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Witness

Byczkowski Wiktor 1896?

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.17 - 1941.09

Location

Ostróg (now in Ukraine) Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Dnipropetrovsk (Dnipro, Ukraine) Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Kozelschyna (Ukraine, Poltava Oblast), transit camp Ivanovo (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Kniazhpogost (Russia, Komi Republic)

Witness

Matys Jan 1899

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.17 - 1941.08

Location

Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD remand center, Fralankowa Street 50 Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Kniazhpogost (Russia, Komi Republic) Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs

Witness

Głośny Stanisław 1906

Topic

In exile – Komi Republic

Date

1939.09.02 - 1941.09.09

Location

Równe (Ukraine) Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp Donbas (Ukraine) Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Kniazhpogost (Russia, Komi Republic) Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

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Witness

Mongiałło Wacław 1910

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

1940.04.27-1943

Location

Lida (now in Belarus) Raduń (now in Belarus) Raduń (Belarus) Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Bastuny (now in Belarus) Ukhto-Izhemsky Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) Moscow (Russia)

Witness

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Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Republic of Mordovia

Date

-

Location

Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a Temlag (Russia, Republic of Mordovia) Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Guzar (Uzbekistan) Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan)

Witness

Anonymous

Topic

Date

-

Location

-

Witness

Tkaczuk Modest

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

-

Location

Krzemieniec (Ukraine), NKVD prison, Sanatorijna Street 1 Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Ukhto-Izhemsky Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic)

Witness

Nowicki Bernard 1891

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

1939.09.17 - 1941.08

Location

Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) Krutaya (Russia, Komi Republic) Guzar (Uzbekistan) Ukhto-Izhemsky Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic)

Witness

Zdunek Szczepan 1892

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

-

Location

Czortków (now in Ukraine), prison, Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Sangorodok (Russia, Komi Republic) Guzar (Uzbekistan)

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Witness

Gągała Kazimierz 21.06.1916, Dębica

Topic

The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów

Date

1940.06.14-1944.10.28

Location

KL Gross-Rosen KL Auschwitz-Birkenau KL Gross-Rosen

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Witness

Orzechowski (Dżumała) Bronisław 1918?

Topic

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

Date

1939.09.17-1942.01

Location

Łomża, prison, aleja Legionów 36 Nadwórna (now in Ukraine) Rafajłowa (Bystrzyca, now in Ukraine) Nadwórna (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Shevchenko Maidan Street 43 Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Lwów (now in Ukraine) Łomża, prison, Legionów Avenue 36 Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Orsha (Belarus)

Witness

Szczepanowski Jan 1909?

Topic

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death

Date

1941.10.09-1945.05.05

Location

Zamość, Gestapo headquarters, Kolegiacka Street 18 KL Auschwitz-Birkenau KL Gross-Rosen KL Buchenwald (Germany)

Witness

Mazurkiewicz Karolina 1902?

Topic

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death

Date

1942.11.11-1943.07

Location

German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Garwolin (mazowieckie voivodeship) Żdanów (Zamość district) Zamość, resettlement camp, Okrzei Street

Witness

Kosacki Antoni 1896?

Topic

The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas

Date

1942-1943

Location

-

Witness

Ostrowski Józef

Topic

A genocide conducted by Ukrainian Nationalists – Volhynia

Date

-

Location

-

Witness

-

Topic

A genocide conducted by Ukrainian Nationalists – Volhynia

Date

-

Location

-

Witness

Stańkowska-Chomicz Anna

Topic

Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland

Date

1942.09-1946

Location

Ropienka (Ustrzyki Dolne district) Chyrów (Ukraine) Sanok Szczecin

Witness

Pieleszek Helena 1901

Topic

In exile – Central Asia

Date

1938 - 1942.10.27

Location

Turkistan (Kazakhstan) Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan)

Witness

-

Topic

Date

-

Location

Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8

Witness

-

Topic

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

Date

1940.02.10 - 1943

Location

Osh (Kyrgyzstan)