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Kacperski Stanisław 22.03.1913

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The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas

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1939.09-1944.06

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Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) Radom Nowe Słowiki (Stare Słowiki) Brzeźnica (Kozienice district)

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Jaworski Zygmunt 1913?

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In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

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1939.09.17-1941.12.30

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Buczacz (now in Ukraine) Czortków (Ukraine) Kharkiv (Ukraine) Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Yertsevo (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast)

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Niebieszczański Jan

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The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

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

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Józefiak Edmund 1906

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The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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1939.09.20-1941.09.01

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Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) Zahorce Wielkie (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Płotycze (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Tarnopol (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

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Niźnikiewicz Stanisław

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In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

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Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Nadwórna (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Shevchenko Maidan Street 43 Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

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Nowak Jan 1890

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Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees

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1939.09.19 - 1941.09.02

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Kulautuva (Lithuania), internment camp Ukmergė (Lithuania), internee camp Wojtkuszki (Lithuania), internment camp Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8

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Leibel Józef 09.05.1895, Kraków

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In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

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1939.09.01-1942.03.21

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Czortków (now in Ukraine), prison, Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Norilsk (Russia, Krasnoyarsk Krai) Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) Krasnoyarsk (Russia, Krasnoyarsk Krai)

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Lewszuk Paweł 06.01.1890

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In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast

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1939.09.19-1941.09.09

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Słonim (now in Belarus) Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic)

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Opiłowska Krystyna 1931

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Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region

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1939-1942

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Kozienice, Hamernicka Street 13 Majdanek, German extermination camp Kozienice, ghetto German extermination camp of Majdanek

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Łupiński Mieczysław

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In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

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1939.09-1941.07

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Trościanko Tadeusz

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The Gulag Archipelago – Far East

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1939.09 - 1941.12.26

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Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no. 1, Łąckiego Street (Bandery Street 1) Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no 2, Zamarstynowska Street 7/9 Lwów (Ukraine), prison, Jachowicza Street 5 (Kuczery Street 5) Burlag (Russia, Jewish Autonomous Oblast)

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Szaynoka Wanda 06.12.1898, Rubenka (Ukraine)

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Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp

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1939.09.01-1945.04.09

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Warsaw, Aleje Jerozolimskie German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Lublin KL Ravensbrück (Germany) Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no. 1, Łąckiego Street (Bandery Street 1) KL Uckermark (KL Ravensbrück subcamp, Germany) Warsaw, Towarowa Street KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) Warsaw, Marszałkowska Street KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V Kyiv (Ukraine) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III

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Trzemecki Robert 1894

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The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia

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1939.09.22 - 1942.12.31

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Hönings Paul 1902?

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Mass extermination – KL Sachsenhausen

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1935-1941

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KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) KL Dachau (Germany)

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Stuhr Oskar Tadeusz 08.10.1891, Kraków

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Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death

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1939.10-1940.08.12

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Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 Nowy Wiśnicz, forced labor camp KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz I, roll call square

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Rżewski Władysław 07.01.1894

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Mass extermination – KL Sachsenhausen

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1939-1942

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KL Flossenbürg (Germany) KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Odrowąż (Końskie district)