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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Anonymous (71)
  
  Szulc C. (36)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (15)
  
  Deja Stanisław; 23.04.1907, Kowala (15)
  
  Stopa F. (8)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (6)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (6)
  
  Lewicki W. (6)
  
  Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (6)
  
  Szelest Kazimierz; 25.03.1917, Kraków (6)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (5)
  
  Krakiewicz Feliks; 1873? (5)
  
  Marcinkiewicz Stefan (5)
  
  Nowiński (5)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 27.01.1913, Warsaw (5)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (5)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (5)
  
  Sobczański J. (5)
  
  Czardybon Bernard; 18.06.1901, Chorzów (4)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (4)
  
  Grabosz Ludwika; 1879? (4)
  
  Jamróz Halina; 1919? (4)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 04.05.1918, Kraków (4)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (4)
  
  Rajewski Ludwik; 16.12.1900, Łódź (4)
  
  Rogalski Władysław; 1879? (4)
  
  Russanowska B. (4)
  
  Sendler Irena; 15.02.1910, Warszawa (4)
  
  Sobierajska Irena (4)
  
  Steinhauf Renata (4)
  
  Wolny Stefan; 30.10.1903, Kamieńskie (Ukraine) (4)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (4)
  
  Łącki Mikołaj; 30.10.1888, Loyew (Belarus) (4)
  
  Banach Ludwig; 24.08.1917, Bydgoszcz (3)
  
  Banach Ludwik; 24.08.1918 (3)
  
  Barzał Czesław; 09.10.1915, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Blinstrub Aniela; 1892? (3)
  
  Brach Jan; 1919? (3)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Duda Konrad; 02.02.1914, Wartogłowiec (Tychy) (3)
  
  Dąbrówka Zofia; 1892? (3)
  
  Fastman Ludwik; 31.07.1899, Drohobycz (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Głowa Stanisław; 15.09.1898, Igołomia (3)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (3)
  
  Hys Stanisław; 19.07.1910, Sobolew (mazowieckie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Jastrzębska Eugenia; 1906? (3)
  
  Kiełbowski Paweł; 1892? (3)
  
  Kocińska Alicja (3)
  
  Koczorowski Józef; 01.02.1919, Poznań (3)
  
  Konferowicz Wacław; 13.05.1912, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Kopta Marian; 08.12.1911, Kraków (3)
  
  Korkosz Stanisław; 1904? (3)
  
  Korszla Jan; 1914? (3)
  
  Kotlarski Mieczysław; 09.10.1913, Osieczna (wielkopolskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Krokowski Jan; 08.05.1921, Nowy Sącz (3)
  
  Kukla Zbigniew; 11.08.1910, Kalwaria Zebrzydowska (3)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (3)
  
  Lorentz Stanisław; 28.04.1899, Radom (3)
  
  Ludwig Józef Paweł; 03.07.1910, Sosnowiec (3)
  
  Maliszewski Stefan; 23.05.1912, Warsaw (3)
  
  Mankiewicz Franciszek; 1898 (3)
  
  Maławska-Primas Hanna (3)
  
  Mączka Zofia; 30.11.1905, Kraków (3)
  
  Nagraba Ludwik; 19.08.1910, Kraków (3)
  
  Olbrycht Jan; 06.05.1886, Zahutyń (3)
  
  Paczyński Józef; 29.01.1920, Wadowice (3)
  
  Pająk Wilibald; 15.12.1922, Katowice (3)
  
  Plaskura Józef; 23.01.1911, Brzeszcze (3)
  
  Plaskura Władysław; 10.05.1905, Łazy (Orłowa, Czech Republic) (3)
  
  Prokop Kamila; 1909? (3)
  
  Rajzman Samuel; 1902, Węgrów (3)
  
  Rżewski Władysław, 07.01.1894 (3)
  
  Sapińska Helena; 1901? (3)
  
  Sendecki Sylwester; 1903? (3)
  
  Staszkiewicz Bronisław; 18.07.1921, Żywiec (3)
  
  Strynkowski Józef; 23.02.1891, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Szałwicki Bernard; 1909? (3)
  
  Szyszko-Bohusz Adolf; 19.08.1883, Narva (Estonia) (3)
  
  Taul Roman; 28.02.1917, Bytom (3)
  
  Tondos Władysław; 06.10.1900, Kalina Mała (3)
  
  Wiatr Mieczysław; 02.04.1917, Stary Sącz (3)
  
  Winczewska Anna; 1906? (3)
  
  Wrona Edward; 13.10.1913, Tuchów (3)
  
