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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Drzewoszewski Józef (2)
  
  Zdanowicz Michał; 1899.12.11 (2)
  
  Arciszewski Jan, 1907, Pińsk (1)
  
  Badurak Brosnislaw, 1905 (1)
  
  Badurak Brosnisław; 1905 (1)
  
  Borowy Stanisław; 1908? (1)
  
  Charytański Kazimierz; 1894.03.04 (1)
  
  Chomicz Eustachy; 1905 (1)
  
  Drozdowicz Bolesław; 1913? (1)
  
  Esman Wladysław (1)
  
  Fabiszewski Henryk; 10.02.1894 (1)
  
  Falk Ignacy; 1902? (1)
  
  Fałdyga Adam, 1893 (1)
  
  Fieduszko Józef, 1899 (1)
  
  Franczak Stanisław (1)
  
  Gajewski Marian; 15.08.1896 (1)
  
  Galinat Andrzej (1)
  
  Gorczyca Stanisław; 06.02.1900 (1)
  
  Gryta Marcin (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)
  
  Mirańczyk Stanisław (1)
  
  Mąkosza Tadeusz (1)
  
  Nowak Jan (1)
  
  Ozga Józef; 1897? (1)
  
  Pieniak Franciszek (1)
  
  Pierzyński Piotr; 1893 (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)
  
  Radziewicz Wacław; 1902 (1)
  
  Rafinski Aleksander (1)
  
  Rewranz Emil (1)
  
  Rutkowski Wincenty; 1902? (1)
  
  Rysak Tadeusz;1911? (1)
  
  Tagowski Marian; 30.07.1902 (1)
  
  Tondryk Bolesław; 1900 (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)
  
  Wawernia Wacław; 1894 (1)
  
  Wilk Józef (1)
  
  Windyga Czesław; 1906.12.25 (1)
  
  Wróblewska Wanda; 1924 (1)
  
  Wylot Józef; 1897 (1)
  
  Wójcik Jan; 1898.05.28 (1)
  
  Zaleski-Korziuk Zygfryd; 1898 (1)
  
  Zalewski Edmund; 1893 (1)
  
  Zaniewski Tadeusz (1)
  
  Zatorski Jan; 1901 (1)
  
  Łopuszyński Marian; 1889? (1)
  
  Żygało Zenon; 1900 (1)
Subject
- Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (34)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (6)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (6)
  
  In exile – Siberia (4)
  
  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 Plaszow (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)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (39)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (37)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (29)
  
  Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (20)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (19)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (13)
  
  Ukmergė (Lithuania), internee camp (13)
  
  Połąga (now in Lithuania), internee camp (11)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (8)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (7)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (7)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (6)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (6)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (6)
  
  Wojtkuszki (Lithuania), internment camp (6)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (5)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania), Łukiszki prison, Więzienna Street ( Lukiškių Street 6) (5)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (4)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (4)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (4)
  
  Kulautuva (Lithuania), internment camp (4)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania) (4)
  
  Žagarė (Lithuania), internee camp (4)
  
  Kollag (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (3)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (3)
  
  Lublin (3)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (3)
  
  Olita (Lithuania), internee camp (3)
  
  Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a (3)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (3)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (3)
  
  Vladimir (Russia, Vladimir Oblast) (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)
  
  Białystok, ghetto (2)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (2)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (2)
  
  KL Plaszow (2)
  
  Kalvarija (Lithuania), internment camp (2)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (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)
  
  Mołodeczno (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Nowogródek (now in Belarus) (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)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (2)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast) (2)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (2)
  
  Treblinka, train station (2)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (2)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania), train station, Kolejowa Street 31 (Sodų Street 22) (2)
  
  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)
  
  Garwolin (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Georgievka (Koksaek, Kazakhstan) (1)
  
  Gniewoszów (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (1)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (1)
  
  Głębokie (Belarus), ghetto (1)
  
  Hermanów (Tarasiwka, now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (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)
  
