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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Tomaszewski Zdzisław (2)
  
  Adamczyk Karol (1)
  
  Adamski Alojzy, 1908.06.30 (1)
  
  Arciszewski Jan, 1907, Pińsk (1)
  
  Atras Franciszek, 1900.10.08 (1)
  
  Augustowicz Bolesław; 1912 (1)
  
  Barbachowski Wladyslaw; 1903 (1)
  
  Bartoszko Kazimierz; 09.10.1898 (1)
  
  Bazylewicz Aleksy, 1892 (1)
  
  Beker Władysław; 1911 (1)
  
  Bielonuzko Szymon, 1902 (1)
  
  Bobrow Eugeniusz, 1906 (1)
  
  Bochenek Jan; 1898 (1)
  
  Borysiuk Mateusz; 1903? (1)
  
  Brunstein Stanislaw; 27.10.1914 (1)
  
  Bryning Sylwester; 1898 (1)
  
  Buchwalter Fryderyk, 1912 (1)
  
  Buczyński Michał; 28.09.1892 (1)
  
  Budnik Michał, 1915.01.15 (1)
  
  Budzianowski Antoni; 1886 (1)
  
  Bujnicz Andrzej (1)
  
  Capecki Franciszek; 1897 (1)
  
  Capiga Władysław, 1896 (1)
  
  Cepil Feliks; 1899 (1)
  
  Chaczko Franciszek (1)
  
  Charlak Samul; 1895 (1)
  
  Chmielewska Władysława, 1918.01.25 (1)
  
  Chmielewski Daniel; 1897 (1)
  
  Chmielewski Szczepan; 1899 (1)
  
  Chodorowski Aleksander (1)
  
  Chodorowski Jan, 1898 (1)
  
  Chojnacki Bolesław, 1897 (1)
  
  Chomicz Eustachy; 1905 (1)
  
  Chomicz Franciszek; 1900 (1)
  
  Chowra Bolesław; 1904.10.24 (1)
  
  Chołubko Jan, 1911 (1)
  
  Chrobak Wladysław; 1901 (1)
  
  Chromiński Stanisław (1)
  
  Chrzan Józef; 1890.11.08 (1)
  
  Chydzik Wilhelmina (1)
  
  Chyliński Aleksander, 1914.05.24 (1)
  
  Chęciński Paweł; 1897 (1)
  
  Chłebiuk Maksym; 1893 (1)
  
  Ciechanowicz Konstanty; 1897.05.20 (1)
  
  Cieplik Marian; 24.02.1894 (1)
  
  Cieślik Bolesław; 1917 (1)
  
  Cioch Franciszek, 1897 (1)
  
  Ciulik Fryderyk;1917.01.18 (1)
  
  Cupryk Wladysław; 1916 (1)
  
  Cwek Zygmunt (1)
  
  Cwirko-Gudycki Ludwik; 1891 (1)
  
  Cyganik Antoni; 27.03.1909, Chrzanów (1)
  
  Cygielman Szylem (1)
  
  Czajkowski Aleksander (1)
  
  Czerniecki Zbigniew (1)
  
  Dawidowski Franciszek (1)
  
  Deka Antoni (1)
  
  Dilny Ilko, 1899.08.02 (1)
  
  Dmowski Jan; 1901 (1)
  
  Dobosz Józef; 1897 (1)
  
  Dobrzański Jan; 1914 (1)
  
  Doliński Jan; 1897 (1)
  
  Domagalski Władysław; 1898.03.14 (1)
  
  Drozdowicz Józef (1)
  
  Drożejko Julian; 1897 (1)
  
  Drzewoszewski Józef (1)
  
  Dubiński Antoni; 1902 (1)
  
  Dubrawka Piotr (1)
  
  Duda Marceli; 1898 (1)
  
  Dudek Józef; 1909 (1)
  
  Dworzak Bazyli; 1898.12.25 (1)
  
  Dyba Władysław; 1904 (1)
  
  Dybowska Aniela; 13.04.1912, Łódź (1)
  
  Dygul Stanisław; 1898 (1)
  
  Dymiński Stanisław; 1895 (1)
  
  Dyszlewski Wincenty (1)
  
  Dziad Franciszek; 1898 (1)
  
  Dziemian Hentyk (1)
  
  Dąbkowski (1)
  
  Dąbkowski Witkor; 1890 (1)
  
  Dąbrowski Józef; 1896 (1)
  
  Dąbrowski Piotr; 1895 (1)
  
  Ebert Ernest, 1904.07.09 (1)
  
  Eichel Wincenty, 1911 (1)
  
