- The witness was arrested in the street in Grodno, sentenced to eight years of forced labor for unknown crimes, and deported to Vorkuta. Unable to join the army due to a large number of applicants, he wandered around for a prolonged period of time (Buzuluk, Tashkent, Samarkand, Krasnovodsk, Narpay). Eventually, he joined the Polish Army in March 1942 in Narpay.
- The witness was arrested in Wilno in June 1941 and deported to the Altai Krai, where she worked in a kolkhoz. After the amnesty, she went to Jalalabad and Iran.
- The witness was arrested on charges of espionage and incarcerated in several Soviet prisons. He was beaten, starved and forced to work.
- The witness was arrested on espionage charges because he was close to a training ground. After more than a year in prison, he was sent to the border with Finland and then marched on foot deep into Russia. He was released from the camp after the outbreak of the German-Soviet war.
- The witness was arrested together with family because his father had worked as a judge before the war. He describes the journey and Poles’ gloomy moods. The women cried at first, but then they had to find some occupation. He describes life at the sovkhoz: how they worked, how they obtained food and fuel. In 1941, the youth were taken to build the Astana-Kartaly railroad line; after the amnesty, they were not allowed to leave.
- The witness was arrested together with her family in March 1943. Later she was imprisoned, while her daughter was released. The witness was sent first to Auschwitz and then to Ravensbrück.
- The witness was arrested together with her family. In her short testimony, she says that she worked in a brick factory and that no one was allowed to work in their profession. Her life did not change after the amnesty. In April 1942, she set off south and made her family join her; then they all went abroad.
- The witness was arrested when crossing the border from Lithuania into the USSR. He was imprisoned in Lida, Baranowicze and Orsha, and then sent to a labor camp in Kniaz-Pogost. After the amnesty, on 13 September 1941, he joined the Polish Army in Totskoye.
- The witness was arrested when crossing the border into Lithuania. She was incarcerated in Lida, Baranowicze and Orsha, and then sent to Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg), where she experienced bad living conditions. She also describes the relations with other prisoners. She joined the army in Buzuluk.
- The witness was deported from Kobryń to Kazakhstan. The conditions of transport in freight wagons were bad. In Kazakhstan, he worked with Russians who had previously been deported there. The work was hard and food was scarce.
- The witness was deported from Kobryń, where his father and uncles had previously been arrested. He was sent to Kazakhstan, where he worked in bad conditions in a kolkhoz. Due to lack of food, he had to eat carcasses.
- The witness was deported in April 1940 together with her mother; they were sent to Kazakhstan, and later to a poselok in Kyrgyzstan. She describes the difficult living conditions and hard work. Among the deportees were Polish families, as well as many Jews and Ukrainians. Many people fell ill and died due to diseases and exhaustion.
- The witness was deported to a kolkhoz in the Kazakh steppes in April 1940. She worked on a farm. She was released at an unspecified time and went to Totskoye, where she joined the Women’s Auxiliary Service.
- The witness was deported to a sovkhoz together with her family; she describes the place in detail. Jews – capitalists, directors of banks and factories – were also sent there.
- The witness was deported to a special settlement to work at logging and railway construction. The conditions were deplorable already during the journey; many children died. The work at the settlement was very hard and food was insufficient. After the amnesty they were released and set off to join the Polish Army. The journey was difficult, once again in cattle wagons and without much food; several people died as a result.
- The witness was deported to Kazakhstan together with his mother and sister. They lived in a cattle shed and worked very hard, but the wages were so low that they had to sell their belongings in order to survive. He joined the 10th Infantry Division as late as in March 1942.
- The witness was deported to Kazakhstan together with other Polish women, where they had to perform various kinds of labor. They survived mostly thanks to parcels from Poland.
- The witness was deported to the Altai Krai in June 1941. The local NKVD was hostile towards the Poles. She tells about one of her fellow exiles who had to leave her 11-year-old paralyzed daughter at home. She was released a month after the amnesty and hindered from reaching the Polish Army; the Soviets refused to issue her the documents.
- The witness was deported to the Arkhangelsk Oblast together with her mother. She worked at logging. The relations with Belarusians were terrible. After the amnesty she sold her clothes to get money and went to Buzuluk, while her mother remained in the poselok.
- The witness was deported to the special settlement of Oktyabrsk together with other employees of the forest administration in Białowieża. The majority of prisoners were Poles, but there were also Belarusians and Ukrainians. Polish culture was not cultivated, but there was ample access to Russian literature. The relations between Poles were bad; some promptly chose the Soviet side. He was released in August 1941 and initially sent to the Jambyl Region, where his one-year-old child died. He joined the Polish Army in January 1942.
- The witness was deported to Turtkul, but escaped to Stanisławów and remained in hiding. She was denounced by Ukrainians; she was then held in many prisons all over the USSR. She was released on the basis of the amnesty and joined the Polish Army.
