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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Marcinkiewicz Stefan (2)
  
  Zdanowicz Michał; 1899.12.11 (2)
  
  Andrzejewski Teodor; 1904? (1)
  
  Awienko Henryk; 1910? (1)
  
  Babicz Stanisław; 17.07.1906, Babicze (1)
  
  Bajorek Zygmunt; 1915? (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899 (1)
  
  Banaś Stanisław; 1899?, Brynica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Bartoszewicz Emilia; 09.11.1915 (1)
  
  Bator Franciszek (1)
  
  Bełzki Jan; 1896, Potok Górny (1)
  
  Biskup Marcin; 1909 (1)
  
  Blachuta Czesław; 1923? (1)
  
  Bluszcz Aleksander; 1899 (1)
  
  Bochnik Kasper, 1897 (1)
  
  Bohdanowicz Klemens, (1)
  
  Bohosiewicz Irena (1)
  
  Bojar Michał; 19.09.1901, Krasne (1)
  
  Bolimowska Wanda; 1923, Pomorzanka (dziś: Ukraina) (1)
  
  Bolimowska Wanda; 1923, Pomorzanka (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Borasińska Helena; 05.05.1898, Goszczyno (Płocki county) (1)
  
  Borasińska Jadwiga; 06.07.1925 Sutkowszczyzna (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Borasińska Jadwiga; 06.07.1925 Sutkowszczyzna (now: Ukraine) (1)
  
  Borasiński Jan; 15.08.1897, Goszczyno Górne (1)
  
  Borysiuk Mateusz; 1903? (1)
  
  Boryń Franciszek; 1898 (1)
  
  Buchwalter Fryderyk, 1912 (1)
  
  Bukiewicz Marian (1)
  
  Bukowiecka-Lipska Zofia; 1911 (1)
  
  Busk Kazimierz; 09.01.1915, Kielce (1)
  
  Butrymowicz Jan (1)
  
  Byczkowski Wiktor, 1896? (1)
  
  Bławat Michał; 1896? (1)
  
  Błażek Władysław; 1897? (1)
  
  Celiński Czesław; 15.11.1900 (1)
  
  Chwiałkowska Zofia; 1919? (1)
  
  Chłebiuk Maksym; 1893 (1)
  
  Cichowski Julian; 1900? (1)
  
  Cieplik Marian; 24.02.1894 (1)
  
  Cieślak Jan; 1905 (1)
  
  Ciągło Jan; 01.12.1899 (1)
  
  Cybański Adam; 1907? (1)
  
  Czapiński Marian; 1901? (1)
  
  Czarniecki Kazimierz, 1912.12.02 (1)
  
  Czarnocka Anna; 12.11.1906, Dawidowicze (gm. Zabłudów) (1)
  
  Czekałowska Irena (1)
  
  Darasz Jan; 1901? (1)
  
  Deresz Karolina; 03.05.1909, Murawiec (1)
  
  Deręgowski Antoni (1)
  
  Dobosz Franciszek (1)
  
  Dobrzański Jan; 1914 (1)
  
  Drozdowicz Józef (1)
  
  Drożejko Julian; 1897 (1)
  
  Dubiński Antoni; 1902 (1)
  
  Dubrawka Piotr (1)
  
  Dygul Stanisław; 1898 (1)
  
  Dziekański Jan; 1901 (1)
  
  Dzikowski Henryk; 20.05.1922 (1)
  
  Eilsztein Dawid, 1909 (1)
  
  Epsztejn Abraham, 1911 (1)
  
  Fałdyga Adam, 1893 (1)
  
  Feldman Irena 21.02.1909, Warsaw (1)
  
  Feldman Irena; 21.02.1909, Warsaw (1)
  
  Ficek Władysław, 1898.05.21 (1)
  
  Fijakowski Błażej (1)
  
  Filipowicz Władysław, 1894.09.22 (1)
  
  Frenkiel Stanisław, 1918 (1)
  
  Frąckiewicz Piotr; 1896 (1)
  
  Gajewski Marian; 15.08.1896 (1)
  
  Garlicki Aleksander (1)
  
  Gielwert Edward; 1899? (1)
  
  Glezner Zygmunt; 17.09.1911, Warsaw (1)
  
  Gołost Aleksander; 05.12.1902 (1)
  
  Gralak Stanisław; 14.07.1915 (1)
  
