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Witness

Turawski Franciszek 1896

Topic

In exile – Vologda Oblast

Date

-

Location

-

Witness

Feldman Tyburcjusz 1895

Topic

Date

-

Location

Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 Ulbroka (Latvia), internee camp Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Moscow (Russia) Yaroslavl (Russia, Yaroslavl Oblast)

Witness

Dyczewski Edward 1899

Topic

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

Date

1939 - 1942.03.20

Location

Augustów

en
Witness

Wolny Stefan 30.10.1903, Kamieńskie (Ukraine)

Topic

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death

Date

1922.08.31-1944.10.16

Location

KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II Bochnia, train station KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Ravensbrück (Germany) KL Barth (subcamp of KL Ravensbrück, Germany) KL Gross-Rosen

Witness

Choromański Mieczysław

Topic

Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland

Date

1939.10-1945

Location

Warsaw

Witness

Bysiewicz Alfred 1895

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.08.18 - 1941.08.14

Location

Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Witness

Chmielarski Józef 1898

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.20 - 1945

Location

Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Żydatycze (Hamaliyivka, Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Podliski Małe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

Witness

Guzek Stanisław 1897

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.08.27-1941.08.25

Location

Łuck (now in Ukraine) Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Zahorce Wielkie (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Angielówka (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Tarnopol (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

Witness

Zakrzewski Tadeusz 1908

Topic

In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast

Date

-

Location

-

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Witness

Duda Eugenia

Topic

A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland

Date

1939-1944.07.23

Location

-

Witness

Bluszcz Aleksander 1899

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.08.25-1941.08

Location

Chełm Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

Witness

Tempiński Antoni 1900.10.02

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

-

Location

Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Zimna Woda (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

Witness

Żytomirski Eugeniusz 1914.01.16

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

1939.10.01 - 1945

Location

Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison (Castle) Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic)

Witness

Gamm Rudolf 28.10.1884; Gdańsk

Topic

German false flag operations in 1939

Date

1939.07-1939.09

Location

-

Witness

Niemiro Adam

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

-

Location

-

Witness

Juszczyk Mieczysław 15.08.1905, Łódź

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.08.24 -1941

Location

Warsaw, Rakowiecka Street Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Stare Babice Warsaw, Saska Kępa Brześć (now in Belarus) Dubno (now in Ukraine) Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) Kowel (now in Ukraine) Ostróg (now in Ukraine), transit camp (Barracks of the 19th Volhynian Uhlan Regiment) Olesko (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Angielówka (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Angielówka (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Mościska (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Kamionka Las (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Łuck (now in Ukraine) Sarny (now in Ukraine) Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) KL Dachau (Germany)

Witness

Windyga Czesław 1906.12.25

Topic

Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees

Date

1939.08.30 - 1941.08.25

Location

Olita (Lithuania), internee camp Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), POW forced labor camp Kaunas (Lithuania) Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs

Witness

Bryja Joachim

Topic

In exile – Komi Republic

Date

-

Location

Murashy (Russia, Kirov Oblast), train station

Witness

Rudziński Józef 21.03.1940, Warsaw

Topic

Poles saving Jews – Warsaw

Date

1940-1945

Location

Warsaw, Wilcza Street 30