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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Libkind-Lubodziecki Stanisław; 24.01.1879, Warsaw (2)
  
  Andrzejewski Teodor; 1904? (1)
  
  Anonymous (1)
  
  Atras Franciszek, 1900.10.08 (1)
  
  Awienko Henryk; 1910? (1)
  
  Babiarz Paweł, 1900.07.06 (1)
  
  Bacański Zygmunt (1)
  
  Baliński Kazimierz, 1901 (1)
  
  Barachowski Jan, 1900 (1)
  
  Baranowski Julian; 1902 (1)
  
  Baranowski Józef (1)
  
  Bartosiak Kazimierz; 1898 (1)
  
  Bartoszko Kazimierz; 09.10.1898 (1)
  
  Bazyliński Józef (1)
  
  Bednarczyk Jan (1)
  
  Bereza Wladyslaw, 1899 (1)
  
  Bezruczko Jan; 1899, Lachowce (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bier Maksymilian; 1892? (1)
  
  Blewąska Wincenty; 1900 (1)
  
  Bluszcz Aleksander; 1899 (1)
  
  Bobrzek Wladyslaw; 08.09.1899 (1)
  
  Bochno Michał, 1903? (1)
  
  Bodnar Michał, 1899? (1)
  
  Bohotko Józef (1)
  
  Bolesław Rafał; 1901 (1)
  
  Bowsza Stanisław; 10.03.1904 (1)
  
  Bronis Piotr; 1903? (1)
  
  Brunarska Zofia; 27.05.1923 (1)
  
  Brzozowski Stefan; 1900? (1)
  
  Brzuszkiewicz Jan (1)
  
  Buben Wincenty (1)
  
  Budzianowski Antoni; 1886 (1)
  
  Bugijczyk Eustachy; 13.07.1914 (1)
  
  Byczkowski Wiktor, 1896? (1)
  
  Capecki Franciszek; 1897 (1)
  
  Ceglarek Józef; 1909.02.28 (1)
  
  Celiński Czesław; 15.11.1900 (1)
  
  Cepil Feliks; 1899 (1)
  
  Chabior Piotr, 1900 (1)
  
  Chabros Józef, 1910.02.26 (1)
  
  Charytański Kazimierz; 1894.03.04 (1)
  
  Chmielarski Józef; 1898 (1)
  
  Chmura Wiktor; 1919? (1)
  
  Chodor Jan (1)
  
  Chodorowski Stanisław; 1900 (1)
  
  Chojnowski Stanisław, 1912.08.16 (1)
  
  Chomicz Eustachy; 1905 (1)
  
  Chrabąszcz Stanisława; 1899?, Kielce (1)
  
  Chyliński Julian; 1898? (1)
  
  Cichosz Wladysław, 1900? (1)
  
  Cichy Paweł; 1910 (1)
  
  Ciesielski Antoni; 1911.03.03 (1)
  
  Ciesielski Franciszek; 1896 (1)
  
  Cimet Józef (1)
  
  Cudziło Władysław; 23.03.1909, Wodzianów (1)
  
  Cwirko-Gudycki Ludwik; 1891 (1)
  
  Cyrański Józef; 1902? (1)
  
  Cytrynik Dawid (1)
  
  Czabućko Michał; 03.08.1898, Kruciłowicze (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Czarniecki Kazimierz, 1912.12.02 (1)
  
  Czarnocka Anna; 12.11.1906, Dawidowicze (gm. Zabłudów) (1)
  
  Czekaj Eugeniusz (1)
  
  Czernuszczyk Paweł, 1917.08.22 (1)
  
  Czyż Henryk (1)
  
  Danielecki Stefan; 08.06.1908 (1)
  
  Dawczyński Jan; 1901.12.24 (1)
  
  Demidok Wiktor; 1912 (1)
  
  Denis Władysław (1)
  
  Dmuchowski Leonard; 1898 (1)
  
  Dobek Krystyna (1)
  
  Dobrogowski Aleksander (1)
  
  Doliński Bohdan (1)
  
  Drabek Jan; 1901 (1)
  
  Draws Leon; 1908 (1)
  
  Duda Stanisław (1)
  
  Dudek Józef; 1909 (1)
  
  Duj Wilhelm; 1914 (1)
  