  Ejgierd Stanisław, 1897 (1)
  
  Fabian Jan, 1911 (1)
  
  Fabirowski Stefan, 1899 (1)
  
  Fedorowicz Mieczysław, 1892 (1)
  
  Feliczak Jan, 1904 (1)
  
  Fiedorow Mieczysław, 1915.01.06 (1)
  
  Fieduszko Józef, 1899 (1)
  
  Fieglar Jakub, 1886 (1)
  
  Filipowski Andrzej, 1899 (1)
  
  Filistowicz Witold, 1897.02.22 (1)
  
  Flinz Kazimierz (1)
  
  Focht Stanisław, 1897 (1)
  
  Frankiewicz Eliasz, 1899 (1)
  
  Frenkiel Stanisław, 1896 (1)
  
  Frenkiel Stanisław, 1918 (1)
  
  Furdyna K. (1)
Subject
- The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (127)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (42)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (23)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (23)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (22)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (18)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (15)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (13)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (11)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (11)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (8)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (6)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (5)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (5)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (4)
  
  In exile – Siberia (4)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (3)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (3)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ryazan Oblast (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Vologda Oblast (2)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Republic of Mordovia (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Sverdlovsk Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Tambov Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (1)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (82)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (81)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (57)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (41)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (40)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (30)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (30)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (26)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (24)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (23)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (22)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (22)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (21)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (19)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (19)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (18)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (17)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (16)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no 2, Zamarstynowska Street 7/9 (15)
  
  Równe (Ukraine), prison, 3 Maja Street (Soborna Street 16) (15)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania), Łukiszki prison, Więzienna Street ( Lukiškių Street 6) (15)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (13)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (13)
  
  Sevvostlag (Russia, Magadan Oblast) (13)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (12)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (12)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (11)
  
  Minsk (Belarus), "Wołodarka" prison, Waladarskaha Street 2 (11)
  
  Nakhodka (Russia, Primorsky Krai) (11)
  
  Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a (11)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (11)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (10)
  
  Bezymyanlag (Russia, Samara Oblast) (10)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (10)
  
  Minsk (Belarus), NKVD remand center "Amerykanka", Hradsky Val Street 4 (10)
  
  Pińsk (now in Belarus), NKVD prison no 29, Brzeska/Poleska Street (10)
  
  Łomża, prison, Legionów Avenue 36 (10)
  
  Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (9)
  
  Karlag (Kazakhstan) (9)
  
  Kherson (Ukraine), prison, Perekopska Street 10 (9)
  
  Kniazhpogost (Russia, Komi Republic) (9)
  
  Krzemieniec (Ukraine), NKVD prison, Sanatorijna Street 1 (9)
  
  Przemyśl, prison, Rokitniańska Street 1 (9)
  
  Vitebsk (Belarus), NKVD prison, Surazhska Street (Gagarina Street 2) (9)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD remand center, Fralankowa Street 50 (8)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (8)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine), prison, Kolejowa Street (Nezalezhnosti Street) (8)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (8)
  
  Rawa Ruska (Ukraine), NKVD prison (8)
  
  Unzhlag (Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (8)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (8)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine), prison (Bridgettine Convent), Brygidek Street (Kafedralna Street 16) (8)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (7)
  
  Czortków (now in Ukraine), prison, Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) (7)
  
  Kagan (Uzbekistan) (7)
  
  Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) (7)
  
  Mołodeczno (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Wielki Gościniec Street 52 (7)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (7)
  
  Nukus (Uzbekistan) (7)
  
  Złoczów (now in Ukraine), NKVD remand center (Castle), Tarnopolska Street 4 (7)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (6)
  
  Berezwecz (Głębokie, now in Belarus), NKVD prison (Basilian monastery), Sovetskaya Street 201 (6)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (6)
  
  Chardzhou (Türkmenabat, Turkmenistan) (6)
  
  Dubno (Ukraine), prison, Matczyńskie Street (Zamkowa Street) (6)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (6)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (6)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (6)
  
  Ukhto-Izhemsky Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (6)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (5)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (5)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (5)
  
  Dnipropetrovsk (Dnipro, Ukraine), NKVD Headquarters, Chkalov Street (Sviatoslav Chorobroho Street 23) (5)
  
  Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (5)
  
  Lida (now in Belarus), "Kamionka" prison, Leninskaya Street 29 (5)
  
  Onieglag corrective forced labor camp (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (5)
  
  Połock (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Zinaida Tusnolobova-Marchenko Street (5)
  
  Stryj (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Trybunalska Street (Ołesnyćkoho Street 4) (5)
  
  Turtkul (Uzbekistan) (5)
  
  Viatlag (Russia, Kirov Oblast) (5)
  
  Warsaw (5)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison (Castle) (5)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (5)
  
  Yertsevo (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (5)
  
  Zhytomyr (Ukraine), prison, Vatutin Street 172 (Nezalezhnosti Street 172) (5)
  
  Abez (Russia, Komi Republic) (4)
  
  Białystok (4)
  
  Borysów (Belarus) (4)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), prison, Zygmuntowska Street (Marx Street 86-88) (4)
  
  Drohobycz (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Stryjska Street (4)
  
  Ivdel (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (4)
  
  Kirovohrad (Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine), NKVD prison, Kuropyatnikova Street 50 (4)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (4)
  
  Krutaya (Russia, Komi Republic) (4)
  
  Lwów (Ukraine), prison, Jachowicza Street 5 (Kuczery Street 5) (4)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (4)
  
  Nadwórna (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Shevchenko Maidan Street 43 (4)
  
  Naryan-Mar (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (4)
  
  Omsk (Russia, Omsk Oblast) (4)
  
  Oszmiana (now in Belarus), prison, Piłsudskiego Street (Sowiecka Street) (4)
Victims
- The Poles (357)
  
  Civilians (342)
  
  The Civilian Population (316)
  
  The Inteligentsia (147)
  
  The Jews (121)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (119)
  
  Russians/Soviets (115)
  
  Ukrainians (111)
  
  Women (92)
  
  The Russians (85)
  
  The sick (76)
  
  The Sick (72)
  
  Policemen (71)
  
  Children (64)
  
  Deportees (61)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (50)
  
  Belarusians (42)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (37)
  
  Prisoners of War (33)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (30)
  
  Landowners (28)
  
  The elderly (27)
  
  The Elderly (27)
  
  Lithuanians (25)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (23)
  
  The Church (19)
  
  Latvians (14)
  
  Germans (11)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (10)
  
  Estonians (9)
  
  Internees (7)
  
  Romanians (7)
  
  Border Protection Corps (6)
  
  Border Guard (4)
  
  Prison Guard (3)
  
  Czechs (2)
  
  Hungarians (2)
  
  Americans (1)
  
  Finns (1)
  
  Scouts (1)
Perpetrators
- Denunciation (74)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (54)
  
  Soviet Militia (46)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (44)
  
  Red Army (35)
  
  Collaboration (32)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (19)
  
  Lithuanians (11)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (4)
  
  Collaborators (2)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (2)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  SS (1)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (1)
Crimes
- Arrest (349)
  
  Biological extermination (325)
  
  Forced labor (317)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (284)
  
  Judicial crime (247)
  
  Beating (220)
  
  Punishment cell (124)
  
  Deportation/Exile (85)
  
  Robbery (84)
  
  Cattle wagons (83)
  
  Death by shooting (25)
  
  Disarmament (14)
  
  Execution (14)
  
  Roads of death (12)
  
  Air raids (11)
  
  Desacration of corpses (10)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (6)
  
  Forced voting (6)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (6)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (5)
  
  Round-up (4)
  
  Sovietization (4)
  
  Artillery fire (2)
  
  Artillery shelling (2)
  
  Cremation (2)
  
  Cremation of corpses (2)
  
  Deportation (2)
  
  Collectivization (1)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (1)
  
  Gas chambers (1)
  
  Mass graves (1)
  
  Rape (1)
Place
- NKVD custody suite (357)
  
  Prison (121)
  
  Kolkhoz (78)
  
  Mine (27)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (25)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (24)
  
  Transit camp (8)
  
  Sovkhoz (7)
  
  Internment camp (5)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (4)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (3)
  
  Extermination camp (1)
  
  Siberia (1)
Content
- Health service (251)
  
  Amnesty (105)
  
  Epidemics (67)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (56)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (36)
  
  Polish culture in exile (29)
  
  Anders' Army (22)
  
  First deportation (20)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (16)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (14)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (9)
  
  Communist propaganda (8)
  
  Third deportation (7)
  
  Fourth deportation (4)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (4)
  
  Military hospital (2)
  
  Partisan warfare (2)
  
  Polish Underground State (2)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (2)
  
  Underground culture and education (2)
  
  Underground media (2)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (2)
  
  Civil resistance (1)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (1)
  
  Students' Army Corps (1)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (1)
  
  Wola Massacre (1)
Object type
- Account (181)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (2)
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 (355)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (1)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (1)
Medium
- Text (357)
  
  Image (2)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (367)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (15)