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Witness

Lewicki W.

Topic

Date

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Location

Królewiec (present-day Kaliningrad, Russia) Berlin (Germany)

Witness

Mazur Czesława

Topic

Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Pomerania

Date

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Location

Łódź

Witness

Polak Wacław

Topic

Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Pomerania

Date

1944.07-1945

Location

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Witness

Senger Józef

Topic

Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Pomerania

Date

1942.05-1945

Location

Starogard Gdański

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Witness

Bicz Bolesław 01.04.1889, Sporysz (Bielsk county)

Topic

To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau

Date

1939-1945.05.05

Location

Oświęcim KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz I, roll call square KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I Vienna (Austria)

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Witness

Pypeć Stanisław

Topic

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

Date

1939.09.22-1941.08.25

Location

Równe (Ukraine) Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Mościska (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Radziwiłłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Jaworów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Czerlany (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs

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Witness

Owczarzak Maria 1903?

Topic

In exile – Central Asia

Date

1939.09.20-1942

Location

Akmolinsk (Astana, Kazakhstan) Ostashkov (Russia, Tver Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs Leonidovka (Kazakhstan)

Witness

Zieliński Szczepan

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Ural

Date

1939 - 1941.11.01

Location

Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast)

Witness

Walasiewicz Stanisława 1923.09.22

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Ural

Date

1940.02.10 - 1945

Location

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Witness

Mamok Franciszek

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia

Date

1939.10.09 - 1942.02.18

Location

Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki Łomża, prison, Legionów Avenue 36 Minsk (Belarus), NKVD remand center "Amerykanka", Hradsky Val Street 4 Połock (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Zinaida Tusnolobova-Marchenko Street Tobolsk (Russia, Tyumen Oblast), NKVD prison (prison castle), Red Square 5 Lugovoy (Kazakhstan)

Witness

Podgórski Antoni 1896.08.07

Topic

Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees

Date

1939.09.19 - 1942.02.27

Location

Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 Lugovoy (Kazakhstan)

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Witness

"Jacek Dyzio"

Topic

Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów

Date

1944.07.24-1945.12.12

Location

Warsaw, Mokotów Prison, Rakowiecka Street 37 Warsaw, aleja Niepodległości

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Witness

Falk Ignacy Warsaw

Topic

Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city

Date

1939.09-1943.04.29

Location

Warsaw, Ghetto, Umschlagplatz, Stawki Street 2/6 Treblinka, German extermination camp KL Plaszow Wieliczka, forced labor camp, Daniłowicza Street (subcamp of KL Płaszów) Budzyń, German forced labor camp KL Gross-Rosen KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) Warsaw, Ghetto, Wałowa Street 2 (Krasiński Garden) Skarżysko-Kamienna Wieliczka, German forced labor camp KL Majdanek Warsaw, Świętojerska Street KL Dachau (Germany) Warsaw, Ghetto, Bonifraterska Street Sobibór, German extermination camp Bełżec, German extermination camp Lublin, German forced labor camp, Lipowa Street 7 Lublin, German forced labor camp, Chełmska Street Trawniki, German forced labor camp Poniatowa, German forced labor camp KL Flossenbürg (Germany) Warsaw, Ghetto, Franciszkańska Street

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Witness

Majchrzak Lucjan Emil 30.06.1911

Topic

Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw

Date

1944.08.04-1994.08.10

Location

Warsaw, Grójecka Street 24 Warsaw, Grójecka Street 20B

Witness

Koziak Eugenia 16.12.1926, Cieszyn

Topic

Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland

Date

1942-1979

Location

Goleszów, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Prague (Czech Republic)

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Witness

Świerczewska Stanisława 04.04.1914

Topic

Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów

Date

1944.09.27-1949.09.27

Location

Warsaw, Puławska Street/ Szustra Street (Dąbrowskiego Street) Warsaw, Szustra Street (Dąbrowskiego Street)/ Puławska Street Warsaw, Dworkowa Street Pruszków, Dulag 121 Warsaw, Belwederska Street Nuremberg (Germany) Warsaw, Siekierki

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Witness

Kubalski Jan 11.07.1901

Topic

Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture

Date

1939.09.01-1944.01.01

Location

Warsaw, Post Office Savings Bank HQ, Marszałkowska Street 134 German extermination camp of Bełżec Warsaw, seat of the Post Office Savings Bank, Marszałkowska Street 134 German extermination camp of Treblinka Treblinka, German extermination camp KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) Odrowąż (Końskie district) KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) KL Majdanek Bełżec, German extermination camp

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Witness

Sadkiewicz Antoni 06.02.1881, Modlin (now: Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki)

Topic

Mass extermination – KL Stutthof

Date

1939.09.01-1942.04.02

Location

KL Dachau (Germany) Gdańsk, Westerplatte KL Stutthof Biskupia Górka (Gdańsk) Nowy Port ( Gdańsk) Tczew Westerplatte, Gdańsk

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Witness

Duchnowski Jan 22.10.1908, Podbiele (mazowieckie voivodeship)

Topic

Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück

Date

1943.10.01-1945

Location

Białystok KL Ravensbrück (Germany) KL Stutthof Łomża KL Buchenwald (Germany) KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany)

Witness

Szyszko-Bohusz Adolf 19.08.1883, Narva (Estonia)

Topic

Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture

Date

1939.09-1944.08.14

Location

Warsaw, Łazienki Królewskie [Royal Baths Park]