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Witness

Anonymous

Topic

Russian occupation – south Ukraine

Date

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Location

Nova Kakhovka

Witness

Gajewicz Jakub 23.07.1903, Biedrzykowice

Topic

The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas

Date

1943-1944.08.25

Location

Działoszyce (district of Pińczów) Stępocice Biedrzykowice Knyszyn (Wola Knyszyńska)

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Witness

Pawicki Albin Antoni 13.06.1906, Regulice (małopolskie voivodeship)

Topic

The persecuted church

Date

1940.01.29-1944

Location

Skarżysko-Kamienna, Franciscan monastery, Rynek Street 64 Skarżysko-Kamienna, Franciscan Monastery, Rynek Street 64 Bór (Skarżysko-Kamienna)

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Witness

Dziuban Władysław 07.06.1909 Olszyna (Szynwałt, Tarnów county)

Topic

The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas

Date

1943.03-1943.03.06

Location

Suchedniów, Private Tailoring Secondary Girls' School of the "Nauka i Praca" Association, Kielecka Street 62 Suchedniów Zalezianka

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Witness

Branny Paweł 13.05.1888, Żuków Dolny (now: Český Těšín, Czech Republic)

Topic

Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture

Date

1939-1944

Location

Warsaw, Daniłowiczowska Street 1/3

Witness

-

Topic

Date

1939-1945

Location

Warsaw, Bonifraterska Street Warsaw, Muranowska Street Warsaw, Pokorna Street Warsaw, Przejazd Street Warsaw, Radzymińska Street Warsaw, Ghetto Warsaw, Saski Square (Piłsudskiego Square) KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Mogielnica (Grójec district) Warka Grójec Sochaczew Żyrardów Mszczonów Piaseczno (Piaseczno county) Grodzisk Mazowiecki Jeziorna (Konstancin-Jeziorna) Okuniew Wawer (Warsaw) Małkinia Górna Kraków Częstochowa Legionowo, ghetto Wilanów (Warsaw) Karczew (mazowieckie voivodeship), labor camp Wołomin Garwolin (mazowieckie voivodeship) Mińsk Mazowiecki Wilga (mazowieckie voivodeship) Warsaw, Nowolipki Street 25 Warsaw, Chłodna Street/ Wronia Street Warsaw, Śliska Street Warsaw, Świętojerska Street Warsaw, Leszno Street

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Witness

Garwin vel Garfinkiel Mieczysław 11.05.1898, Zamość

Topic

Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Zamość Ghetto

Date

1939.09-1944.07

Location

Zamość, Rotunda Zamość, Orlicz Dreszera Street Zamość, ghetto Szczebrzeszyn Janowice (Zamość) Janowice (present-day Zamość)

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Witness

Stępień Franciszka 02.03.1907, Nieznanowice (świętokrzyskie voivodeship)

Topic

Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście

Date

1944.08.01-1944.08.09

Location

Warsaw, Hale Mirowskie [trade halls] Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście Street 6 Pruszków, Dulag 121 Warsaw, Królewska Street 7 Warsaw, Królewska Street 7 Warsaw, Ogród Saski [Saxon Garden]

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Witness

Czerniaków Felicja 01.06.1883, Warsaw

Topic

Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city

Date

1939.09.09-1944

Location

Warsaw, Bukowińska Street 28 Warsaw, Ghetto, Chłodna Street 24 (Chłodna Street 22) Warsaw, Kriminalpolizei Station, Aleje Ujazdowskie 7/9 Warsaw, Ghetto, Orthodox Jewish Hospital, Leszno Street 1 (aleja Solidarności 81)

Witness

Hrad-Głowacka Zofia

Topic

Date

-

Location

German extermination camp of Bełżec KL Plaszow Myślenice

Witness

-

Topic

Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Tarnów Ghetto

Date

-

Location

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

Witness

-

Topic

Mass extermination – KL Bergen-Belsen

Date

1939.09.01-1945

Location

Kraków, ghetto KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany)

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Witness

Pleszowska Felicja 28.07.1913, Warsaw

Topic

Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau

Date

1942.12.28-1945.01.18

Location

KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 Królewska Huta (Chorzów) KL Majdanek Hamburg (Germany)

Witness

Mańkowski Augustyn 20.05.1890, Warsaw

Topic

To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau

Date

1940.01.09-1944.10.08

Location

Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I KL Auschwitz I, roll call square KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof KL Ravensbrück (Germany) Łódź Nowy Wiśnicz Jaworzno, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Jawiszowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Gross-Rosen Świętochłowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) Łagisza, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Blechhammer Kędzierzyn-Koźle, forced labor camp

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Witness

Marciszewski Edward Stanisław 13.10.1905, Warsaw

Topic

Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów

Date

1944.08.01-1944.08.22

Location

KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) Warsaw, Mokotów Prison, Rakowiecka Street 37 Warsaw, Niepodległości Avenue 132/138 Bydgoszcz Warsaw, aleja Niepodległości 132 Warsaw, SS-Stauferkaserne, Rakowiecka Street 4 Warsaw, Kopińska Street Pruszków, Dulag 121

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Witness

Włodarski Włodzimierz (Walczak Wacław) 03.01.1907, Warsaw

Topic

Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw

Date

1939.09-1944.11.01

Location

Warsaw, Wolska Street Warsaw, St. Stanislaus' Hospital, Wolska Street 37 Warsaw, Młynarska Street/ Wolska Street

Witness

Zawistowski Witold 01.05.1915, Ostrów Mazowiecka

Topic

Forced laborers in the Third Reich

Date

1941.05.01-1944

Location

KL Buchenwald (Germany) KL Mittelbau-Dora (Germany)

Witness

Orzeczek Władysław 1897?

Topic

Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture

Date

1939-1945

Location

Warsaw

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Witness

Wiernik Jankiel (Smarzyński Jan) 1889, Biała Podlaska

Topic

Treblinka – extermination camp

Date

1942.08.22-1943.06

Location

Warsaw, ghetto, Umschlagplatz, Stawki Street 2/6 German extermination camp of Treblinka Treblinka, German extermination camp Warsaw, Ghetto, Umschlagplatz, Stawki Street 2/6

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Witness

Mystkowski Stanisław 13.09.1892, Dąbrowa Wielka (podlaskie voivodeship)

Topic

The persecuted church

Date

1939.10-1945.01

Location

Palmiry Warsaw, Jesuit Monastery, Rakowiecka Street 61 Warsaw, Daniłowiczowska Street Siedlce Łódź Lublin Łomża Częstochowa Płock Włocławek Sandomierz Mszczonów Warsaw, St. John's Cathedral, Świętojańska Street 8 Warsaw, Karolkowa Street 49 KL Soldau Warsaw, St. Clement's Church, Karolkowa Street 49 KL Dachau (Germany) Warsaw, Sejm [Polish parliament], Wiejska Street 4/6/8 Warsaw, St. Clement's church, Karolkowa Street 49 Warsaw, Dzielna Street Odrowąż (Końskie district) Warsaw, Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Leszno Street 32 (aleja Solidarności 80) KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Warsaw, Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Leszno Street 32 (Solidarności Avenue 80) KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) Bochnia, train station Warsaw, St. John of God's Hospital, Bonifraterska Street 12 Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) Warsaw, Zieleniak, Grójecka Street/Opaczewska Street