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Witness

Wudko Marian Stefan 1910?

Topic

A race against time – the road to Anders' Army

Date

1940.03.01-03.1942

Location

Stryj (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Trybunalska Street (Ołesnyćkoho Street 4) Poltava (Ukraine) Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Kagan (Uzbekistan) Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) Farab (Kazakhstan) Urgench (Uzbekistan)

Witness

Wołosewicz Kazimierz 26.07.1902, Ozierodowicze (now: Belarus)

Topic

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

Date

1941.06.23-1942.02.10

Location

Ryazan (Russia, Ryazan Oblast) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Witness

Warchoł Stefan 1909

Topic

In exile – Mari El Republic

Date

1940.03-1941.08.21

Location

Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Witness

Burawski Władysław

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia

Date

1939.12.02 - 1942.02

Location

Kostopol (now in Ukraine)

Witness

Byłek Michał 1917?

Topic

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

Date

1940.08.21 - 1941.02.28

Location

Stryj (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Trybunalska Street (Ołesnyćkoho Street 4) Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) Lwów (now in Ukraine)

Witness

Pietrzak Władysław

Topic

Clandestine teaching – Mazovia

Date

1939.09-1945.05

Location

Siedlce Łuków (lubelskie voivodeship)

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Witness

Snobiej Anatol 1917, Kosuta (now in Belarus)

Topic

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

Date

1940.09-1942.07.03

Location

Samarka (Kazakhstan) Frunze (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan) Kagan (Uzbekistan)

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Witness

Lipińska Irena 1924?

Topic

In exile – Vologda Oblast

Date

1940.02.10-1942.05

Location

Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) Vologda Oblast (Russia) Altai Krai (Russia) Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan)

Witness

Jemielity Bolesław 16.09.1919, Stare Konopki (Łomża County)

Topic

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

Date

1941.05.04-1942.02.18

Location

Lipetsk (Russia, Lipetsk Oblast) Oryol (Russia, Oryol Oblast) Nizhny Tagil (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast)

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Witness

Zawadzki Bolesław 28.08.1901, Rakowice (Iława county)

Topic

The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory

Date

1939.09-1940.01.29

Location

Ostashkov (Russia, Tver Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs Lublin Tarnopol (now in Ukraine)

Witness

Libkind-Lubodziecki Stanisław 24.01.1879, Warsaw

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.17-1942.05

Location

Putyvl (Ukraine), NKVD camp for POWs (Sofronievsky Monastery) Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 Kungur (Russia, Perm Krai) Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan)

Witness

Lis Stefania 1921

Topic

In exile – Komi Republic

Date

1940.02.10-1941

Location

Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) Guzar (Uzbekistan) Komi Republic (Russia)

Witness

Lewszuk Paweł 06.01.1890

Topic

In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast

Date

1939.09.19-1941.09.09

Location

Słonim (now in Belarus) Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic)

Witness

Łodygo Helena 17.01.1902, Wilno (now in Lithuania)

Topic

In exile – Central Asia

Date

1941.06.21-1943.02.04

Location

Wilno (now in Lithuania) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Guzar (Uzbekistan)

Witness

Lenartowicz Leokadia 1924

Topic

In exile – Central Asia

Date

1939.12.09-1941.11.13

Location

Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Tashkent (Uzbekistan) British Mandate of Palestine (Israel)

Witness

Leander Janina 1910?

Topic

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

Date

1940.01.28-1943

Location

Oszmiana (now in Belarus), prison, Piłsudskiego Street (Sowiecka Street) Karabash (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) Mołodeczno (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Wielki Gościniec Street 52 Połock (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Zinaida Tusnolobova-Marchenko Street

Witness

Kot Bronisław 1903?

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

1940.04.09-1941.09.04

Location

Równe (Ukraine) Rokitno (Ukraine) Starobilsk (Ukraine) Vietlosian (Ukhta, Russia, Komi Republic) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

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Witness

Lenczewski Tadeusz 1913?, Rzędziany

Topic

In exile – Ural

Date

1940.06.21-1942.02.27

Location

Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) Rzędziany Minsk (Belarus) Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) Lugovoy (Kazakhstan)

Witness

Łakomy Jan 15.08.1899, Dodów

Topic

In exile – Central Asia

Date

1940.02.11-1942.02.17

Location

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Witness

Dryja-Wysocki Stanisław

Topic

Poles saving Jews – Greater Poland

Date

1939.04.15-1939.05.05

Location

Warsaw Zbąszyń (Nowy Tomyśl district) Warsaw, Hotel Polski, Długa Street 29 Berlin (Germany) Poznań, Wały Batorego Street