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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Puka Stanisław; 24.03.1921 (2)
  
  Abramowicz Bronisław; 1912 (1)
  
  Aftergut Bronisław; 1893? (1)
  
  Aksnowicz Alfons; 21.01.1920 (1)
  
  Aleksandrów Władysław; 1919? (1)
  
  Amanowicz Kazimierz; 1922? (1)
  
  Ambros Florian; 1913? (1)
  
  Androchowicz Kazimiera; 1904, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Androchowicz Kazimiera; 1904, Lwów (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Andronowski Jan; 1922 (1)
  
  Andronowski Piotr; 1921? (1)
  
  Arciszewski Franciszek; 02.11.1908 (1)
  
  Augustyn Bolesław; 1902 (1)
  
  Awdziej Alfons; 15.02.1900 (1)
  
  Babicz Stanisław; 1906 (1)
  
  Badach Julian; 1909 (1)
  
  Badach Julian; 1910 (1)
  
  Bajorek Zygmunt; 1915? (1)
  
  Baka Jan; 1896 (1)
  
  Balawender Antonina (1)
  
  Balter Berek; 15.01.1909 (1)
  
  Balter Berek; 15.01.1910 (1)
  
  Banasiewicz Józef (1)
  
  Banaś Jan; 1893 (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899 (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899?, Brynica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Barczak Franciszek; 1913? (1)
  
  Bardas Piotr; 1916, Görlitz (Germany) (1)
  
  Barna Teodor; 1900 (1)
  
  Baroni Jan; 1985 (1)
  
  Bartoszewicz Emilia; 09.11.1915 (1)
  
  Batory Nadzieja; 1923?, Płaszówka (now: Ukraine, Rivne Oblast) (1)
  
  Bauer Ludmiła; 28.01.1922 (1)
  
  Baumgarten Józefina (1)
  
  Bednarczyk Czesław (1)
  
  Bednarska Wanda; 16.06.1912, Suchedniów (1)
  
  Bednarski Bronisław (1)
  
  Bernacki Michal, 1898 (1)
  
  Besarab Michał; 04.03.1901 (1)
  
  Bełch Franciszek (1)
  
  Bełzki Jan; 1896, Potok Górny (1)
  
  Bibik Stanisław (1)
  
  Biel Ferdynand; 1898? (1)
  
  Bielenia Maciej; 1899 (1)
  
  Bielska Emilia; 1911? (1)
  
  Bielski Emil, 1898 (1)
  
  Bieniasiewicz Józef; 1897 (1)
  
  Binkiewicz Władysław; 1899? (1)
  
  Biskup Marcin; 1909 (1)
  
  Biskup Piotr, 1900 (1)
  
  Blachuta Czesław; 1923? (1)
  
  Bloch Ilia; 1912? (1)
  
  Bochnik Kasper, 1897 (1)
  
  Bohdziewicz Jan, 1891? (1)
  
  Bojarska Stefania; 1922 (1)
  
  Bojda Ferdynand; 1921? (1)
  
  Bojko Jan; 1920? (1)
  
  Bolimowska Wanda; 1923, Pomorzanka (dziś: Ukraina) (1)
  
  Bolimowska Wanda; 1923, Pomorzanka (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Borasińska Helena; 05.05.1898, Goszczyno (Płocki county) (1)
  
  Borasińska Jadwiga; 06.07.1925 Sutkowszczyzna (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Borasińska Jadwiga; 06.07.1925 Sutkowszczyzna (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Borys Pelagia; 20.08.1920, Kąty (Łomża county) (1)
  
  Brzezicki Wacław; 1921? (1)
  
  Buba Jadwiga; 1908 (1)
  
  Budzyń Leokadia; 03.03.1924, Hallerowo (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bujko Wiktor (1)
  
  Burakiewicz Maria (1)
  
  Burdanowicz Leon; 1919 (1)
  
  Busłowska Paulina (1)
  
  Bzik Wacław; 1909? (1)
  
  Bąkowski Stefan; 1901 (1)
  
  Bławat Franciszek (1)
  
  Celiński Czesław; 15.11.1900 (1)
  
  Charytonowicz Kazimierz; 1921? (1)
  
  Chmielewska Jadwiga (1)
  
  Chojecka Maria; 11.03.1903 (1)
  
  Chudzikiewicz Zdzisław; 03.03.1922, Lublin (1)
  
  Chwiałkowska Zofia; 1919? (1)
  
  Ciecierska Jadwiga; 1907? (1)
  
  Cieślak Jan; 1905 (1)
  
  Cudziło Władysław; 1909? (1)
  
  Cybański Adam; 1907? (1)
  
  Cyganik Antoni; 1907? (1)
  
  Czapliński Jerzy (1)
  
  Czarnecki Jan; 1915? (1)
  
  Czarnocka Anna; 1906, Dawidowicze (Zabłudów county) (1)
  
  Czarnocka Anna; 1906, Dawidowicze (Zabłudów district) (1)
  
  Czekałowska Irena (1)
  
  Czosyk Elżbieta; 1916, Chorostków (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Czosyk Elżbieta; 1916, Chorostków (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Daszkiewicz Wanda (1)
  
  Dolińska Antonina; 26.09.1906 (1)
  
  Doliński Bohdan (1)
  
  Dragun Maria 12.10.1898, Wilno (now in Litwa) (1)
  
  Dragun Maria; 12.10.1898, Wilno (now: Litwa) (1)
  
  Drzyzgiewicz Zofia; 06.04.1923 (1)
  
  Duda Ferdynand (1)
  
  Durda Maria; 1906? (1)
  
  Dziekońska Stefania; 1921? (1)
Subject
- In exile – Central Asia (123)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (85)
  
  In exile – Siberia (66)
  
  In exile – Ural (38)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (28)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (21)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (19)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (11)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (8)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (6)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (4)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (4)
  
  In exile – Far East (3)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (3)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (2)
  
  In exile – Mari El Republic (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Guzar (Uzbekistan) (69)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (59)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (58)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (38)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (34)
  
  Tehran (Iran) (26)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (23)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (20)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (19)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (19)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (18)
  
  Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia) (16)
  
  Kermine (Navoiy, Uzbekistan) (16)
  
  Pavlodar (Kazakhstan) (14)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (12)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (11)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (11)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania) (11)
  
  Barnaul (Russia, Altai Krai) (10)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (10)
  
  Kitab (Uzbekistan) (10)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (10)
  
  Białystok (9)
  
  Kazakhstan, Pavlodar Oblast (8)
  
  Kostanay Oblast (Kazakhstan) (8)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (8)
  
  Petropavlovsk (Kazakhstan) (8)
  
  British Mandate of Palestine (Israel) (7)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (7)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (7)
  
  Nowogródek (now in Belarus) (7)
  
  Semipalatinsk (Semey, Kazakhstan) (7)
  
  Shahrisabz (Uzbekistan) (7)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (7)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (7)
  
  Alma-Ata (Almaty, Kazakhstan) (6)
  
  Altai Krai (Russia) (6)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (6)
  
  Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (6)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (6)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (6)
  
  Poldnevitsa (Russia, Kostroma Oblast) (6)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (6)
  
  Łomża (6)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (5)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (5)
  
  Kazakhstan, Akmolinsk Oblast (5)
  
  North Kazakhstan Region (Kazakhstan) (5)
  
  Plesetsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (5)
  
  Tashlak (Toshloq, Uzbekistan) (5)
  
  Akmolinsk (Astana, Kazakhstan) (4)
  
  Bandar-e Pahlavi (Bandar-e Anzali, Iran) (4)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (4)
  
  Dzhambul (Taraz, Kazakhstan) (4)
  
  Kagan (Uzbekistan) (4)
  
  Kuybyshev (Samara, Russia, Samara Oblast) (4)
  
  Mołodeczno (now in Belarus) (4)
  
  Nieśwież (now in Belarus) (4)
  
  Omsk (Russia, Omsk Oblast) (4)
  
  Stepanovka (Russia, Perm Krai) (4)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (4)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (4)
  
  Vrevsky (Almazar, Uzbekistan) (4)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (4)
  
  Asino (Russia, Tomsk Oblast) (3)
  
  Ayagoz (Kazakhstan) (3)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (3)
  
  Christoforovo (Russia, Kirov Oblast) (3)
  
  Głębokie (Belarus) (3)
  
  Głębokie (now in Belarus) (3)
  
  Irkutsk (Russia, Irkutsk Oblast) (3)
  
  Kharitonovo (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (3)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine) (3)
  
  Kirov (Russia, Kirov Oblast) (3)
  
  Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) (3)
  
  Kresty (Sosnovyi, Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (3)
  
  Krzemieniec (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Mamlut (Kazakhstan) (3)
  
  Noshul (Russia, Komi Republic) (3)
  
  Osh (Kyrgyzstan) (3)
  
  Podhajce (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Przemyśl (3)
  
  Rejtanów (now in Belarus), train station (3)
  
  Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast (3)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (3)
  
  Sevvostlag (Russia, Magadan Oblast) (3)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (3)
  
  Sosva (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (3)
  
  Taraz (Jambyl, Kazakhstan) (3)
  
  Tomsk (Russia, Tomsk Oblast) (3)
  
  Turtkul (Uzbekistan) (3)
  
  Vodopad (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (3)
  
  Vostochnoye (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (3)
  
  Yagvel (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (3)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Aldansky District (Russia, Yakutia) (2)
  
  Andijan (Uzbekistan) (2)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), train station (2)
  
  Bayan (Kazakhstan, North Kazakhstan Oblast) (2)
  
  Berezwecz (Głębokie, now in Belarus), NKVD prison (Basilian monastery), Sovetskaya Street 201 (2)
Victims
- The Poles (438)
  
  Deportees (415)
  
  The Civilian Population (404)
  
  Women (334)
  
  Children (234)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (150)
  
  The Sick (122)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (121)
  
  The Inteligentsia (116)
  
  The Elderly (113)
  
  Ukrainians (104)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (68)
  
  The Jews (68)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (67)
  
  The Russians (59)
  
  Belarusians (49)
  
  Policemen (32)
  
  Prisoners of War (13)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (12)
  
  Landowners (11)
  
  Lithuanians (10)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (9)
  
  Germans (8)
  
  The Church (6)
  
  Internees (4)
  
  Latvians (3)
  
  Czechs (2)
  
  Estonians (2)
  
  Border Guard (1)
  
  Border Protection Corps (1)
  
  Hungarians (1)
Perpetrators
- People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (214)
  
  Soviet Militia (41)
  
  Collaboration (24)
  
  Denunciation (22)
  
  Red Army (12)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (3)
  
  Lithuanians (2)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (2)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (2)
  
  Administrative Police (1)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1)
Crimes
- Forced Labour (421)
  
  Deportation/Exile (409)
  
  Biological extermination (346)
  
  Arrest (234)
  
  Cattle wagons (146)
  
  Beatings (76)
  
  Brutal Interrogation/Tortures (75)
  
  Punishment cell (61)
  
  Judicial crime (51)
  
  Robbery (37)
  
  Deportation (34)
  
  Sovietization (33)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (18)
  
  Execution (10)
  
  Shooting (9)
  
  Forced voting (6)
  
  Roads of death (4)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (4)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (3)
  
  Air raids (2)
  
  Desacration of corpses (2)
  
  Armoured Weapon (1)
  
  Collectivization (1)
  
  Disarmament (1)
  
  Rape (1)
  
  Round-up (1)
Place
- Spetsposelok (special settlement) (257)
  
  Kolkhoz (154)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (72)
  
  Sovkhoz (49)
  
  Prison (45)
  
  Mine (29)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (8)
  
  Orphanage – dietdom (5)
  
  Siberia (5)
  
  NKVD custody suite (4)
  
  Police headquarters/station (3)
  
  Internment camp (2)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (1)
  
  Transit camp (1)
Content
- Anders' Army (309)
  
  First deportation (238)
  
  Health service (222)
  
  Amnesty (205)
  
  Second deportation (121)
  
  Communist propaganda (120)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (86)
  
  Epidemics (76)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (62)
  
  Polish culture in exile (57)
  
  Third deportation (47)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (46)
  
  Fourth deportation (41)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (15)
  
  Military hospital (15)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (13)
  
  Students' Army Corps (9)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (7)
  
  Civil resistance (6)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (4)
  
  Aid to Jews (4)
  
  Judenrat (2)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (2)
  
  Underground culture and education (2)
  
  Clandestine courses (1)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (1)
  
  the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
Object type
- Account (127)
  
  Testimony (7)
  
  Press clipping (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 (443)
Testimony availability ^?
- available on-line (441)
  
  available only in library of the Witold Pilecki Center for Totalitarian Studies in Warsaw (2)

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Klech Jakub 1903

In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast

1940.02.10-1943

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Lagowski Jan 1919?

In exile – Ural

1940.02.10-1942.02.08

Delejów (now in Ukraine) Chokpak (Kazakhstan) Alma-Ata (Almaty, Kazakhstan)

Kucharek Jan 1901

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

1940.02.10-1942.02.24.

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Sokalski J.

In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast

1940.02.11-1943

Łomża Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia)

Porada Ludwik 1908?

In exile – Siberia

1940.02.10-1942.02.06

Margilan (Uzbekistan) Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast

Różański Antoni 1910

In exile – Siberia

1940.02.10-1941.09.21

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Hryniewicz Jan 1923

In exile – Central Asia

1940.02.10-1942.02.08

Dzumba (Kazakhstan)

Sobiecki Władysław 1924?

In exile – Central Asia

1940.02.10-1941

Lugovoy (Kazakhstan)

Ropelski Aleksander 1918?

In exile – Siberia

1940.02.10-1942.02.08

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Szymborski Leon 1913?

In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast

1940.02.10-1942.02.14

Margilan (Uzbekistan)

Neumann Wacław 1915?

A race against time – the road to Anders' Army

1940.02.09-1942.03.16

Poldnevitsa (Russia, Kostroma Oblast) Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) Yaroslavl (Russia, Yaroslavl Oblast) Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Vologda (Russia, Vologda Oblast) Margilan (Uzbekistan) Tashlak (Toshloq, Uzbekistan)

Smerczyński Władysław 1926?

In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

1940.02.05-1942.02.13

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Sylwanowicz Nikodem

In exile – Central Asia

1940.02.10-1942

Kazakhstan, Akmolinsk Oblast

Wajnsztok Abram 1919

1940.05.15-1941.08.18

Baranowicze (now in Belarus) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Własiuk Filip 1912?

In exile – Komi Republic

1940.05.29-1942.09.03

Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) Vladimir (Russia, Vladimir Oblast) Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison (Castle) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Hołownia Feliks 1908

The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast

1940.07.22-1942

Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia)

Janiak Aleksandra 06.12.1924

In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast

1940.02.10-1943

Dywin (now in Belarus) Vodopad (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast)

Janik Tadeusz

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

1939.10-1941

Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Mościska (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Ostra Góra (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Kostanay Oblast (Kazakhstan) Mościska (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Dubno (now in Ukraine) Hureczko, forced labor camp for POWs Dubno (now in Ukraine), train station Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) Przemyśl Szepetówka (Ukraine)

Bernacki Michal 1898

1939 - 1942.02.17

Komi Republic (Russia)

Przewłucki Mieczysław 1921

In exile – Central Asia

1940.02.11-1943

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