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Witness

Urban Józef

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

-

Location

Zahorce Wielkie (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

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Witness

Pękalski Tadeusz 22.11.1910, Burkanów (Ukraine)

Topic

The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory

Date

1939.08.27-1940.03.20

Location

Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Złoczów (now in Ukraine) Katowice Kyiv (Ukraine)

Witness

Wasilewski Aleksander 1899

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

-

Location

Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Sapożyn (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Korzec (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp Proskuriv (Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

Witness

Własiuk Jan 1893

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

-

Location

Zhytomyr (Ukraine), prison, Vatutin Street 172 (Nezalezhnosti Street 172) Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic)

Witness

Pak Mieczysław 1923?

Topic

A race against time – the road to Anders' Army

Date

1939-1942.02

Location

-

Witness

-

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia

Date

-

Location

Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Witness

Filipowski Andrzej 1899

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

-

Location

Przemyśl, prison, Rokitniańska Street 1 Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) Lugovoy (Kazakhstan)

Witness

Nowakowski Władysław 1898

Topic

In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast

Date

-

Location

Vodopad (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Farab (Kazakhstan)

Witness

Dobrogowski Aleksander

Topic

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

Date

-

Location

Nizhny Tagil (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast)

Witness

Waszczuk Edward 1893

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast

Date

-

Location

Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Witness

Chudyk Piotr 1922

Topic

Date

-

Location

-

Witness

Jarzębski Andrzej 1896

Topic

In exile – Ural

Date

-

Location

Turtkul (Uzbekistan)

Witness

Chodorowski Aleksander

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

-

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 Kharkiv (Ukraine) Moscow (Russia) Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Naryan-Mar (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Abez (Russia, Komi Republic) Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Guzar (Uzbekistan)

Witness

Chodorowski Jan 1898

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Date

-

Location

Szczuczyn (now in Belarus) Słonim (now in Belarus) Stołpce (now in Belarus) Minsk (Belarus), "Wołodarka" prison, Waladarskaha Street 2 Moscow (Russia) Unzhlag (Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) North Kazakhstan Region (Kazakhstan) Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) Astana (Kazakhstan)

Witness

-

Topic

Date

-

Location

Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp Sevurallag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) Gari (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast)

Witness

-

Topic

Date

-

Location

Wojtkuszki (Lithuania), internment camp Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast)

Witness

-

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Date

-

Location

Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13

Witness

Zielińska Maria

Topic

In exile – Siberia

Date

1940.06.30 - 1945

Location

Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine)

Witness

Mejnig Henryk 1908

Topic

the Gulag Archipelago – the Republic of Karelia

Date

1939-1942.02

Location

Rafajłowa (Bystrzyca, now in Ukraine) Berdychiv (Ukraine), Carmelite monastery (NKVD prison), Soborna Street Zhytomyr (Ukraine), prison, Vatutin Street 172 (Nezalezhnosti Street 172) Soroklag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Maloshuyka (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg, Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) Samarkand (Uzbekistan) Farab (Turkmenistan) Bukhara (Uzbekistan) Guzar (Uzbekistan)

Witness

Marcinek Jerzy 1913

Topic

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

Date

1939-1943.02.25

Location

Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) Brody (Ukraine) Sasów (now in Ukraine)