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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Marcinkiewicz Stefan (2)
  
  Zdanowicz Michał; 1899.12.11 (2)
  
  Andrzejewski Teodor; 1904? (1)
  
  Awienko Henryk; 1910? (1)
  
  Babicz Stanisław; 17.07.1906, Babicze (1)
  
  Bajorek Zygmunt; 1915? (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899 (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899?, Brynica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Bartoszewicz Emilia; 09.11.1915 (1)
  
  Bator Franciszek (1)
  
  Bełzki Jan; 1896, Potok Górny (1)
  
  Biskup Marcin; 1909 (1)
  
  Blachuta Czesław; 1923? (1)
  
  Bluszcz Aleksander; 1899 (1)
  
  Bochnik Kasper, 1897 (1)
  
  Bojar Michał; 19.09.1901, Krasne (1)
  
  Bolimowska Wanda; 1923, Pomorzanka (dziś: Ukraina) (1)
  
  Bolimowska Wanda; 1923, Pomorzanka (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Borasińska Helena; 05.05.1898, Goszczyno (Płocki county) (1)
  
  Borasińska Jadwiga; 06.07.1925 Sutkowszczyzna (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Borasińska Jadwiga; 06.07.1925 Sutkowszczyzna (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Borasiński Jan; 15.08.1897, Goszczyno Górne (1)
  
  Borysiuk Mateusz; 1903? (1)
  
  Boryń Franciszek; 1898 (1)
  
  Buchwalter Fryderyk, 1912 (1)
  
  Bukowiecka-Lipska Zofia; 1911 (1)
  
  Busk Kazimierz; 09.01.1915, Kielce (1)
  
  Butrymowicz Jan (1)
  
  Byczkowski Wiktor, 1896? (1)
  
  Bławat Michał; 1896? (1)
  
  Błażek Władysław; 1897? (1)
  
  Celiński Czesław; 15.11.1900 (1)
  
  Chwiałkowska Zofia; 1919? (1)
  
  Chłebiuk Maksym; 1893 (1)
  
  Cichowski Julian; 1900? (1)
  
  Cieplik Marian; 24.02.1894 (1)
  
  Cieślak Jan; 1905 (1)
  
  Ciągło Jan; 01.12.1899 (1)
  
  Cybański Adam; 1907? (1)
  
  Czapiński Marian; 1901? (1)
  
  Czarnocka Anna; 12.11.1906, Dawidowicze (gm. Zabłudów) (1)
  
  Czekałowska Irena (1)
  
  Darasz Jan; 1901? (1)
  
  Deresz Karolina; 03.05.1909, Murawiec (1)
  
  Deręgowski Antoni (1)
  
  Dobosz Franciszek (1)
  
  Dobrzański Jan; 1914 (1)
  
  Drozdowicz Józef (1)
  
  Drożejko Julian; 1897 (1)
  
  Dubiński Antoni; 1902 (1)
  
  Dubrawka Piotr (1)
  
  Dygul Stanisław; 1898 (1)
  
  Dziekański Jan; 1901 (1)
  
  Dzikowski Henryk; 20.05.1922 (1)
  
  Eilsztein Dawid, 1909 (1)
  
  Epsztejn Abraham, 1911 (1)
  
  Fałdyga Adam, 1893 (1)
  
  Feldman Irena 21.02.1909, Warsaw (1)
  
  Feldman Irena; 21.02.1909, Warsaw (1)
  
  Frenkiel Stanisław, 1918 (1)
  
  Frąckiewicz Piotr; 1896 (1)
  
  Gajewski Marian; 15.08.1896 (1)
  
  Garlicki Aleksander (1)
  
  Gielwert Edward; 1899? (1)
  
  Glezner Zygmunt; 17.09.1911, Warsaw (1)
  
  Gołost Aleksander; 05.12.1902 (1)
  
  Gralak Stanisław; 14.07.1915 (1)
  
  Grech Michał, 1903 (1)
  
  Grendo Bronisław; 06.07.1905 (1)
  
  Grot Józef; 11.01.1897 (1)
  
  Gussmann Brunon; 1915? (1)
  
  Głowacki Józef (1)
  