  Durlik Ludwik (1)
  
  Dziedzic Tomasz (1)
  
  Dziedziejew Zofia; 15.07.1908 (1)
  
  Dzietkowicz Piotr; 1894 (1)
  
  Dzik Adam; 1910? (1)
  
  Dzikoński Błażej (1)
  
  Dziura Michał; 1887 (1)
  
  Dąbrowski Piotr; 1895 (1)
  
  Dąbrowski Władysław; 1898 (1)
  
  Dębczyński Bernard (1)
  
  Ejzensztajn Jankiel, 1908 (1)
  
  Esman Wladysław (1)
  
  Etel Jan (1)
  
  Ewertowski Stanisław, 1905.04.16 (1)
  
  Faberski Mikołaj (1)
  
  Fabiszewski Henryk; 10.02.1894 (1)
  
  Fainsztain Wolf, 1898.03.21 (1)
  
  Feret Antoni; 1916? (1)
  
  Figa Mancel, 1900 (1)
  
  Filipiński Tomasz (1)
  
  Fingerhut Salomon, 1896 (1)
  
  Finkler Gustaw (1)
  
  Florkiewicz Edward (1)
Subject
- The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (276)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (35)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (27)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (26)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (21)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (11)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (11)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (9)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (8)
  
  In exile – Ural (6)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (5)
  
  In exile – Siberia (5)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (4)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (4)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (2)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (1)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (1)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (1)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (1)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Mari El Republic (1)
  
  In exile – Povolzhye (1)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (1)
  
  Lebensborn – the Germanization of Polish children (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Dachau (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ivanovo Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (1)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (183)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (111)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (103)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (55)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (48)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (45)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (41)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (41)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (39)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (36)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (33)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (31)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (29)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (29)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (27)
  
  Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (26)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (25)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (24)
  
  Olesko (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (24)
  
  Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (21)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (20)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (20)
  
  Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (20)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (19)
  
  Radziwiłłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (19)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (19)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (18)
  
  Kozelschyna (Ukraine, Poltava Oblast), transit camp (17)
  
  Ostróg (now in Ukraine), transit camp (Barracks of the 19th Volhynian Uhlan Regiment) (17)
  
  Zborów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (17)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (16)
  
  Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (16)
  
  Podliski Małe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (16)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (15)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (15)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (15)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (15)
  
  Proskuriv (Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (14)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (14)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (13)
  
  Nizhny Tagil (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (13)
  
  Podwołoczyska (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (13)
  
  Werba (Ukraine) (12)
  
  Zaporizhia (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (12)
  
  Ukmergė (Lithuania), internee camp (11)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (10)
  
  Busk (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (10)
  
  Czerlany (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (10)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (10)
  
  Zahorce Wielkie (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (10)
  
  Angielówka (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (9)
  
  Chełm (9)
  
  Filipowicze (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (9)
  
  Karakub (Kalmiuske, Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (9)
  
  Kozłów (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (9)
  
  Niesłuchów (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (9)
  
  Ostra Góra (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (9)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (9)
  
  Teofipol (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (9)
  
  Warkowicze (Ukraine) (9)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (8)
  
  Kniazhpogost (Russia, Komi Republic) (8)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (8)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (8)
  
  Przemyśl (8)
  
  Sądowa Wisznia (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (8)
  
  Tuligłowy (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (8)
  
  Złoczów (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (8)
  
  Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (7)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (7)
  
  Babin (now in Ukraine, Rivne Oblast), POW forced labor camp (7)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (7)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (7)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (7)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (7)
  
  Janów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (7)
  
  Jaryczów Stary (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (7)
  
  Kamionka Las (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (7)
  
  Korzec (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (7)
  
  Lublin (7)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (7)
  
  Oryol (Russia, Oryol Oblast) (7)
  
  Połąga (now in Lithuania), internee camp (7)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (7)
  
  Tiotkino (Russia, Kursk Oblast), transit camp (7)
  
  Tudorów (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (7)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine) (7)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (now in Lithuania), internee camp (7)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, Ukraine), transit camp (7)
  
  Złoczów (now in Ukraine) (7)
  
  Antopol (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (6)
  
  Brody (Ukraine) (6)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (6)
  
