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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Szulc C. (10)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (8)
  
  Anonymous (7)
  
  Marcinkiewicz Stefan (6)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (4)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (4)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (3)
  
  Kucharski Teofil; 06.02.1889, Jaszczew (3)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (3)
  
  Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (3)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 27.01.1913, Warsaw (3)
  
  Siedlecki Karol (3)
  
  Wrona Edward; 13.10.1913, Tuchów (3)
  
  Banach Ludwig; 24.08.1917, Bydgoszcz (2)
  
  Banach Ludwik; 24.08.1918 (2)
  
  Bartel Erwin; 02.03.1923, Oświęcim (2)
  
  Cyba Eugeniusz; 07.12.1921, Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Denisow Piotr; 1894? (2)
  
  Gliński Bogdan; 08.12.1921, Sancygniów (2)
  
  Gozdur Stanisław; 11.11.1891, Wola Solecka (2)
  
  Głowiak Stanisław; 10.02.1903, Podzwierzyniec (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Kocięcki Józef; 21.12.1899 (2)
  
  Kocięcki Józef; 21.12.1900 (2)
  
  Koczorowski Józef; 01.02.1919, Poznań (2)
  
  Krokowski Franciszek; 15.04.1915, Stara Wisła (2)
  
  Krzymiński Aleksander (2)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Libkind-Lubodziecki Stanisław; 24.01.1879, Warsaw (2)
  
  Lipski Jan (2)
  
  Lis Józef (2)
  
  Ludwig Józef Paweł; 03.07.1910, Sosnowiec (2)
  
  Makowski Marian; 01.12.1924, Kielce (2)
  
  Materkowski Antoni; 14.06.1899, Koprzywnica (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Obrycki Narcyz; 04.09.1896, Warszawa (2)
  
  Ochman Stefan; 27.12.1902, Kowel (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Olbrycht Jan; 06.05.1886, Zahutyń (2)
  
  Palińska Kazimiera; 03.03.1883, Świr (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 1911? (2)
  
  Pozimski Jerzy; 05.05.1913, Szarlej (Piekary Śląskie) (2)
  
  Rajewski Ludwik; 16.12.1900, Łódź (2)
  
  Rychlik Czesław; 01.06.1909, Wąwoźnica (2)
  
  Rysiński Mieczysław (2)
  
  Smużewski Zygmunt; 17.05.1919, Stanisławowo (2)
  
  Sobczański J. (2)
  
  Sperber Karel; 1910, Tachov (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Stapf Adam; 01.08.1907, Tarnów (2)
  
  Stopa F. (2)
  
  Szczepanowski Jan; 1909? (2)
  
  Szczuciński (2)
  
  Taul Roman; 28.02.1917, Bytom (2)
  
  Tondos Władysław; 06.10.1900, Kalina Mała (2)
  
  Wilk Katarzyna; 1885?, Mały Sławków (2)
  
  Zdanowicz Michał; 1899.12.11 (2)
  
  Adamczyk Teresa (1)
  
  Adamowicz Alfons; 15.12.1906, Białystok (1)
  
  Affek Piotr; 1905? (1)
  
  Alchimowicz Kazimierz; 1906 (1)
  
  Aleksiejewicz Józef (1)
  
  Andrzejewski Teodor; 1904? (1)
  
  Aniszkiewicz Józef; 1895? (1)
  
  Aranowicz Jerma; 1907? (1)
  
  Arciszewski Franciszek; 02.11.1908, Łódź (1)
  
  Asińska Eugenia; 26.01.1900, Siedlce (1)
  
  Babiarz Józef; 13.03.1909, Łańcut (1)
  
  Babiarz Paweł, 1900.07.06 (1)
  
  Babiński Henryk, 1911 (1)
  
  Bakun Wladyslaw, 1906 (1)
  
  Bakun Władysław; 1906 (1)
  
  Bakuła Antoni; 1899 (1)
  
  Bakuła Antoni; 1900 (1)
  
  Baliński Kazimierz, 1901 (1)
  
  Banach Jan; 1894? (1)
  
  Banaszewski Stanisław; 1886?, Bugaj (skarżyski district) (1)
  
  Banaszewski; Stanisław 1886?, Bugaj (Skarżysko Kamienna county) (1)
  
  Barachowski Jan, 1900 (1)
  
