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Witness

Kuszewski Józef 1899?

Topic

Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region

Date

1944-1944

Location

Bliżyn, forced labor camp Bliżyn, Soviet Soldiers' Cemetery

Witness

Jachnalik Franciszek

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast

Date

1939.11.05-1941.09.27

Location

Lida (now in Belarus) Lida (now in Belarus) Minsk (Belarus) Vitebsk (Belarus) Smolensk (Russia, Smolensk Oblast) Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast)

Witness

Juzyk Jan 1912?

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

1940.12.20-1941.11.26

Location

Czortków (now in Ukraine), prison, Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) Białobożnica (Ukraine) Kharkiv (Ukraine) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Murashy (Russia, Kirov Oblast), train station

Witness

Lipski Jan

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09-1940.11

Location

Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp Marhanets (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic)

Witness

Kurałowicz Stanisław

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.18-1939.10.06

Location

Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp

Witness

Kowalski Ludwik 1901?

Topic

A race against time – the road to Anders' Army

Date

1940.06-1943

Location

Kalvarija (Lithuania), internment camp Kozelschyna (Ukraine, Poltava Oblast), transit camp Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 Moscow (Russia), "Butyrka" NKVD prison, Novoslobodskaya Street 45c5 Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) Qorasuv (Voroshilovo, Uzbekistan) Ashgabat (Turkmenistan)

Witness

Komar Franciszek 1911?

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.18-1941.08.14

Location

Łuck (now in Ukraine) Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast)

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Witness

Peca-Szczyradłowska Krystyna 1927

Topic

The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory

Date

1939.09-1946.05

Location

Kyiv (Ukraine) Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Semey (Kazakshtan) Chełm

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Witness

Szlachciński Kazimierz

Topic

The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory

Date

1939.09-1946

Location

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

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Witness

Kowol Emilia

Topic

The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory

Date

1939.09-1940.01

Location

Kamionka Strumiłowa (Kamionka Bużańska, now in Ukraine) Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) Ostashkov (Russia, Tver Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs Hamburg (Germany)

Witness

Szabłowski Aleksander

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09-1941

Location

Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Korelicze (Belarus) Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Krasne (Ukraine) Tatarszczyzna (Belarus)

Witness

Tomaszewski Kazimierz 1900?

Topic

Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees

Date

1940.07.11-1941.08

Location

Kalvarija (Lithuania), internment camp Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150

Witness

Klus Barbara 25.10.1929, Lwów

Topic

Clandestine teaching classes – the Lwów region

Date

1941.06.22-1945.05.02

Location

Lwów (now in Ukraine)

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Witness

Ornatowski Tadeusz Zygmunt 01.12.1910, Krakowiec (Ukraine)

Topic

The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory

Date

1939.09-1945

Location

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

Witness

Wychrysta Tadeusz

Topic

In exile – Central Asia

Date

1940.07.02-1942.02.08

Location

Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) Karabash (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) Pavlodar (Kazakhstan) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Lugovoy (Kazakhstan)

Witness

Wołoszczuk Julian 1900?

Topic

In exile – Komi Republic

Date

1940.03-1942.02.07

Location

Dnipropetrovsk (Dnipro, Ukraine) Przemyśl Hohenstein (Olsztynek), Stalag I B Margilan (Uzbekistan)

Witness

Skura Karol 1899?

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.17-1943

Location

Kopyczyńce (Ukraine) Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 Czortków (Ukraine) Kirovohrad (Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine), NKVD prison, Kuropyatnikova Street 50 Dnipropetrovsk (Dnipro, Ukraine), NKVD Headquarters, Chkalov Street (Sviatoslav Chorobroho Street 23) Lugovoy (Kazakhstan)

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Witness

Müller Filip 1921?

Topic

Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation

Date

1942.04-1945.01.18

Location

KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau

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Witness

Taul Roman 28.02.1917, Bytom

Topic

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death

Date

1940.06.24-1944.09.30

Location

KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau

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Witness

Panek Adela 31.10.1892, Mławka

Topic

Lebensborn – the Germanization of Polish children

Date

1939.09-1945

Location

Mławka (Mława) Warsaw Iłowo-Osada (subcamp of KL Soldau transit camp), Szkolna Street (Leśna Street) Mława