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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Anonymous (2)
  
  Głowiak Stanisław; 10.02.1903, Podzwierzyniec (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Szczuciński (2)
  
  Adamski Antoni, 1894? (1)
  
  Adamski Antoni; 1894? (1)
  
  Alchimowicz Kazimierz; 1906 (1)
  
  Aleksiejewicz Józef (1)
  
  Amanowicz Kazimierz; 1922? (1)
  
  Andrzejewski Teodor; 1904? (1)
  
  Atras Franciszek, 1900.10.08 (1)
  
  Augustowicz Bolesław; 1912 (1)
  
  Awienko Henryk; 1910? (1)
  
  Babiarz Paweł, 1900.07.06 (1)
  
  Bakuła Antoni; 1899 (1)
  
  Bakuła Antoni; 1900 (1)
  
  Baranowski Julian; 1902 (1)
  
  Baranowski Józef (1)
  
  Barbachowski Wladyslaw; 1903 (1)
  
  Barczykowski Jan 1914 (1)
  
  Barczykowski Jan; 05.01.1914, Spieczyny (1)
  
  Bartosiak Kazimierz; 1898 (1)
  
  Bartoszko Kazimierz; 09.10.1898 (1)
  
  Bartoszyński Józef; 1913 (1)
  
  Berner Aleksander; 04.03.1915, Landwarów (now in Lithuania) (1)
  
  Berner Aleksander; 04.03.1915, Landwarów (now in Lithuania) (1)
  
  Bełch Franciszek (1)
  
  Białous Edward; 03.04.1914, Kantorówka (1)
  
  Bielecki Andrzej; 1893, Podhorce (1)
  
  Bielska Emilia; 1911? (1)
  
  Biełous Włodzimierz; 1904 (1)
  
  Blewąska Wincenty; 1900 (1)
  
  Bobowski Leszek; 1910? (1)
  
  Bochenski Jan; 28.12.1901 (1)
  
  Bochnik Kasper, 1897 (1)
  
  Boryń Franciszek; 1898 (1)
  
  Brachaniec Leon; 1897? (1)
  
  Brzozowski Stefan; 1900? (1)
  
  Brzuszkiewicz Jan (1)
  
  Bubniewicz Wladyslaw; 1898? (1)
  
  Bujakiewicz Kazimierz, 1898 (1)
  
  Bukiewicz Marian (1)
  
  Burda Augustyn, 1901? (1)
  
  Bławat Michał; 1896? (1)
  
  Charytonowicz Kazimierz; 1921? (1)
  
  Chmielewski Daniel; 1897 (1)
  
  Chojnacki Bolesław, 1897 (1)
  
  Ciesielski Antoni; 1911.03.03 (1)
  
  Ciesielski Franciszek; 1896 (1)
  
  Cieślak Bolesław; 1907? (1)
  
  Ciągło Jan; 01.12.1899 (1)
  
  Cupryk Wladysław; 1916 (1)
  
  Cyrański Józef; 1902? (1)
  
  Cytko Jan; 1897? (1)
  
  Cytowicz Michał; 1897 (1)
  
  Czajkowski Aleksander (1)
  
  Czaporowski Lucjan; 13.12.1904 (1)
  
  Czarniecki Kazimierz, 1912.12.02 (1)
  
  Czerniak Zygmunt, 1906 (1)
  
  Czerniawski Michał; 1922? (1)
  
  Czeszko Aleksander, 1899 (1)
  
  Czyżewski Piotr, 1915 (1)
  
  Daglis Stanisław; 1901 (1)
  
  Darasz Jan; 1901? (1)
  
  Daszkiewicz Wanda (1)
  
  Denis Władysław (1)
  
  Deręgowski Antoni (1)
  
  Doliński Jan; 1897 (1)
  
  Drabek Jan; 1901 (1)
  
  Draws Leon; 1908 (1)
  
  Dubiński Antoni; 1902 (1)
  
  Dubrawka Piotr (1)
  
  Durlik Ludwik (1)
  