  Baranowski Julian; 1902 (1)
  
  Baranowski Józef (1)
  
  Baranowski Maksymilian (1)
  
  Barczykowski Jan 1914 (1)
  
  Barczykowski Jan; 05.01.1914, Spieczyny (1)
  
  Bartosiak Kazimierz; 1898 (1)
  
  Bartosiński Mieczysław Franciszek; 02.04.1921, Warsaw (1)
  
  Barycki Stanisław; 1898 (1)
  
  Barzał Czesław; 09.10.1915, Ostrów Mazowiecka (1)
  
  Bator Franciszek (1)
  
  Bator Helena; 03.03.1904, Wilanów (now: Warsaw) (1)
  
  Bela Anastazja; 1895? (1)
  
  Beliczyński (1)
  
  Beliczyński Marian; 23.06.1902, Michałów (Grójec county) (1)
  
  Bendowski Stefan; 1906 (1)
  
  Bereza Wladyslaw, 1899 (1)
  
  Berkowicz Icko; 1906, Różana (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Bernatowicz Jan; 1899 (1)
  
  Berner Aleksander; 04.03.1915, Landwarów (now in Lithuania) (1)
  
  Berner Aleksander; 04.03.1915, Landwarów (now in Lithuania) (1)
  
  Bezruczko Jan; 1899, Lachowce (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Białek Władysław; 05.12.1890 (1)
  
  Białobocki Andrzej; 1900? (1)
  
  Biegaj Aleksandra (1)
Subject
- The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (486)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (82)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (77)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (61)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (45)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (38)
  
  Soviets in German captivity (25)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (23)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (20)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (17)
  
  Prisoners of war – transit camps in Kielce (15)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (14)
  
  Taken Captive (14)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (14)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (13)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (12)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (12)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (12)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (11)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (11)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (11)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (10)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (10)
  
  Pruszków – the town of the displaced (9)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (9)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (9)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (8)
  
  The Free City of Danzig – erasing Polishness (8)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (8)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz (8)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (7)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (6)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (6)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (6)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (6)
  
  The city condemned to death (6)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (6)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (5)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (5)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (5)
  
  Lebensborn – the Germanization of Polish children (5)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (5)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (5)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (5)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town (5)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (4)
  
  In exile – Siberia (4)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (4)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (4)
  
  Soldier's House, Fort VII, Żabikowo – the trail of death in Greater Poland (4)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (3)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (3)
  
  Mass extermination - KL Neuengamme (3)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen (3)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (3)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (3)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (3)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Lublin region (3)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (3)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Żoliborz (3)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (2)
  
  Browar, Czerwoniak – the Ostrów death blocks (2)
  
  Clandestine teaching classes – the Lwów region (2)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Trzebinia (2)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (2)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (2)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Pomerania (2)
  
  In exile – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (2)
  
  In exile – Ural (2)
  
  Lebensraum – the Germanization of the Zamość region (2)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Sachsenhausen (2)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (2)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Kirov Oblast (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (2)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (2)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (2)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (2)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (2)
  
  A genocide conducted by Ukrainian Nationalists – Volhynia (1)
  
  A mass extermination – KL Flossenbürg (1)
  
  A mass extermination – KL Mauthausen-Gusen (1)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (1)
  
  Allied assistance from the air (1)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Warsaw (1)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Gliwice (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Volhynia (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (1)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Zamość region (1)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Dachau (1)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (1)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (1)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Greater Poland (1)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (305)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (184)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (163)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (157)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (135)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (110)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (101)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (94)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (87)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (86)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (76)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (69)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (67)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (59)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (58)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (57)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (57)
  
  Warsaw (57)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (55)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (54)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (53)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (52)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (49)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (44)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (41)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (41)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (39)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (38)
  
  Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (38)
  
  Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (38)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (38)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (38)
  
  Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (37)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (35)
  
  Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (34)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (34)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (34)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (31)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (31)
  
  Olesko (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (31)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (31)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (31)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (31)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (29)
  
  Radziwiłłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (28)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (27)
  
  Kozelschyna (Ukraine, Poltava Oblast), transit camp (27)
  
  Ostróg (now in Ukraine), transit camp (Barracks of the 19th Volhynian Uhlan Regiment) (27)
  
  Zborów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (26)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (25)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (25)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (now in Lithuania), internee camp (25)
  
