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Witness

Klapa Mieczysław 11.10.1902; Cukrownia Czersk (now in Jasieniec, grójecki county)

Topic

Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city

Date

1942.12-1944.08

Location

Warsaw, Ghetto Warsaw, Konopnickiej Street Poniatowa, German forced labor camp

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Witness

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

Topic

Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city

Date

1942.07-1943.04.29

Location

Warsaw, Długa Street Warsaw, Arsenal, Długa Street 52 Warsaw, Ghetto, Świętojerska Street Warsaw, Ghetto, Franciszkańska Street Warsaw, Ghetto, Nalewki Street Warsaw, Przejazd Street Warsaw, Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Leszno Street 32 (Solidarności Avenue 80)

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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)

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Witness

Jaszuński Grzegorz 25.10.1910, Petersburg (Russia)

Topic

Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Wilno Ghetto

Date

1939.09.06-1944

Location

Wilno (Lithuania), Ghetto

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Witness

Anlen Bronisław Elkana 9.05.1907, Warsaw

Topic

Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city

Date

1942.07-1943

Location

KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) Warsaw, Hotel Polski, Długa Street 29 Vittel (France) Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship), Gestapo headquarters, Rostka Street 2 Hanover (Germany)

Witness

Anonymous

Topic

Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city

Date

1940.10.02-1942.09.21

Location

Warsaw, Ghetto

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Witness

Borzykowski Tuwia (Tadeusz) 1911

Topic

Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city

Date

1940.10.02-1942.05.08

Location

Warsaw, Ghetto, Franciszkańska Street 22 (Franciszkańska Street 18) Treblinka, German extermination camp Warsaw, Ghetto, Franciszkańska Street 30 (Wałowa Street 7) Skarżysko-Kamienna

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Witness

Gitler-Barski Józef 03.03.1898, Warsaw

Topic

Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city

Date

1939.09-1945.04

Location

KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) Warsaw, Ghetto, Umschlagplatz, Stawki Street 2/6 Warsaw, Ghetto, Leszno Street 2 ("Wigry" Scouting Battalion of the Home Army garden square) Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp Warsaw, Ghetto, Ogrodowa Street 29 (Ogrodowa Street 13/29) Warsaw, Rymarska Street Warsaw, Hotel Polski, Długa Street 29 Warsaw, Ghetto, Niska Street/ Zamenhofa Street Warsaw, Ghetto, Muranowska Street 44 (Niska Street 5) Warsaw, Ghetto, Tłomackie Street Warsaw, Ghetto, Twarda Street 27 (ONZ roundabout) Warsaw, Ghetto, Dzika Street 3 (Zamenhofa Street 1) Warsaw, Ghetto, Zamenhofa Street 56 (Niska Street 5) Warsaw, Grajewska Street 2 Warsaw, Ogrodowa Street Vittel (France) Warsaw, Royal Hotel, Chmielna Street 31 Magdeburg (Germany)

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Witness

Kobus Kazimierz Stanisław 02.03.1907, Węgrów

Topic

Majdanek – terror and extermination

Date

1943.01.17-1944.04.08

Location

KL Majdanek KL Gross-Rosen Krępiecki Forest Warsaw, Ghetto

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Witness

Jaworski Augustyn

Topic

Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city

Date

1940.10.02-1943

Location

Warsaw, Ghetto

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Witness

Kacprzak Anna 20.03.1910, Warsaw

Topic

Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city

Date

1942.11-1942.12

Location

Warsaw, Ghetto, Bonifraterska Street 13 (Bonifraterska Street 15) Warsaw, Ghetto, Umschlagplatz, Stawki Street 2/6 Warsaw, Ghetto, Stawki Street

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Witness

Sterner Wacław 28.11.1908, Warsaw

Topic

Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city

Date

1942.06.01-1943.11.04

Location

Warsaw, Ghetto, Umschlagplatz, Stawki Street 2/6 Poniatowa, German forced labor camp

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Witness

Sznejer Dawid 14.03.1905, Warsaw

Topic

Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city

Date

1942.07.22-1942.08

Location

Warsaw, Ghetto, Bonifraterska Street 11 (Bonifraterska Street 13) Warsaw, Ghetto, Bonifraterska Street 13 (Bonifraterska Street 15)

Witness

Sterner Wacław 28.11.1908, Warsaw

Topic

Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city

Date

1942.06.01-1944

Location

Warsaw, Ghetto, Umschlagplatz, Stawki Street 2/6 Warsaw, Prusa Street 5 Poniatowa, German forced labor camp Poniatowa, camp for Soviet POWs

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Witness

Piwczyńska Bronisława 01.08.1893, Warsaw

Topic

Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city

Date

1943-1943

Location

Warsaw, Bukowińska Street

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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

Edelman Marek 01.01.1919, Warsaw

Topic

Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city

Date

1942.07.28-1943.05.10

Location

Warsaw, Ghetto, Umschlagplatz, Stawki Street 2/6

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Witness

Fronenberg Moszek 04.04.1921, Puławy

Topic

Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city

Date

1940.11.15-1942.10

Location

Treblinka, German extermination camp Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (Nowolipki Street 17C) Hanover (Germany) Skarżysko-Kamienna KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Warsaw, Nowogrodzka Street Warsaw, Royal Hotel, Chmielna Street 31 Warsaw, Hotel Polski, Długa Street 29 KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) Warsaw, Ghetto, Dzielna Street 27 (Dzielna Street 7) Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (Nowolipki Street 17C) Pińczów Warsaw, Ghetto, Gęsia Street (Anielewicza Street)/ Dzika Street Warsaw, Leszno Street 6 Berlin (Germany)

Witness

Rudnicki Henryk Michał 25.06.1899, Grodno (now in Belarus)

Topic

Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city

Date

1942.07.22-1942.08

Location

Warsaw, Ghetto, Umschlagplatz, Stawki Street 2/6 KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) Warsaw, Ghetto, Mylna Street 9 (Nowolipie Street 3) Warsaw, Ghetto, Miła Street/ Zamenhofa Street (Dzika Street) Warsaw, Hotel Polski, Długa Street 29 Warsaw, Ghetto, Niska Street 14 (Dubois Street 9) Warsaw, Ghetto, Niska Street 33 (Niska Street 9) Warsaw, Ghetto, Żelazna Street 103 Vittel (France) Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship), Gestapo headquarters, Rostka Street 2 Hanover (Germany)

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Witness

Wasser Henryk 13.06.1910, Suwałki

Topic

Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city

Date

1940.11.15-1943.04.24

Location

Warsaw, Ghetto Treblinka, German extermination camp Skarżysko-Kamienna