  Hermanów (Tarasiwka, now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (6)
  
  Husiatyn (now in Ukraine) (6)
  
  Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (6)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (6)
  
  Kulautuva (Lithuania), internment camp (6)
  
  Kupcze (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (6)
  
  Kurowice (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (6)
Victims
- The Poles (476)
  
  Prisoners of War (327)
  
  Civilians (189)
  
  The Civilian Population (174)
  
  Ukrainians (161)
  
  The Jews (137)
  
  Belarusians (113)
  
  The Inteligentsia (113)
  
  Policemen (90)
  
  The sick (81)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (76)
  
  The Sick (76)
  
  Women (65)
  
  Children (62)
  
  Deportees (61)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (44)
  
  Russians/Soviets (39)
  
  Internees (33)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (33)
  
  The Russians (30)
  
  Border Guard (26)
  
  The elderly (25)
  
  The Elderly (25)
  
  Border Protection Corps (24)
  
  Germans (19)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (17)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (16)
  
  Lithuanians (11)
  
  The Church (10)
  
  Landowners (8)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (8)
  
  Estonians (6)
  
  Latvians (3)
  
  Prison Guard (3)
  
  Romanians (3)
  
  Georgians (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- Red Army (477)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (55)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (50)
  
  Denunciation (42)
  
  Collaboration (37)
  
  Soviet Militia (32)
  
  Lithuanians (21)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (4)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (4)
  
  Collaborators (2)
  
  Military Police (2)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (2)
  
  SS (2)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (2)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (2)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (441)
  
  Biological extermination (418)
  
  Disarmament (232)
  
  Arrest (220)
  
  Deportation/Exile (139)
  
  Beating (133)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (128)
  
  Cattle wagons (128)
  
  Punishment cell (123)
  
  Death by shooting (92)
  
  Roads of death (86)
  
  Robbery (70)
  
  Execution (67)
  
  Judicial crime (65)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (52)
  
  Air raids (39)
  
  Sovietization (16)
  
  Deportation (12)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (10)
  
  Desacration of corpses (8)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (8)
  
  Forced voting (8)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (8)
  
  Death marches (4)
  
  Armored weapons (3)
  
  Gas chambers (3)
  
  "Dosing" (2)
  
  Collectivization (2)
  
  Cremation (2)
  
  Cremation of corpses (2)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (2)
  
  Artillery fire (1)
  
  Artillery shelling (1)
  
  Displacement (1)
  
  Expulsion (1)
  
  Medical experiments (1)
  
  Round-up (1)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (1)
Place
- Forced labor camps for POWs (283)
  
  Transit camp (220)
  
  Mine (99)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (53)
  
  Kolkhoz (46)
  
  Prison (43)
  
  NKVD custody suite (35)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (35)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (32)
  
  Internment camp (31)
  
  Sovkhoz (9)
  
  Concentration camp (7)
  
  Extermination camp (2)
  
  Ghetto (2)
  
  Orphanage – dietdom (2)
  
  Forced labor (1)
  
  Labor camp (1)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (1)
  
  Police headquarters/station (1)
Content
- Health service (284)
  
  Amnesty (111)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (79)
  
  Anders' Army (75)
  
  Polish culture in exile (45)
  
  Epidemics (44)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (38)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (38)
  
  First deportation (30)
  
  Communist propaganda (22)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (15)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (13)
  
  Military hospital (9)
  
  Third deportation (6)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (4)
  
  Fourth deportation (3)
  
  Second deportation (3)
  
  Students' Army Corps (3)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (2)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (2)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (1)
  
  Central Welfare Council (1)
  
  Extermination of Jews (1)
  
  Judenrat (1)
  
  Obliterating the traces (1)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (1)
  
  Partisan warfare (1)
  
  Rescue of Jews (1)
  
  Underground culture and education (1)
  
  Underground media (1)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (1)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (1)
  
  obliterating the traces (1)
  
  the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
Object type
- Account (245)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (11)
  
  Brief (4)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Independent Historical Office of the Command of the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union/Documentation Office of the Polish Army in the East (459)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (7)
  
  Katyn Museum (4)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (3)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (2)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (1)
  
  District Court in Radom (1)
Medium
- Text (477)
  
  Image (4)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (464)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (11)