  Wąsowicz Tadeusz; 29.07.1906, Limanowa (3)
  
  Węsierska Agnieszka (3)
  
  Apolińska Zofia; 1893?, Zambrów (2)
  
  Ast Jadwiga; 24.01.1923, Żarnowiec (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Barabasz Alfred; 16.06.1913, Karwina (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Bartel Erwin; 02.03.1923, Oświęcim (2)
  
  Bartosiewicz Henryk; 1909? (2)
  
  Bartoszko Kazimierz; 09.10.1898 (2)
  
  Bas Ludwik; 18.12.1912, Kraków (2)
  
  Bicz Bolesław; 01.04.1889, Sporysz (Bielsk county) (2)
  
  Bida Władysław; 1886? (2)
  
  Biejat Edmund; 1891? (2)
  
  Bloch Claude; 29.05.1910, Bourg-la-Reine (France) (2)
  
  Bochenek Marta; 19.09.1892 (2)
  
  Bojm Mojżesz; 1903? (2)
  
  Boratyński Stefan (Kluska); 13.06.1917, Kraków (2)
  
  Borkowska Maria; 1887? (2)
  
  Kullanda Henryk (1)
Subject
- The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (480)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (338)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (312)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (262)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (257)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (246)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (234)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (224)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (204)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (202)
  
  In exile – Siberia (142)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (132)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (129)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (125)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (124)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (121)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (107)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (106)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (102)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (100)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (100)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (96)
  
  The tragedy of the Radom Arms Factory (88)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (85)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (83)
  
  In exile – Ural (77)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (68)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (67)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (66)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (66)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (62)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (61)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (56)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (56)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (56)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (55)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (54)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (51)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (48)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Pomerania (45)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (45)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (43)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (40)
  
  The city condemned to death (40)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (39)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (37)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (37)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Lublin region (34)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (34)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (34)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (33)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (33)
  
  Firlej near Radom – the training ground of death (32)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (31)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (31)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (29)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (28)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (28)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (28)
  
  Treblinka – extermination camp (27)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (24)
  
  Soviets in German captivity (24)
  
  Radom – daily terror (22)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Warsaw (20)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (20)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (19)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (17)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (17)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (16)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (16)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (16)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (16)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (16)
  
  The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews (16)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – the Stanisławów area (16)
  
  The persecuted church (16)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (15)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Kraków (15)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (14)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (14)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Lesser Poland (13)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Upper Silesia (13)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (13)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (12)
  
  Poles who saved Jews in the Kielce region (12)
  
  The Polish Righteous Among the Nations (12)
  
  Taken Captive (11)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (11)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Mazovia (11)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Radom Ghetto (10)
  
  Lebensborn – the Germanization of Polish children (10)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Radom Ghetto (10)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Volhynia (9)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (9)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Częstochowa region (9)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Podlasie region (9)
  
  Browar, Czerwoniak – the Ostrów death blocks (8)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (8)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Sachsenhausen (8)
  
  Prisoners of war – transit camps in Kielce (8)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz I (454)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (402)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (351)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (349)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (348)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (329)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (326)
  
  Warsaw (315)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (276)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (270)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (218)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (210)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (210)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (176)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (170)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (166)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (148)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (140)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (134)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (116)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (114)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (112)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (112)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (110)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (100)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (97)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (96)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (95)
  
  Siedlce (95)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (95)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (90)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (86)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (81)
  
  Kielce (81)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (81)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (81)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (79)
  
  Lublin (79)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (77)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (77)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (75)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (74)
  
  Kraków (73)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (72)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (71)
  
  KL Majdanek (70)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (69)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (69)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (69)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (68)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka (68)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (68)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (66)
  
  Radom (66)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (63)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (63)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (61)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (61)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (60)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (60)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (59)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (57)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (56)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (56)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (56)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (55)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (54)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (53)
  
  Radom, Arms Factory "Łucznik", Poniatowskiego Street (1905 Street 1/9) (53)
  
  Firlej (Radom), municipal cemetery, Ofiar Firleja Street 45 (52)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (51)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (51)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (50)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (49)
  
  Białystok (48)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (48)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (48)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (48)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (47)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (47)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (46)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (46)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (46)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (46)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (46)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (44)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (44)
  
  Bydgoszcz (43)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (43)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (42)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (42)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (42)
  
  Przemyśl (42)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (42)
  
  Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia) (41)
  
  Bochnia, train station (41)
  
  KL Stutthof (41)
  
  Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (41)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (41)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (41)
Victims
- The Poles (5891)
  
  Civilians (5430)
  
  The Civilian Population (5016)
  