  Kaunas (Lithuania) (1)
  
  Kraków (1)
  
  Kraków, Enamel Factory of Oskar Schindler (subcamp of KL Płaszów), Lipowa Street 4 (1)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (1)
  
  Kraslag (Krasnoyarsk Krai) (1)
  
  Kraśnik (lubelskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Leningrad (Saint Petersburg, Russia) (1)
  
  Lida (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Lubcz (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no 2, Zamarstynowska Street 7/9 (1)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (1)
  
  Martynovo (Russia, Altai Krai), sovkhoz (1)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (1)
Victims
- The Poles (74)
  
  Internees (50)
  
  Policemen (43)
  
  The Civilian Population (32)
  
  The Inteligentsia (31)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (25)
  
  The Jews (24)
  
  Border Guard (22)
  
  Prisoners of War (18)
  
  Deportees (17)
  
  Border Protection Corps (16)
  
  Women (15)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (14)
  
  Children (12)
  
  Lithuanians (12)
  
  Belarusians (9)
  
  Russians/Soviets (9)
  
  The Russians (8)
  
  The Sick (7)
  
  Ukrainians (6)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (5)
  
  The Elderly (3)
  
  Estonians (2)
  
  Landowners (2)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (2)
  
  The Church (2)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (2)
  
  Belgians (1)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (1)
  
  Germans (1)
  
  Latvians (1)
  
  The Disabled (1)
  
  The Dutch (1)
  
  The French (1)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (1)
Perpetrators
- Lithuanians (77)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (23)
  
  Red Army (20)
  
  Denunciation (9)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (6)
  
  Collaboration (5)
  
  SS (3)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (3)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (3)
  
  Latvians (2)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (2)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (1)
  
  Military Police (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)
Crimes
- Biological extermination (65)
  
  Forced Labour (64)
  
  Brutal Interrogation/Tortures (44)
  
  Arrest (37)
  
  Beatings (29)
  
  Cattle wagons (25)
  
  Deportation/Exile (25)
  
  Punishment cell (17)
  
  Judicial crime (16)
  
  Robbery (15)
  
  Shooting (11)
  
  Execution (6)
  
  Cremation (4)
  
  Gas chambers (4)
  
  Racial policy (4)
  
  Deportation (3)
  
  Mass graves (3)
  
  Air raids (2)
  
  Disarmament (2)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (2)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (2)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (2)
  
  Administrative persecution (1)
  
  Artillery fire (1)
  
  Burning people alive (1)
  
  Death marches (1)
  
  Denationalization (1)
  
  Expulsion (1)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (1)
  
  Forced voting (1)
  
  Hanging (1)
  
  Roads of death (1)
  
  Round-up (1)
  
  Sovietization (1)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (1)
Place
- Internment camp (52)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (40)
  
  Transit camp (19)
  
  NKVD custody suite (11)
  
  Kolkhoz (10)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (9)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (6)
  
  Prison (5)
  
  Extermination camp (4)
  
  Ghetto (3)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (3)
  
  Concentration camp (2)
  
  Mine (2)
  
  Labor camp (1)
  
  Sovkhoz (1)
Content
- Health service (53)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (16)
  
  Amnesty (15)
  
  Polish culture in exile (15)
  
  Anders' Army (9)
  
  Epidemics (7)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (7)
  
  Fourth deportation (6)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (6)
  
  Extermination of Jews (5)
  
  Communist propaganda (4)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (4)
  
  Rescue of Jews (3)
  
  Civil resistance (2)
  
  Partisan warfare (2)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (2)
  
  Blue police (Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement) (1)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (1)
  
  Jewish Police Service (Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) (1)
  
  Judenrat (1)
  
  Obliterating the traces (1)
  
  Polish Underground State (1)
  
  Third deportation (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1)
Object type
- Account (34)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (7)
  
  Brief (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 (68)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (4)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (2)
  
  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)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (73)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (4)