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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Marcinkiewicz Stefan (6)
  
  Anonymous (3)
  
  Siedlecki Karol (3)
  
  Bartoszko Kazimierz; 09.10.1898 (2)
  
  Chrobak Stanisław, 1894 (2)
  
  Cichoń Tadeusz, 1917 (2)
  
  Głowiak Stanisław; 10.02.1903, Podzwierzyniec (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Lenczewski Tadeusz; 1913?, Rzędziany (2)
  
  Libkind-Lubodziecki Stanisław; 24.01.1879, Warsaw (2)
  
  Lipski Jan (2)
  
  Lis Józef (2)
  
  Mongiałło Wacław; 1910 (2)
  
  Nita Maria, 04.07.1919 (2)
  
  Nowak Jan (2)
  
  Olender Michał; 1919 (2)
  
  Puka Stanisław; 24.03.1921 (2)
  
  Szczuciński (2)
  
  Tarkowski Bronisław; 1917.12.13 (2)
  
  Tomaszewski Zdzisław (2)
  
  Zdanowicz Michał; 1899.12.11 (2)
  
  Abramowicz Bronisław; 07.09.1911, Wzgórze–Bełżyce (1)
  
  Abramowicz Helena, 1906 (1)
  
  Adamczewska Janina (1)
  
  Adamczewski Stanisław, 1910 (1)
  
  Adamczyk Karol (1)
  
  Adamkowski Józef (1)
  
  Adamowicz Alfons; 15.12.1906, Białystok (1)
  
  Adamowicz Wiktor; 08.03.1903 (1)
  
  Adamski Alojzy, 1908.06.30 (1)
  
  Adamski Antoni, 1894? (1)
  
  Adamski Antoni; 1894? (1)
  
  Adamski Roman (1)
  
  Adamusik Stanisław (1)
  
  Adaśko Janina, 1923 (1)
  
  Affek Piotr; 1905? (1)
  
  Aftergut Bronisław; 1893? (1)
  
  Aksnowicz Alfons; 21.01.1920 (1)
  
  Aktanarowicz Mieczysław; 1923? (1)
  
  Akułan Weronika, 1913 (1)
  
  Albiński Stanisław (1)
  
  Alchimowicz Kazimierz; 1906 (1)
  
  Aleksandrów Władysław; 1919? (1)
  
  Aleksiejewicz Józef (1)
  
  Aleksiejuk Mieczysław, 1908.05.03 (1)
  
  Amanowicz Kazimierz; 1922? (1)
  
  Ambros Florian; 1913? (1)
  
  Ambroziak Jan (1)
  
  Ambroziewicz Michał; 1904? (1)
  
  Amsta Norbert (1)
  
  Amsterdamski Saul (1)
  
  Andrejasik Franciszek, 1924 (1)
  
  Andrejasik Katarzyna, 1922.05.26 (1)
  
  Androchowicz Kazimiera; 1904, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Androchowicz Kazimiera; 1904, Lwów (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Andronowski Jan; 1922 (1)
  
  Andronowski Piotr; 1921? (1)
  
  Andruszkiewicz Józef; 1893? (1)
  
  Andrzejewski Teodor; 1904? (1)
  
  Aniszkiewicz Józef; 1895? (1)
  
  Ankudowicz Władysław; 23.10.1923, Białystok (1)
  
  Antczak Wincenty (1)
  
  Antkowski Konstanty (1)
  
  Antoniewicz Alfons, 1898.12.23 (1)
  
  Antonik Jan, 1919.10.19 (1)
  
  Apelbaum Leib; 1921? (1)
  
  Aranowicz Jerma; 1907? (1)
  
  Arcimowicz Jarosław, 1926 (1)
  
  Arciszewski Franciszek; 02.11.1908, Łódź (1)
  
  Arciszewski Jan, 1907, Pińsk (1)
  
  Armanowski Franc (1)
  
  Arociak (1)
  
  Atras Franciszek, 1900.10.08 (1)
  
  Augustowicz Bolesław; 1912 (1)
  
  Augustyn Bolesław; 1902 (1)
  
  Aunszlok Kazimierz (1)
  
  Awdziej Alfons; 15.02.1900 (1)
  
  Awienko Henryk; 1910? (1)
  
  Awner Izrael, 1908 (1)
  
  Baber Stanisław (1)
  
  Babiarz Józef; 13.03.1909, Łańcut (1)
  
