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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Anonymous (87)
  
  Szulc C. (85)
  
  Berthoh Feliks (29)
  
  Deja Stanisław; 23.04.1907, Kowala (23)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (18)
  
  Sulima Jan (11)
  
  Szczerbiński Jan (11)
  
  Augustyn Eugeniusz (10)
  
  Sobierajska Irena (10)
  
  Nowiński (9)
  
  Steinhauf Renata (9)
  
  Polak Wacław (8)
  
  Kostka Stanisław (7)
  
  Sobczański J. (7)
  
  Sowiński Władysław (7)
  
  Stopa F. (7)
  
  Węsierska Agnieszka (7)
  
  Baćmaga Walenty, 11.02.1902, Zakrzów (6)
  
  Brzoskowski Jan (6)
  
  Ciepliński Brunon (6)
  
  Grodzicki Kazimierz (6)
  
  Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (6)
  
  Szelest Kazimierz; 25.03.1917, Kraków (6)
  
  Bochen Stanisław; 1901? (5)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (5)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (5)
  
  Konferowicz Wacław; 13.05.1912, Ostrów Mazowiecka (5)
  
  Kruszyna Stanisław (5)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (5)
  
  Lewicki W. (5)
  
  Madej Józef (5)
  
  Mankiewicz Franciszek; 1898 (5)
  
  Maroński Stanisław (5)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 27.01.1913, Warsaw (5)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (5)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (5)
  
  Łukasiewicz Henryk (5)
  
  Czardybon Bernard; 18.06.1901, Chorzów (4)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (4)
  
  Grabosz Ludwika; 1879? (4)
  
  Iwanicka Maria; 27.01.1913 (4)
  
  Jamróz Halina; 1919? (4)
  
  Korkosz Stanisław; 1904? (4)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 04.05.1918, Kraków (4)
  
  Lizis Teofil (4)
  
  Nass Róża; 09.01.1907, Biała (Bielsko-Biała) (4)
  
  Rogalski Władysław; 1879? (4)
  
  Rott Wiesław; 14.06.1914, Lublin (4)
  
  Sendecki Sylwester; 1903? (4)
  
  Skrzyniarz Adam (4)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć county) (4)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć district) (4)
  
  Stawiarski Eugeniusz (4)
  
  Sulewski Paweł (4)
  
  Szymanowski Jan (4)
  
  Tomasik Marcin (4)
  
  Wojcikowski Stanisław (4)
  
  Wolny Stefan; 30.10.1903, Kamieńskie (Ukraine) (4)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (4)
  
  Wronikowski Henryk (4)
  
  Barzał Czesław; 09.10.1915, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Bas Ludwik; 18.12.1912, Kraków (3)
  
  Bech Leon; 24.03.1989, Wola (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)
  
  Figiel Władysław (3)
  
  Filipowska (Freund) Ilza; 14.01.1902, Wrocław (3)
  
  Grabczyński Jan; 21.05.1908, Tarnów (dolnośląskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Głowa Stanisław; 15.09.1898, Igołomia (3)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (3)
  
  Igielski Jan; 12.01.1915, Stróże (Nowy Sącz county) (3)
  
  Janiszewska Barbara (3)
  
  Jastrzębska Eugenia; 1906? (3)
  
  Jaworski Józef; 23.09.1882 Wierzbica (Radom county) (3)
  
  Kaczanowski Jan; 1913?, Rytwiany (3)
  
  Kiczmachowski Edward; 29.07.1920, Strasburg (3)
  
  Kiełbowski Paweł; 1892? (3)
  
  Klimkiewicz Stanisław; 1895? (3)
  
  Kocińska Alicja (3)
  
  Koczorowski Józef; 01.02.1919, Poznań (3)
  
  Kopta Marian; 08.12.1911, Kraków (3)
  
  Korszla Jan; 1914? (3)
  
  Kotlarski Mieczysław; 09.10.1913, Osieczna (wielkopolskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Kowalczyk Jan (3)
  
  Kościuszko Janina; 17.05.1897, Chrzanów? (3)
  
  Krakiewicz Feliks; 1873? (3)
  
  Krokowski Jan; 08.05.1921, Nowy Sącz (3)
  
  Kruczyński Michał; 1895? (3)
  
  Kruk Józef; 01.01.1916, Serbinów (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)
  
  Maciejowski Adolf; 09.02.1910, Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Majewski Stanisław (3)
  
