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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Siedlecki Karol (3)
  
  Lipski Jan (2)
  
  Lis Józef (2)
  
  Zdanowicz Michał; 1899.12.11 (2)
  
  Adamowicz Alfons; 15.12.1906, Białystok (1)
  
  Adamski Antoni, 1894? (1)
  
  Adamski Antoni; 1894? (1)
  
  Amanowicz Kazimierz; 1922? (1)
  
  Andruszkiewicz Józef; 1893? (1)
  
  Anonymous (1)
  
  Arciszewski Jan, 1907, Pińsk (1)
  
  Atras Franciszek, 1900.10.08 (1)
  
  Badurak Bronislaw, 1905 (1)
  
  Badurak Bronisław; 1905 (1)
  
  Balcar Karol, 1915? (1)
  
  Bartoszko Kazimierz; 09.10.1898 (1)
  
  Bator Franciszek (1)
  
  Białobocki Andrzej; 1900? (1)
  
  Bibik Stanisław (1)
  
  Bielecki Andrzej; 1893, Podhorce (1)
  
  Bielecki Edward (1)
  
  Biełous Włodzimierz; 1904 (1)
  
  Bilski Antoni (1)
  
  Bińczak Bolesław; 11.10.1899, Dąbrówka (1)
  
  Biś Teodor; 1901? (1)
  
  Bochno Michał, 1903? (1)
  
  Bodnar Michał, 1899? (1)
  
  Bojar Michał; 19.09.1901, Krasne (1)
  
  Bolesław Rafał; 1901 (1)
  
  Borkowska Stanisława; 1904? (1)
  
  Buben Wincenty (1)
  
  Buczyński Michał; 28.09.1892 (1)
  
  Budzianowski Antoni; 1886 (1)
  
  Bulska (1)
  
  Burawski Władysław (1)
  
  Burjan Antoni (1)
  
  Byra Paweł, 1898 ? (1)
  
  Bączkowski (1)
  
  Błaszczyk Zygmunt (1)
  
  Cepil Feliks; 1899 (1)
  
  Charytański Kazimierz; 1894.03.04 (1)
  
  Chodor Jan (1)
  
  Chodorowski Jan, 1898 (1)
  
  Chołubko Jan, 1911 (1)
  
  Chrobak Wladysław; 1901 (1)
  
  Chudoń Marian; 23.01.1909 (1)
  
  Chęciński Paweł; 1897 (1)
  
  Cichowski Julian; 1900? (1)
  
  Czabućko Michał; 03.08.1898, Kruciłowicze (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Czapiński Marian (1)
  
  Czapiński Marian; 1901? (1)
  
  Czekaj Eugeniusz (1)
  
  Czyż Henryk (1)
  
  Dawidowski Franciszek (1)
  
  Deka Antoni (1)
  
  Deputat Włodzimierz (1)
  
  Dmuchowski Leonard; 1898 (1)
  
  Dobosz Józef; 1897 (1)
  
  Dopierała Wincenty; 1908 (1)
  
  Dorsz Augustyn; 09.08.1884, Hersztupowo (1)
  
  Draws Leon; 1908 (1)
  
  Dreszler Bernard, 1894 (1)
  
  Dudek Eugeniusz (1)
  
  Dudek Stanisław; 09.09.1892, Poznań (1)
  
  Dudwak Lidia (1)
  
  Dyszlewski Wincenty (1)
  
  Dziad Franciszek; 1898 (1)
  
  Dziura Michał; 1887 (1)
  
  Dąbrowski Jan (1)
  
  Dąbrowski Jan Adam; 1913? (1)
  
  Esman Wladysław (1)
  
  Fabiszewski Henryk; 10.02.1894 (1)
  
  Fajer Władysław; 1903 (1)
  
  Fałdyga Adam, 1893 (1)
  
  Feldman Tyburcjusz, 1895 (1)
  
  Ficek Władysław, 1898.05.21 (1)
  
  Fijakowski Błażej (1)
  