  Dworzak Bazyli; 1898.12.25 (1)
  
  Dybowski Stefan (1)
  
  Dygul Stanisław; 1898 (1)
  
  Dziedzic Tomasz (1)
  
  Dzikowski Henryk; 20.05.1922 (1)
  
  Dziura Michał; 1887 (1)
  
  Dąbkowski Witkor; 1890 (1)
  
  Ejgierd Stanisław, 1897 (1)
  
  Esman Wladysław (1)
  
  Fajer Władysław; 1903 (1)
  
  Fieduszko Józef, 1899 (1)
  
  Fijakowski Błażej (1)
  
  Fijałkowski Feliks; 1899? (1)
  
  Fojcik Wilhelm, 1897.04.17 (1)
  
  Fok Zofia; 16.02.1905, Winniki (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Folitarczyk Bronisław, 1908 (1)
  
  Fronczyk Feliks (1)
  
  Frączak Stefan; 1901 (1)
  
  Furman Jan; 1913? (1)
  
  Gadomski Mieczysław, 1900 (1)
  
  Gajdowski Jan; 1901 (1)
  
  Gajowy Józef; 1901 (1)
  
  Gansiwiec Henryk; 1902? (1)
  
  Garbarz Szmul, 1902 (1)
  
  Garniewicz Stanisław; 1884 (1)
  
  Giecold Bolesław; 1910? (1)
  
  Gierżadowicz Jan, 1907 (1)
  
  Ginel Bolesław; 1910 (1)
Subject
- The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (156)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (45)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (33)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (28)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (20)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (19)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (14)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (13)
  
  In exile – Siberia (11)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (8)
  
  In exile – Ural (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (6)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (6)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (5)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (4)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (4)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (4)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (4)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (3)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ryazan Oblast (2)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Povolzhye (1)
  
  In exile – Yaroslavl Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Tambov Oblast (1)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (113)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (102)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (62)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (50)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (32)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (30)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (28)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (27)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (23)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (23)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (23)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (22)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (21)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (20)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (19)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (19)
  
  Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (18)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (18)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (17)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (17)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (17)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (17)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (17)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (16)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (16)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (16)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (15)
  
  Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (15)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (15)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (15)
  
  Radziwiłłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (15)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (15)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (14)
  
  Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (14)
  
  Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (13)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (12)
  
  Ostróg (now in Ukraine), transit camp (Barracks of the 19th Volhynian Uhlan Regiment) (12)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (12)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (12)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (11)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (10)
  
  Olesko (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (10)
  
  Podliski Małe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (10)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (9)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (9)
  
  Czerlany (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (9)
  
  Zborów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (9)
  
  Babin (now in Ukraine, Rivne Oblast), POW forced labor camp (8)
  
  Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (8)
  
  Mościska (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (8)
  
  Nowogródek (now in Belarus) (8)
  
  Ostra Góra (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (8)
  
  Połąga (now in Lithuania), internee camp (8)
  
  Proskuriv (Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (8)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (8)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (8)
  
  Werba (Ukraine) (8)
  
  Angielówka (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (7)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (7)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (7)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (7)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (7)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (7)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (7)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (7)
  
  Podwołoczyska (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (7)
  
  Teofipol (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (7)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (now in Lithuania), internee camp (7)
  
  Zahorce Wielkie (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (7)
  
  Zaporizhia (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (7)
  
  Złoczów (now in Ukraine) (7)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (6)
  
  Białystok (6)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (6)
  
  Kurowice (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (6)
  
  Lida (now in Belarus), "Kamionka" prison, Leninskaya Street 29 (6)
  
  Marhanets (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (6)
  
  Tashlak (Toshloq, Uzbekistan) (6)
  
  Tudorów (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (6)
  
  Warkowicze (Ukraine) (6)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, Ukraine), transit camp (6)
  
  Zimna Woda (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (6)
  
  Żydatycze (Hamaliyivka, Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (6)
  
  Barnaul (Russia, Altai Krai) (5)
  
  Borysów (Belarus) (5)
  
  Busk (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (5)
  
