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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Anonymous (51)
  
  Szulc C. (28)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (8)
  
  Steinhauf Renata (8)
  
  Nowiński (5)
  
  Sendler Irena; 15.02.1910, Warszawa (4)
  
  Sobierajska Irena (4)
  
  Łącki Mikołaj; 30.10.1888, Loyew (Belarus) (4)
  
  Maławska-Primas Hanna (3)
  
  Russanowska B. (3)
  
  Szyszko-Bohusz Adolf; 19.08.1883, Narva (Estonia) (3)
  
  Ast Jadwiga; 24.01.1923, Żarnowiec (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Barzał Czesław; 09.10.1915, Ostrów Mazowiecka (2)
  
  Bida Władysław; 1886? (2)
  
  Borkowski Stefan (2)
  
  Bąk Michał; 1903? (2)
  
  Chwistek Barbara (2)
  
  Ciopińska Anna (2)
  
  Dąbkowska Wiktoria, 1878? (2)
  
  Dąbrowski Jan (2)
  
  Gamm Rudolf; 28.10.1884; Gdańsk (2)
  
  Grzesiński Marian (2)
  
  Głowiak Stanisław; 10.02.1903, Podzwierzyniec (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Herbich Kazimierz; 29.03.1894 (2)
  
  Jasińska Zofia (2)
  
  Kamińska Apolonia (2)
  
  Kapała Stefan (2)
  
  Kipa Emil Józef; 17.03.1886, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Kot Franciszek; 20.01.1904, Kosewo (Ostrów Mazowiecka county) (2)
  
  Kowalczyk Józef (2)
  
  Koziar Jan (2)
  
  Kucharski Teofil; 06.02.1889, Jaszczew (2)
  
  Kulicki Władysław (2)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Libkind-Lubodziecki Stanisław; 24.01.1879, Warsaw (2)
  
  Lipski Jan (2)
  
  Martynuska Janina (2)
  
  Maślankiewicz Jan; 01.09.1916, Warsaw (2)
  
  Maślankiewicz Jan; 01.09.1916, Warszawa (2)
  
  Morawski Zdzisław; 11.01.1927, Mała Wieś (Grójec county) (2)
  
  Narloch Bronisława (2)
  
  Orłowska Janina (2)
  
  Osawski Zygmunt, 1892? (2)
  
  Palińska Kazimiera; 03.03.1883, Świr (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Penson Jakub; 23.04.1899, Płock (2)
  
  Pieńkowski Jan; 15.04.1888, Kosewo (Ostrów Mazowiecka county) (2)
  
  Przygoda Józef; 05.02.1909 (2)
  
  Przygodzki Jacek (2)
  
  Płoski Stanisław; 04.12.1899, Bryansk (Russia) (2)
  
  Rabiej Ryszard (2)
  
  Raczkiewicz Zbysław; 04.09.1925, Pobołowice (2)
  
  Rysiński Mieczysław (2)
  
  Schrott Ksawera; 1879? (2)
  
  Schwinke Franciszek; 1901? (2)
  
  Sendecki Sylwester; 1903? (2)
  
  Słuchoński Artur; 02.03.1898 (2)
  
  Wallisch Irena (2)
  
  Warszawer Zygmunt (2)
  
  Wojciechowski Marceli, 1902? (2)
  
  Wąsowicz Tadeusz; 29.07.1906, Limanowa (2)
  
  Włodek Kazimierz (2)
  
  Zagórska Antonina; 1888?, Niestachów (2)
  
  Łańczak Władysław (2)
  
  Śliwiński J. (2)
  
  "Bartosz" (1)
  
  Abramczuk Jan, 06.08.1933, Przewłoka (1)
  
  Abramczyk Stanisław (1)
  
  Adamczuk Barbara (1)
  
  Adamczyk Jadwiga (1)
  
  Adamczyk Karol (1)
  
  Adamowicz Wiktor; 08.03.1903 (1)
  
  Adamska Alicja (1)
  
  Affek Halina (1)
  
  Affek Piotr; 1905? (1)
  
  Aksnowicz Alfons; 21.01.1920 (1)
  
