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Witness

Dziopek Jan 27.10.1889, Borek Stary

Topic

Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp

Date

1940.08.21-1945.01.18

Location

Gorlice, Gestapo headquarters, Legionów Street 8 Jasło, temporary remand prison, Staszica Street 3 Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau

Witness

Fastman Ludwik 31.07.1899, Drohobycz (now in Ukraine)

Topic

The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Radom Ghetto

Date

1942.06-1943.06

Location

Radom, Ghetto Śródmieście KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Radom, Ghetto Glinice Radom, forced labor camp, Szwarlikowskiego Street Radom, the Bekermans House for the Old and the Disabled of the Jewish Faith, Warszawska Street 2 Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2)

Witness

Listkiewicz Ludwik 1889?

Topic

The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas

Date

1941.06.05-1945.01

Location

Radom, St. John the Baptist's Church, Rwańska Street 6 Radom, Moniuszki Street Radom, Mickiewicza Street Radom, Roman Catholic cemetery, Limanowskiego Street Radom, Jagielloński Square Radom, Sienkiewicza Street 24 Radom, Rwańska Street Radom, Obozisko, Warszawska Street Radom, Wałowa Street Radom, Żeromskiego Street

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Witness

Materek Wacława 02.05.1924, Michniów

Topic

Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages

Date

1944.07.12-1944

Location

Michniów Częstochowa Kielce, Arbeitsamt, Kolejowa Street (Sienkiewicza Street)

Witness

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Topic

Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Tarnów Ghetto

Date

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Location

Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), Gestapo headquarters, Urszulańska Street 18 Tarnów, ghetto Lwów (now in Ukraine) Pustków, forced labor camp

Witness

Owiński Tadeusz 21.07.1904; Kołomyja (Ukraine)

Topic

Pruszków – the town of the displaced

Date

1939.09-1944.10

Location

Warsaw, Dworkowa Street Pruszków, Dulag 121 Lwów (now in Ukraine)

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Witness

Karczewski Stanisław

Topic

Street executions in Warsaw

Date

1944.08.02-1945.05

Location

Warsaw, Wiejska Street 1 Warsaw, Piusa XI Street 2 (Piękna Street) Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Ravensbrück (Germany) KL Gross-Rosen Warsaw, Wiejska Street 1

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Witness

Żurkowski Jerzy 1924?

Topic

The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas

Date

1944.08-1945?

Location

Częstochowa Radom, forced labor camp, Szkolna Street (Poznańska Street) Garbatka (Garbatka-Letnisko) Małogoszcz

Witness

Klecha Józef 1903?

Topic

Gdańsk – daily terror

Date

1928.06.15-1939.08

Location

KL Gross-Rosen Gdynia

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Witness

Kosiński Wacław 21.09.1882

Topic

Radom – daily terror

Date

1939-1945.01

Location

Radom, Grodzka Street 10 Radom, Wałowa Street Radom, Ghetto Glinice Radom, Ghetto Śródmieście Radom, Peretza Street (Podwalna Street) Radom, Roman Catholic cemetery, Limanowskiego Street Radom, synagogue, Peretza Street (Podwalna Street) Radom, Grodzka Street 8 Radom, train station, Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 6

Witness

Ostachowski Bogdan 1925?, Wilno (now in Lithuania)

Topic

Michniów – the extermination of the Polish countryside

Date

1940-1943.07.13

Location

Warsaw Michniów Suchedniów Bodzentyn Suchedniów

Witness

Lichocki Marian 1900?

Topic

The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas

Date

1940.05.1944.05

Location

Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, ghetto Opatów Chmielnik (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) Chmielnik (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) Szewna

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Witness

Bartonezz Irena 03.10.1896

Topic

Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück

Date

1939-1945.04

Location

Lubliniec, Prison, Jana III Sobieskiego Street 6 KL Ravensbrück (Germany) Opole (opolskie voivodeship), prison, Sądowa Street 2 Neubrandenburg (Germany), forced labour camp (KL Ravensbrück subcamp)

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Witness

Ratajczyk Józef 10.03.1904, Warsaw

Topic

The city condemned to death

Date

1944.08.01-1944.10

Location

Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 Warsaw, Ghetto Warsaw, General Inspectorate of the Armed Forces, al. Szucha 12/14 Warsaw, General Inspectorate of the Armed Forces, aleja Szucha 12/14 Warsaw, Ogródek Jordanowski [Jordan garden], Bagatela Street 2/4 Warsaw, Litewska Street Warsaw, Czerniakowska Street Warsaw, Gościniec Street 53 Warsaw, Bartycka Street 7

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Witness

Sikorski Stanisław 15.04.1909, Warsaw

Topic

The city condemned to death

Date

1944.08.01-1945.01

Location

Warsaw, Ogródek Jordanowski [Jordan garden], Bagatela Street 2/4 Warsaw, Litewska Street 14 Warsaw, Chałubińskiego Street 4 Warsaw, 29 Listopada Street Warsaw, aleja Szucha Warsaw, Stępińska Street 54 Warsaw, Rakowiecka Street Warsaw, Czerniakowska Street Warsaw, Chałubińskiego Street 4

Witness

Gelade Eliasz 1893?

Topic

Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto

Date

1940.10-1944.11

Location

Warsaw Piotrków Trybunalski, Manufaktura, Sulejowska Street 45 Piotrków Trybunalski, ghetto Piotrków Trybunalski, Great Synagogue, Jerozolimska Street 29 Piotrków Trybunalski, Jerozolimska Street

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Witness

Gelade Eliasz 1894?

Topic

The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto

Date

1942.10-1943.08.01

Location

Bliżyn, forced labor camp Radom Piotrków Trybunalski, Jewish cemetery, Kręta Street Piotrków Trybunalski, ghetto

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Witness

Płoski Stanisław 04.12.1899, Briańsk (Russia)

Topic

Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks

Date

1939-1945

Location

Warsaw

Witness

Zientkiewicz Władysław 1895?

Topic

The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas

Date

1943.07.03-1945.04.24

Location

Opatów KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Bogoria (Staszów district) KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Odrowąż (Końskie district) Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) KL Gross-Rosen KL Ravensbrück (Germany) Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau)

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Witness

Radwański Tadeusz 13.02.1893, Białystok

Topic

Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city

Date

1940.11-1943.01

Location

Warsaw, Ghetto