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Witness

Rauch Anna

Topic

Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland

Date

1939.09.01-1942.08.28

Location

Bielsko-Biała, Piłsudskiego Street Kraków Brzeżany

Witness

Piechowiak Antoni

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.18 - 1941.08

Location

Kowel (now in Ukraine) Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Olesko (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Mościska (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Babin (now in Ukraine, Rivne Oblast), POW forced labor camp Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Witness

Pielesiak Edward 1903.02.13

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.01 - 1941.08

Location

Skierniewice Kowel (now in Ukraine) Równe (Ukraine) Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

Witness

Tielesz Włodzimierz 01.04.1911

Topic

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

Date

1939.09-1943

Location

Białystok Wołkowysk (Belarus) Baranowicze (now in Belarus) Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 Minsk (Belarus) Kirov (Russia, Kirov Oblast) Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Kagan (Uzbekistan) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Witness

Piróg Jan 1901

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.17 - 1941.08.20

Location

Sarnki Dolne (Ukraine) Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

Witness

Pietrzyk Marian 1895.10.04

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.08.31 - 1941.08

Location

Kraków Husiatyn (now in Ukraine) Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Niesłuchów (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Kupcze (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Złoczów (now in Ukraine) Zborów (Ukraine) Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) Podwołoczyska (Ukraine) Volochysk (Ukraine) Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

Witness

Piotrowski Lucjan 1910

Topic

Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees

Date

1939.09.23 - 1941.08.24

Location

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

Witness

Piróg Andrzej 1893

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast

Date

1939.09 - 1941.11.21

Location

Jagodzin (Ukraine) Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison (Castle) Łuck (now in Ukraine), prison (Bridgettine Convent), Brygidek Street (Kafedralna Street 16) Kherson (Ukraine), prison, Perekopska Street 10 Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Witness

Płonka Teodor 1894

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.19 - 1941.08

Location

Sarnki Dolne (Ukraine) Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Antopol (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Świętosław (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

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Witness

Szpak Roman

Topic

The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory

Date

1939.08.26-1943.08.23

Location

Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Częstochowa Lida (now in Belarus)

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Witness

Dobrzańska-Jajszczyk Aleksandra

Topic

The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory

Date

1939.09-1940

Location

Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Poznań

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Witness

Wolański

Topic

The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory

Date

1939.09-1940

Location

Kraków

Witness

Podhajny Leopold 1900

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.18 - 1941.09.03

Location

Nowogródek (now in Belarus) Stołpce (now in Belarus) Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Gródek Jagielloński (Gródek, now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

Witness

Płungus Henryk 1922

Topic

In exile – Central Asia

Date

1940.04.17 - 1942.03.03

Location

Grodno (now in Belarus) Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) Lida (now in Belarus)

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Witness

Wachowicz Andrzej

Topic

The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory

Date

1939.09-1940

Location

Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn)

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Witness

Piekart Halina

Topic

The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory

Date

1939.09-1942.08

Location

Siedlce Ostashkov (Russia, Tver Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs Pińsk (now in Belarus) Kamień Koszyrski (now in Ukraine)

Witness

Popingis Zygfryd 1904

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.21 - 1943.03.03

Location

Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp Antopol (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Tudorów (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

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Witness

Prędka Stefania

Topic

The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory

Date

1939.09-1940

Location

Ostashkov (Russia, Tver Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) Kowel (now in Ukraine)

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Witness

Herbowski Tadeusz

Topic

The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory

Date

1939.09-1940

Location

Ostashkov (Russia, Tver Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs

Witness

Prejc Jan

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09 - 1941.08.24

Location

Lwów (now in Ukraine) Kowel (now in Ukraine) Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Proskuriv (Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)