  Women (2202)
  
  Children (2145)
  
  The Jews (1990)
  
  The Inteligentsia (1398)
  
  Prisoners of War (1050)
  
  Deportees (911)
  
  The sick (909)
  
  The Sick (863)
  
  Russians/Soviets (798)
  
  Ukrainians (737)
  
  The Russians (692)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (525)
  
  The elderly (518)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (509)
  
  The Elderly (491)
  
  Belarusians (389)
  
  Policemen (384)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (324)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (214)
  
  The Church (209)
  
  Internees (165)
  
  Germans (157)
  
  Lithuanians (105)
  
  Border Guard (103)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (102)
  
  Hungarians (99)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (98)
  
  Czechs (97)
  
  The French (86)
  
  Landowners (81)
  
  Border Protection Corps (68)
  
  Slovaks (62)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (59)
  
  The Dutch (56)
  
  The Communists (53)
  
  The Disabled (50)
  
  Belgians (42)
  
  Latvians (38)
  
  Greeks (34)
  
  Estonians (31)
  
  Romanians (23)
  
  Italians (17)
  
  Americans (16)
  
  The British (16)
  
  Norwegians (12)
  
  Prison Guard (12)
  
  the Chinese (7)
  
  Finns (6)
  
  Scouts (3)
  
  Serbs (3)
  
  Georgians (2)
Perpetrators
- SS (995)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (664)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (500)
  
  Red Army (458)
  
  Collaboration (392)
  
  Military Police (333)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (268)
  
  Denunciation (231)
  
  Soviet Militia (217)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (155)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (103)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (94)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (92)
  
  Lithuanians (88)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (82)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (59)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (49)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (40)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (29)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (23)
  
  Latvians (21)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (21)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (18)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (18)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (18)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (15)
  
  Collaborators (12)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (12)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (11)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (11)
  
  Waffen-SS (9)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (7)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (7)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (7)
  
  Security Office (6)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (6)
  
  Administrative Police (4)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (4)
  
  Postal Protection (3)
  
  Assault Units (Sturmabteilung, SA) (1)
  
  The Navy of Nazi Germany (Kriegsmarine) (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (3598)
  
  Arrest (2849)
  
  Biological extermination (2818)
  
  Execution (2190)
  
  Beating (2066)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (1782)
  
  Death by shooting (1765)
  
  Deportation/Exile (1525)
  
  Deportation (1174)
  
  Robbery (880)
  
  Cattle wagons (710)
  
  Judicial crime (629)
  
  Punishment cell (609)
  
  Mass graves (537)
  
  Cremation of corpses (468)
  
  Cremation (447)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (412)
  
  Gas chambers (410)
  
  Hanging (405)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (402)
  
  Round-up (399)
  
  Economic exploitation (356)
  
  Denationalization (351)
  
  Disarmament (335)
  
  Displacement (312)
  
  Expulsion (259)
  
  Air raids (222)
  
  Racial policy (193)
  
  Roads of death (190)
  
  Administrative persecution (179)
  
  Burning people alive (167)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (167)
  
  Medical experiments (139)
  
  "Dosing" (114)
  
  Desacration of corpses (90)
  
  Sovietization (88)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (79)
  
  Death marches (72)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (69)
  
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The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

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The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast

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The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

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The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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Csabak Leon 1919

The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia

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Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 Śniatyń (now in Ukraine) Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6

Chodorowski Aleksander

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

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Worochta (now in Ukraine) Nadwórna (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Shevchenko Maidan Street 43 Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 Kharkiv (Ukraine) Moscow (Russia) Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Naryan-Mar (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Abez (Russia, Komi Republic) Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Guzar (Uzbekistan)

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Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Podliski Małe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

Wałasiek Stanisław 1895.07.15

In exile – Ural

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Lugovoy (Kazakhstan)

Tomaszewski Walenty 1900

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Jaryczów Stary (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor 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

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Łomża, prison, Legionów Avenue 36 Zambrów Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Guzar (Uzbekistan)

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The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

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Krutaya (Russia, Komi Republic) Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

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Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 Lugovoy (Kazakhstan)

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The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Czerlany (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Gródek Jagielloński (Gródek, now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Podwołoczyska (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

Zapora Gilla

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Zaborowski Antoni

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Kościerzyna

Anonymous

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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Rawa Ruska (Ukraine), NKVD prison Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) Guzar (Uzbekistan)

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Minsk (Belarus) Velikiye Luki (Russia, Pskov Oblast) Kirov (Russia, Kirov Oblast) Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Guzar (Uzbekistan)

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Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic)

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