  Złoczów (now in Ukraine) (25)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (24)
  
  Podliski Małe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (24)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (22)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (22)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (21)
  
  Lublin (21)
  
  Ostashkov (Russia, Tver Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (21)
  
  Busk (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (20)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (20)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (20)
  
  Proskuriv (Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (20)
  
  Czerlany (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (19)
  
  Teofipol (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (19)
  
  Ostra Góra (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (18)
  
  Podwołoczyska (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (18)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (17)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (17)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (17)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (17)
  
  Zaporizhia (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (17)
  
  Angielówka (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (16)
  
  Zahorce Wielkie (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (16)
  
  Chełm (15)
  
  Filipowicze (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (15)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (15)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (15)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (15)
  
  Połąga (now in Lithuania), internee camp (15)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine) (15)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (15)
  
  Tudorów (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (15)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine) (15)
  
  Bydgoszcz (14)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (14)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (14)
  
  Kraków (14)
  
  Mościska (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (14)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (14)
  
  Ukmergė (Lithuania), internee camp (14)
  
  Werba (Ukraine) (14)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (13)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (13)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (13)
  
  Hermanów (Tarasiwka, now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (13)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (13)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (13)
  
  Kalvarija (Lithuania), internment camp (13)
Victims
- Prisoners of War (1228)
  
  The Poles (1152)
  
  Civilians (540)
  
  The Civilian Population (511)
  
  The Inteligentsia (425)
  
  The Jews (404)
  
  Russians/Soviets (305)
  
  Women (293)
  
  The Russians (259)
  
  The sick (257)
  
  The Sick (247)
  
  Ukrainians (242)
  
  Belarusians (183)
  
  Children (177)
  
  Policemen (173)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (129)
  
  The elderly (101)
  
  The Elderly (97)
  
  Internees (88)
  
  The Church (73)
  
  Germans (71)
  
  Border Guard (61)
  
  Deportees (53)
  
  The French (52)
  
  Border Protection Corps (45)
  
  Hungarians (45)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (41)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (37)
  
  Czechs (36)
  
  Slovaks (31)
  
  The Dutch (25)
  
  The Disabled (24)
  
  Lithuanians (23)
  
  Belgians (22)
  
  Greeks (22)
  
  The Communists (20)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (19)
  
  Italians (15)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (15)
  
  Americans (14)
  
  Landowners (14)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (14)
  
  The British (13)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (11)
  
  Prison Guard (9)
  
  Latvians (8)
  
  Romanians (8)
  
  Norwegians (4)
  
  Estonians (3)
  
  Serbs (3)
  
  the Chinese (3)
  
  Finns (1)
  
  Georgians (1)
Perpetrators
- Red Army (330)
  
  SS (232)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (195)
  
  Collaboration (108)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (94)
  
  Denunciation (49)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (44)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (41)
  
  Military Police (31)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (31)
  
  Soviet Militia (31)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (31)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (20)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (19)
  
  Lithuanians (19)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (16)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (16)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (9)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (7)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (6)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (6)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (5)
  
  Latvians (4)
  
  The Russian National Liberation Army (RONA) (4)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (3)
  
  Administrative Police (2)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (2)
  
  Collaborators (2)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (2)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (2)
  
  Postal Protection (2)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (2)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (2)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (1)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (1)
  
  The Navy of Nazi Germany (Kriegsmarine) (1)
  
  Waffen-SS (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (885)
  
  Biological extermination (788)
  
  Arrest (483)
  
  Execution (447)
  
  Beating (436)
  
  Death by shooting (421)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (402)
  
  Disarmament (318)
  
  Deportation/Exile (266)
  
  Punishment cell (206)
  
  Cattle wagons (203)
  
  Robbery (192)
  
  Deportation (175)
  
  Roads of death (151)
  
  Gas chambers (139)
  
  Cremation of corpses (125)
  
  Cremation (120)
  
  Judicial crime (96)
  
  Mass graves (79)
  
  Hanging (73)
  
  Air raids (59)
  
  "Dosing" (52)
  
  Medical experiments (52)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (47)
  
  Economic exploitation (45)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (44)
  
  Displacement (42)
  
  Expulsion (40)
  
  Death marches (35)
  
  Racial policy (33)
  
  Desacration of corpses (29)
  
  Round-up (26)
  
  Burning people alive (24)
  