  Maliszewski Stefan; 23.05.1912, Warsaw (3)
  
  Maszczyk Antoni (3)
  
  Misiewicz Janina Eufrozyna Kazimiera; 12.12.1893, Solvychegodsk (Russia) (3)
  
  Kullanda Henryk (1)
Subject
- The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (600)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (559)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (408)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (397)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (357)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (316)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (312)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (250)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (225)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (199)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (196)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (187)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (159)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (157)
  
  In exile – Siberia (142)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (140)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (132)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (128)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (105)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (105)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (100)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (98)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (97)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (93)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (93)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (92)
  
  The tragedy of the Radom Arms Factory (90)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (89)
  
  The city condemned to death (83)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (83)
  
  In exile – Ural (77)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (76)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (71)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (70)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Pomerania (70)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (69)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (68)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (67)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (58)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (56)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (55)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (54)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (51)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (50)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (49)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (48)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (47)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (45)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (44)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz (43)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (42)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (40)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (40)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Lublin region (39)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (39)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (39)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Świętokrzyskie region (39)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (37)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (37)
  
  Firlej near Radom – the training ground of death (36)
  
  Terror in the "incorporated lands" – the Łódź region (36)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (35)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (35)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (34)
  
  Stadion Leśny, Słowik, Herby – execution sites in Kielce (33)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (33)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (29)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (29)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (29)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (29)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (28)
  
  Radom – daily terror (28)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Lublin region (27)
  
  Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages (26)
  
  Michniów – the extermination of the Polish countryside (26)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (25)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (25)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (24)
  
  Soldier's House, Fort VII, Żabikowo – the trail of death in Greater Poland (24)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (23)
  
  The Częstochowa region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (23)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (23)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Warsaw (22)
  
  Pruszków – the town of the displaced (22)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (22)
  
  The Free City of Danzig – erasing Polishness (22)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (21)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town (20)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (19)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (19)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Radom region (19)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (18)
  
  The persecuted church (18)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (17)
  
  Warsaw '44 – uprising in Praga (17)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Żoliborz (16)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Volhynia (15)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (15)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (15)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (15)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz I (516)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (425)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (414)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (399)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (323)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (321)
  
  Warsaw (314)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (285)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (242)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (199)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (196)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (193)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (193)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (152)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (146)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (137)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (134)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (127)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (127)
  
  Kielce (123)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (123)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (122)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (114)
  
  KL Majdanek (112)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (107)
  
  Siedlce (99)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (97)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (91)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (88)
  
  Radom (85)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (85)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (82)
  
  Lublin (81)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (78)
  
  Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 (77)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (77)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (75)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (75)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (74)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (74)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka (73)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (71)
  
  Kraków (70)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (69)
  
  Busko-Zdrój (68)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (68)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (63)
  
  Potulice (kujawsko-pomorskie voivodeship), forced labor camp (63)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (63)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (62)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 (59)
  
  Firlej (Radom), municipal cemetery, Ofiar Firleja Street 45 (56)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (56)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (56)
  
  Kościerzyna (55)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (54)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) (54)
  
  KL Stutthof (53)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (53)
  
  Radom, Arms Factory "Łucznik", Poniatowskiego Street (1905 Street 1/9) (52)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (51)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (51)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (50)
  
  Starachowice (50)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (50)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (49)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (48)
  
  KL Plaszow (48)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (47)
  
  Bochnia, train station (46)
  
  Bydgoszcz (46)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (46)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (45)
  
  Michniów (44)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (44)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (43)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (43)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (42)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (42)
  
  Białystok (41)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (41)
  
  Gdańsk (40)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (39)
  
  Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia) (38)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (38)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (38)
  
  Warsaw, SS-Stauferkaserne, Rakowiecka Street 4 (38)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (37)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (37)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (37)
  
  Przemyśl (37)
  
  Radom, Gestapo headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (37)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (37)
  
  Tehran (Iran) (37)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (37)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (36)
  
  Rożki, train station (36)
  
  Warsaw, Warszawa Zachodnia Station (36)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (35)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (35)
Victims
- Civilians (7890)
  
  The Poles (7865)
  
  The Civilian Population (7199)
  
  Women (3116)
  
  Children (2850)
  
  The Jews (1750)
  
  The Inteligentsia (1270)
  
  The sick (1047)
  
  The Sick (1010)
  
  Deportees (881)
  
  Russians/Soviets (770)
  
  The Russians (660)
  
