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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Bartoszko Kazimierz; 09.10.1898 (2)
  
  Tomaszewski Zdzisław (2)
  
  Adamczyk Karol (1)
  
  Adamski Alojzy, 1908.06.30 (1)
  
  Adamski Antoni, 1894? (1)
  
  Adamski Antoni; 1894? (1)
  
  Alchimowicz Kazimierz; 1906 (1)
  
  Aleksiejewicz Józef (1)
  
  Amanowicz Kazimierz; 1922? (1)
  
  Arciszewski Jan, 1907, Pińsk (1)
  
  Atras Franciszek, 1900.10.08 (1)
  
  Aunszlok Kazimierz (1)
  
  Badurak Brosnislaw, 1905 (1)
  
  Badurak Brosnisław; 1905 (1)
  
  Bajorek Zygmunt; 1915? (1)
  
  Balcar Karol, 1915? (1)
  
  Balińska Janina; 19.03.1905, Częstochowa (1)
  
  Bartkiewicz Władysław; 1918?, Delatyn (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bartkiewicz Władysław; 1918?, Delatyn (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Bartosiewicz Marcin, 1908 (1)
  
  Barwicki Władysław; 1898 (1)
  
  Batura Józef; 1916 (1)
  
  Baumgarten Józefina (1)
  
  Bazylewicz Aleksy, 1892 (1)
  
  Bałajewicz Jadwiga; 1913 (1)
  
  Bałajewicz Jadwiga; 1914 (1)
  
  Beker Władysław; 1911 (1)
  
  Bendowski Stefan; 1906 (1)
  
  Bereziuk Marian, 1922 (1)
  
  Bielawski Stanisław (1)
  
  Bielecki Andrzej; 1893, Podhorce (1)
  
  Bielecki Edward (1)
  
  Bielecki Lucjan, 1906 (1)
  
  Bielonuzko Szymon, 1902 (1)
  
  Biełooki Wiktor; 1900 (1)
  
  Biełous Włodzimierz; 1904 (1)
  
  Biliński Ludwik; 1919? (1)
  
  Binduga Władysław; 1915 (1)
  
  Biś Teodor; 1901? (1)
  
  Bobrowicz Nikodem; 1899? (1)
  
  Bocek Tadeusz (1)
  
  Bochnik Kasper, 1897 (1)
  
  Bochno Michał, 1903? (1)
  
  Bodnar Michał, 1899? (1)
  
  Bojar Michał; 19.09.1901, Krasne (1)
  
  Bojarski Jan, 1899 (1)
  
  Borkowski Edward; 1892? (1)
  
  Borowski Józef; 1901? (1)
  
  Borysiuk Mateusz; 1903? (1)
  
  Bubniewicz Wladyslaw; 1898? (1)
  
  Buchwalter Fryderyk, 1912 (1)
  
  Buczynski Zbigniew; 1923? (1)
  
  Buczyński Michał; 28.09.1892 (1)
  
  Budzianowski Antoni; 1886 (1)
  
  Bujko Henryk (1)
  
  Bulska (1)
  
  Burda Augustyn, 1901? (1)
  
  Burzawa Franciszek, 22.11.1892 (1)
  
  Butrymowicz Jan (1)
  
  Byczkowski Wiktor, 1896? (1)
  
  Byra Paweł, 1898 ? (1)
  
  Bączkowski (1)
  
  Capecki Franciszek; 1897 (1)
  
  Capiga Władysław, 1896 (1)
  
  Cepil Feliks; 1899 (1)
  
  Charytański Kazimierz; 1894.03.04 (1)
  
  Chmielewska Jadwiga (1)
  
  Chmielewska Władysława, 1918.01.25 (1)
  
  Chodoff Bernard; 1891 (1)
  
  Chodorowski Aleksander (1)
  
  Chodorowski Jan, 1898 (1)
  
  Chrobak Wladysław; 1901 (1)
  
  Chudoń Marian; 23.01.1909 (1)
  
  Chęciński Paweł; 1897 (1)
  
  Cieplik Marian; 24.02.1894 (1)
  
  Ciągło Jan; 01.12.1899 (1)
  
  Csabak Leon, 1919 (1)
  
  Cudziło Władysław; 23.03.1909, Wodzianów (1)
  