  Filipowicze (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (5)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (5)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (5)
  
  Kamionka Las (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (5)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (5)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (5)
  
  Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a (5)
  
  Pińsk (now in Belarus), NKVD prison no 29, Brzeska/Poleska Street (5)
  
  Skniłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (5)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (5)
  
  Tuligłowy (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (5)
  
  Ukmergė (Lithuania), internee camp (5)
  
  Unzhlag (Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (5)
  
  Warsaw (5)
Victims
- Belarusians (405)
  
  The Poles (404)
  
  Ukrainians (276)
  
  Civilians (236)
  
  The Jews (235)
  
  The Civilian Population (217)
  
  Prisoners of War (185)
  
  The Inteligentsia (157)
  
  Deportees (100)
  
  Women (92)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (91)
  
  The sick (85)
  
  The Sick (80)
  
  Children (79)
  
  Russians/Soviets (66)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (61)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (57)
  
  The Russians (56)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (50)
  
  Policemen (50)
  
  Germans (33)
  
  The elderly (32)
  
  The Elderly (31)
  
  Internees (27)
  
  Lithuanians (25)
  
  Border Guard (17)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (17)
  
  Landowners (15)
  
  The Church (15)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (12)
  
  Border Protection Corps (10)
  
  Estonians (5)
  
  Latvians (5)
  
  Romanians (2)
  
  Americans (1)
  
  Czechs (1)
  
  Georgians (1)
  
  Hungarians (1)
  
  Scouts (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- Red Army (117)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (104)
  
  Denunciation (58)
  
  Collaboration (34)
  
  Soviet Militia (27)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (24)
  
  Lithuanians (12)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (6)
  
  Collaborators (3)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (2)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (2)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (2)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  SS (1)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (1)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (1)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (1)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (365)
  
  Biological extermination (355)
  
  Arrest (245)
  
  Deportation/Exile (207)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (157)
  
  Beating (145)
  
  Punishment cell (137)
  
  Disarmament (101)
  
  Judicial crime (74)
  
  Cattle wagons (69)
  
  Execution (58)
  
  Death by shooting (55)
  
  Roads of death (52)
  
  Robbery (48)
  
  Air raids (19)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (13)
  
  Deportation (11)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (9)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (8)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (8)
  
  Sovietization (7)
  
  Armored weapons (5)
  
  Death marches (4)
  
  Desacration of corpses (3)
  
  Forced voting (3)
  
  Round-up (2)
  
  Administrative persecution (1)
  
  Collectivization (1)
  
  Denationalization (1)
  
  Displacement (1)
  
  Expulsion (1)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (1)
  
  Racial policy (1)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (1)
Place
- Forced labor camps for POWs (169)
  
  Transit camp (104)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (79)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (76)
  
  Prison (72)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (56)
  
  Kolkhoz (55)
  
  Mine (45)
  
  NKVD custody suite (44)
  
  Internment camp (24)
  
  Sovkhoz (6)
  
  Concentration camp (1)
  
  Ghetto (1)
  
  Orphanage – dietdom (1)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (1)
  
  Siberia (1)
Content
- Health service (274)
  
  Anders' Army (141)
  
  Amnesty (104)
  
  Polish culture in exile (68)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (63)
  
  First deportation (59)
  
  Communist propaganda (55)
  
  Epidemics (54)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (38)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (34)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (16)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (13)
  
  Second deportation (12)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (11)
  
  Fourth deportation (7)
  
  Military hospital (5)
  
  Third deportation (5)
  
  Civil resistance (4)
  
  Students' Army Corps (3)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (3)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (2)
  
  Central Welfare Council (1)
  
  Extermination of Jews (1)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (1)
  
  Partisan warfare (1)
  
  Polish Underground State (1)
  
  Rescue of Jews (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (1)
Object type
- Account (99)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (6)
  
  Brief (1)
  
  Press clipping (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Independent Historical Office of the Command of the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union/Documentation Office of the Polish Army in the East (404)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (1)
Medium
- Text (405)
  
  Image (8)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (397)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (8)