  Babiarz Paweł, 1900.07.06 (1)
  
  Babicz Stanisław; 17.07.1906, Babicze (1)
  
  Babińczuk Michał, 1919 (1)
  
  Babiński Henryk, 1911 (1)
  
  Baczewicz Julian (1)
  
  Badach Julian; 05.10.1918_Sulmice (1)
  
  Badach Julian; 1910 (1)
  
  Badurak Bronislaw, 1905 (1)
  
  Badurak Bronisław; 1905 (1)
  
  Bajorek Władysław (1)
  
  Bajorek Zygmunt; 1915? (1)
  
  Baka Jan; 1896 (1)
  
  Bakinowski Wincenty, 1900 (1)
  
  Bakun Wladyslaw, 1906 (1)
  
  Bakun Władysław; 1906 (1)
  
  Bakuła Antoni; 1899 (1)
  
  Bakuła Antoni; 1900 (1)
  
  Bakuła Bolesław, 1916.03.07 (1)
  
  Balawajder Franciszek (1)
  
  Balawender Antonina (1)
  
  Kullanda Henryk (1)
Subject
- The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (553)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (465)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (393)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (355)
  
  In exile – Siberia (256)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (256)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (235)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (182)
  
  In exile – Ural (153)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (142)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (110)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (86)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (86)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (80)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (76)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (75)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (74)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (45)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (36)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (35)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (35)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (34)
  
  In exile – Povolzhye (34)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (12)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (12)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (8)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ryazan Oblast (8)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Vologda Oblast (7)
  
  In exile – Far East (6)
  
  In exile – Mari El Republic (6)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Republic of Mordovia (6)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Sverdlovsk Oblast (3)
  
  Deported – the Altai Krai (2)
  
  Deported – the Perm Krai (2)
  
  the Gulag Archipelago – the Republic of Karelia (2)
  
  Allied assistance from the air (1)
  
  Archipelag Gułag – Daleki Wschód (1)
  
  Archipełag Gułag - Powołże (1)
  
  Deported – the Novosibirsk Oblast (1)
  
  Deported – the Rostov Oblast (1)
  
  Deported – the Volgograd Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Rostov Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Ryazan Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Volgograd Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Yaroslavl Oblast (1)
  
  Przez państwa bałtyckie – losy internowanych (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ivanovo Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Tambov Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Tver Oblast (1)
  
  the Gulag Archipelago – the Krasnoyarsk Krai (1)
  
  the Gulag Archipelago – the Ukraine (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (375)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (331)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (304)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (199)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (196)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (161)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (157)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (156)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (136)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (124)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (121)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (101)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (97)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (91)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (88)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (84)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (78)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (73)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (71)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (68)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (65)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (65)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (62)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (61)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (61)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (59)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (57)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (57)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (57)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (56)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (55)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (52)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (52)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (51)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (50)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (48)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (47)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (46)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (46)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (43)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (43)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (43)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (42)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (42)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (42)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (41)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (41)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (40)
  
  Tehran (Iran) (40)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (40)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (40)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (39)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (39)
  
  Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia) (38)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (37)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (37)
  
  Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (36)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (36)
  
  Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (36)
  
  Białystok (34)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (34)
  
  Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (34)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (33)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (33)
  
  Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (33)
  
  Kermine (Navoiy, Uzbekistan) (33)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (32)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (32)
  
  Sevvostlag (Russia, Magadan Oblast) (32)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (31)
  
  Przemyśl (31)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (30)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (30)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (30)
  
  Łomża, prison, Legionów Avenue 36 (30)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (29)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no 2, Zamarstynowska Street 7/9 (29)
  
  Olesko (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (29)
  
  Ukmergė (Lithuania), internee camp (29)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (28)
  
  Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (28)
  
  Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (27)
  
  Kozelschyna (Ukraine, Poltava Oblast), transit camp (27)
  
  Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a (27)
  
  Ostróg (now in Ukraine), transit camp (Barracks of the 19th Volhynian Uhlan Regiment) (27)
  
  Pavlodar (Kazakhstan) (27)
  
  Połąga (now in Lithuania), internee camp (27)
  
  Radziwiłłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (27)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania) (27)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (now in Lithuania), internee camp (27)
  
  Złoczów (now in Ukraine) (27)
  
  Nakhodka (Russia, Primorsky Krai) (26)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania), Łukiszki prison, Więzienna Street ( Lukiškių Street 6) (26)
  
  Kagan (Uzbekistan) (25)
  