  Grech Michał, 1903 (1)
  
  Grendo Bronisław; 06.07.1905 (1)
  
  Grot Józef; 11.01.1897 (1)
  
  Gussmann Brunon; 1915? (1)
  
  Głowacki Józef (1)
  
  Główczyk Jan, 1894 (1)
  
  Głąb Józef, 1894 (1)
  
  Haas Ludwika (1)
  
  Hajkiewicz Jan (1)
  
  Halicki Stanisław, 1912.03.12 (1)
  
  Hamuda Czesław (1)
  
  Hauptman Karol (1)
  
  Hipp Franciszek; 1901? (1)
  
  Hoffman Wincenty (1)
  
  Horbaczyński Leon (1)
  
  Hołowacz Longina; 04.03.1922, Kamień (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Hryniewicz Franciszek (1)
  
  Hryniuk Antoni; 1911? (1)
  
  Jackowski Eugeniusz; 12.12.1901 (1)
  
  Jancewicz Albert; 1913? (1)
  
  Janczarski Teofil; 1884.04.28 (1)
  
  Janczulewicz Hieronim; 1899 (1)
  
  Janicki Marian; 1914? (1)
  
  Jankowski Roman; 07.08.1901 (1)
  
  Jankowski Wacław (1)
  
  Januchowski Antoni; 1900 (1)
Subject
- The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (76)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (59)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (29)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (27)
  
  In exile – Siberia (21)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (21)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (19)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (16)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (14)
  
  In exile – Ural (8)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (6)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (6)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (6)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (4)
  
  In exile – Povolzhye (4)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (3)
  
  In exile – Far East (2)
  
  In exile – Kirov Oblast (2)
  
  In exile – Kostroma Oblast (2)
  
  In exile – Mari El Republic (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ryazan Oblast (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (2)
  
  Deported – the Altai Krai (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ivanovo Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Republic of Mordovia (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Sverdlovsk Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Tver Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Vologda Oblast (1)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (62)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (50)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (48)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (47)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (31)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (31)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (29)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (29)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (29)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (26)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (25)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (24)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (22)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (21)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (20)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (20)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (18)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (16)
  
  Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (14)
  
  Połąga (now in Lithuania), internee camp (14)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (13)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (12)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (12)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (11)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (now in Lithuania), internee camp (11)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (10)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (10)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (10)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (10)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (9)
  
  Kalvarija (Lithuania), internment camp (9)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (9)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (9)
  
  Ostróg (now in Ukraine), transit camp (Barracks of the 19th Volhynian Uhlan Regiment) (9)
  
  Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (9)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (9)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (9)
  
  Ukmergė (Lithuania), internee camp (9)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (9)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (9)
  
  Angielówka (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (8)
  
  Kozelschyna (Ukraine, Poltava Oblast), transit camp (8)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (8)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (8)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (7)
  
  Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (7)
  
  Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (7)
  
  Kermine (Navoiy, Uzbekistan) (7)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (7)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (7)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (7)
  
  Białystok (6)
  
  Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (6)
  
  Kagan (Uzbekistan) (6)
  
  Kola Penninsula (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (6)
  
  Kulautuva (Lithuania), internment camp (6)
  
  Nowogródek (now in Belarus) (6)
  
  Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (6)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (6)
  
  Ulbroka (Latvia), internee camp (6)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (6)
  
  Zborów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (6)
  
  Berezwecz (Głębokie, now in Belarus), NKVD prison (Basilian monastery), Sovetskaya Street 201 (5)
  
  Chelyabinsk (Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast) (5)
  
  Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (5)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (5)
  
  Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) (5)
  
  Jaryczów Stary (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (5)
  
  Kamionka Las (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (5)
  
  Kollag (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (5)
  
  Lida (now in Belarus) (5)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (5)
  
  Podliski Małe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (5)
  
  Radziwiłłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (5)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (5)
  
  Skole (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (5)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast) (5)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (5)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania) (5)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania), Łukiszki prison, Więzienna Street ( Lukiškių Street 6) (5)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, Ukraine), transit camp (5)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (5)
  
  Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (5)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (4)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (4)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 (4)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (4)
  
  Borysów (Belarus) (4)
  
  Busk (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (4)
  
  Farab (Otrar, Kazakhstan) (4)
  
  Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (4)
  
  Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (4)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (4)
  