  Alaba Bogusław, 06.08.1930, Wodynie-Siedlce (1)
  
  Alchimowicz Kazimierz; 1906 (1)
  
  Aleksandrów Władysław; 1919? (1)
  
  Aleksiejewicz Józef (1)
  
  Alscher Josef; 05.06.1894, Legnica (1)
  
  Ambroziak Jan (1)
  
  Amsterdamski Saul (1)
  
  Andrukowicz Tadeusz (1)
  
  Andruszkiewicz Józef; 1893? (1)
  
  Andrzejewski Teodor; 1904? (1)
  
  Andrzejewski W. (1)
  
  Aniszkiewicz Józef; 1895? (1)
  
  Anonymous; 1928? (1)
  
  Antkowski Konstanty (1)
  
  Anyst Adam (1)
  
  Aplas Józef (1)
  
  Aranowicz Jerma; 1907? (1)
  
  Arciszewski Franciszek; 02.11.1908, Łódź (1)
  
  Arendarski Robert (1)
  
  Atras Franciszek, 1900.10.08 (1)
  
  Augustyn Bolesław; 1902 (1)
  
  Aunszlok Kazimierz (1)
  
  Babiarz Józef; 13.03.1909, Łańcut (1)
  
  Babiarz Paweł, 1900.07.06 (1)
  
  Babiński Henryk, 1911 (1)
Subject
- The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (438)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (241)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (115)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (111)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (111)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (107)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (87)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (82)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (72)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (66)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (65)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (62)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (59)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (50)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (49)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (47)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (45)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (43)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (38)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (38)
  
  Gdańsk – daily terror (32)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (27)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (26)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (26)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Lublin region (25)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (24)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (23)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (22)
  
  The Free City of Danzig – erasing Polishness (22)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (21)
  
  The city condemned to death (19)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Pomerania (18)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (18)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (17)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (16)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Warsaw (15)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Kraków (14)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (13)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (12)
  
  Prisoners of war – transit camps in Kielce (12)
  
  Taken Captive (12)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (12)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (12)
  
  The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews (12)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Lesser Poland (11)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (10)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (10)
  
  Upper Silesia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (10)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (10)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (9)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Volhynia (9)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (9)
  
  In exile – Siberia (9)
  
  In exile – Ural (9)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (9)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (9)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (9)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Warsaw (8)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (7)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Upper Silesia (7)
  
  Radom – daily terror (7)
  
  Clandestine teaching classes – Volhynia (6)
  
  Lebensborn – the Germanization of Polish children (6)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Podlasie region (6)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Łódź region (6)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (6)
  
  The Polish Righteous Among the Nations (6)
  
  The persecuted church (6)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (6)
  
  Clandestine teaching classes – the Kielce region (5)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Wilno region (5)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Polesie region (5)
  
  Poles who saved Jews (5)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Karelia (5)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Kujawy region (4)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Łódź region (4)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (4)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – Lesser Poland (4)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Volhynia (4)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Częstochowa region (4)
  
  Poles who saved Jews in the Kielce region (4)
  
  Pruszków – the town of the displaced (4)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (4)
  
  Stadion Leśny, Słowik, Herby – execution sites in Kielce (4)
  
  Terror in the "incorporated lands" – the Łódź region (4)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (4)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (4)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (3)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Rzeszów (3)
  
  Disrupted childhood – Mazovia (3)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Zamość region (3)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (3)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Radom Ghetto (3)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Sachsenhausen (3)
  
  Soldier's House, Fort VII, Żabikowo – the trail of death in Greater Poland (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (3)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (3)
  
  The Polish diplomacy and its bid to help Jews (3)
  
  Browar, Czerwoniak – the Ostrów death blocks (2)
  
  Clandestine teaching classes – Pomerania (2)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (303)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (191)
  
  Warsaw (175)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (166)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (160)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (105)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (87)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (86)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (84)
  
  Siedlce (75)
  
  Kielce (71)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (68)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (64)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (64)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (61)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (60)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (56)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (55)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (55)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (54)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (53)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (51)
  
