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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Zdanowicz Michał; 1899.12.11 (2)
  
  Adamowicz Alfons; 15.12.1906, Białystok (1)
  
  Badurak Bronislaw, 1905 (1)
  
  Badurak Bronisław; 1905 (1)
  
  Bińczak Bolesław; 11.10.1899, Dąbrówka (1)
  
  Bojar Michał; 19.09.1901, Krasne (1)
  
  Brzeziński Roman; 16.07.1916 (1)
  
  Buben Wincenty (1)
  
  Burjan Antoni (1)
  
  Busłowska Paulina (1)
  
  Charytański Kazimierz; 1894.03.04 (1)
  
  Chodoff Bernard; 1891 (1)
  
  Chomicz Eustachy; 1905 (1)
  
  Chyliński Julian; 1898? (1)
  
  Cichowski Julian; 1900? (1)
  
  Czabućko Michał; 03.08.1898, Kruciłowicze (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Czaplicki Stanisław, 1902.02.06 (1)
  
  Czerwonka Władysław; 22.12.1899, Mucisko (1)
  
  Daszkiewicz Cyryl; 1899 (1)
  
  Dawidowski Franciszek (1)
  
  Deręgowski Antoni (1)
  
  Dopierała Wincenty; 1908 (1)
  
  Dreszler Bernard, 1894 (1)
  
  Drzewoszewski Józef (1)
  
  Dubieszko Stanisław; 1902? (1)
  
  Dziedzic Tomasz (1)
  
  Dąbrowski Jan (1)
  
  Esman Wladysław (1)
  
  Fabiszewski Henryk; 10.02.1894 (1)
  
  Fałdyga Adam, 1893 (1)
  
  Ficek Władysław, 1898.05.21 (1)
  
  Fijakowski Błażej (1)
  
  Filipowicz Władysław, 1894.09.22 (1)
  
  Franczak Stanisław (1)
  
  Frelka Stefan; 16.12.1901 Skrzetusz (1)
  
  Gajewski Marian; 15.08.1896 (1)
  
  Gaudurski Szczepan, 1895 (1)
  
  Gielwert Edward; 1899? (1)
  
  Glejzer Władysław; 1889 (1)
  
  Glezner Zygmunt; 17.09.1911, Warsaw (1)
  
  Gliniany Mikołaj (1)
  
  Gorczyca Stanisław; 06.02.1900 (1)
  
  Gołost Aleksander; 05.12.1902 (1)
  
  Gołuzd Stanisław (1)
  
  Gralak Stanisław; 14.07.1915 (1)
  
  Grot Józef; 11.01.1897 (1)
  
  Grzelak Wacław; 1901? (1)
  
  Górecki Apolinary, 1898 (1)
  
  Główczyk Jan, 1894 (1)
  
  Halicki Stanisław, 1912.03.12 (1)
  
  Hamuda Czesław (1)
  
  Hauptman Karol (1)
  
  Hoffman Felicjan; 1909? (1)
  
  Hoffman Wincenty (1)
  
  Hryniewicz Franciszek (1)
  
  Huszcza Jan, 1900? (1)
  
  Iwaszkiewicz Zofia; 09.12.1912 (1)
  
  Jackowski Eugeniusz; 12.12.1901 (1)
  
  Jakubik Henryk; 1911 (1)
  
  Janczulewicz Hieronim; 1899 (1)
  
  Janicki Marian; 1914? (1)
  
  Januchowski Antoni; 1900 (1)
  
  Jeleń Piotr; 15.01.1921, Kraków (1)
  
  Jeleń Piotr; 1919? (1)
  
  Karpowicz Alfons; 16.09.1904 (1)
  
  Kaszlikowski Stanisław; 1909? (1)
  
  Kazimierczak Józef; 06.12.1897 (1)
  
  Kluczyński Rajmund; 1900, Warsaw (1)
  
  Kobylarz Tadeusz, 1913? (1)
  
  Konopko Jan; 1900? (1)
  
  Kowalski Ludwik; 1901? (1)
  
  Kujawa Florian; 1913? (1)
  
  Kulesza Stefan; 1904? (1)
  
  Kulikowski Witold; 1899? (1)
  
