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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Szulc C. (96)
  
  Anonymous (86)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (23)
  
  Deja Stanisław; 23.04.1907, Kowala (23)
  
  Sulima Jan (11)
  
  Szczerbiński Jan (11)
  
  Sobierajska Irena (10)
  
  Nowiński (9)
  
  Steinhauf Renata (9)
  
  Polak Wacław (8)
  
  Kostka Stanisław (7)
  
  Sobczański J. (7)
  
  Sowiński Władysław (7)
  
  Stopa F. (7)
  
  Węsierska Agnieszka (7)
  
  Baćmaga Walenty, 11.02.1902, Zakrzów (6)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (6)
  
  Grodzicki Kazimierz (6)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (6)
  
  Marcinkiewicz Stefan (6)
  
  Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (6)
  
  Szelest Kazimierz; 25.03.1917, Kraków (6)
  
  Bochen Stanisław; 1901? (5)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (5)
  
  Konferowicz Wacław; 13.05.1912, Ostrów Mazowiecka (5)
  
  Kruszyna Stanisław (5)
  
  Lewicki W. (5)
  
  Madej Józef (5)
  
  Mankiewicz Franciszek; 1898 (5)
  
  Maroński Stanisław (5)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 27.01.1913, Warsaw (5)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (5)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (5)
  
  Russanowska B. (5)
  
  Łukasiewicz Henryk (5)
  
  Czardybon Bernard; 18.06.1901, Chorzów (4)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (4)
  
  Grabosz Ludwika; 1879? (4)
  
  Iwanicka Maria; 27.01.1913 (4)
  
  Jamróz Halina; 1919? (4)
  
  Klimkiewicz Stanisław; 1895? (4)
  
  Korkosz Stanisław; 1904? (4)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 04.05.1918, Kraków (4)
  
  Lizis Teofil (4)
  
  Nass Róża; 09.01.1907, Biała (Bielsko-Biała) (4)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (4)
  
  Rajewski Ludwik; 16.12.1900, Łódź (4)
  
  Rogalski Władysław; 1879? (4)
  
  Rott Wiesław; 14.06.1914, Lublin (4)
  
  Sendecki Sylwester; 1903? (4)
  
  Skrzyniarz Adam (4)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć county) (4)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć district) (4)
  
  Stawiarski Eugeniusz (4)
  
  Sulewski Paweł (4)
  
  Szymanowski Jan (4)
  
  Tomasik Marcin (4)
  
  Wojcikowski Stanisław (4)
  
  Wolny Stefan; 30.10.1903, Kamieńskie (Ukraine) (4)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (4)
  
  Wronikowski Henryk (4)
  
  Barzał Czesław; 09.10.1915, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Bas Ludwik; 18.12.1912, Kraków (3)
  
  Bech Leon; 24.03.1989, Wola (3)
  
  Bochenek Marta; 19.09.1892 (3)
  
  Brach Jan; 1919? (3)
  
  Brzoskowski Jan (3)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Ciepliński Brunon (3)
  
  Duda Konrad; 02.02.1914, Wartogłowiec (Tychy) (3)
  
  Dąbrówka Zofia; 1892? (3)
  
  Filipowska (Freund) Ilza; 14.01.1902, Wrocław (3)
  
  Gil Piotr; 1897? (3)
  
  Gozdur Stanisław; 11.11.1891, Wola Solecka (3)
  
  Grabczyński Jan; 21.05.1908, Tarnów (dolnośląskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Głowa Stanisław; 15.09.1898, Igołomia (3)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (3)
  
  Hys Stanisław; 19.07.1910, Sobolew (mazowieckie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Igielski Jan; 12.01.1915, Stróże (Nowy Sącz county) (3)
  
  Janiszewska Barbara (3)
  
  Jastrzębska Eugenia; 1906? (3)
  
  Jaworski Józef; 23.09.1882 Wierzbica (Radom county) (3)
  
  Kaczanowski Jan; 1913?, Rytwiany (3)
  
  Kiczmachowski Edward; 29.07.1920, Strasburg (3)
  
  Kiełbowski Paweł; 1892? (3)
  
  Kocińska Alicja (3)
  
  Koczorowski Józef; 01.02.1919, Poznań (3)
  
  Kopta Marian; 08.12.1911, Kraków (3)
  
  Korszla Jan; 1914? (3)
  
  Kotlarski Mieczysław; 09.10.1913, Osieczna (wielkopolskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Kowalczyk Jan (3)
  
  Kościuszko Janina; 17.05.1897, Chrzanów? (3)
  
  Krakiewicz Feliks; 1873? (3)
  
  Krokowski Jan; 08.05.1921, Nowy Sącz (3)
  
  Kruczyński Michał; 1895? (3)
  
  Kruk Józef; 01.01.1916, Serbinów (3)
  
