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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Anonymous (35)
  
  Szulc C. (26)
  
  Nowiński (8)
  
  Steinhauf Renata (7)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (5)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (4)
  
  Grabosz Ludwika; 1879? (4)
  
  Jamróz Halina; 1919? (4)
  
  Rogalski Władysław; 1879? (4)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Dąbrówka Zofia; 1892? (3)
  
  Jastrzębska Eugenia; 1906? (3)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (3)
  
  Kiełbowski Paweł; 1892? (3)
  
  Kocińska Alicja (3)
  
  Koczorowski Józef; 01.02.1919, Poznań (3)
  
  Maszczyk Antoni (3)
  
  Rajewski Ludwik; 16.12.1900, Łódź (3)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć county) (3)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć district) (3)
  
  Winczewska Anna; 1906? (3)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Bartkowicz Jan (2)
  
  Bartoszko Kazimierz; 09.10.1898 (2)
  
  Barzał Czesław; 09.10.1915, Ostrów Mazowiecka (2)
  
  Bicz Bolesław; 01.04.1889, Sporysz (Bielsk county) (2)
  
  Biejat Edmund; 1891? (2)
  
  Borkowska Maria; 1887? (2)
  
  Borowy Aleksander; 03.12.1898, Ostrów Mazowiecka (2)
  
  Bretsznajder Zofia; 1877? (2)
  
  Bryński Antoni; 18.01.1899, Radom (2)
  
  Bąk Antonina; 1902?, Puławy (lubelskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Chrościcki Julian; 26.05.1892, Szymony (2)
  
  Czardybon Bernard; 18.06.1901, Chorzów (2)
  
  Dzik Adam; 1910? (2)
  
  Dąbkowska Wiktoria, 1878? (2)
  
  Fultyn Witold Józef; 1913? (2)
  
  Garbarczyk Andrzej (2)
  
  Glickson Jerry (2)
  
  Gliński Bogdan; 08.12.1921, Sancygniów (2)
  
  Grabowski Kazimierz; 03.04.1909, Płock (2)
  
  Grabowski Ludwik; 12.06./06.12.1882, Józefin (Halinów county) (2)
  
  Grygiel Konstanty; 1899? (2)
  
  Górniak Stanisław; 1910? (2)
  
  Górniak Stefan; 1898? (2)
  
  Głowiak Stanisław; 10.02.1903, Podzwierzyniec (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Głuszak Józef; 27.10.1913, Koszyce Małe (2)
  
  Handzel Jan; 20.04.1906, Wincentów (Kielce county) (2)
  
  Handzel Jan; 20.04.1906, Wincentów (kielecki district) (2)
  
  Hanuszek Tadeusz; 11.07.1922, Kraków (2)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (2)
  
  Jamioł Agnieszka; 1881?, Galów (2)
  
  Jasionowska Danuta (2)
  
  Kahl Tadeusz; 27.07.1908, Kraków (2)
  
  Karcz Jan; 27.08.1915, Skalbmierz (2)
  
  Kaszyński Jan; 19.11.1920, Warsaw (2)
  
  Kisiel Mieczysław; 1912? (2)
  
  Kmiecik Stanisław; 1910? (2)
  
  Konca Stanisława; 1899?, Warsaw (2)
  
  Konca Stanisława; 1899?, Warszawa (2)
  
  Korganow Marek; 11.03.1931, Warsaw (2)
  
  Koźmiński Jerzy; 31.08.1924 (2)
  
  Krokowski Franciszek; 15.04.1915, Stara Wisła (2)
  
  Kruk Jan; 09.03.1904, Serbinów (2)
  
  Kruk Józef; 01.01.1916, Serbinów (2)
  
  Krypa Mieczysław; 12.09.1925, Bereza Kartuska (dziś Białoruś) (2)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (2)
  
  Kurys Bronisława; 1913? (2)
  
  Lenczewski Tadeusz; 1913?, Rzędziany (2)
  
  Lilienstern Stanisława Stefania; 11.11.1884, Glinojeck (2)
  
  Listkiewicz Ludwik; 1889? (2)
  
  Makowska Genowefa; 1913?, Kielce (2)
  
  Makuch Józef; 1904? (2)
  
  Martynuska Janina (2)
  
  Mas Anna; 1913? (2)
  
  Michalski Zbigniew (2)
  
  Michelis Zygmunt; 17.03.1880, Bycz (kujawsko-pomorskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Miłosz Piotr; 1903? (2)
  
  Miłosz Szczepan; 1899? (2)
  
  Mongiałło Wacław; 1910 (2)
  
  Musiałowicz Józef (2)
  
  Musiałowicz Stanisław (2)
  
  Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (2)
  
  Nowak Stefan; 1916? (2)
  
  Okolski Konrad; 19.02.1884, Nowostawce (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Okolski Konrad; 19.02.1884, Nowostawce (now: Ukraine) (2)
  
  Olbrycht Jan; 06.05.1886, Zahutyń (2)
  
  Opacki Władysław; 1904? (2)
  
  Osawski Zygmunt, 1892? (2)
  
  Pająk Franciszek (2)
  
