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Witness

Bazylewska Ludwika

Topic

Prisoners of war – transit camps in Kielce

Date

1939.10.03-1939.10.27

Location

Kielce, Kraków Bishops' Palace, Zamkowy Square

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Witness

Zakrzewska Stefania 1890?, Staszów

Topic

Prisoners of war – transit camps in Kielce

Date

1939.09-1939.10

Location

Kielce, Kraków Bishops' Palace, Zamkowy Square

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Witness

Samek Bolesław 1911?, Potok Wielki (świętokrzyskie voivodeship)

Topic

Prisoners of war – transit camps in Kielce

Date

1939-1940

Location

Kielce, Kraków Bishops' Palace, Zamkowy Square

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Witness

Gliniany Mikołaj

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Ural

Date

1939.09.28-1942

Location

Görken (Dubrovka, Russia, Kaliningrad Oblast), Stalag I A Ivdellag (Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast) Grajewo Augustów Grodno (now in Belarus)

Witness

"Bartosz"

Topic

Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror

Date

1939-1944

Location

Ostrów Mazowiecka Warsaw Chełm

Witness

Gamm Rudolf 28.10.1884; Gdańsk

Topic

Poles, Kashubs and Germans – the situation before the genocide

Date

1931-1940.09

Location

Gdańsk

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Witness

Klahr Jerzy

Topic

In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease

Date

1939.09.17-1943

Location

Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Kharkiv (Ukraine) Kowel (now in Ukraine), prison, Kolejowa Street (Nezalezhnosti Street)

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Witness

Baranowski Maksymilian

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.19-1941.08

Location

Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Tłumacz (now in Ukraine) Horodenka (now in Ukraine) Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp Marhanets (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

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Witness

Chacuk Michał 07.09.1923, Starzynki

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.22-1941.07.20

Location

Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Kovrov (Russia, Vladimir Oblast) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

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Witness

Chojecki Roman 04.08.1897

Topic

Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture

Date

1939-1944

Location

Warsaw, Council of Ministers Palace, Krakowskie Przedmieście Street 46/48 Siedlce Warsaw, Rakowiecka Street 6 Warsaw, Rakowiecka Street 8 Warsaw, Litewska Street 10 Warsaw, Koszykowa Street 45 Warsaw, Rakowiecka Street 6/8 Kraków

Witness

Pawlukowski Piotr

Topic

The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity

Date

1939.09.19-1941.09.25

Location

Winnica (now in Ukraine) Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Gwozdów (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp

Witness

Bąk Wincenty 1893?

Topic

Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture

Date

1943.04-1945

Location

Kraków

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Witness

Mazurek Stanisław 11.03.1904

Topic

Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks

Date

1945.01-1945.06

Location

Warsaw, Ghetto Warsaw, Gęsiówka prison, Gęsia Street (Anielewicza Street)/ Zamenhofa Street

Witness

Stefaniak Józef 16.10.1908

Topic

The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas

Date

1944.03-1945

Location

Kurów (Puławy district) Barłogi (Puławy district)

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Witness

Pratkowski Jan 16.05.1913, Kapuściany (now in Ukraine)

Topic

Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen

Date

1943.05.09-1945.05.09

Location

KL Gross-Rosen Lwów (now in Ukraine), Prison no. 1, Łąckiego Street (Bandery Street 1) Lwów, Prison no. 1, Łąckiego Street (Bandery Street 1) KL Leitmeritz (subcamp of KL Flossenbürg, Czech Republic)

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Witness

Stochmal

Topic

The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory

Date

24.09.1939-1940.02.26

Location

Kołomyja (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, aleja Wolności (Lesi Ukrainki Street 32) Ostashkov (Russia, Tver Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs Worochta (now in Ukraine)

Witness

Pomian-Grabiński Jan

Topic

Poles saving Jews – the Częstochowa region

Date

1944.04-1945

Location

Częstochowa KL Ravensbrück (Germany) KL Buchenwald (Germany) KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) KL Gross-Rosen

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Witness

Zejer Rajmund 30.08.1902

Topic

Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp

Date

1941.01.24-1945.05.07

Location

KL Auschwitz I KL Gross-Rosen KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) Jaworzno, industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Leitmeritz (subcamp of KL Flossenbürg, Czech Republic)

Witness

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Topic

Gdańsk – daily terror

Date

1941.10-1945

Location

Kraków

Witness

Jankowski Wacław

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast

Date

1939.09.25-1943

Location

Minsk (Belarus) Brześć (Belarus), Unii Lubelskiej Street (Lenina Street) Bryansk (Russia, Bryansk Oblast) Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs Tyva (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast)