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Witness

Smoleń Kazimierz 19.04.1920, Chorzów

Topic

Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Date

1940.04.15-1945.01.18

Location

German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) KL Auschwitz I Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” Świętoszów, POW camp Pszczyna

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Witness

Drabek Jaroslav 06.04.1901, Chrudim (Czech Republic)

Topic

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory

Date

1943.01.28-1945.01

Location

KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) Lidice (Czech Republic) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Prague (Czech Republic), Pankrác Prison, ul. Soudní 1 KL Majdanek Łódź, ghetto Plzeň (Czech Republic)

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Witness

Pec Władysław 23.01.1900, Warsaw

Topic

Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw

Date

1944.08.02-1944.09.12

Location

Warsaw, Bramenco factory, Wolska Street 60 Warsaw, Płocka Street 25 Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 Warsaw, Bema Street Warsaw, Chłodna Street Warsaw, Żelazna Street Warsaw, Sokołowska Street Pruszków, Dulag 121

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Witness

Pękalska Maria 21.01.1902, Daugavpils (Latvia)

Topic

Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów

Date

1944.08.01-1944.08.22

Location

Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 Warsaw, Kazimierzowska Street 51 Warsaw, Madalińskiego Street 51 Warsaw, Narbutta Street 37 Warsaw, Falęcka Street Warsaw, Łowicka Street Warsaw, Madalińskiego Street 39 Warsaw, Kazimierzowska Street 79 Warsaw, Madalińskiego Street 38

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Witness

Grzybowski Stefan 30.01.1899, Rzejowice (łódzkie voivodeship)

Topic

Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście

Date

1944.08.01-1944.08.11

Location

Warsaw, Marszałkowska Street 4 Warsaw, Unii Lubelskiej Square Warsaw, aleja Szucha Warsaw, Ogródek Jordanowski [Jordan garden], Bagatela Street 2/4

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Witness

Franiewska Maria 1908, Wilno (now in Lithuania)

Topic

The city condemned to death

Date

1944.08.01-1944.10

Location

Warsaw, Libawska Street 14 Warsaw, Słodowiec Street Warsaw, Burakowska Street Warsaw, Powązkowska Street 43/45 Warsaw, Powązkowska Street 41 Warsaw, Elbląska Street 51

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Witness

Rzymełka Jan 18.09.1877, Józefowiec (now: Katowice)

Topic

The persecuted church

Date

1939.10.03-1945.04.15

Location

Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) KL Gross-Rosen KL Mittelbau-Dora (Germany)

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Witness

Górski Antoni Stanisław 18.08.1914, Warsaw

Topic

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death

Date

1940.08.15-1941.12.31

Location

KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz-Birkenau KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Buchenwald (Germany) Warsaw, Aleje Ujazdowskie KL Auschwitz I, roll call square Skierniewice Warsaw, Matejki Street Warsaw, Piusa XI Street (Piękna Street) Warsaw, Górnośląska Street Warsaw, Marszałkowska Street Warsaw, Warszawa Zachodnia Station

Witness

Holender H.

Topic

Date

1942.06-1945

Location

German extermination camp of Bełżec Kraków, ghetto Wieliczka German extermination camp of Treblinka Skawina

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Witness

Gil Franciszka 1904

Topic

The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas

Date

1934.07.28-1944.07.28

Location

Suków (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship) Niewachlów (Kielce) Bliżyn, forced labor camp Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Odrowąż (Końskie district)

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Witness

Morawski Adolf 15.04.1901, Ostojów

Topic

Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages

Date

1943.07.12-1943.07.13

Location

Michniów KL Gross-Rosen Skarżysko-Kamienna; National Munitions Factory, Legionów Street 122 Berezów (Suchedniów), sawmill Wykus Orzechówka (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) Orzechówka (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship) KL Gross-Rosen Krzyżka Berezów (Suchedniów)

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Witness

Dupak Franciszek 28.02.1927, Michniów

Topic

Michniów – the extermination of the Polish countryside

Date

1943.07.12-1944.01.07

Location

KL Gross-Rosen KL Gross-Rosen Michniów Berezów (Suchedniów), sawmill Skarżysko-Kamienna; National Munitions Factory, Legionów Street 122 Krzyżka Berezów (Suchedniów) Orzechówka (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship) Orzechówka (świętokrzyskie voivodeship)

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Witness

Lehrer Karol 13.03.1922, Oświęcim

Topic

Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp

Date

1940.04-1945.05.08

Location

KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Oświęcim Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), ghetto KL Buchenwald (Germany) KL Auschwitz I Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), Targowa Street KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I Będzin, ghetto KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Annaberg (Austria), forced labor camp Klecina (Wrocław), forced labor camp, Supińskiego Street 4 Wałbrzych, forced labor camp (subcamp of KL Groß-Rosen) KL Blechhammer Kowary

Witness

Mandelbaum Henryk 15.12.1922, Olkusz

Topic

Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation

Date

1941-1945.01

Location

KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" KL Gross-Rosen Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Jastrzębie Zdrój KL Auschwitz I Dąbrowa Górnicza, ghetto KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), ghetto Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), Gestapo headquarters, Żytnia Street 8

Witness

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Topic

Date

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Location

German extermination camp of Majdanek KL Soldau KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) KL Gross-Rosen

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Witness

Ptak Stanisław 1902?

Topic

The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas

Date

1939-1944

Location

Łopuszno Łopuszno, Communal Jail Skałka Polska Eustachów Naramów Końskie, Jewish cemetery (Wjazdowa Street/ Staszica Street) Końskie, district hospital, Warszawska Street 25 Mniów

Witness

Gelade Eliasz 1893?

Topic

Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto

Date

1940.10-1944.11

Location

Warsaw Piotrków Trybunalski, Manufaktura, Sulejowska Street 45 Piotrków Trybunalski, ghetto Piotrków Trybunalski, Great Synagogue, Jerozolimska Street 29 Piotrków Trybunalski, Jerozolimska Street

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Witness

Czerwonka Władysław 22.12.1899, Mucisko

Topic

The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas

Date

1940.03-1940.04.11

Location

Hucisko (Przysucha district) KL Dachau (Germany)

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Witness

Czerwonka Władysław 22.12.1899, Mucisko

Topic

In revenge for assisting “Hubal” – reprisal campaigns

Date

1940.04.11-1940.04.11

Location

Hucisko (Przysucha district)

Witness

Polak Władysław 1908?

Topic

In revenge for assisting “Hubal” – reprisal campaigns

Date

1940.04.11-1940.04.11

Location

Hucisko (Przysucha district)