  Cyran Walentyna; 1899, Grodno (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  CyranWalentyna; Grodno (now: Belarus), 1899 (1)
  
  Cyrek Bogumiła (1)
  
  Cytko Jan; 1897? (1)
  
  Czabak Julian; 1897? (1)
  
  Czabućko Michał; 03.08.1898, Kruciłowicze (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Czaporowski Lucjan; 13.12.1904 (1)
  
  Czerniak Zygmunt, 1906 (1)
  
  Czyżewski Piotr, 1915 (1)
  
  Dawidowicz Włodzimierz (1)
  
  Dawidowski Franciszek (1)
  
  Dec Ignacy; 30.01.1896, Sokołów Małopolski (1)
  
  Dec-Soj Stanisława (1)
  
  Denisiuk Piotr; 1913 (1)
  
  Deputat Włodzimierz (1)
  
  Dobosz Józef; 1897 (1)
  
  Doliński Jan; 1897 (1)
  
  Dorsz Augustyn; 09.08.1884, Hersztupowo (1)
  
  Drożejko Julian; 1897 (1)
  
  Drzewoszewski Józef (1)
  
  Dubiago Arkadiusz (1)
  
  Dudwak Lidia (1)
  
  Kullanda Henryk (1)
Subject
- The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (90)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (46)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (45)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (43)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (37)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (37)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (28)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (27)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (24)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (19)
  
  In exile – Siberia (18)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (17)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (16)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (11)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (10)
  
  In exile – Ural (8)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (8)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (6)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ryazan Oblast (5)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (4)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (4)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (4)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (2)
  
  In exile – Mari El Republic (2)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (2)
  
  In exile – Povolzhye (2)
  
  Allied assistance from the air (1)
  
  Deported – the Altai Krai (1)
  
  In exile – Ryazan Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ivanovo Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Republic of Mordovia (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Sverdlovsk Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (1)
  
  the Gulag Archipelago – the Ukraine (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (104)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (72)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (62)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (53)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (45)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (38)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (36)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (34)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (32)
  
  Ostashkov (Russia, Tver Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (30)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (28)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (28)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (27)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (23)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (20)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (20)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (19)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (19)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (18)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (18)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (18)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (17)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (17)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (16)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (16)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (16)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (15)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (15)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (15)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (14)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (14)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (13)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (13)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no 2, Zamarstynowska Street 7/9 (13)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (13)
  
  Nakhodka (Russia, Primorsky Krai) (13)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (13)
  
  Połąga (now in Lithuania), internee camp (13)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (13)
  
  Sevvostlag (Russia, Magadan Oblast) (13)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (13)
  
  Warsaw (13)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (12)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (12)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (12)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (12)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (11)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (11)
  
  Przemyśl (11)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (11)
  
  Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (10)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (10)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (10)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (10)
  
  Kherson (Ukraine), prison, Perekopska Street 10 (10)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (10)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (10)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (10)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania), Łukiszki prison, Więzienna Street ( Lukiškių Street 6) (10)
  
  Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (9)
  
  Kola Penninsula (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (9)
  
  Połock (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Zinaida Tusnolobova-Marchenko Street (9)
  
  Ukmergė (Lithuania), internee camp (9)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (9)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (9)
  
  Borysów (Belarus) (8)
  
  Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (8)
  
  Kagan (Uzbekistan) (8)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (8)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (8)
  
  Pińsk (now in Belarus), NKVD prison no 29, Brzeska/Poleska Street (8)
  
  Równe (Ukraine), prison, 3 Maja Street (Soborna Street 16) (8)
  
  Vrevsky (Almazar, Uzbekistan) (8)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania) (8)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (8)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (8)
  
  Abez (Russia, Komi Republic) (7)
  
  Berezwecz (Głębokie, now in Belarus), NKVD prison (Basilian monastery), Sovetskaya Street 201 (7)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (7)
  
  Czortków (now in Ukraine), prison, Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) (7)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (7)
  
  Kołomyja (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, aleja Wolności (Lesi Ukrainki Street 32) (7)
  
  Krzemieniec (Ukraine), NKVD prison, Sanatorijna Street 1 (7)
  
  Minsk (Belarus), NKVD remand center "Amerykanka", Hradsky Val Street 4 (7)
  
  Mołodeczno (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Wielki Gościniec Street 52 (7)
  
  Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a (7)
  
  Yertsevo (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (7)
  