  Filipowicz Władysław, 1894.09.22 (1)
  
  Fojcik Wilhelm, 1897.04.17 (1)
  
  Forgacz Florian, 19.09.1911; Jezupol (Ukraine) (1)
  
  Frankiewicz Feliks, 1922 (1)
  
  Frelka Stefan; 16.12.1901 Skrzetusz (1)
  
  Friedenberg Stanisław; 1919? (1)
  
  Frąckowska Maria (1)
  
  Furdyna K. (1)
  
  Gabruk Franciszek (1)
  
  Gajewski Marian; 15.08.1896 (1)
  
  Garlicki Aleksander (1)
  
  Gau Józef; 1897.05.05 (1)
  
  Gaudurski Szczepan, 1895 (1)
  
  Gawlik Józef; 1919? (1)
  
  Gielwert Edward; 1899? (1)
  
  Gincza Bogusław; 1925? (1)
  
  Glejzer Władysław; 1889 (1)
  
  Glezner Zygmunt; 17.09.1911, Warsaw (1)
  
  Gobkowicz Grzegorz (1)
  
  Golonka Jan; 1898? (1)
  
  Gorczyca Stanisław; 06.02.1900 (1)
  
  Gorra Zdzisława (1)
  
  Gorący Edmund (1)
Subject
- Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (93)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (75)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (52)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (41)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (34)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (16)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (14)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (14)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (10)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (7)
  
  In exile – Siberia (6)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (5)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (5)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (4)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (3)
  
  In exile – Ural (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (2)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ivanovo Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ryazan Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Sverdlovsk Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Tver Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (134)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (69)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (66)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (61)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (47)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (45)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (44)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (42)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (38)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (35)
  
  Ostashkov (Russia, Tver Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (34)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (29)
  
  Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (27)
  
  Ukmergė (Lithuania), internee camp (26)
  
  Połąga (now in Lithuania), internee camp (25)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (24)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (24)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (24)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (23)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (22)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (21)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (19)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (19)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (18)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (now in Lithuania), internee camp (18)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (17)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (17)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (17)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (16)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (15)
  
  Sevvostlag (Russia, Magadan Oblast) (13)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (13)
  
  Kalvarija (Lithuania), internment camp (12)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (12)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (12)
  
  Vladimir (Russia, Vladimir Oblast) (12)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (12)
  
  Kola Penninsula (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (11)
  
  Kulautuva (Lithuania), internment camp (11)
  
  Mołodeczno (now in Belarus) (11)
  
  Ulbroka (Latvia), internee camp (11)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (10)
  
  Kozelschyna (Ukraine, Poltava Oblast), transit camp (10)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (10)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (10)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (10)
  
  Wojtkuszki (Lithuania), internment camp (10)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (9)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (9)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (9)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (9)
  
  Nakhodka (Russia, Primorsky Krai) (9)
  
  Warsaw (9)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (8)
  
  Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (8)
  
  Kollag (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (8)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (8)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (8)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (8)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (8)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (8)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (8)
  
  Białystok (7)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (7)
  
  Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (7)
  
  Kherson (Ukraine), prison, Perekopska Street 10 (7)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (7)
  
  Krzemieniec (Ukraine), NKVD prison, Sanatorijna Street 1 (7)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (7)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (7)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine) (7)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania) (7)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine), prison (Bridgettine Convent), Brygidek Street (Kafedralna Street 16) (7)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (6)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (6)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (6)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (6)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (6)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (6)
  
  Kagan (Uzbekistan) (6)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no 2, Zamarstynowska Street 7/9 (6)
  
  Pavlodar (Kazakhstan) (6)
  
  Podwołoczyska (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (6)
  
  Przemyśl (6)
  
  Równe (Ukraine), prison, 3 Maja Street (Soborna Street 16) (6)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast) (6)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine) (6)
  
  Vrevsky (Almazar, Uzbekistan) (6)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (6)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (6)
  
