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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Zdanowicz Michał; 1899.12.11 (2)
  
  Arciszewski Jan, 1907, Pińsk (1)
  
  Badurak Bronislaw, 1905 (1)
  
  Badurak Bronisław; 1905 (1)
  
  Borowy Stanisław; 1908? (1)
  
  Charytański Kazimierz; 1894.03.04 (1)
  
  Chomicz Eustachy; 1905 (1)
  
  Cytron Tobiasz; 30.10.1908, Białystok (1)
  
  Dreszler Bernard, 1894 (1)
  
  Drozdowicz Bolesław; 1913? (1)
  
  Drzewoszewski Józef (1)
  
  Dąbrowski Jan (1)
  
  Esman Wladysław (1)
  
  Fabiszewski Henryk; 10.02.1894 (1)
  
  Falk Ignacy; 1902? (1)
  
  Fałdyga Adam, 1893 (1)
  
  Ficek Władysław, 1898.05.21 (1)
  
  Fieduszko Józef, 1899 (1)
  
  Fijakowski Błażej (1)
  
  Franczak Stanisław (1)
  
  Gajewski Marian; 15.08.1896 (1)
  
  Galinat Andrzej (1)
  
  Glejzer Władysław; 1889 (1)
  
  Gorczyca Stanisław; 06.02.1900 (1)
  
  Gryta Marcin (1)
  
  Haas Ludwika (1)
  
  Huszcza Jan, 1900? (1)
  
  Iwaszkiewicz Zofia; 09.12.1912 (1)
  
  Janczulewicz Hieronim; 1899 (1)
  
  Jurewicz Maria, 14.10.1907 (1)
  
  Konopko Jan; 1900? (1)
  
  Kuźmiński Józef (1)
  
  Kuźmiński Józef; 1909? (1)
  
  Mendyk Feliks (1)
  
  Mirańczyk Stanisław (1)
  
  Mąkosza Tadeusz (1)
  
  Nowak Jan (1)
  
  Nowak Jan; 1890 (1)
  
  Nowicki Michał, 13.12.1884 (1)
  
  Olczyk Apolinary, 14.07.1896 (1)
  
  Orkisz Stanisław, 1898 (1)
  
  Ozga Józef; 1897? (1)
  
  Ościsławski Michał, 1895 (1)
  
  Perzyński Piotr; 1893 (1)
  
  Pieniak Franciszek (1)
  
  Piotrowski Lucjan; 1910 (1)
  
  Plichta Józef; 1900 (1)
  
  Poczobutt-Odłanicki Antoni, 1904 (1)
  
  Podgórski Antoni; 1896.08.07 (1)
  
  Podhajski Wincenty; 1898 (1)
  
  Pokojska Helena (1)
  
  Proszowski Henryk (1)
  
  Raczyński Jan, 1897 (1)
  
  Radziewicz Wacław; 1902 (1)
  
  Rafinski Aleksander (1)
  
  Rewranz Emil (1)
  
  Rodak Józef (1)
  
  Rusznica Władysław; 1898 (1)
  
  Rutkowski Wincenty; 1902? (1)
  
  Rutkowski Władysław; 02.12.1897 (1)
  
  Rysak Tadeusz;1911? (1)
  
  Tadeusiak Franciszek; 1901 (1)
  
  Tagowski Marian; 30.07.1902 (1)
  
  Tondryk Bolesław; 1900 (1)
  
  Tumiłowicz Wacław; 1898 (1)
  
  Tułodziecki Jan (1)
  
  Urbanowicz Paweł (1)
  
  Usowski Jan; 1898.04.25 (1)
  
  Vogler Tauba; 18.06.1903, Kraków (1)
  
  Wacławski Walerian (1)
  
  Walkowski Jakub; 1898 (1)
  
  Warsza Henryk, 1916 (1)
  
  Wawernia Wacław; 1894 (1)
  
  Wiecek Walenty, 1896 (1)
  
  Wieczorek Władysław, 1900.01.26 (1)
  
  Wilk Józef (1)
  
  Windyga Czesław; 1906.12.25 (1)
  