  Kucharski Teofil; 06.02.1889, Jaszczew (3)
  
  Kukla Zbigniew; 11.08.1910, Kalwaria Zebrzydowska (3)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (3)
  
  Lorentz Stanisław; 28.04.1899, Radom (3)
  
  Kullanda Henryk (1)
Subject
- The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (612)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (566)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (496)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (411)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (410)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (357)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (345)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (321)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (262)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (251)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (205)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (201)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (187)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (159)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (157)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (146)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (145)
  
  In exile – Siberia (143)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (130)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (127)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (111)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (109)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (108)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (106)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (105)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (105)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (104)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (97)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (95)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (95)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (95)
  
  The city condemned to death (94)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (92)
  
  The tragedy of the Radom Arms Factory (91)
  
  In exile – Ural (78)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (75)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (71)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (71)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (70)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Pomerania (70)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (70)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (69)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (62)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (58)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (57)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (56)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (56)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (53)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (49)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (48)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (48)
  
  Stadion Leśny, Słowik, Herby – execution sites in Kielce (46)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (44)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (43)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz (43)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (42)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (41)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (40)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (40)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Świętokrzyskie region (40)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Lublin region (39)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (39)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (37)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (37)
  
  Firlej near Radom – the training ground of death (36)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (36)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (36)
  
  Terror in the "incorporated lands" – the Łódź region (36)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (33)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (32)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (30)
  
  Radom – daily terror (29)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (29)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (28)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (28)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (27)
  
  Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages (27)
  
  Michniów – the extermination of the Polish countryside (27)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Lublin region (27)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (26)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (25)
  
  The Free City of Danzig – erasing Polishness (25)
  
  Soldier's House, Fort VII, Żabikowo – the trail of death in Greater Poland (24)
  
  The Częstochowa region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (23)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Warsaw (22)
  
  Pruszków – the town of the displaced (22)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (22)
  
  The persecuted church (22)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town (22)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (21)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (21)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (20)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (20)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Radom region (19)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (18)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (17)
  
  Warsaw '44 – uprising in Praga (17)
  
  Taken Captive (16)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Żoliborz (16)
  
  Wawer Massacre '39 (16)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz I (528)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (445)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (423)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (415)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (404)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (355)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (353)
  
  Warsaw (344)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (326)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (292)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (226)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (213)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (212)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (204)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (197)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (172)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (172)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (171)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (159)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (150)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (142)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (140)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (139)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (135)
  
  Kielce (123)
  
  KL Majdanek (121)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (116)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (113)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (103)
  
  Siedlce (100)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (99)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (96)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (96)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (94)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (93)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (91)
  
  Lublin (90)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (89)
  
  Radom (87)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (86)
  
  Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 (84)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (84)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (83)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (82)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (81)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (81)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (79)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (78)
  
  Kraków (76)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka (75)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (74)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (73)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (73)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (72)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (72)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (71)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (70)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (69)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (69)
  
  Busko-Zdrój (68)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (63)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (63)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (63)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (61)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (61)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (61)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 (60)
  
  KL Stutthof (59)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (57)
  
  Firlej (Radom), municipal cemetery, Ofiar Firleja Street 45 (56)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (56)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (56)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (56)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (55)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (54)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) (54)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (53)
  
  Radom, Arms Factory "Łucznik", Poniatowskiego Street (1905 Street 1/9) (53)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (53)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (52)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (51)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (51)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (51)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (51)
  
  Bydgoszcz (50)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (50)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (50)
  
  Starachowice (50)
  
  KL Plaszow (49)
  
  Kościerzyna (49)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (49)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (49)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (49)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (47)
  
  Bochnia, train station (47)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (47)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (47)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (47)
  
  Białystok (46)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (45)
Victims
- The Poles (8841)
  
  Civilians (7796)
  
  The Civilian Population (7201)
  
  Women (3155)
  
  Children (2872)
  
  The Jews (1980)
  
  The Inteligentsia (1551)
  
  Prisoners of War (1156)
  
  The sick (1156)
  
  The Sick (1117)
  
  Deportees (920)
  
  Russians/Soviets (859)
  
  Ukrainians (748)
  
  The Russians (736)
  
  The elderly (706)
  
  The Elderly (679)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (537)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (522)
  
  Policemen (400)
  
  Belarusians (390)
  
  The Church (328)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (327)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (216)
  
  Germans (178)
  
  Internees (167)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (126)
  
  Hungarians (120)
  
  Czechs (115)
  
  Lithuanians (107)
  
  Border Guard (106)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (104)
  
  The French (103)
  
  Landowners (84)
  
  Slovaks (76)
  
  Border Protection Corps (73)
  
  The Communists (62)
  
  The Disabled (61)
  
  The Dutch (61)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (61)
  
  Belgians (60)
  
  Greeks (50)
  
  Latvians (39)
  
  Estonians (32)
  
  Italians (26)
  
  Romanians (23)
  
  Americans (18)
  
  The British (16)
  
  Prison Guard (12)
  
  Norwegians (11)
  
  the Chinese (7)
  
  Finns (6)
  
  Scouts (3)
  
  Georgians (2)
  
  Serbs (2)
  
  Bulgarians (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (1512)
  
  Military Police (920)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (872)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (672)
  
  Collaboration (488)
  
  Red Army (478)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (361)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (282)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (274)
  
  Denunciation (235)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (229)
  
  Soviet Militia (219)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (117)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (115)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (97)
  
  Lithuanians (89)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (66)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (53)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (48)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (28)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (23)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (23)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (22)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (22)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (21)
  
  The Russian National Liberation Army (RONA) (20)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (18)
  
  Latvians (16)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (14)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (13)
  
  Collaborators (12)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (12)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (11)
  
  Waffen-SS (11)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (8)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (7)
  
  Security Office (7)
  
  Administrative Police (5)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (5)
  
  Postal Protection (3)
  
  Assault Units (Sturmabteilung, SA) (2)
  
  Technical Support (Technische Nothilfe) (2)
  
  Gendarmerie (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (4132)
  
  Execution (3777)
  
  Arrest (3669)
  
  Death by shooting (3223)
  
  Biological extermination (2990)
  
  Beating (2568)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (2075)
  
  Deportation/Exile (1535)
  
  Deportation (1486)
  
  Robbery (1277)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (862)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (827)
  
  Mass graves (777)
  
  Cattle wagons (733)
  
  Cremation of corpses (703)
  
  Cremation (684)
  
  Judicial crime (677)
  
  Punishment cell (624)
  
  Displacement (616)
  
  Expulsion (528)
  
  Round-up (520)
  
  Gas chambers (482)
  
  Hanging (482)
  
  Economic exploitation (394)
  
  Denationalization (381)
  
  Disarmament (356)
  
  Burning people alive (355)
  
  Air raids (325)
  
  Roads of death (195)
  
  Administrative persecution (184)
  
  Racial policy (182)
  
  Medical experiments (179)
  
  "Dosing" (129)
  
  Rape (125)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (116)
  
  Armored weapons (110)
  
  Artillery shelling (108)
  
  Artillery fire (107)
  
  Death marches (103)
  
  Desacration of corpses (98)
  
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Piotrowski Feliks

In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast

1939.09.08-1941.09.10

Vyatlag (Russia, Kirov Oblast) Korzec (now in Ukraine) Viatlag (Russia, Kirov Oblast) Orenburg (Kazakhstan) Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Stoeger Samuel 14.05.1911, Kraków

Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Gliwice

1944.07.29-1945

Kraków, ghetto KL Plaszow Arbeitslager Gleiwitz I (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Pionki, forced labor camp KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III KL Blechhammer KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager Arbeitslager Gleiwitz IV (Gliwice IV - filia KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau

Rokieta Stanisław 1900?

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

1939.09.13-1942.02.12

Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) Minsk (Belarus) Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) Margilan (Uzbekistan) Kazakhstan, Pavlodar Oblast

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1940.03.20-1942.02.10

Równe (Ukraine), prison, 3 Maja Street (Soborna Street 16) Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) Korzec (now in Ukraine) Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Chardzhou (Türkmenabat, Turkmenistan) Guzar (Uzbekistan)

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The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

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Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 Mołodeczno (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Wielki Gościniec Street 52 Połock (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Zinaida Tusnolobova-Marchenko Street Gudogaj (Belarus) Aykino (Russia, Komi Republic) Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Sangorodok (Russia, Komi Republic) Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast)

Terlecki Emilian 1919?

In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast

1940.02.10-1942.02.02

Guzar (Uzbekistan) Zharula (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast)

Dobosz Józef 1897

In exile – Komi Republic

1940.03.16 - 1941.09.22

Czortków (now in Ukraine), prison, Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) Kirovohrad (Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine), NKVD prison, Kuropyatnikova Street 50 Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Vietlosian (Ukhta, Russia, Komi Republic) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Wolman Jakub 13.07.1914

Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp

1940.04-1945.01.27

KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I KL Buchenwald (Germany) KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I KL Auschwitz I, roll call square KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Bratislava (Slovakia) Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp Žilina (Slovakia) Bronna Góra (Belarus)

Rajewski Ludwik 16.12.1900, Łódź

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death

1940.05.10-1944.10.25

Warsaw, Daniłowiczowska Street KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) KL Auschwitz I KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) KL Ravensbrück (Germany) Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 Bochnia, train station KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) KL Auschwitz I, roll call square KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Dresden (Germany) Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp KL Gross-Rosen

Wołyński Jan 1916?

A race against time – the road to Anders' Army

1940.02.10-1943

Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Guzar (Uzbekistan)

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