  Złoczów (now in Ukraine) (6)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (6)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (5)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (5)
  
  Dnipropetrovsk (Dnipro, Ukraine), NKVD Headquarters, Chkalov Street (Sviatoslav Chorobroho Street 23) (5)
  
  Hrubieszów (5)
  
  Kirovohrad (Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine), NKVD prison, Kuropyatnikova Street 50 (5)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (5)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (5)
  
  Moscow (Russia), "Butyrka" NKVD prison, Novoslobodskaya Street 45c5 (5)
Victims
- Policemen (440)
  
  The Poles (436)
  
  Civilians (239)
  
  The Inteligentsia (237)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (207)
  
  The Civilian Population (203)
  
  Prisoners of War (177)
  
  Internees (127)
  
  Ukrainians (107)
  
  Women (107)
  
  The Jews (104)
  
  Deportees (103)
  
  Border Guard (91)
  
  Children (84)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (82)
  
  The sick (69)
  
  The Sick (61)
  
  Russians/Soviets (54)
  
  Belarusians (52)
  
  Border Protection Corps (48)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (39)
  
  The Russians (37)
  
  The elderly (37)
  
  The Elderly (35)
  
  The Church (32)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (27)
  
  Landowners (26)
  
  Lithuanians (20)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (19)
  
  Germans (14)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (13)
  
  Prison Guard (8)
  
  Estonians (7)
  
  Latvians (6)
  
  Czechs (2)
  
  Hungarians (2)
  
  Romanians (2)
  
  The British (1)
  
  The Communists (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (101)
  
  Red Army (96)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (80)
  
  Denunciation (64)
  
  Lithuanians (61)
  
  Collaboration (43)
  
  Soviet Militia (42)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (9)
  
  Collaborators (7)
  
  Latvians (7)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (4)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (2)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (347)
  
  Biological extermination (339)
  
  Arrest (270)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (219)
  
  Deportation/Exile (189)
  
  Beating (157)
  
  Cattle wagons (118)
  
  Punishment cell (114)
  
  Judicial crime (99)
  
  Robbery (70)
  
  Disarmament (45)
  
  Death by shooting (39)
  
  Roads of death (30)
  
  Execution (29)
  
  Deportation (20)
  
  Air raids (10)
  
  Sovietization (8)
  
  Forced voting (7)
  
  Desacration of corpses (6)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (5)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (5)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (4)
  
  Round-up (4)
  
  Armored weapons (3)
  
  Death marches (2)
  
  Cremation (1)
  
  Cremation of corpses (1)
  
  Denationalization (1)
  
  Displacement (1)
  
  Expulsion (1)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (1)
  
  Mass graves (1)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (1)
Place
- Forced labor camps for POWs (122)
  
  Internment camp (118)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (106)
  
  Transit camp (86)
  
  Prison (79)
  
  NKVD custody suite (77)
  
  Kolkhoz (73)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (62)
  
  Mine (33)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (30)
  
  Sovkhoz (17)
  
  Concentration camp (2)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (2)
  
  Extermination camp (1)
  
  Orphanage – dietdom (1)
  
  Sewers (1)
  
  Siberia (1)
Content
- Health service (277)
  
  Anders' Army (107)
  
  Amnesty (100)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (83)
  
  Polish culture in exile (68)
  
  Epidemics (61)
  
  Communist propaganda (42)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (34)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (33)
  
  Second deportation (24)
  
  First deportation (20)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (18)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (13)
  
  Fourth deportation (8)
  
  Third deportation (6)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (6)
  
  Military hospital (5)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (5)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (4)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (2)
  
  Civil resistance (2)
  
  Partisan warfare (2)
  
  Students' Army Corps (2)
  
  Underground culture and education (2)
  
  Aid to Jews (1)
  
  Underground media (1)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (1)
Object type
- Account (166)
  
  Brief (41)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (5)
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 (399)
  
  Katyn Museum (41)
Medium
- Text (440)
  
  Image (9)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (434)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (5)