  Wróblewska Wanda; 1924 (1)
  
  Wylot Józef; 1897 (1)
  
  Wójcik Jan; 1898.05.28 (1)
  
  Zaganiecki Eugeniusz (1)
  
  Zaleski-Korziuk Zygfryd; 1898 (1)
  
  Zalewski Edmund; 1893 (1)
  
  Zambrzycki Władysław (1)
  
  Zaniewski Tadeusz (1)
  
  Zatorski Jan; 1901 (1)
  
  Zbierczuk Stanisław, 1910 (1)
  
  Ziembiński Marian, 1888 (1)
  
  Łopuszyński Marian; 1889? (1)
  
  Śniady Konstanty; 1906?, Dłutowo (1)
  
  Żygało Zenon; 1900 (1)
Subject
- Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (61)
  
  In exile – Siberia (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (7)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (6)
  
  Treblinka – extermination camp (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (2)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Wilno region (1)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (1)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Majdanek (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Nowogród region (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Wilno region (1)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (1)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Białystok Ghetto (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (59)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (51)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (41)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (30)
  
  Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (26)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (24)
  
  Ukmergė (Lithuania), internee camp (20)
  
  Połąga (now in Lithuania), internee camp (19)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (14)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (11)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (11)
  
  Kulautuva (Lithuania), internment camp (10)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (9)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (8)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (8)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (7)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (7)
  
  Wojtkuszki (Lithuania), internment camp (7)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (6)
  
  Mołodeczno (now in Belarus) (5)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (5)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania), Łukiszki prison, Więzienna Street ( Lukiškių Street 6) (5)
  
  Žagarė (Lithuania), internee camp (5)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (4)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (4)
  
  Kalvarija (Lithuania), internment camp (4)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (4)
  
  Olita (Lithuania), internee camp (4)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania) (4)
  
  Białystok, ghetto (3)
  
  Kollag (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (3)
  
  Lublin (3)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (3)
  
  Nowogródek (now in Belarus) (3)
  
  Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a (3)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast) (3)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (3)
  
  Vladimir (Russia, Vladimir Oblast) (3)
  
  Warsaw (3)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (3)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania), NKVD Headquarters (Regional Court), Ofiarna Street 94 (Aukų Street 2a) (3)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (now in Lithuania), internee camp (3)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (2)
  
  Białystok, Ghetto (2)
  
  Biysk (Russia, Altai Krai) (2)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (2)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (2)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (2)
  
  KL Plaszow (2)
  
  Kaunas (Lithuania) (2)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (2)
  
  Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) (2)
  
  Lida (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Lida (now in Belarus), "Kamionka" prison, Leninskaya Street 29 (2)
  
  Medvezhyegorsk (Russia, Republic of Karelia) (2)
  
  Minsk (Belarus), "Wołodarka" prison, Waladarskaha Street 2 (2)
  
  Oszmiana (now in Belarus), prison, Piłsudskiego Street (Sowiecka Street) (2)
  
  Petropavlovsk (Kazakhstan) (2)
  
  Połock (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Zinaida Tusnolobova-Marchenko Street (2)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (2)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (2)
  
  Smolensk (Russia, Smolensk Oblast) (2)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (2)
  
  Treblinka, train station (2)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania), train station, Kolejowa Street 31 (Sodų Street 22) (2)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (2)
  
  Altai Krai (Russia) (1)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD remand center, Fralankowa Street 50 (1)
  
  Barnaul (Russia, Altai Krai) (1)
  
  Biała Podlaska (1)
  
  Białystok (1)
  
  Bielbaltlag (Russia, Karelian ASSR) (1)
  
  Borejki (Belarus) (1)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (1)
  
  Czepony (Lithuania) (1)
  
  Częstochowa (1)
  
  Dereczyn (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Domanice (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Frunze (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan) (1)
  
  Gari (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (1)
  
  Garwolin (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Georgievka (Koksaek, Kazakhstan) (1)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (1)
  
  Gniewoszów (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (1)
  
  Głębokie (Belarus), ghetto (1)
  
  Hermanów (Tarasiwka, now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (1)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (1)
  