  Lublin (49)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (47)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (44)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (42)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (42)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (42)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (41)
  
  Ostashkov (Russia, Tver Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (38)
  
  Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (37)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (37)
  
  Żytyń Wielki (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (37)
  
  Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (36)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (36)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (36)
  
  Kraków (34)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (33)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka (33)
  
  Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) (31)
  
  Olesko (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (30)
  
  Radom (30)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (29)
  
  Hoszcza (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (29)
  
  Radziwiłłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (29)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (28)
  
  Chełm (28)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (27)
  
  Połąga (now in Lithuania), internee camp (27)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (27)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (26)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (26)
  
  Ostróg (now in Ukraine), transit camp (Barracks of the 19th Volhynian Uhlan Regiment) (26)
  
  Gdańsk (25)
  
  Kozelschyna (Ukraine, Poltava Oblast), transit camp (25)
  
  Podliski Małe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (25)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (25)
  
  Ukmergė (Lithuania), internee camp (25)
  
  KL Auschwitz I (24)
  
  KL Stutthof (24)
  
  Starachowice (24)
  
  Zborów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (24)
  
  Złoczów (now in Ukraine) (24)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (23)
  
  Busk (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (22)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (21)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (21)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (21)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) (21)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (20)
  
  Teofipol (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (20)
  
  Biała Podlaska (19)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (19)
  
  Hrubieszów (19)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (19)
  
  Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (18)
  
  Czerlany (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (18)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (18)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (18)
  
  Komi Republic (Russia) (18)
  
  Kościerzyna (18)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (18)
  
  Baranowicze (now in Belarus) (17)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (17)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (17)
  
  Podwołoczyska (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (17)
  
  Proskuriv (Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (17)
  
  Przemyśl (17)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (now in Lithuania), internee camp (17)
  
  Wzdół Rządowy (17)
  
  Dąbrowa (Kielce) (16)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (16)
  
  Ostra Góra (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (16)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (16)
  
  Radzymin (16)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine) (16)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (16)
  
  Zamość (16)
  
  Angielówka (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (15)
  
  Częstochowa (15)
Victims
- The Poles (2426)
  
  Civilians (1953)
  
  The Civilian Population (1824)
  
  Children (1096)
  
  Prisoners of War (700)
  
  The Jews (698)
  
  Women (607)
  
  The Inteligentsia (562)
  
  Ukrainians (263)
  
  Policemen (212)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (194)
  
  The sick (190)
  
  Belarusians (187)
  
  The Sick (184)
  
  Russians/Soviets (135)
  
  The elderly (112)
  
  Deportees (110)
  
  The Russians (105)
  
  The Elderly (104)
  
  Internees (93)
  
  The Church (75)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (74)
  
  Border Guard (64)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (50)
  
  Border Protection Corps (44)
  
  Germans (36)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (32)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (28)
  
  Lithuanians (27)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (25)
  
  Landowners (24)
  
  The Disabled (13)
  
  The French (13)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (13)
  
  Hungarians (9)
  
  The Communists (9)
  
  Czechs (8)
  
  Estonians (8)
  
  Greeks (7)
  
  Prison Guard (6)
  
  Latvians (5)
  
  The Dutch (5)
  
  The British (4)
  
  Americans (3)
  
  Italians (3)
  
  Slovaks (3)
  
  Belgians (2)
  
  Finns (2)
  
  Romanians (2)
  
  the Chinese (2)
  
  Georgians (1)
  
  Scouts (1)
  
  Serbs (1)
Perpetrators
- Red Army (354)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (194)
  
  Collaboration (168)
  
  SS (145)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (80)
  
  Military Police (78)
  
  Denunciation (76)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (72)
  
  Soviet Militia (71)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (68)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (59)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (59)
  
  Lithuanians (51)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (32)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (23)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (23)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (18)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (13)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (12)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (12)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (11)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (11)
  
  Latvians (8)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (6)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (5)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (5)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (5)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (4)
  
  Security Office (4)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (3)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (3)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (3)
  
  Administrative Police (2)
  
  Collaborators (2)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (2)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (2)
  
  Waffen-SS (2)
  