  Główczyk Jan, 1894 (1)
  
  Głąb Józef, 1894 (1)
  
  Hajkiewicz Jan (1)
  
  Hipp Franciszek; 1901? (1)
  
  Hoffman Wincenty (1)
  
  Hołowacz Longina; 04.03.1922, Kamień (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Hryniuk Antoni; 1911? (1)
  
  Jackowski Eugeniusz; 12.12.1901 (1)
  
  Jancewicz Albert; 1913? (1)
  
  Janczarski Teofil; 1884.04.28 (1)
  
  Janczulewicz Hieronim; 1899 (1)
  
  Janicki Marian; 1914? (1)
  
  Jankowski Roman; 07.08.1901 (1)
  
  Jankowski Wacław (1)
  
  Januchowski Antoni; 1900 (1)
  
  Jasiukiewicz Dominik; 02.03.1914, Dąbrowa (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Jastrzembska Wilhelmina; 27.12.1914, Samara (Russia) (1)
  
  Jedliński Edward; 1918? (1)
  
  Jeliński Jerzy (1)
  
  Jurczyk Tadeusz; 1923? (1)
  
  Jurewicz Maria, 14.10.1907 (1)
  
  Juszczyk Jan; 1925? (1)
  
  Juszczyk Janina, 29.11.1928, Mariówka (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Juszczyk Mieczysław; 15.08.1905, Łódź (1)
  
  Kajpus Tadeusz; 1923? (1)
  
  Karaś Witold; 1920? (1)
  
  Karczmarczyk Aurelia; 9.10.1905, Oświęcim (1)
  
  Karniej Salomea; 1916? (1)
Subject
- The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (55)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (46)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (27)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (24)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (19)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (18)
  
  In exile – Siberia (17)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (14)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (12)
  
  In exile – Ural (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (6)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (5)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (5)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (4)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (3)
  
  In exile – Far East (2)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (2)
  
  Deported – the Altai Krai (1)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Mari El Republic (1)
  
  In exile – Povolzhye (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ivanovo Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Republic of Mordovia (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ryazan Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Sverdlovsk Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Tver Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Vologda Oblast (1)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (44)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (41)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (37)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (35)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (27)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (23)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (23)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (22)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (21)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (20)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (20)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (19)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (18)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (18)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (18)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (17)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (16)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (12)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (12)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (11)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (now in Lithuania), internee camp (11)
  
  Połąga (now in Lithuania), internee camp (10)
  
  Kalvarija (Lithuania), internment camp (9)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (9)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (9)
  
  Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (8)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (8)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (8)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (8)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (8)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (8)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (8)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (8)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (8)
  
  Angielówka (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (7)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (7)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (7)
  
  Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (7)
  
  Kermine (Navoiy, Uzbekistan) (7)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (7)
  
  Kozelschyna (Ukraine, Poltava Oblast), transit camp (7)
  
  Ostróg (now in Ukraine), transit camp (Barracks of the 19th Volhynian Uhlan Regiment) (7)
  
  Ukmergė (Lithuania), internee camp (7)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (7)
  
  Białystok (6)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (6)
  
  Kola Penninsula (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (6)
  
  Nowogródek (now in Belarus) (6)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (6)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (6)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (5)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (5)
  
  Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (5)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (5)
  
  Kagan (Uzbekistan) (5)
  
  Kollag (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (5)
  
  Kulautuva (Lithuania), internment camp (5)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (5)
  
  Lida (now in Belarus) (5)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (5)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (5)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (5)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (5)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (5)
  
  Ulbroka (Latvia), internee camp (5)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (5)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania) (5)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania), Łukiszki prison, Więzienna Street ( Lukiškių Street 6) (5)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, Ukraine), transit camp (5)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (5)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (4)
  
  Berezwecz (Głębokie, now in Belarus), NKVD prison (Basilian monastery), Sovetskaya Street 201 (4)
  
  Borysów (Belarus) (4)
  
  Farab (Otrar, Kazakhstan) (4)
  
  Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (4)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (4)
  
  Kherson (Ukraine), prison, Perekopska Street 10 (4)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no 2, Zamarstynowska Street 7/9 (4)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (4)
  