  Łomża, prison, Legionów Avenue 36 (7)
  
  Czortków (Ukraine) (6)
  
  Irkutsk (Russia, Irkutsk Oblast) (6)
  
  Karlag (Kazakhstan) (6)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (6)
  
  Kołomyja (now in Ukraine) (6)
  
  Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) (6)
  
  Lida (now in Belarus) (6)
  
  Nukus (Uzbekistan) (6)
  
  Onieglag corrective forced labor camp (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (6)
  
  Rawa Ruska (Ukraine), NKVD prison (6)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (6)
  
  Semipalatinsk (Semey, Kazakhstan) (6)
Victims
- Public servants/Civil servants (537)
  
  The Poles (534)
  
  Civilians (431)
  
  The Civilian Population (404)
  
  The Inteligentsia (327)
  
  Policemen (195)
  
  Women (189)
  
  The Jews (171)
  
  Deportees (169)
  
  Ukrainians (166)
  
  Children (145)
  
  The sick (138)
  
  The Sick (132)
  
  Prisoners of War (126)
  
  Russians/Soviets (122)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (117)
  
  The Russians (95)
  
  Belarusians (88)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (79)
  
  The elderly (71)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (71)
  
  The Elderly (69)
  
  Internees (49)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (46)
  
  Landowners (41)
  
  The Church (40)
  
  Border Guard (38)
  
  Lithuanians (37)
  
  Border Protection Corps (26)
  
  Germans (18)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (16)
  
  Latvians (13)
  
  Estonians (12)
  
  Romanians (6)
  
  Czechs (3)
  
  Finns (3)
  
  Prison Guard (3)
  
  Hungarians (2)
  
  Georgians (1)
  
  The British (1)
  
  The Communists (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (130)
  
  Denunciation (83)
  
  Red Army (76)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (69)
  
  Soviet Militia (57)
  
  Collaboration (54)
  
  Lithuanians (29)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (27)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (7)
  
  Collaborators (6)
  
  Latvians (4)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (3)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (2)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (1)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (1)
Crimes
- Biological extermination (431)
  
  Forced labor (429)
  
  Arrest (410)
  
  Deportation/Exile (281)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (276)
  
  Beating (242)
  
  Judicial crime (159)
  
  Punishment cell (145)
  
  Cattle wagons (125)
  
  Robbery (111)
  
  Death by shooting (52)
  
  Execution (46)
  
  Disarmament (31)
  
  Roads of death (25)
  
  Deportation (20)
  
  Air raids (18)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (15)
  
  Sovietization (9)
  
  Forced voting (8)
  
  Desacration of corpses (7)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (6)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (5)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (5)
  
  Armored weapons (3)
  
  Collectivization (3)
  
  Death marches (3)
  
  Round-up (3)
  
  Denationalization (2)
  
  Artillery fire (1)
  
  Artillery shelling (1)
  
  Cremation (1)
  
  Cremation of corpses (1)
  
  Displacement (1)
  
  Expulsion (1)
  
  Mass graves (1)
Place
- Prison (167)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (127)
  
  Kolkhoz (123)
  
  NKVD custody suite (119)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (88)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (74)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (53)
  
  Internment camp (47)
  
  Transit camp (45)
  
  Mine (38)
  
  Sovkhoz (25)
  
  Concentration camp (3)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (2)
  
  Extermination camp (1)
  
  Orphanage – dietdom (1)
  
  Sewers (1)
  
  Siberia (1)
Content
- Health service (363)
  
  Anders' Army (170)
  
  Amnesty (157)
  
  Epidemics (85)
  
  Polish culture in exile (80)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (79)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (75)
  
  Communist propaganda (62)
  
  First deportation (53)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (30)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (27)
  
  Second deportation (27)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (23)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (22)
  
  Third deportation (22)
  
  Fourth deportation (15)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (8)
  
  Military hospital (7)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (6)
  
  Underground culture and education (5)
  
  Civil resistance (4)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (3)
  
  Students' Army Corps (3)
  
  Partisan warfare (2)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (1)
  
  Polish Underground State (1)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
  
  Underground media (1)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (1)
Object type
- Account (171)
  
  Brief (46)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (4)
  
  Statement (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 (491)
  
  Katyn Museum (46)
Medium
- Text (537)
  
  Image (8)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (531)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (5)