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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Adamusik Stanisław (1)
  
  Aleksandrów Władysław; 1919? (1)
  
  Amanowicz Kazimierz; 1922? (1)
  
  Androchowicz Kazimiera; 1904, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Androchowicz Kazimiera; 1904, Lwów (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Andronowski Jan; 1922 (1)
  
  Andronowski Piotr; 1921? (1)
  
  Arciszewski Jan, 1907, Pińsk (1)
  
  Augustyn Bolesław; 1902 (1)
  
  Babicz Stanisław; 17.07.1906, Babicze (1)
  
  Badach Julian; 05.10.1918_Sulmice (1)
  
  Badach Julian; 1910 (1)
  
  Banaszkiewicz Jan, 1894 (1)
  
  Banaś Jan; 1893 (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899 (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899?, Brynica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Baranowski Antoni; 1905 (1)
  
  Bardach Jakub; 1909 (1)
  
  Bartosiewicz Marcin, 1908 (1)
  
  Bartoszewicz Emilia; 09.11.1915 (1)
  
  Baszker Fiyszel, 1899.08.06 (1)
  
  Batory Nadzieja; 1923?, Płaszówka (now: Ukraine, Rivne Oblast) (1)
  
  Batura Józef; 1916 (1)
  
  Bazylewicz Aleksy, 1892 (1)
  
  Bendowski Stefan; 1906 (1)
  
  Besarab Michał; 04.03.1901 (1)
  
  Bełzki Jan; 1896, Potok Górny (1)
  
  Bibiło Jadwiga; 11.07.1922, Nacewicze (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Bieniasiewicz Józef; 1897 (1)
  
  Binkiewicz Władysław; 1899? (1)
  
  Bober Kazimierz; 24.06.1899, Chłopy (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bobrowicz Nikodem; 1899? (1)
  
  Bochnik Kasper, 1897 (1)
  
  Bochno Michał, 1903? (1)
  
  Bogusz Zygmunt, 1897? (1)
  
  Bojda Ferdynand; 1921? (1)
  
  Bongold Jakub; 1900 (1)
  
  Borasińska Helena; 05.05.1898, Goszczyno (Płocki county) (1)
  
  Borasińska Jadwiga; 06.07.1925 Sutkowszczyzna (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Borasińska Jadwiga; 06.07.1925 Sutkowszczyzna (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Borasiński Jan; 15.08.1897, Goszczyno Górne (1)
  
  Borkowski Edward; 1892? (1)
  
  Borowy Władysław (1)
  
  Borys Piotr, 1901 (1)
  
  Borysiuk Mateusz; 1903? (1)
  
  Boryń Franciszek; 1898 (1)
  
  Brunstein Stanislaw; 27.10.1914 (1)
  
  Brzezicki Wacław; 1921? (1)
  
  Buczkowski Franciszek (1)
  
  Buczynski Zbigniew; 1923? (1)
  
  Buczyński Michał; 28.09.1892 (1)
  
  Budzianowski Antoni; 1886 (1)
  
  Budzyń Leokadia; 03.03.1924, Hallerowo (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bujko Wiktor (1)
  
  Burakiewicz Maria (1)
  
  Burdanowicz Leon; 1919 (1)
  
  Butrymowicz Jan (1)
  
  Błażek Władysław; 1897? (1)
  
  Chojecka Maria; 11.03.1903 (1)
  
  Chudzikiewicz Zdzisław; 03.03.1922, Lublin (1)
  
  Chwiałkowska Zofia; 1919? (1)
  
  Chęciński Paweł; 1897 (1)
  
  Ciechanowicz Konstanty; 1897.05.20 (1)
  
  Ciesielski Franciszek; 1896 (1)
  
  Cimet Józef (1)
  
  Cytko Jan; 1897? (1)
  
  Czajka Jan; 1896 (1)
  
  Czajkowski Leon; 10.01.1913, Dobra (1)
  
  Czapnicki Erwin (1)
  
  Czechowicz Stanisław; 1883, Białaczów (1)
  
  Czekaj Eugeniusz (1)
  
  Czosyk Elżbieta; 1916, Chorostków (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Czosyk Elżbieta; 1916, Chorostków (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Członkowski Stanisław (1)
  
  Dalidowicz Paweł; 1913? (1)
  
  Damuć Józef; 1892 (1)
  
  Danielecki Stefan; 08.06.1908 (1)
  
  Daszkiewicz Wanda (1)
  
