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Witness

Lewak Adam 03.09.1891, Pieniaki (now in Ukraine)

Topic

Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw

Date

1944.08.11-1944.08.12

Location

Warsaw, Uniwersytecka Street 1 Warsaw, Mianowskiego Street 15 Warsaw, Malinowskiego Street 15 Warsaw, Mochnackiego Street 4 Warsaw, Banacha Market Square, Grójecka Street 95

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Witness

Osóbka Jan 1929?, Bilżyn

Topic

Soviets in German captivity

Date

1941-1944

Location

Bliżyn, Stalag XII C/Z Bliżyn, Soviet Soldiers' Cemetery Bliżyn, Jewish Cemetery

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Witness

Łukasiewicz Antoni 1896?, Zawichost

Topic

Soviets in German captivity

Date

1941-1944

Location

Bliżyn, Stalag XII C/Z Bliżyn, forced labor camp

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Witness

Soja Piotr 1905?

Topic

The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas

Date

1943.06.13-1943

Location

Wiślica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) Gorysławice Jurków (świętokrzyskie voivodeship)

Witness

Lorens Anna 27.03.1920

Topic

Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages

Date

1943.07.12-1943.07.13

Location

Michniów Skarżysko-Kamienna Suchedniów

Witness

Cytron Tobiasz 30.10.1908, Białystok

Topic

The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Białystok Ghetto

Date

1939.09-1943.08.24

Location

Białystok, ghetto

Witness

Boguski Aleksander 1900

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

1939.12.07 - 1942.02.17

Location

Łomża, prison, Legionów Avenue 36 Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) Nukus (Uzbekistan) Kokchetav (Kazakhstan) Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan)

Witness

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Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast

Date

1939.10.28 - 1941.11.11

Location

Worochta (now in Ukraine) Nadwórna (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Shevchenko Maidan Street 43 Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 Odessa (Ukraine), NKVD prison, Lustdorfskaya Doroga 9 Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Witness

Czarnocki Wacław 07.05.1893

Topic

Date

1943-1944

Location

Siedlce

Witness

Krzepicki Henryk 04.03.1914, Złoczew

Topic

Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city

Date

1942.07.25-1943.04.29

Location

Warsaw, Ghetto German extermination camp of Treblinka Warsaw, ghetto, Umschlagplatz, Stawki Street 2/6 Warsaw, Jewish cemetery, Okopowa Street 49/51 Warsaw, Ghetto, Dzika Street 3 (Zamenhofa Street 1) Warsaw, Gdański Railway Station Warsaw, Zamenhofa Street 19

Witness

Bugijczyk Eustachy 13.07.1914

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.17-1941.08.25

Location

Sarnki Górne (now in Ukraine) Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Antopol (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Tudorów (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

Witness

Chudy Józef 1902

Topic

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

Date

1940.04.17-1941.08.12

Location

Święciany, Lithuania Minsk (Belarus), "Wołodarka" prison, Waladarskaha Street 2 Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Witness

Blewąska Wincenty 1900

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.18-1941.09.15

Location

Podhajce (now in Ukraine) Kupcze (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Kozłów (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Podliski Małe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Witness

Borkowski Bronisław 12.03.1912

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Ural

Date

1940.03.13-1941.08

Location

Czortków (now in Ukraine), prison, Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) Bezymyanlag (Russia, Samara Oblast) Samara (Russia, Samara Oblast) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Witness

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Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast

Date

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Location

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Witness

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Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

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Location

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Witness

Malinowski Władysław

Topic

Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland

Date

1939.09-1945.05.09

Location

Białystok Poznań Bydgoszcz Gdynia Warsaw, aleja Waszyngtona 136 Warsaw, Warecka Street Prużana (Belarus) Brześć (now in Belarus) Słonim (now in Belarus) Bereza Kartuska (Belarus) Baranowicze (now in Belarus) Vitebsk (Belarus)

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Witness

Skłodowski Włodzimierz 18.04.1942, Skłody Piotrowice

Topic

Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region

Date

1944.01-1944.01.28

Location

Jasienica (Ostrów Mazowiecka district) Zaręby Kościelne

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Witness

Tomczuk Cecylia 27.11.1939, Skłody Piotrowice

Topic

Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region

Date

1944.01.20-1944.01.28

Location

Jasienica (Ostrów Mazowiecka district)

Witness

Straszyński Włodzimierz 1910

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia

Date

1939.09.29-1942.03

Location

Tomaszów Lubelski Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Zelenaya Dubrava (Russia, Altai Krai), Rubcovskyi Sveklosovkhoz Taraz (Jambyl, Kazakhstan) Qorasuv (Voroshilovo, Uzbekistan)