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Witness

Podgórski Antoni 1896.08.07

Topic

Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees

Date

1939.09.19 - 1942.02.27

Location

Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 Lugovoy (Kazakhstan)

Witness

Podhajski Wincenty 1898

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.19 - 1941.08.24

Location

Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8

Witness

Wilkowski 1910

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

-

Location

Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Kiev (Ukraine) Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp Proskuriv (Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs

Witness

Wiecek Walenty 1896

Topic

Date

1939.09.20 - 1941.08.24

Location

Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp Kulautuva (Lithuania), internment camp Ukmergė (Lithuania), internee camp Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8

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Witness

Biernacka Irena 1922?

Topic

Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück

Date

1941.10.18-1943.04

Location

KL Ravensbrück (Germany) KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) Odrowąż (Końskie district)

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Witness

Toporek Zofia

Topic

A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland

Date

1939.09-1945.05

Location

Łączna (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship) KL Auschwitz-Birkenau

Witness

Kaczyński Kazimierz 1907

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.18-1940.06.10

Location

Białystok Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) Małkinia Górna Warsaw Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp Korzec (now in Ukraine) Równe (Ukraine) Łuck (now in Ukraine) Brześć (now in Belarus) Kiwerce (Ukraine) Łapy Beirut (Lebanon)

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Witness

Fedor Zenon

Topic

Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region

Date

1943.11-1943.12

Location

Kielce

Witness

Sutewski Paweł

Topic

Date

1939-1939

Location

-

Witness

Pudowski Józef 1919?

Topic

A race against time – the road to Anders' Army

Date

1940.01.29-1942.10.20

Location

Brześć (now in Belarus) Homel (Belarus) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Farab (Kazakhstan)

Witness

Żurawski Kazimierz 1920

Topic

the Gulag Archipelago – the Republic of Karelia

Date

1940.09.27-1941.11.05

Location

Bielbaltlag (Russia, Karelian ASSR)

Witness

Anonymous

Topic

Date

-

Location

-

Witness

Żółtkowski Franciszek 1904

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.17-1941.09.02

Location

Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) Jarmolińce (now in Ukraine), transit camp Starobilsk (Ukraine) Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD prison, Kirov Street 32

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Witness

Czyżewska Anna

Topic

Poles saving Jews – Warsaw

Date

1939-1945.02

Location

Kocmyrzów Warsaw, Kapucyńska Street 3 Pruszków, Dulag 121 Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2)

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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

Skrzypień Teodor

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

1939.12.12 - 1941.09.10

Location

Przemyśl, prison, Rokitniańska Street 1 Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

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Witness

Markiewicz Zygmunt

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast

Date

1939.09.19-1942.05.01

Location

Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs Kołomyja (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, aleja Wolności (Lesi Ukrainki Street 32) Wojniłów (now in Ukraine) Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) Kharkiv (Ukraine) Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Dnipropetrovsk (Dnipro, Ukraine), NKVD Headquarters, Chkalov Street (Sviatoslav Chorobroho Street 23) Chkalov (Orenburg, Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Guzar (Uzbekistan)

Witness

Gąsior Władysław 1906.02.02

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

-

Location

Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Tudorów (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp Podwołoczyska (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

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Witness

Pietrzak Adam 01.12.1907

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.22-1942.08.25

Location

Werba (Ukraine) Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

Witness

Guzowiak Jan

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

1939.09.18 - 1941.09.15

Location

Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia) Komi Republic (Russia)