleksiejewicz Józef (1)
  
  Alscher Josef; 05.06.1894, Legnica (1)
  
  Ambroziak Jan (1)
Subject
- The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (455)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (239)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (112)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (112)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (109)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (108)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (88)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (87)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (85)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (83)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (77)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (73)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (65)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (62)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (58)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (50)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (47)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (43)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (38)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (34)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (33)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (30)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Lublin region (27)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (27)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (27)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (25)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (24)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (23)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (22)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (21)
  
  The city condemned to death (20)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Pomerania (17)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (17)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (17)
  
  The Free City of Danzig – erasing Polishness (17)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Warsaw (16)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (14)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Kraków (14)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (14)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (14)
  
  Prisoners of war – transit camps in Kielce (13)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (12)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (12)
  
  Taken Captive (12)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (12)
  
  The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews (12)
  
  The persecuted church (12)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Lesser Poland (11)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (11)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (10)
  
  In exile – Siberia (10)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (10)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (10)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (9)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Volhynia (9)
  
  In exile – Ural (9)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Warsaw (8)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (7)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Upper Silesia (7)
  
  Radom – daily terror (7)
  
  Clandestine teaching classes – Volhynia (6)
  
  Lebensborn – the Germanization of Polish children (6)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (6)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Podlasie region (6)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Łódź region (6)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (6)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (6)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (6)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (6)
  
  Clandestine teaching classes – the Kielce region (5)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Wilno region (5)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Polesie region (5)
  
  Poles who saved Jews (5)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (5)
  
  The Polish Righteous Among the Nations (5)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Kujawy region (4)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Łódź region (4)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Lesser Poland (4)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Volhynia (4)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Częstochowa region (4)
  
  Poles who saved Jews in the Kielce region (4)
  
  Pruszków – the town of the displaced (4)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (4)
  
  Stadion Leśny, Słowik, Herby – execution sites in Kielce (4)
  
  Terror in the "incorporated lands" – the Łódź region (4)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (3)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Rzeszów (3)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Mazovia (3)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Zamość region (3)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (3)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (3)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Radom Ghetto (3)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Sachsenhausen (3)
  
  Soldier's House, Fort VII, Żabikowo – the trail of death in Greater Poland (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (3)
  
  The Intelligenzaktion in Pomerania – the Piaśnica massacre (3)
  
  The Polish diplomacy and its bid to help Jews (3)
  
  Browar, Czerwoniak – the Ostrów death blocks (2)
  
  Clandestine teaching classes – Pomerania (2)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (312)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (200)
  
  Warsaw (182)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (168)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (164)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (111)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (89)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (88)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (86)
  
  Siedlce (80)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (76)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (72)
  
  Kielce (71)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (67)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (62)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (61)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (60)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (60)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (58)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (56)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (54)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (52)
  
  Lublin (50)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (50)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (49)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (44)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (43)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (43)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (42)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (42)
  
  Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (40)
  
  Ostashkov (Russia, Tver Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (40)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (39)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (38)
  
  Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (37)
  
  Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (36)
  
  Kraków (36)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (35)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (34)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (34)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka (33)
  
  Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (32)
  
  Olesko (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (32)
  
  Radom (32)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (31)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (30)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (29)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (29)
  
  Radziwiłłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (29)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (28)
  
  Połąga (now in Lithuania), internee camp (28)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (27)
  
  Chełm (27)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (27)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (26)
  
  Ostróg (now in Ukraine), transit camp (Barracks of the 19th Volhynian Uhlan Regiment) (26)
  
  Podliski Małe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (26)
  
  Gdańsk (25)
  
  KL Stutthof (25)
  
  Kozelschyna (Ukraine, Poltava Oblast), transit camp (25)
  
  Kościerzyna (25)
  
  Ukmergė (Lithuania), internee camp (25)
  
  Zborów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (25)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (24)
  
  Złoczów (now in Ukraine) (24)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (23)
  
  Starachowice (23)
  
  Busk (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (22)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (22)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (22)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (21)
  
  Hrubieszów (21)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (21)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (21)
  
  Teofipol (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (21)
  
  Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (20)
  
  Biała Podlaska (20)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (20)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (20)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) (20)
  
  Czerlany (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (19)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (19)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (19)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (19)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (18)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (18)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (18)
  
  Ostra Góra (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (18)
  
  Podwołoczyska (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (18)
  
  Proskuriv (Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (18)
  
  Przemyśl (18)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (17)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (now in Lithuania), internee camp (17)
  
  Wzdół Rządowy (17)
  
  Angielówka (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (16)
  
  Dąbrowa (Kielce) (16)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (16)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (16)
  
  Mościska (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (16)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (16)
Victims
- The Poles (2566)
  
  Civilians (2080)
  
  The Civilian Population (1884)
  
  Children (1123)
  
  Prisoners of War (727)
  
  The Jews (723)
  
  Women (648)
  
  The Inteligentsia (615)
  