  The Elderly (650)
  
  Ukrainians (538)
  
  Prisoners of War (511)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (503)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (431)
  
  The elderly (361)
  
  The elderly (317)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (312)
  
  The Church (302)
  
  Belarusians (224)
  
  Policemen (218)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (202)
  
  Germans (150)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (121)
  
  Hungarians (117)
  
  Czechs (110)
  
  The French (97)
  
  Lithuanians (93)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (92)
  
  Landowners (83)
  
  Slovaks (75)
  
  The Communists (59)
  
  Belgians (58)
  
  The Dutch (58)
  
  Internees (57)
  
  The Disabled (57)
  
  Greeks (47)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (45)
  
  Border Guard (37)
  
  Latvians (34)
  
  Border Protection Corps (27)
  
  Estonians (27)
  
  Italians (26)
  
  Romanians (22)
  
  Americans (16)
  
  The British (14)
  
  Norwegians (11)
  
  Finns (6)
  
  Prison Guard (6)
  
  the Chinese (5)
  
  Scouts (3)
  
  Georgians (2)
  
  Bulgarians (1)
  
  Serbs (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (1456)
  
  Military Police (871)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (758)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (496)
  
  Collaboration (421)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (333)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (263)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (241)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (208)
  
  Soviet Militia (199)
  
  Denunciation (197)
  
  Red Army (188)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (110)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (106)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (93)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (61)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (49)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (45)
  
  Lithuanians (39)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (26)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (22)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (22)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (22)
  
  The Russian National Liberation Army (RONA) (20)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (19)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (19)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (13)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (12)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (12)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (11)
  
  Waffen-SS (11)
  
  Latvians (9)
  
  Collaborators (8)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (8)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (7)
  
  Security Office (7)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (6)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (5)
  
  Administrative Police (3)
  
  Assault Units (Sturmabteilung, SA) (2)
  
  Postal Protection (2)
  
  Technical Support (Technische Nothilfe) (2)
  
  Gendarmerie (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (3494)
  
  Execution (3463)
  
  Arrest (3287)
  
  Death by shooting (2932)
  
  Biological extermination (2406)
  
  Beating (2311)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (1826)
  
  Deportation (1527)
  
  Deportation/Exile (1306)
  
  Robbery (1181)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (837)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (800)
  
  Mass graves (730)
  
  Displacement (684)
  
  Cremation of corpses (669)
  
  Cremation (650)
  
  Judicial crime (615)
  
  Cattle wagons (579)
  
  Expulsion (519)
  
  Round-up (499)
  
  Gas chambers (466)
  
  Hanging (458)
  
  Punishment cell (440)
  
  Economic exploitation (388)
  
  Denationalization (381)
  
  Burning people alive (348)
  
  Air raids (291)
  
  Administrative persecution (182)
  
  Medical experiments (178)
  
  Racial policy (164)
  
  "Dosing" (127)
  
  Rape (115)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (109)
  
  Armored weapons (105)
  
  Artillery shelling (105)
  
  Artillery fire (104)
  
  Death marches (95)
  
  Desacration of corpses (93)
  
  Sovietization (89)
  
  Disarmament (87)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (76)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (68)
  
  Roads of death (59)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (54)
  
  Germanization (52)
  
  Human shields (42)
  
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Tagowski Marian 30.07.1902

A race against time – the road to Anders' Army

1939.09.06-1942.03.07

Łódź Garwolin (mazowieckie voivodeship) Warsaw Lublin Białystok Žagarė (Lithuania), internee camp Kagan (Uzbekistan) Samarkand (Uzbekistan) Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Barnaul (Russia, Altai Krai) Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) Leningrad (Saint Petersburg, Russia) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

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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)

Dobosz Józef 1897

In exile – Komi Republic

1940.03.16 - 1941.09.22

Czortków (now in Ukraine), prison, Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) Kirovohrad (Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine), NKVD prison, Kuropyatnikova Street 50 Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Vietlosian (Ukhta, Russia, Komi Republic) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

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

Śniady Konstanty 1906?, Dłutowo

Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees

1939.09.17-1941.08.21

Lida (now in Belarus) Nowogródek (now in Belarus) Ukmergė (Lithuania), internee camp Połąga (now in Lithuania), internee camp Mołodeczno (now in Belarus) Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) Kola Penninsula (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8

Wołyński Jan 1916?

A race against time – the road to Anders' Army

1940.02.10-1943

Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Guzar (Uzbekistan)

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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