  Palińska Kazimiera; 03.03.1883, Świr (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Pawłowski Jan (2)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (2)
  
  Prokop Kamila; 1909? (2)
  
  Przyborowska Maria; 29.07.1898, Warsaw (2)
  
  Przybylski Leon; 1886?, Kielce (2)
  
  Przybyłowska Karolina, 1899? (2)
  
  Puka Stanisław; 24.03.1921 (2)
  
  Płoski Stanisław; 04.12.1899, Bryansk (Russia) (2)
  
  Rajski Karol; 1897? (2)
Subject
- The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (338)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (294)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (265)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (212)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (198)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (184)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (108)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (102)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (101)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (99)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (92)
  
  In exile – Siberia (82)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (73)
  
  The tragedy of the Radom Arms Factory (64)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (61)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (61)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (58)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (55)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (53)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (52)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (52)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (52)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (50)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (46)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (42)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (42)
  
  In exile – Ural (40)
  
  Stadion Leśny, Słowik, Herby – execution sites in Kielce (40)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (39)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (38)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (36)
  
  Russian occupation – south Ukraine (35)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (35)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (33)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (30)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (29)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (28)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (28)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (27)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (27)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (26)
  
  The city condemned to death (26)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (25)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (25)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (23)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (23)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Świętokrzyskie region (23)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (23)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (22)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (22)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (21)
  
  Soldier's House, Fort VII, Żabikowo – the trail of death in Greater Poland (21)
  
  Terror in the "incorporated lands" – the Łódź region (21)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (19)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (18)
  
  Radom – daily terror (18)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (18)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (17)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (16)
  
  The persecuted church (16)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (16)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (16)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (15)
  
  The Free City of Danzig – erasing Polishness (14)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (14)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (13)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (12)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (12)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (12)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Lublin region (11)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (11)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (10)
  
  Radom bathed in blood – the prison in the former convent buildings (10)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (10)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (10)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (9)
  
  Fighting in Donbas (2014 and/or 2022) (9)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (9)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (9)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (9)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (8)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (8)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (8)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (8)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ryazan Oblast (8)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (8)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town (8)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (8)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Pomerania (7)
  
  The Częstochowa region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Republic of Mordovia (7)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Lublin region (7)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Warsaw (6)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (6)
  
  In exile – Mari El Republic (6)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Sachsenhausen (6)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (6)
  
  Browar, Czerwoniak – the Ostrów death blocks (5)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Lesser Poland (5)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Zamość region (5)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (310)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (300)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (265)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (185)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (160)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (157)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (153)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (151)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (144)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (136)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (130)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (121)
  
  Warsaw (118)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (117)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (113)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (113)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (111)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (110)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (99)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (88)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (87)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (80)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (79)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (76)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (74)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (69)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (69)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (67)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (63)
  
  Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 (62)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (59)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (59)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (58)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (58)
  
  Busko-Zdrój (56)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (56)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (55)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (52)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (50)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (50)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (47)
  
  Lublin (47)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) (47)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (46)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (46)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Ivan Franko Street 19 (46)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (45)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (45)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (44)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (44)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (43)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress (42)
  
  KL Majdanek (41)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (41)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (40)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (40)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (40)
  
  Radom, Arms Factory "Łucznik", Poniatowskiego Street (1905 Street 1/9) (40)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (40)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (40)
  
  Kozhva (Russia, Komi Republic) (39)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (39)
  
  Radom (39)
  
  Kielce (38)
  
  Radom, Gestapo headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (38)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (38)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (38)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (37)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (37)
  
  Białystok (36)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (35)
  
  Kraków (35)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (35)
  
  Przemyśl (34)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (34)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (33)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (33)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (33)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (33)
  
  Siedlce (33)
  
  Łomża, prison, Legionów Avenue 36 (33)
  
  Przemyśl, prison, Rokitniańska Street 1 (32)
  
  Sevvostlag (Russia, Magadan Oblast) (32)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (32)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (31)
  
  Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a (31)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (31)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (30)
  
  Chmielnik (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (30)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no 2, Zamarstynowska Street 7/9 (30)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (30)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (29)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (28)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (28)
  
  Nakhodka (Russia, Primorsky Krai) (28)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (28)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania), Łukiszki prison, Więzienna Street ( Lukiškių Street 6) (28)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (27)
  
  Bochnia, train station (27)
  
  Bydgoszcz (27)
Oblast
- Kherson (29)
  
  Zaporizhia (20)
  
  Donetsk (8)
  
  Kharkiv (8)
  
  Luhansk (8)
  
  Kyiv (3)
  
  Sumy (2)
Raion
- Kherson (12)
  
  Kakhovka (7)
  
  Melitopol (7)
  
  Vasylivka (5)
  
  Berdyansk (4)
  
  Henichesk (4)
  
  Izium (4)
  
  Mariupol (4)
  
  Svatove (4)
  
  Beryslav (3)
  
  Bucha (3)
  
  Donetsk (3)
  
  Kharkiv (2)
  
  Shchastia (2)
  
  Skadovsk (2)
  
  Zaporizhia (2)
  
  Bilokurakyne (1)
  