  Mościska (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (4)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (4)
  
  Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (4)
  
  Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a (4)
  
  Ostra Góra (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (4)
  
  Podliski Małe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (4)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (4)
  
  Semipalatinsk (Semey, Kazakhstan) (4)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (4)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast) (4)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (4)
  
  Tehran (Iran) (4)
  
  Warkowicze (Ukraine) (4)
  
  Werba (Ukraine) (4)
  
  Złoczów (now in Ukraine) (4)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (3)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (3)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (3)
  
  Borysław (Ukraine) (3)
  
  Busk (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (3)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (3)
Victims
- The Poles (285)
  
  Civilians (192)
  
  The Civilian Population (192)
  
  The Inteligentsia (151)
  
  Women (126)
  
  Deportees (115)
  
  Ukrainians (109)
  
  Prisoners of War (107)
  
  Children (96)
  
  The Jews (88)
  
  The Sick (85)
  
  The sick (85)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (80)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (74)
  
  Belarusians (68)
  
  Policemen (68)
  
  Russians/Soviets (55)
  
  The elderly (52)
  
  Internees (52)
  
  The Elderly (52)
  
  The Russians (50)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (46)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (31)
  
  Border Guard (29)
  
  Border Protection Corps (18)
  
  Lithuanians (17)
  
  The Church (17)
  
  Landowners (16)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (13)
  
  Germans (12)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (7)
  
  Latvians (5)
  
  Estonians (4)
  
  Czechs (3)
  
  Prison Guard (3)
  
  Hungarians (2)
  
  Romanians (2)
  
  The British (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (109)
  
  Red Army (45)
  
  Collaboration (42)
  
  Denunciation (34)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (33)
  
  Soviet Militia (28)
  
  Lithuanians (20)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (6)
  
  Latvians (2)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (2)
  
  Administrative Police (1)
  
  SS (1)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (1)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (1)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (1)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (250)
  
  Biological extermination (249)
  
  Deportation/Exile (212)
  
  Arrest (177)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (121)
  
  Cattle wagons (94)
  
  Beating (92)
  
  Punishment cell (84)
  
  Judicial crime (47)
  
  Robbery (41)
  
  Disarmament (35)
  
  Roads of death (30)
  
  Execution (29)
  
  Death by shooting (28)
  
  Sovietization (19)
  
  Deportation (15)
  
  Air raids (10)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (8)
  
  Armored weapons (4)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (3)
  
  Forced voting (3)
  
  Round-up (3)
  
  Death marches (2)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (2)
  
  Displacement (2)
  
  Expulsion (2)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (2)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (2)
  
  Administrative persecution (1)
  
  Collectivization (1)
  
  Cremation (1)
  
  Cremation of corpses (1)
  
  Desacration of corpses (1)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (1)
  
  Racial policy (1)
  
  Rape (1)
Place
- Spetsposelok (special settlement) (81)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (68)
  
  Kolkhoz (68)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (55)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (51)
  
  Internment camp (50)
  
  Prison (49)
  
  Transit camp (49)
  
  NKVD custody suite (29)
  
  Sovkhoz (21)
  
  Mine (17)
  
  Concentration camp (2)
  
  Orphanage – dietdom (2)
  
  Siberia (2)
  
  Forced labor (1)
  
  Ghetto (1)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (1)
  
  Police headquarters/station (1)
  
  Sewers (1)
Content
- Polish culture in exile (287)
  
  Health service (200)
  
  Anders' Army (130)
  
  Amnesty (98)
  
  Communist propaganda (63)
  
  Epidemics (61)
  
  First deportation (56)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (55)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (45)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (30)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (18)
  
  Third deportation (17)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (16)
  
  Second deportation (12)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (10)
  
  Fourth deportation (9)
  
  Students' Army Corps (5)
  
  Civil resistance (4)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (2)
  
  Underground culture and education (2)
  
  Extermination of Jews (1)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (1)
  
  Partisan warfare (1)
  
  Rescue of Jews (1)
  
  Underground media (1)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (1)
Object type
- Account (69)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (3)
  
  Brief (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 (286)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (1)
Medium
- Text (287)
  
  Image (11)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (281)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (6)