- The witness was deported to Ukhta, where he worked extracting oil in a mine. During night shifts, the Poles would spontaneously gather to take part in discussions and sing patriotic songs. The NKVD was hostile towards the Poles and made them perform the hardest labor. On 24 August 1941, all 2,000 Poles were released; they did not know where the Polish Army was being formed, so they dispersed throughout Russia. He went to Pavlodar and was next sent to Tatishchev, but on the way there he was told to go south and work in kolkhozes; in January 1942, he escaped to Buzuluk.
- The witness was deported together with her family to the Perm Oblast, where she worked at logging. She describes the slow biological extermination carried out by the communist authorities. Eventually she joined the Women’s Auxiliary Service in Tehran.
- The witness was deported together with her husband; after a few days on the road, she fell gravely ill and was taken to the hospital in Liski. Next she was sent to a poselok. On 15 September 1941 she was released and joined the Women’s Auxiliary Service.
- The witness was deported together with his family for labor at logging, because he was a military settler and had volunteered to the army during the Polish-Soviet War in 1920. The deportees had to work very hard, regardless of their sex and age. The families were purposefully separated during work so as to prevent them from communicating. The wages were too low to live on.
- The witness was deported together with his family in the second wave of deportations because his brother was a policeman. He worked in a poselok in conditions which deprived him of his health and will to live. He was brutally interrogated. He joined the Polish Army together with his brother, leaving his family behind in Kazakhstan.
- The witness was deported together with his family to labor camp on the Irtysh River (Kazakhstan). The living conditions in the barracks were deplorable. He toiled hard at logging. There were 10% of Poles – families of policemen, servicemen and foresters. The NKVD was hostile towards the Poles. When he learned about the amnesty, he escaped from the camp to Uzbekistan.
- The witness was deported with his family and half of the residents from the neighborhood to a poselok where children and the elderly were dying from exhaustion, and medications were available only for the army. Released, he worked in a kolkhoz. Finally, deliverance came and he joined Anders’ Army.
- The witness was disarmed on 18 September 1939. He worked at airport construction in Czerlany. He describes conditions at the camp: failure to go to work was punished with incarceration in a punishment cell. They had the eagles torn off of their military hats and had to work hard in the cold without proper clothing and shoes. He was released from the camp in Starobelsk and joined the Polish Army there.
- The witness was employed at the camp until 1943, when they banned Polish women from working at the camp. She describes in detail what the camp looked like, where the administration was etc. She testifies that dead bodies were stripped naked, put into crates and buried somewhere by the forest. Since she worked at the kitchen, she stole as much food as she could to help inmates in dire need – together with other women, they would smuggle food in rubbish bins. They also organized secret help for children from the camp, who had neither shoes nor proper clothes.
- The witness was employed at the sawmill in Bliżyn; he was imprisoned at the local labor camp for leaving his place of work without permission. He testifies about the living conditions at the camp.
- The witness was forced to drive the Germans around local villages in search of particular Poles. He testifies about the burning of the families of Popiel and Janus and their houses.
- The witness was imprisoned at KL Majdanek since 1940. He testifies that Erich Muhsfeldt arrived at the camp in February 1942. Before the crematorium was built, the Soviet POWs were hanged in a wooden house near the field. Muhsfeldt would chose people for carrying out the executions. The first transports contained Jews from Lublin and Czech Jews. According to the witness, Muhsfeldt derived particular pleasure from shooting children whom he had previously held in his arms. The witness tells about the mass executions of Jews.
- The witness was imprisoned at the camp in Bliżyn; he speaks very positively about the camp.
- The witness was imprisoned at the camp in Bliżyn; he testifies about his life and work at the camp.
- The witness was in Poland when the war broke out. He comes from Vinnytsia and studies in Łódź.
- The witness was informed late at night by a friend that cars would be passing through the village on the following morning. The witness immediately fled from Mniów, where he lived at the time. In the morning, the gendarmerie came to the village and burned its residents.
- The witness was initially interned in Lithuania, but was sent to Russia after the invasion by the Red Army. He was staying in Yukhnov, where he was interrogated by the NKVD. He was released following the amnesty.
- The witness was interned in Lithuania and in 1940 sent to Kozelsk. He describes life at the camp and mentions missing officers. Next he was deported to the Kola Peninsula, where he experienced hard work and deplorable living conditions. After the outbreak of the German-Soviet war, he joined the Polish Army.
- The witness was sent from her village to nearby Iłowo to work at the farm of Volksdeutsche. Her brother was imprisoned at the camp there; he told her about the children’s barrack and the high mortality rate, which was due to hunger. Next she was sent for forced labor to Giżycko; she had to toil hard despite recent surgery.
- The witness was sent to a village in the Komi Republic in 1940. She worked in a kolkhoz, which she describes in brief words. In 1941 she was released, and in 1942 joined the army in Tehran.