  Debko Józef; 1903 (1)
  
  Dobosz Franciszek (1)
  
  Dobrowolski Albert; 1900? (1)
  
  Doliński Bohdan (1)
  
  Dragun Maria 12.10.1898, Wilno (now in Litwa) (1)
  
  Dragun Maria; 12.10.1898, Wilno (now: Litwa) (1)
  
  Drzewoszewski Józef (1)
  
  Drzyzgiewicz Zofia; 06.04.1923 (1)
  
  Dubiński Antoni; 1902 (1)
  
  Dybowska Aniela; 13.04.1912, Łódź (1)
  
  Dygul Stanisław; 1898 (1)
  
  Dymiński Stanisław; 1895 (1)
  
  Dyszlewski Wincenty (1)
  
  Dziad Franciszek; 1898 (1)
  
  Dziadul Jan (1)
  
  Dziedziejew Zofia; 15.07.1908 (1)
  
  Dziem Weronika; 18.11.1925, Podhajce (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Dzik Franciszek; 1896 (1)
  
  Ebert Ernest, 1904.07.09 (1)
  
  Fabjańczyk Jan, 1899 (1)
  
  Falana Bolesława; 27.09.1907, Kluczyce (1)
  
  Feret Antoni; 1916? (1)
Subject
- In exile – Central Asia (106)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (76)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (68)
  
  In exile – Siberia (41)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (41)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (36)
  
  In exile – Ural (26)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (22)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (21)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (15)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (12)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (12)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (9)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (8)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (6)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (6)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (6)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (5)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (3)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (2)
  
  Allied assistance from the air (1)
  
  Deported – the Altai Krai (1)
  
  Deported – the Novosibirsk Oblast (1)
  
  Deported – the Volgograd Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Mari El Republic (1)
  
  In exile – Povolzhye (1)
  
  In exile – Volgograd Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ryazan Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Sverdlovsk Oblast (1)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (112)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (84)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (82)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (61)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (43)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (42)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (38)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (33)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (32)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (27)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (25)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (23)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (21)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (20)
  
  Kermine (Navoiy, Uzbekistan) (20)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (20)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (19)
  
  Kagan (Uzbekistan) (19)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (18)
  
  Tehran (Iran) (18)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (18)
  
  Nukus (Uzbekistan) (16)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (16)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (14)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (14)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (14)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (13)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no 2, Zamarstynowska Street 7/9 (13)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (13)
  
  Kitab (Uzbekistan) (12)
  
  Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) (12)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (11)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (11)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (11)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (11)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (11)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (11)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (11)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (10)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (10)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (10)
  
  Turtkul (Uzbekistan) (10)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (9)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (9)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania), Łukiszki prison, Więzienna Street ( Lukiškių Street 6) (9)
  
  Berezwecz (Głębokie, now in Belarus), NKVD prison (Basilian monastery), Sovetskaya Street 201 (8)
  
  Białystok (8)
  
  Pavlodar (Kazakhstan) (8)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (8)
  
  Alma-Ata (Almaty, Kazakhstan) (7)
  
  Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia) (7)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (7)
  
  Chardzhou (Türkmenabat, Turkmenistan) (7)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (7)
  
  Republic of Karakalpakstan (Uzbekistan) (7)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (7)
  
  Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg, Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (7)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (7)
  
  Tashlak (Toshloq, Uzbekistan) (7)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (7)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania) (7)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (7)
  
  Abez (Russia, Komi Republic) (6)
  
  Aktyubinsk (Aktobe, Kazakhstan) (6)
  
  British Mandate of Palestine (Israel) (6)
  
  Dnipropetrovsk (Dnipro, Ukraine), NKVD Headquarters, Chkalov Street (Sviatoslav Chorobroho Street 23) (6)
  
  Farab (Turkmenistan), train station (6)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (6)
  
  Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (6)
  
  Lida (now in Belarus), "Kamionka" prison, Leninskaya Street 29 (6)
  
  Lwów (Ukraine), prison, Jachowicza Street 5 (Kuczery Street 5) (6)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (6)
  
  Omsk (Russia, Omsk Oblast) (6)
  
  Petropavlovsk (Kazakhstan) (6)
  
  Połock (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Zinaida Tusnolobova-Marchenko Street (6)
  
  Przemyśl (6)
  
  Równe (Ukraine), prison, 3 Maja Street (Soborna Street 16) (6)
  
  Shahrisabz (Uzbekistan) (6)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (6)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (6)
  