  Assault Units (Sturmabteilung, SA) (1)
  
  Postal Protection (1)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (1175)
  
  Arrest (941)
  
  Execution (907)
  
  Biological extermination (875)
  
  Death by shooting (723)
  
  Beating (570)
  
  Deportation (498)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (480)
  
  Deportation/Exile (349)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (323)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (318)
  
  Disarmament (313)
  
  Robbery (313)
  
  Denationalization (295)
  
  Round-up (248)
  
  Mass graves (244)
  
  Cattle wagons (239)
  
  Punishment cell (217)
  
  Air raids (190)
  
  Judicial crime (160)
  
  Economic exploitation (157)
  
  Displacement (148)
  
  Roads of death (148)
  
  Expulsion (132)
  
  Administrative persecution (101)
  
  Hanging (100)
  
  Burning people alive (96)
  
  Cremation of corpses (84)
  
  Cremation (82)
  
  Racial policy (75)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (47)
  
  Gas chambers (40)
  
  Artillery fire (37)
  
  Artillery shelling (37)
  
  Germanization (32)
  
  Desacration of corpses (27)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (26)
  
  Sovietization (24)
  
  Armored weapons (22)
  
  Death marches (20)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (18)
  
  Medical experiments (16)
  
  Forced voting (13)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (9)
  
  Intelligence operations of the Third Reich (9)
  
  Rape (7)
  
  "Dosing" (5)
  
  Ukrainianization (3)
  
  Human shields (1)
Place
- Forced labor camps for POWs (454)
  
  Transit camp (350)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (259)
  
  Prison (242)
  
  Forced labor (211)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (154)
  
  Ghetto (132)
  
  Mine (124)
  
  Concentration camp (110)
  
  Kolkhoz (90)
  
  Internment camp (87)
  
  NKVD custody suite (66)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (62)
  
  Labor camp (60)
  
  Police headquarters/station (58)
  
  Extermination camp (53)
  
  POW camp (Stalag, Oflag) (35)
  
  Sovkhoz (18)
  
  Sewers (5)
  
  Orphanage – dietdom (2)
  
  Siberia (2)
  
  Robbery (1)
Content
- Health service (502)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (403)
  
  Rescue of Jews (274)
  
  Anders' Army (255)
  
  Amnesty (225)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (195)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (141)
  
  Pacification of rural areas (139)
  
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Ziembiński Marian 1888

Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees

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Połąga (now in Lithuania), internee camp Ukmergė (Lithuania), internee camp Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Wiśniewski Józef 1891

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Teofipol (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Łódź

Własiuk Jan 1893

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

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Zhytomyr (Ukraine), prison, Vatutin Street 172 (Nezalezhnosti Street 172) Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic)

Wasilewski Aleksander 1899

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Sapożyn (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Korzec (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp Proskuriv (Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

Terlecki Eugeniusz

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, Ukraine), transit camp Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Ponikwa (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Busk (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Tudorów (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp Podwołoczyska (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Teofipol (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Zamość

Gołąb Jan 1899

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Radziwiłłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Rodatycze (now in Ukraine), transit camp Skniłów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine)

Herbełko Jan 1921

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

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Lesko Dnipropetrovsk (Dnipro, Ukraine), NKVD Headquarters, Chkalov Street (Sviatoslav Chorobroho Street 23) Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic)

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The Gulag Archipelago – Ural

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Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast)

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The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast

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Przemyśl, prison, Rokitniańska Street 1 Berdychiv (Ukraine), Carmelite monastery (NKVD prison), Soborna Street Maloshuyka (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

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The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

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The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

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Piotrowski Feliks

In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast

1939.09.08-1941.09.10

Vyatlag (Russia, Kirov Oblast) Korzec (now in Ukraine) Viatlag (Russia, Kirov Oblast) Orenburg (Kazakhstan) Zdołbunów (now in Ukraine) Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

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Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp Podliski Małe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Olszanica (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

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The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

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Kobryń (now in Belarus), prison, Sovietskaya Street 65 Brześć (now in Belarus), "Brygidki" NKVD prison, Brześć Fortress Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic)

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