  Armored weapons (23)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (20)
  
  Rape (19)
  
  Artillery fire (15)
  
  Artillery shelling (15)
  
  Administrative persecution (12)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (11)
  
  Germanization (8)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (6)
  
  Sovietization (5)
  
  Denationalization (4)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (4)
  
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Skotnicki Jerzy 12.02.1902, Łódź

Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation

1943.06-1945.01.27

KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” KL Majdanek

Obrycki Narcyz 04.09.1896, Warszawa

Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp

1943.04.07-1945

Jaworzno, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Bydgoszcz KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 Warsaw, Cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel and St. Florian the Martyr, Floriańska Street 3 KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz I, roll call square KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Ravensbrück (Germany) Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau KL Gross-Rosen

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)

Wrotniak Julia 28.12.1916, Zamość

Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation

1942.10.07-1945.01

Warsaw KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) KL Auschwitz I Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Lublin, Lublin Castle, Zamkowa Street 9 KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V Wilno (now in Lithuania) KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 KL Auschwitz I, roll call square

Denisow Piotr 1894?

1939-1944

Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) Zamość KL Gross-Rosen Biłgoraj (lubelskie voivodeship)

Wiszniowski Alojzy 1914?

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

1939.10.29-1941.10.02

Lwów (now in Ukraine) Śniatyń (now in Ukraine) Czortków (now in Ukraine), prison, Mickiewicza Street (Lesya Ukrainka Street 3) Stecowa (Ukraine) Semipalatinsk (Semey, Kazakhstan) Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Kirovohrad (Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine), NKVD prison, Kuropyatnikova Street 50 North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) Balta (Ukraine) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Irkutsk (Russia, Irkutsk Oblast) Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) Kanin Nos (Russia, Nenets Autonomous Okrug)

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The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

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Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 Mołodeczno (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Wielki Gościniec Street 52 Połock (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Zinaida Tusnolobova-Marchenko Street Gudogaj (Belarus) Aykino (Russia, Komi Republic) Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Sangorodok (Russia, Komi Republic) Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast)

Sperber Karel 1910, Tachov (Czech Republic)

Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

1941.10-1945

KL Auschwitz I KL Stutthof KL Gross-Rosen KL Buchenwald (Germany) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) Jawiszowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Świętochłowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Goleszów, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" Kobiór, forest labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Gross-Rosen KL Flossenbürg (Germany) KL Dachau (Germany) KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) KL Majdanek KL Mittelbau-Dora (Germany) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” KL Kaiserwald (Latvia)

Dziopek Jan 27.10.1889, Borek Stary

Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp

1940.08.21-1945.06.16

Warsaw KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II KL Auschwitz-Birkenau KL Melk (Austria) KL Auschwitz I Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I KL Auschwitz I, roll call square KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) Jawiszowice, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt Arbeitslager Gleiwitz I (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) Arbeitslager Gleiwitz II (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Arbeitslager Gleiwitz III (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Arbeitslager Gleiwitz IV (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Melk (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) KL Ebensee (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) Jasło, temporary remand prison, Staszica Street 3 Gorlice, Gestapo headquarters, Legionów Street 8 KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 KL Ravensbrück (Germany) Babice, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” Poręba (district of Pszczyna) Linz (Austria) Pszczyna Nowy Wiśnicz Libusza Ostrava (Czech Republic) Wels (Austria) Lambach (Austria) Gmunden (Austria)

Rachwał Stanisława 29.06.1906, Rudki (now in Ukraine)

Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

1942.10.12-1945.05.24

Bydgoszcz Nakło nad Notecią KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) KL Melk (Austria) KL Buchenwald (Germany) KL Ravensbrück (Germany) Rajsko (Oświęcim district) Poręba (district of Pszczyna) Poznań Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) Bełżec, German extermination camp Kraków, Sobieskiego Street 5 KL Auschwitz I KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I Bochnia, train station Pruszków, Dulag 121 KL Plaszow KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) Berlin (Germany) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Lagerhaus German extermination camp of Bełżec Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp German extermination camp of Majdanek German extermination camp of Treblinka Majdanek, German extermination camp Treblinka, German extermination camp Wodzisław Śląski Drezdenko Drancy (France) Brussels (Belgium) Zagreb (Croatia) KL Herzogenbusch (Netherlands) Łódź KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) Brzeszcze Pszczyna

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