  Lech Konstanty; 1902.03.02 (1)
  
  Ley Waldemar; 1915? (1)
  
  Makowski Józef; 1913 (1)
  
  Malinowski Nicefor (1)
  
  Maniak Stefan; 1900? (1)
  
  Martenka Sylwester; 14.12.1890, Rzadków (1)
  
  Mendyk Feliks (1)
  
  Mirańczyk Stanisław (1)
  
  Misiak Konstanty; 1888 (1)
  
  Miszewski Jan; 1899? (1)
  
  Mąkosza Tadeusz (1)
  
  Młudzik Mieczysław (1)
  
  Nahorski Czesław, 1916 (1)
  
  Nowak Jan; 1890 (1)
  
  Nowicki Michał, 13.12.1884 (1)
  
  Olczyk Apolinary, 14.07.1896 (1)
  
  Oldak Wacław; 1905? (1)
  
  Orkisz Stanisław, 1898 (1)
  
  Ozga Józef; 1897? (1)
  
  Ościsławski Michał, 1895 (1)
  
  Pieniak Franciszek (1)
  
  Pierzyński Piotr; 1893 (1)
  
  Plichta Józef; 1900 (1)
  
  Poczobutt-Odłanicki Antoni, 1904 (1)
  
  Podgórski Antoni; 1896.08.07 (1)
  
  Podhajski Wincenty; 1898 (1)
Subject
- Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (138)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (10)
  
  In exile – Siberia (4)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (2)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (1)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (1)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (1)
  
  In revenge for assisting “Hubal” – reprisal campaigns (1)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (1)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (141)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (86)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (76)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (60)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (50)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (40)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (40)
  
  Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (37)
  
  Połąga (now in Lithuania), internee camp (30)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (28)
  
  Ukmergė (Lithuania), internee camp (28)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (26)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (now in Lithuania), internee camp (24)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (22)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (20)
  
  Kalvarija (Lithuania), internment camp (18)
  
  Ulbroka (Latvia), internee camp (17)
  
  Kulautuva (Lithuania), internment camp (14)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (13)
  
  Mołodeczno (now in Belarus) (12)
  
  Wojtkuszki (Lithuania), internment camp (11)
  
  Kola Penninsula (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (10)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (9)
  
  Vladimir (Russia, Vladimir Oblast) (9)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (8)
  
  Kollag (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (7)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast) (7)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania) (7)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (6)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (6)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (6)
  
  Litene (Latvia), internment camp (5)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (5)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (5)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (4)
  
  Kaunas (Lithuania) (4)
  
  Lilaste (Latvia), internment camp (4)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (4)
  
  Olita (Lithuania), internee camp (4)
  
  Smolensk (Russia, Smolensk Oblast) (4)
  
  Žagarė (Lithuania), internee camp (4)
  
  Lida (now in Belarus) (3)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (3)
  
  Moscow (Russia), "Butyrka" NKVD prison, Novoslobodskaya Street 45c5 (3)
  
  Nowogródek (now in Belarus) (3)
  
  Vologda (Russia, Vologda Oblast) (3)
  
  Warsaw (3)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania), Łukiszki prison, Więzienna Street ( Lukiškių Street 6) (3)
  
  Babynino (Russia, Kaluga Oblast, Babyninsky District) (2)
  
  Białystok (2)
  
  Biysk (Russia, Altai Krai) (2)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (2)
  
  Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (2)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (2)
  
  Jewie (now in Lithuania) (2)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (2)
  
  Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) (2)
  
  Leningrad (Saint Petersburg, Russia) (2)
  
  Murmansk Oblast (Russia) (2)
  
  Oszmiana (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (2)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (2)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), train station (2)
  
  Zawiasy (Lithuania) (2)
  
  Alma-Ata (Almaty, Kazakhstan) (1)
  
  Altai Krai (Russia) (1)
  
  Aralsk (Kazakhstan) (1)
  
  Arzamas II (train station, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Arzamassky District) (1)
  
  Ashgabat (Turkmenistan) (1)
  
  Augustów (1)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (1)
  
  Barnaul (Russia, Altai Krai) (1)
  
  Bielbaltlag (Russia, Karelian ASSR) (1)
  
  British Mandate of Palestine (Israel) (1)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (1)
  
  Czepony (Lithuania) (1)
  
  Czorsztyn (1)
  
  Daugavpils (Latvia), internment camp (1)
  
  Dereczyn (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Domanice (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Gari (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (1)
  
  Garwolin (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Georgievka (Koksaek, Kazakhstan) (1)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (1)
  
  Grajewo (1)
  
  Görken (Dubrovka, Russia, Kaliningrad Oblast), Stalag I A (1)
  
  Hermanów (Tarasiwka, now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (1)
  
  Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (1)
  
  Hołownica (now in Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (1)
  
  Hucisko (Przysucha district) (1)
  
  Ivanovo (Russia, Ivanovo Oblast) (1)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (1)
  
  Jaryczów Stary (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (1)
  
  Jedwabne (1)
  
  Jelenovka (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (1)
  
  Jędrzejów (district of Jędrzejów) (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (1)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (1)
Victims
- The Poles (190)
  
  Internees (166)
  
  Policemen (135)
  
  The Inteligentsia (107)
  
  Prisoners of War (78)
  
  Border Guard (70)
  
  Civilians (65)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (58)
  
  The Civilian Population (46)
  
  Border Protection Corps (33)
  
  The Jews (29)
  
  Belarusians (26)
  
  Deportees (22)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (17)
  
  The sick (17)
  
  Women (17)
  
  The Sick (16)
  
  Ukrainians (16)
  
  Children (11)
  
  Lithuanians (9)
  
  The Church (9)
  
  Russians/Soviets (7)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (6)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (5)
  
  The Russians (5)
  
  Germans (4)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (3)
  
  Prison Guard (3)
  
  The Elderly (3)
  
  The elderly (3)
  
  Estonians (2)
  
  Landowners (2)
  
  Czechs (1)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (1)
  
  Hungarians (1)
Perpetrators
- Lithuanians (74)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (48)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (48)
  
  Red Army (33)
  
  Denunciation (22)
  
  Collaboration (15)
  
  Latvians (9)
  
  Collaborators (7)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (2)
  
  SS (2)
  
  Soviet Militia (2)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (148)
  
  Biological extermination (146)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (106)
  
  Arrest (87)
  
  Deportation/Exile (70)
  
  Cattle wagons (59)
  
  Beating (50)
  
  Punishment cell (21)
  
  Judicial crime (18)
  
  Robbery (16)
  
  Death by shooting (9)
  
  Disarmament (7)
  
  Deportation (6)
  
  Execution (6)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (5)
  
  Roads of death (5)
  
  Armored weapons (3)
  
  Air raids (1)
  
  Burning people alive (1)
  
  Cremation (1)
  
  Cremation of corpses (1)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (1)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (1)
  
  Gas chambers (1)
  
  Mass graves (1)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (1)
Place
- Internment camp (191)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (90)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (56)
  
  Transit camp (43)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (16)
  
  Kolkhoz (8)
  
  Prison (6)
  
  NKVD custody suite (5)
  
  Sovkhoz (3)
  
  Labor camp (2)
  
  Mine (2)
  
  Extermination camp (1)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (1)
Content
- Health service (146)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (63)
  
  Anders' Army (52)
  
  Polish culture in exile (50)
  
  Amnesty (37)
  
  Communist propaganda (29)
  
  Epidemics (16)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (15)
  
  Fourth deportation (6)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (6)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (6)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (4)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (3)
  
  Partisan warfare (2)
  
  Students' Army Corps (2)
  
  Underground culture and education (2)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (1)
  
  Aid to Jews (1)
  
  Extermination of Jews (1)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (1)
  
  Rescue of Jews (1)
  
  Sonderaktion "Ungarn" (1)
  
  Sonderaktion „Ungarn“ (1)
  
  Underground media (1)
Object type
- Account (65)
  
  Report (65)
  
  Summary (65)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (3)
  
  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 (188)
  
  District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom (1)
  
  Katyn Museum (1)
  
  Supreme National Tribunal (1)
Medium
- Text (191)
  
  Image (8)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (189)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (2)