  Kherson (Ukraine), prison, Perekopska Street 10 (4)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no 2, Zamarstynowska Street 7/9 (4)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (4)
  
  Mościska (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (4)
  
  Novosibirsk (Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast) (4)
  
  Olesko (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (4)
  
  Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a (4)
Victims
- The Poles (358)
  
  Civilians (229)
  
  The Civilian Population (192)
  
  The Inteligentsia (184)
  
  Women (148)
  
  Deportees (141)
  
  Ukrainians (137)
  
  Prisoners of War (129)
  
  The Jews (117)
  
  Children (116)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (104)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (98)
  
  The sick (97)
  
  Belarusians (93)
  
  Policemen (90)
  
  The Sick (85)
  
  Internees (74)
  
  The elderly (59)
  
  Russians/Soviets (57)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (56)
  
  The Elderly (52)
  
  The Russians (50)
  
  Border Guard (39)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (35)
  
  The Church (22)
  
  Border Protection Corps (21)
  
  Landowners (20)
  
  Lithuanians (19)
  
  Germans (18)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (14)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (9)
  
  Estonians (5)
  
  Latvians (5)
  
  Czechs (3)
  
  Prison Guard (3)
  
  Hungarians (2)
  
  Romanians (2)
  
  The British (1)
  
  the Chinese (1)
Perpetrators
- People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (109)
  
  Red Army (68)
  
  Denunciation (55)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (49)
  
  Collaboration (42)
  
  Soviet Militia (35)
  
  Lithuanians (29)
  
  Collaborators (7)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (7)
  
  Latvians (3)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (2)
  
  Administrative Police (1)
  
  SS (1)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (1)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (1)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (1)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (313)
  
  Biological extermination (310)
  
  Deportation/Exile (236)
  
  Arrest (209)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (145)
  
  Beating (111)
  
  Cattle wagons (108)
  
  Punishment cell (96)
  
  Judicial crime (56)
  
  Disarmament (44)
  
  Robbery (43)
  
  Death by shooting (34)
  
  Execution (32)
  
  Roads of death (32)
  
  Sovietization (21)
  
  Deportation (15)
  
  Air raids (12)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (10)
  
  Armored weapons (5)
  
  Forced voting (5)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (4)
  
  Round-up (4)
  
  Collectivization (2)
  
  Death marches (2)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (2)
  
  Displacement (2)
  
  Expulsion (2)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (2)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (2)
  
  Administrative persecution (1)
  
  Artillery shelling (1)
  
  Cremation (1)
  
  Cremation of corpses (1)
  
  Desacration of corpses (1)
  
  Espionage for the Third Reich (1)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (1)
  
  Racial policy (1)
  
  Rape (1)
Place
- Forced labor camps for POWs (99)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (98)
  
  Kolkhoz (76)
  
  Internment camp (69)
  
  Transit camp (68)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (55)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (51)
  
  Prison (49)
  
  NKVD custody suite (33)
  
  Mine (26)
  
  Sovkhoz (26)
  
  Concentration camp (2)
  
  Orphanage – dietdom (2)
  
  Siberia (2)
  
  Forced labor (1)
  
  Ghetto (1)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (1)
  
  Police headquarters/station (1)
  
  Sewers (1)
Content
- Polish culture in exile (287)
  
  Health service (258)
  
  Anders' Army (130)
  
  Amnesty (98)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (72)
  
  Epidemics (69)
  
  First deportation (69)
  
  Communist propaganda (63)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (50)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (30)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (22)
  
  Third deportation (19)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (16)
  
  Second deportation (12)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (11)
  
  Fourth deportation (9)
  
  Students' Army Corps (7)
  
  Civil resistance (4)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (2)
  
  Underground culture and education (2)
  
  Collectivization of Polish agriculture (1)
  
  Extermination of Jews (1)
  
  Military hospital (1)
  
  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists/Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN/UPA) (1)
  
  Partisan warfare (1)
  
  Rescue of Jews (1)
  
  The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (1)
  
  Underground media (1)
  
  Union for Armed Struggle – Home Army (ZWZ-AK) (1)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1)
  
  Warsaw Uprising (1)
Object type
- Account (107)
  
  Report (107)
  
  Summary (107)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (3)
  
  Brief (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 (359)
  
  Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Saved Jews (1)
Medium
- Text (360)
  
  Image (11)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (354)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (6)