  Tomsk (Russia, Tomsk Oblast) (6)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (6)
  
  Vrevsky (Almazar, Uzbekistan) (6)
  
  Warsaw (6)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison (Castle) (6)
  
  Łomża, prison, Legionów Avenue 36 (6)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine), prison (Bridgettine Convent), Brygidek Street (Kafedralna Street 16) (6)
  
  Aktobe (Kazakhstan) (5)
  
  Ivdel (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (5)
  
  Jizzakh (Uzbekistan) (5)
  
  Kherson (Ukraine), prison, Perekopska Street 10 (5)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (5)
  
  Kostanay Oblast (Kazakhstan) (5)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no. 1, Łąckiego Street (Bandery Street 1) (5)
  
  Minsk (Belarus), "Wołodarka" prison, Waladarskaha Street 2 (5)
  
  Minsk (Belarus), NKVD remand center "Amerykanka", Hradsky Val Street 4 (5)
  
  Nakhodka (Russia, Primorsky Krai) (5)
  
  Naryan-Mar (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (5)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (5)
  
  Nowogródek (now in Belarus) (5)
Victims
- The Poles (546)
  
  Civilians (519)
  
  The Civilian Population (499)
  
  Deportees (328)
  
  Women (310)
  
  Children (243)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (176)
  
  The Inteligentsia (159)
  
  Ukrainians (148)
  
  The sick (144)
  
  The Sick (142)
  
  The Jews (126)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (123)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (116)
  
  Russians/Soviets (106)
  
  The elderly (104)
  
  The Elderly (101)
  
  The Russians (87)
  
  Policemen (71)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (63)
  
  Belarusians (54)
  
  Prisoners of War (40)
  
  Lithuanians (26)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (26)
  
  Landowners (25)
  
  The Church (21)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (18)
  
  Germans (14)
  
  Internees (13)
  
  Latvians (13)
  
  Border Guard (8)
  
  Estonians (6)
  
  Border Protection Corps (5)
  
  Czechs (4)
  
  Finns (3)
  
  Romanians (2)
  
  Hungarians (1)
  
  Scouts (1)
Perpetrators
- People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (147)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (94)
  
  Soviet Militia (70)
  
  Denunciation (54)
  
  Red Army (46)
  
  Collaboration (39)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (21)
  
  Lithuanians (11)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (3)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (2)
  
  Administrative Police (1)
  
  Collaborators (1)
  
  Military Police (1)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (515)
  
  Biological extermination (482)
  
  Deportation/Exile (420)
  
  Arrest (376)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (182)
  
  Cattle wagons (170)
  
  Beating (160)
  
  Judicial crime (141)
  
  Punishment cell (101)
  
  Robbery (87)
  
  Sovietization (31)
  
  Death by shooting (21)
  
  Deportation (20)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (18)
  
  Execution (17)
  
  Roads of death (15)
  
  Forced voting (12)
  
  Disarmament (11)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (11)
  
  Air raids (7)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (6)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (6)
  
  Round-up (5)
  
  Desacration of corpses (4)
  
  Collectivization (3)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (2)
  
  Armored weapons (1)
  
  Burning people alive (1)
  
  Mass graves (1)
Place
- Kolkhoz (548)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (203)
  
  Prison (132)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (118)
  
  NKVD custody suite (78)
  
  Mine (42)
  
  Sovkhoz (39)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (23)
  
  Transit camp (17)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (13)
  
  Internment camp (8)
  
  Siberia (2)
  
  Orphanage – dietdom (1)
  
  Sewers (1)
Content
- Health service (339)
  
  Anders' Army (233)
  
  Amnesty (208)
  
  First deportation (170)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (115)
  
  Epidemics (97)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (71)
  
  Polish culture in exile (68)
  
  Communist propaganda (67)
  
  Second deportation (63)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (58)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (29)
  
  Fourth deportation (24)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (21)
  
  Third deportation (21)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (15)
  
  Military hospital (14)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (6)
  
  Civil resistance (5)
  
  Students' Army Corps (5)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (4)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (3)
  
  Aid to Jews (2)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (2)
  
  Underground media (2)
  
  Clandestine courses (1)
  
  Judenrat (1)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (1)
  
  Polish Underground State (1)
Object type
- Account (247)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (10)
  
  Press clipping (1)
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 (547)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (1)
Medium
- Text (548)
  
  Image (9)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (540)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (8)