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Witness

Szulc C.

Topic

Taken Captive

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Forced laborers in the Third Reich

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Warsaw Nuremberg (Germany) Berlin (Germany)

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Klapa Mieczysław 11.10.1902; Cukrownia Czersk (now in Jasieniec, grójecki county)

Topic

Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city

Date

1942.12-1944.08

Location

Warsaw, Ghetto Warsaw, Konopnickiej Street Poniatowa, German forced labor camp

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Branny Paweł 13.05.1888, Żuków Dolny (Český Těšín, Czech Republic)

Topic

Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city

Date

1942.07-1943.04.29

Location

Warsaw, Długa Street Warsaw, Arsenal, Długa Street 52 Warsaw, Ghetto, Świętojerska Street Warsaw, Ghetto, Franciszkańska Street Warsaw, Ghetto, Nalewki Street Warsaw, Przejazd Street Warsaw, Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Leszno Street 32 (Solidarności Avenue 80)

Witness

Niwiński Antoni 1901

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

1939.12.15-1942.02.01

Location

Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) Brześć (now in Belarus) Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Nukus (Uzbekistan) Guzar (Uzbekistan)

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Witness

Rajewski Ludwik 16.12.1900, Łódź

Topic

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death

Date

1940.08-1942.08.22

Location

KL Auschwitz-Birkenau

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Warsaw

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Warsaw

Witness

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Warsaw

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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

Pawłowski Aleksander 1907

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

1939.10.25-1942.01.01

Location

Lubiejki (Belarus) Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Obyachevo (Russia, Komi Republic) Samarkand (Uzbekistan) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Murashy (Russia, Kirov Oblast), train station

Witness

Neumann Wacław 1915?

Topic

A race against time – the road to Anders' Army

Date

1940.02.09-1942.03.16

Location

Poldnevitsa (Russia, Kostroma Oblast) Yaroslavl (Russia, Yaroslavl Oblast) Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) Vologda (Russia, Vologda Oblast) Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Margilan (Uzbekistan) Tashlak (Toshloq, Uzbekistan)

Witness

Wolski Konstanty

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.10.07-1942.07.22

Location

Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp

Witness

Wysocki Saturnin Jan 1905?

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.23-1942.09.03

Location

Radoszyn (now in Ukraine) Kowel (now in Ukraine) Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Ostróg (now in Ukraine), transit camp (Barracks of the 19th Volhynian Uhlan Regiment) Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Warkowicze (Ukraine) Kamionka Las (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Angielówka (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Witness

Wojtas Jan 1904?

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.18-1942.08.22

Location

Zaleszczyki (Ukraine) Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Ostra Góra (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Skniłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

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Witness

Kudlik Aleksander 1909?

Topic

Treblinka – extermination camp

Date

1942.10.12-1943.08.02

Location

German extermination camp of Treblinka Treblinka, German extermination camp Częstochowa, Ghetto Warsaw, Ghetto

Witness

Atkins Janina

Topic

The Polish Righteous Among the Nations

Date

1942.08.19-1945.06

Location

Warsaw, convent of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Kazimierzowska Street 59 Szymanów (Sochaczew district), convent of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Szkolna Street 2 Warsaw, Ghetto Ożarów Mazowiecki, house of the Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus, Jana Zamoyskiego Street 21/23 Żbików (Pruszków) Łomianki, convent of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sobieskiego Street 1 Poznań

Witness

Kucharek Jan 1901

Topic

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

Date

1940.02.10-1942.02.24.

Location

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Witness

Aksnowicz Alfons 21.01.1920

Topic

In exile – Siberia

Date

1939.09.17-1942.05.21

Location

Głębokie (now in Belarus) Głębokie (Belarus) Sevvostlag (Russia, Magadan Oblast) Barnaul (Russia, Altai Krai) Guzar (Uzbekistan)

Witness

Łucek Piotr 04.11.1893, Bełcząc (lubelskie voivodeship)

Topic

Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees

Date

1939.09.17-1942.03.02

Location

Połąga (now in Lithuania), internee camp Wyłkowyszki (now in Lithuania), internee camp Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Kollag (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 Nowogródek (now in Belarus) Lida (now in Belarus) Wilno (now in Lithuania) Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp