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Witness

Stochmal

Topic

The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory

Date

24.09.1939-1940.02.26

Location

Kołomyja (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, aleja Wolności (Lesi Ukrainki Street 32) Ostashkov (Russia, Tver Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs Worochta (now in Ukraine)

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Witness

Frąckowska Maria

Topic

The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory

Date

1939.09-1945

Location

Warsaw Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) Putyvl (Ukraine), NKVD camp for POWs (Sofronievsky Monastery) Geneva (Switzerland) Kyiv (Ukraine)

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Witness

Peca-Szczyradłowska Krystyna 1927

Topic

The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory

Date

1939.09-1946.05

Location

Kyiv (Ukraine) Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Semey (Kazakshtan) Chełm

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Witness

Pękalski Tadeusz 22.11.1910, Burkanów (Ukraine)

Topic

The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory

Date

1939.08.27-1940.03.20

Location

Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Złoczów (now in Ukraine) Katowice Kyiv (Ukraine)

Witness

Moczulski Mieczysław

Topic

Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region

Date

1941-1945

Location

Lwów (now in Ukraine) Gródek Jagielloński (Gródek, Ukraine) Bar (Ukraine, Lviv Oblast) Sądowa Wisznia (now in Ukraine) Dołhomościska (Ukraine) Sądowa Wisznia (Ukraine) Rodatycze (Ukraine) Bieńkowa Wisznia

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Witness

Słuchoński Artur 02.03.1898

Topic

Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region

Date

1939-1944

Location

Zaręby Kościelne Długosiodło

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Witness

Halama Tadeusz

Topic

The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory

Date

1939.08-1940.04.26

Location

Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Cieszyn Zamość

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Witness

Kremky Janina

Topic

The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory

Date

1939.09-1939.11.24

Location

Lublin Łuck (now in Ukraine) Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

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Witness

Szajewski Józef

Topic

The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory

Date

1939.09-1943.06

Location

Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Łuck (now in Ukraine)

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Witness

Kupiszewska Jadwiga

Topic

The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory

Date

-

Location

Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Złoczów (now in Ukraine) Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) Podwołoczyska (Ukraine) Żółkiew (Ukraine) Kyiv (Ukraine) Bryansk (Russia, Bryansk Oblast) Moscow (Russia) Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) Terespol (Biała Podlaska district) Brześć (now in Belarus)

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Witness

Domanus Henryk

Topic

Street executions in Warsaw

Date

1944.05.06-1944.05.06

Location

Warsaw, Pole Mokotowskie

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Witness

Nienałtowska Natalia

Topic

Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region

Date

1944.01.20-1944.01.20

Location

-

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Witness

Pacocha Leopold 10.11.1898, Warsaw

Topic

Warsaw '44 – uprising in Praga

Date

1944.08.01-1944.08.03

Location

Warsaw, Wileńska Street 5 Warsaw, the Metropolitan Council of the Holy Equal of the Apostles Mary Magdalene, Aleksandryjska Street (aleja „Solidarności” 52)

Witness

Kocińska Alicja

Topic

The tragedy of the Radom Arms Factory

Date

1942.10.14-1942.10.14

Location

Radom, Arms Factory "Łucznik", Poniatowskiego Street (1905 Street 1/9) Radom, Gestapo headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6

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Witness

Piskorek Julian 1910?

Topic

Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town

Date

1944.08.10-1944.09.02

Location

Warsaw, Długa Street 7 Warsaw, Podwale Street 25 Warsaw, Podwale Street 46 Warsaw, Freta Street 10 Warsaw, Miodowa Street Warsaw, Warszawa Zachodnia Station Pruszków, Dulag 121

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Witness

Tauss Václav

Topic

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death

Date

1943.06-1943.06

Location

KL Auschwitz-Birkenau

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Witness

Klis Jan 1902?

Topic

Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Budy

Date

1941.02.24-1944.09.30

Location

Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau)

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Witness

Schlagintweit Willi 05.06.1908

Topic

A mass extermination – KL Mauthausen-Gusen

Date

1942.10-1943.04

Location

KL Flossenbürg (Germany) KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) KL Hersbruck (subcamp of KL Flossenbürg, Germany)

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Witness

Glina Eugenia

Topic

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory

Date

1942-1944.11

Location

KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp KL Ravensbrück (Germany)

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Witness

Siebzehner Lola

Topic

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death

Date

1944.04-1944.08

Location

KL Plaszow KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Borysław (Ukraine), forced labor camp