  Ukrainians (280)
  
  Policemen (237)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (218)
  
  The sick (217)
  
  The Sick (210)
  
  Belarusians (198)
  
  Russians/Soviets (148)
  
  Deportees (128)
  
  The Russians (117)
  
  The elderly (114)
  
  The Elderly (112)
  
  Internees (97)
  
  The Church (96)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (91)
  
  Border Guard (72)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (57)
  
  Border Protection Corps (44)
  
  Germans (37)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (37)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (30)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (28)
  
  Lithuanians (28)
  
  Landowners (26)
  
  The French (14)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (14)
  
  The Disabled (12)
  
  Estonians (9)
  
  Hungarians (9)
  
  The Communists (9)
  
  Czechs (8)
  
  Greeks (7)
  
  Latvians (7)
  
  Prison Guard (7)
  
  The Dutch (5)
  
  The elderly (5)
  
  The British (4)
  
  Americans (3)
  
  Italians (3)
  
  Romanians (3)
  
  Slovaks (3)
  
  Belgians (2)
  
  Finns (2)
  
  the Chinese (2)
  
  Georgians (1)
  
  Scouts (1)
  
  Serbs (1)
Perpetrators
- Red Army (364)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (220)
  
  SS (190)
  
  Collaboration (176)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (101)
  
  Military Police (87)
  
  Denunciation (86)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (83)
  
  Soviet Militia (76)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (63)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (54)
  
  Lithuanians (54)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (48)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (33)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (26)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (24)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (24)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (15)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (12)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (11)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (11)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (11)
  
  Latvians (8)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (7)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (6)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (6)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (5)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (4)
  
  Security Office (4)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (3)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (3)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (3)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (3)
  
  Administrative Police (2)
  
  Collaborators (2)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (2)
  
  Waffen-SS (2)
  
  Assault Units (Sturmabteilung, SA) (1)
  
  Postal Protection (1)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (1261)
  
  Arrest (1027)
  
  Execution (969)
  
  Biological extermination (942)
  
  Death by shooting (772)
  
  Beating (619)
  
  Deportation (536)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (528)
  
  Deportation/Exile (383)
  
  Robbery (342)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (322)
  
  Disarmament (320)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (316)
  
  Denationalization (303)
  
  Mass graves (263)
  
  Round-up (256)
  
  Cattle wagons (254)
  
  Punishment cell (243)
  
  Judicial crime (188)
  
  Air raids (185)
  
  Displacement (173)
  
  Economic exploitation (165)
  
  Roads of death (152)
  
  Expulsion (137)
  
  Administrative persecution (122)
  
  Hanging (103)
  
  Cremation of corpses (93)
  
  Racial policy (92)
  
  Burning people alive (89)
  
  Cremation (89)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (47)
  
  Gas chambers (40)
  
  Artillery fire (36)
  
  Artillery shelling (36)
  
  Germanization (35)
  
  Desacration of corpses (30)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (30)
  
  Sovietization (24)
  
  Armored weapons (22)
  
  Death marches (21)
  
  Medical experiments (20)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (19)
  
  Forced voting (13)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (9)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (9)
  
  Rape (8)
  
  "Dosing" (5)
  
  Ukrainianization (3)
  
  Human shields (2)
Place
- Forced labor camps for POWs (474)
  
  Transit camp (364)
  
  Prison (279)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (265)
  
  Forced labor (216)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (174)
  
  Ghetto (138)
  
  Mine (127)
  
  Concentration camp (119)
  
  Kolkhoz (104)
  
  Internment camp (91)
  
  NKVD custody suite (89)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (71)
  
  Police headquarters/station (65)
  
  Labor camp (64)
  
  Extermination camp (53)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (39)
  
  Sovkhoz (22)
  
  Sewers (5)
  
  Orphanage – dietdom (2)
  
  Siberia (2)
  
  Robbery (1)
Content
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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

Rosikoń Władysław

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp

Noszczyński Bolesław

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Niesłuchów (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Busk (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Kozłów (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Podliski Małe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Zborów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Jaryczów Stary (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

Terlecki Eugeniusz

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, Ukraine), transit camp Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Ponikwa (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Busk (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Tudorów (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp Podwołoczyska (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Teofipol (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Zamość

Jop Józef

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Teofipol (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

Gau Józef 1897.05.05

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

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Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Kagan (Uzbekistan) Moscow (Russia) Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast)

Henke Władysław 1899.01.02

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

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Chokpak (Kazakhstan) Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Słowita (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Złoczów (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Ostra Góra (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Zahorce Wielkie (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp

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Szulc C.

The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas

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Grajnert Stanisław 1899

The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast

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Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress

Baran Jan 1906.02.04

A race against time – the road to Anders' Army

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Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Wilski Zbigniew

In exile – Siberia

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Lugovoy (Kazakhstan)

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The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast

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Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Szulc C.

The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas

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The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas

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The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

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Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Moscow (Russia)

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