  Kramatorsk (1)
  
  Kupyansk (1)
  
  Polohy (1)
  
  Severodonetsk (1)
  
  Сhuhuiv (1)
Victims
- The Poles (3673)
  
  Civilians (3452)
  
  The Civilian Population (3153)
  
  Women (1408)
  
  Children (1055)
  
  The Jews (961)
  
  The Inteligentsia (936)
  
  The sick (605)
  
  Ukrainians (590)
  
  Russians/Soviets (578)
  
  The Sick (578)
  
  Deportees (531)
  
  The Russians (493)
  
  Prisoners of War (481)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (412)
  
  The elderly (329)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (318)
  
  The Elderly (309)
  
  Policemen (249)
  
  Belarusians (235)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (198)
  
  The Church (158)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (132)
  
  Germans (107)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (92)
  
  Lithuanians (91)
  
  Landowners (76)
  
  Internees (75)
  
  Hungarians (57)
  
  Czechs (54)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (54)
  
  The French (50)
  
  Border Protection Corps (46)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (45)
  
  Border Guard (44)
  
  Belgians (42)
  
  Slovaks (41)
  
  Latvians (37)
  
  The Communists (37)
  
  The Dutch (34)
  
  The Disabled (30)
  
  Estonians (29)
  
  Greeks (24)
  
  Romanians (23)
  
  Italians (15)
  
  Americans (13)
  
  Norwegians (11)
  
  The British (8)
  
  Prison Guard (7)
  
  the Chinese (6)
  
  Finns (5)
  
  Scouts (3)
  
  The elderly (3)
  
  Georgians (2)
  
  Bulgarians (1)
  
  Crimean Tatars (1)
  
  Serbs (1)
Perpetrators
- The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (534)
  
  SS (472)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (454)
  
  Military Police (403)
  
  Collaboration (307)
  
  Red Army (220)
  
  Denunciation (183)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (181)
  
  Soviet Militia (167)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (119)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (98)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (96)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (96)
  
  Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (75)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (56)
  
  Lithuanians (45)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (42)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (41)
  
  Collaborators (25)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (22)
  
  Donetsk People’s Militia (all military formations of so-called separatist republics DNR and LNR) (19)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (17)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (15)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (14)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (14)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (13)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (12)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (10)
  
  Kadyrovites (9)
  
  Latvians (9)
  
  Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (7)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (7)
  
  Waffen-SS (6)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (5)
  
  Rosgvardiya [National Guard of Russia] (5)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (5)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (4)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (4)
  
  Security Office (4)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (4)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (3)
  
  Administrative Police (2)
  
  Postal Protection (2)
  
  Assault Units (Sturmabteilung, SA) (1)
  
  OMON/SOBR [Special Purpose Mobile Unit/Special Rapid Response Unit] (1)
  
  Separatists (1)
  
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Piątkowska Antonina 24.12.1900, Warsaw

Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp

1941.03.10-1945.01.18

Poznań Lublin Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Ravensbrück (Germany) Tarnów Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Łódź KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” KL Gross-Rosen Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship)

Głowacki Czesław 20.07.1918

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death

1940.09.22-1945.01.27

Lublin KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 Warsaw Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), Dulag, 1 Maja Street German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) Warsaw KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V

Smoleń Kazimierz 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć county)

The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów

1943.01.28-1945.01

Terezin (Czech Republic) KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" Jaworzno, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Wołkowysk (now in Belarus) Łódź KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 Wołkowysk (Belarus)

Karcz Jan 27.08.1915, Skalbmierz

Mass extermination - KL Neuengamme

1940.04.06-1945.05.03

KL Gross-Rosen Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 KL Auschwitz-Birkenau KL Auschwitz I Skalbmierz KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I Kraków, Pomorska Street 2 KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V Hamburg (Germany) KL Neuengamme (Germany) KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) Rajsko, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Lübeck (Germany) Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Bay of Lübeck (Germany) KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) Bochnia, train station KL Gross-Rosen

Nowosielski Aleksander Tadeusz 14.04.1904, Oszmiana (now in Belarus)

Mass extermination - KL Neuengamme

1940-1945.05.02

Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), Gestapo headquarters, Urszulańska Street 18 KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Tarnów, Gestapo Headquarters, Urszulańska Street 18 KL Neuengamme (Germany)

Pielach Bolesław 30.12.1907, Głuszczyzna

1940.06.24-1945.05.11

Berlin (Germany) KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) KL Dachau (Germany) KL Buchenwald (Germany)

Smużewski Zygmunt 17.05.1919, Stanisławowo

The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów

1940.05-1945.04.30

KL Neuengamme (Germany) Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 Sanok, penal-investigative prison, Zaułek Dobrego Wojaka Szwejka Street 4 (Kościuszki Street 5) KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” KL Barth (subcamp of KL Ravensbrück, Germany)

Tenenbaum Helena 15.09.1912, Warsaw

Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau

1943.01-1945

KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) KL Auschwitz I KL Ravensbrück (Germany) Mechelen (Belgium), transit camp KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 Brussels (Belgium) KL Malchow (KL Ravensbrück subcamp, Germany)

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