- The witness was sentenced to two years for illegal slaughter in 1943. While serving his sentence, he witnessed numerous shootings and beatings in the Pińczów prison. On orders from the prison authorities, he often buried the bodies of the murdered prisoners. He testifies about several people who ran the prison and describes their methods of persecution.
- The witness was taken for forced labor in October 1942. She knows little about the ghetto in Stopnica; she testifies about administrative harassment and quotas imposed on Jews. Next she describes the conditions of work in Skarżysko[-Kamienna] and Częstochowa; she received very meager food. In Częstochowa it was even worse, as the laborers were regularly beaten.
- The witness was taken into Soviet captivity in Lwów (he misstates the date as 28 August 1939) and was then transferred to Shepetivka, Novgorod and Zaporizhzhia, from where he was sent to the North (Arkhangelsk Oblast and/or Komi Republic). He describes the living conditions and starving food rations, as well as offensive and cruel behavior of the NKVS. On 25 August 1941 he was accepted into the Polish Army at the camp in Vyazniki.
- The witness was taken into Soviet captivity in Włodzimierz and driven on foot to Lutsk. He was abused on the way; he received neither food nor water. The conditions at Lutsk were deplorable. In Shepetivka he fell so seriously ill that he was taken to the hospital in Brody, where he spent eight months; he became a wreck of a man.
- The witness was the wife of a doctor who took care of the children at the camp; to stay with her husband, she worked as a nurse. She says that the majority of children had Russian mothers, who sometimes returned to the camp from forced labor to claim their children, but the children did not recognize them; the mothers were often sent for forced labor, and the children were left at the camp. The children had to be addressed exclusively in German. Her husband was urged to sign the Volksliste.
- The witness was wanted by the Germans as a member of the Home Army; his mother was killed during a search of his family home, when he was at the neighbors’ house.
- The witness went from Kyiv to Poland through Belarus. There are no other details.
- The witness went through the children’s camp in Iłowo, but she does not remember it. She knows that a Russian surname was written above her bed at the camp, from which she surmises that her mother came from the USSR.
- The witness worked at a hospital in Pokrovsk, where she saw wounded and killed civilians after the shelling of the city by Russian forces.
- The witness worked at the German transit camp for children in Iłowo in the years 1942–1945. He does not know whether children from the Zamość region were kept there.
- The witness worked for the Central Welfare Council during the occupation. He testifies about the repression organized by the German authorities after members of the underground carried out the death sentence against Igo Sym. He also describes his visit at the Pruszków transit camp, as well as the Germans’ particular cruelty towards Poles at this place and during the Warsaw Uprising.
- The witness worked for the Germans stationed at the school in Końskie. There was a large pit in the yard, where the Germans buried the bodies of those executed in the school, covering them with lime.
- The witness, a 19-year-old woman, was deported from the German-occupied territories to Sukhoi Log.
- The witness, a camp doctor, describes the tuberculosis barrack – which was separated, as the patients were forbidden to mix with other inmates; perhaps half of them survived – and the children’s barrack. The sister in charge was Matylda, who stole medications and was hated even by the Germans, who wanted to prevent her escape during the evacuation so that she would be held responsible for her actions. Pregnant women were brought to the camp; after they gave birth, they had to return to their place of employment without any hope of reuniting with the child. The witness claims that the children were sufficiently taken care of, because they were to be used to boost the population of the German nation after their wartime losses.
- The witness, a caretaker from Brody, was arrested during a manhunt. He was moved from one Lwów prison to another, and later, until the outbreak of the Russian-German war, he worked at airport construction in Uman. He was then taken by train to Mariupol, where he worked at a factory. He tells about his friend from Lwów who attempted escape, but was caught in three days and locked in a punishment cell, and then taken to an unknown destination shortly before the amnesty was announced. They should have been transported to the Polish Army, but instead they were taken to various kolkhozes and labor sites. When he asked for his wages, he did not receive any because, as he claims, he wanted to join the Polish Army. He describes the hardships suffered by a free man in Soviet Russia and his peregrination around the kolkhozes.
- The witness, a carpenter, was arrested and deported. He was imprisoned in Stanisławów, Starobelsk and Kolyma. There was hard work and torture during interrogations. He was released twice. On 1 January 1942, he left Kolyma. He reached Anders’ Army on 20 February 1942.
- The witness, a colonel, gives a detailed description of the conditions, the number of prisoners and the daily life at the POW camps, among others in Kozielszczyzna.
- The witness, a farmer, was forced to serve 9 months in the Red Army. Later he performed forced labor at an airport construction site and then building barracks in Nizhny Tagil. He was released on 28 February 1942.
- The witness, a forest ranger, was deported on 10 February 1940 to the Irkutsk Oblast, where he worked in the forest and at loading wagons. He was released in September 1941 and enlisted in the 10th Infantry Division in Lugovoy.