  Kherson (Ukraine), prison, Perekopska Street 10 (25)
  
  Przemyśl, prison, Rokitniańska Street 1 (25)
  
  Zborów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (25)
  
  Minsk (Belarus), "Wołodarka" prison, Waladarskaha Street 2 (24)
  
  Ukhto-Izhemsky Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (24)
  
  Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (23)
Victims
- The Poles (2426)
  
  Civilians (1821)
  
  The Civilian Population (1820)
  
  Deportees (851)
  
  Women (836)
  
  The Inteligentsia (714)
  
  Ukrainians (676)
  
  Prisoners of War (661)
  
  Children (618)
  
  The Jews (592)
  
  The Sick (527)
  
  The sick (527)
  
  Russians/Soviets (472)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (461)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (454)
  
  The Russians (425)
  
  Belarusians (367)
  
  Policemen (329)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (304)
  
  The Elderly (252)
  
  The elderly (252)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (194)
  
  Internees (152)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (95)
  
  Border Guard (90)
  
  Lithuanians (89)
  
  Landowners (81)
  
  The Church (73)
  
  Germans (71)
  
  Border Protection Corps (69)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (49)
  
  Latvians (33)
  
  Estonians (28)
  
  Romanians (17)
  
  Czechs (16)
  
  Prison Guard (9)
  
  Hungarians (7)
  
  the Chinese (6)
  
  Finns (4)
  
  Scouts (3)
  
  Georgians (2)
  
  Slovaks (2)
  
  Americans (1)
  
  The British (1)
Perpetrators
- People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (669)
  
  Red Army (412)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (242)
  
  Soviet Militia (202)
  
  Denunciation (201)
  
  Collaboration (166)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (92)
  
  Lithuanians (74)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (15)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (10)
  
  Latvians (8)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (4)
  
  Administrative Police (3)
  
  Postal Protection (2)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (2198)
  
  Biological extermination (2102)
  
  Arrest (1595)
  
  Deportation/Exile (1472)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (933)
  
  Beating (830)
  
  Cattle wagons (608)
  
  Punishment cell (586)
  
  Judicial crime (523)
  
  Robbery (327)
  
  Disarmament (316)
  
  Death by shooting (208)
  
  Roads of death (195)
  
  Execution (181)
  
  Sovietization (84)
  
  Deportation (77)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (74)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (58)
  
  Air raids (54)
  
  Forced voting (32)
  
  Desacration of corpses (24)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (18)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (18)
  
  Round-up (14)
  
  Armored weapons (12)
  
  Death marches (11)
  
  Collectivization (9)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (6)
  
  Mass graves (5)
  
  Denationalization (3)
  
  Artillery fire (2)
  
  Artillery shelling (2)
  
  Germanization (2)
  
  Rape (2)
  
  Cremation (1)
  
  Cremation of corpses (1)
  
  Displacement (1)
  
  Expulsion (1)
  
  Racial policy (1)
Place
- (Soviet) forced-labor camp (599)
  
  Prison (592)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (580)
  
  Kolkhoz (521)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (492)
  
  Transit camp (329)
  
  NKVD custody suite (321)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (230)
  
  Mine (221)
  
  Internment camp (132)
  
  Sovkhoz (113)
  
  Siberia (9)
  
  Orphanage – dietdom (6)
  
  Concentration camp (5)
  
  Police headquarters/station (3)
  
  Labor camp (2)
  
  Forced labor (1)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (1)
  
  Sewers (1)
Content
- Health service (1393)
  
  Anders' Army (963)
  
  Amnesty (777)
  
  First deportation (463)
  
  Communist propaganda (328)
  
  Epidemics (323)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (315)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (294)
  
  Polish culture in exile (283)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (157)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (125)
  
  Second deportation (121)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (106)
  
  Third deportation (80)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (71)
  
  Fourth deportation (68)
  
  Military hospital (36)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (22)
  
  Students' Army Corps (19)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (15)
  
  Civil resistance (13)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (9)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (7)
  
  Underground culture and education (7)
  
  Aid to Jews (6)
  
  Partisan warfare (4)
  
  Polish Underground State (3)
  
  Underground media (3)
  
  Judenrat (2)
  
  Central Welfare Council (1)
  
  Clandestine courses (1)
  
  the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
Object type
- Account (884)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (33)
  
  Press clipping (1)
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 (4292)
Medium
- Text (3178)
  
  Image (61)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (4283)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (8)