  Jaryczów Stary (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (1)
  
  Jaszuny (Lithuania) (1)
  
  Jedwabne (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (1)
  
  KL Majdanek (1)
  
  Kagan (Uzbekistan) (1)
  
  Kara-Balta (Kyrgyzstan) (1)
  
  Karabas (Kazakhstan), train station (1)
  
  Kola Penninsula (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (1)
Victims
- The Poles (105)
  
  Internees (75)
  
  Policemen (66)
  
  Civilians (49)
  
  The Inteligentsia (47)
  
  The Civilian Population (40)
  
  Border Guard (34)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (34)
  
  The Jews (29)
  
  Deportees (22)
  
  Women (21)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (19)
  
  Prisoners of War (19)
  
  Border Protection Corps (18)
  
  Children (16)
  
  Lithuanians (15)
  
  Belarusians (13)
  
  Russians/Soviets (11)
  
  The Church (8)
  
  The Russians (8)
  
  The sick (8)
  
  Ukrainians (8)
  
  The Sick (7)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (4)
  
  Estonians (3)
  
  Landowners (3)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (3)
  
  The Elderly (3)
  
  The elderly (3)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (3)
  
  Germans (2)
  
  Belgians (1)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  Prison Guard (1)
  
  The Disabled (1)
  
  The Dutch (1)
  
  The French (1)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (1)
Perpetrators
- Lithuanians (109)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (36)
  
  Red Army (22)
  
  Denunciation (14)
  
  Collaboration (7)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (6)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (4)
  
  Latvians (3)
  
  SS (3)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (3)
  
  Collaborators (2)
  
  Military Police (2)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (2)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (1)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (1)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (1)
  
  Soviet Militia (1)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (1)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (1)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (1)
Crimes
- Biological extermination (89)
  
  Forced labor (89)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (60)
  
  Arrest (51)
  
  Beating (40)
  
  Cattle wagons (31)
  
  Deportation/Exile (30)
  
  Punishment cell (19)
  
  Judicial crime (16)
  
  Robbery (16)
  
  Death by shooting (15)
  
  Execution (9)
  
  Deportation (5)
  
  Cremation (4)
  
  Cremation of corpses (4)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (4)
  
  Gas chambers (4)
  
  Racial policy (4)
  
  Disarmament (3)
  
  Mass graves (3)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (3)
  
  Air raids (2)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (2)
  
  Roads of death (2)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (2)
  
  Administrative persecution (1)
  
  Armored weapons (1)
  
  Artillery fire (1)
  
  Artillery shelling (1)
  
  Burning people alive (1)
  
  Death marches (1)
  
  Denationalization (1)
  
  Displacement (1)
  
  Expulsion (1)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (1)
  
  Forced voting (1)
  
  Hanging (1)
  
  Round-up (1)
  
  Sovietization (1)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (1)
Place
- Internment camp (74)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (55)
  
  Transit camp (25)
  
  Kolkhoz (11)
  
  NKVD custody suite (11)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (9)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (6)
  
  Prison (6)
  
  Extermination camp (5)
  
  Ghetto (4)
  
  Mine (4)
  
  Sovkhoz (4)
  
  Concentration camp (3)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (3)
  
  Labor camp (1)
Content
- Health service (76)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (37)
  
  Polish culture in exile (20)
  
  Amnesty (17)
  
  Anders' Army (9)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (9)
  
  Epidemics (8)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (8)
  
  Extermination of Jews (7)
  
  Fourth deportation (7)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (5)
  
  Communist propaganda (4)
  
  Rescue of Jews (4)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (4)
  
  Civil resistance (2)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (2)
  
  Obliterating the traces (2)
  
  Partisan warfare (2)
  
  Polish Underground State (2)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (1)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (1)
  
  Judenrat (1)
  
  Third deportation (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1)
  
  obliterating the traces (1)
Object type
- Account (55)
  
  Report (55)
  
  Summary (55)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (8)
  
  Brief (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 (98)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (5)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (3)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Warsaw (1)
  
  Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (1)
  
  Ministry of Education in Warsaw (1)
Medium
- Text (109)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (102)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (7)