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Witness

Bulska

Topic

The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory

Date

1939.09.18-1946.04

Location

Ostashkov (Russia, Tver Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs Kostopol (now in Ukraine)

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Witness

Hejnowicz Halina

Topic

The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory

Date

1939.09.03-1945

Location

Warsaw Ostashkov (Russia, Tver Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs KL Stutthof

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Witness

Frąckowska Maria

Topic

The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory

Date

1939.09-1945

Location

Warsaw Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) Putyvl (Ukraine), NKVD camp for POWs (Sofronievsky Monastery) Geneva (Switzerland) Kyiv (Ukraine)

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Witness

Szaynoka Wanda 06.12.1898, Rubenka (Ukraine)

Topic

Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp

Date

1939.09.01-1945.04.09

Location

German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Lublin Warsaw, Aleje Jerozolimskie KL Ravensbrück (Germany) Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no. 1, Łąckiego Street (Bandery Street 1) KL Uckermark (KL Ravensbrück subcamp, Germany) Warsaw, Towarowa Street KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) Warsaw, Marszałkowska Street KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V Kyiv (Ukraine) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III

Witness

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Topic

Date

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Location

Olesko (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Babin (now in Ukraine, Rivne Oblast), POW forced labor camp Poltava (Ukraine) Kyiv (Ukraine) Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Tashlak (Toshloq, Uzbekistan) Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) Farab (Kazakhstan) Beirut (Lebanon)

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Witness

Peca-Szczyradłowska Krystyna 1927

Topic

The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory

Date

1939.09-1946.05

Location

Kyiv (Ukraine) Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Semey (Kazakshtan) Chełm

Witness

Handel Zygmunt

Topic

In exile – Siberia

Date

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Location

Kyiv (Ukraine) Tomsk (Russia, Tomsk Oblast) Chet-Pieski (Russia, Tomsk Oblast)

Witness

Zepp Zygmunt 1904

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

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Location

Kyiv (Ukraine) Radziwiłłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Janów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

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Witness

Kupiszewska Jadwiga

Topic

The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory

Date

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Location

Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Złoczów (now in Ukraine) Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) Podwołoczyska (Ukraine) Żółkiew (Ukraine) Kyiv (Ukraine) Bryansk (Russia, Bryansk Oblast) Moscow (Russia) Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) Terespol (Biała Podlaska district) Brześć (now in Belarus)

Witness

Marcjoniak Antoni

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1937 - 1942.03

Location

Warsaw Brody (Ukraine) Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine), train station Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Kyiv (Ukraine) Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Zborów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Złoczów (now in Ukraine) Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Guzar (Uzbekistan)

Witness

Dilny Ilko 1899.08.02

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast

Date

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Location

Sevdvinlag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast)

Witness

Dąbkowski Witkor 1890

Topic

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

Date

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Location

Farab (Kazakhstan)

Witness

Chomicz Mikołaj 1913

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Far East

Date

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Location

Churga (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Złoczów (now in Ukraine), NKVD remand center (Castle), Tarnopolska Street 4 Nakhodka (Russia, Primorsky Krai) Tashlak (Toshloq, Uzbekistan)

Witness

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Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

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Location

Lwów (now in Ukraine) Stryj (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Trybunalska Street (Ołesnyćkoho Street 4) Kharkiv (Ukraine) Moscow (Russia) Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Abez (Russia, Komi Republic) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Witness

Wawszczak Jan 1899

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

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Location

Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Kyiv (Ukraine) Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

Witness

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Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

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Location

Kyiv (Ukraine) Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp Zaporizhia (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp

Witness

Nowicki Jan

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

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Location

Minsk (Belarus), NKVD remand center "Amerykanka", Hradsky Val Street 4

Witness

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Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

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Location

Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Witness

-

Topic

In exile – Central Asia

Date

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Location

Turkistan (Kazakhstan) Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan)

Witness

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Topic

In exile – Siberia

Date

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Location

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