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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Szulc C. (11)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (9)
  
  Anonymous (7)
  
  Gałecki Wiktor; 1901? (6)
  
  Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (6)
  
  Bochen Stanisław; 1901? (5)
  
  Kwiatkowski Jan; 1911? (5)
  
  Stopa F. (5)
  
  Krakiewicz Feliks; 1873? (4)
  
  Nass Róża; 09.01.1907, Biała (Bielsko-Biała) (4)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (4)
  
  Sobierajska Irena (4)
  
  Wolny Stefan; 30.10.1903, Kamieńskie (Ukraine) (4)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (4)
  
  Adler Rubin; 24.11.1909, Końskie (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Czardybon Bernard; 18.06.1901, Chorzów (3)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (3)
  
  Fastman Ludwik; 31.07.1899, Drohobycz (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (3)
  
  Filipowska (Freund) Ilza; 14.01.1902, Wrocław (3)
  
  Gronczak Józef; 1898? (3)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (3)
  
  Kaczanowski Jan; 1913?, Rytwiany (3)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (3)
  
  Krokowski Jan; 08.05.1921, Nowy Sącz (3)
  
  Krzymiński Aleksander (3)
  
  Kula Michał; 07.09.1912, Trzebinia (3)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 04.05.1918, Kraków (3)
  
  Lewicki W. (3)
  
  Mankiewicz Franciszek; 1898 (3)
  
  Nagraba Ludwik; 19.08.1910, Kraków (3)
  
  Nelken Halina; 22.09.1925, Kraków (3)
  
  Olbrycht Jan; 06.05.1886, Zahutyń (3)
  
  Pająk Wilibald; 15.12.1922, Katowice (3)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 27.01.1913, Warsaw (3)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (3)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (3)
  
  Raczkiewicz Zbysław; 04.09.1925, Pobołowice (3)
  
  Rajzman Samuel; 1902, Węgrów (3)
  
  Sendecki Sylwester; 1903? (3)
  
  Sendler Irena; 15.02.1910, Warszawa (3)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć county) (3)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć district) (3)
  
  Stoeger Samuel; 14.05.1911, Kraków (3)
  
  Szałwicki Bernard; 1909? (3)
  
  Szewczak Helena; 28.02.1915, Marki (Wołomin county) (3)
  
  Tondos Władysław; 06.10.1900, Kalina Mała (3)
  
  Vogler Tauba; 18.06.1903, Kraków (3)
  
  Łącki Mikołaj; 30.10.1888, Loyew (Belarus) (3)
  
  Żelazowska Janina Czesława; 26.10.1908 (3)
  
  Ast Jadwiga; 24.01.1923, Żarnowiec (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Bartel Erwin; 02.03.1923, Oświęcim (2)
  
  Bartosiewicz Henryk; 1909? (2)
  
  Bas Ludwik; 18.12.1912, Kraków (2)
  
  Bida Władysław; 1886? (2)
  
  Bielewicz Marian; 19.08.1911, Warsaw (2)
  
  Bloch Claude; 29.05.1910, Bourg-la-Reine (France) (2)
  
  Bojm Mojżesz; 1903? (2)
  
  Borowy Aleksander; 03.12.1898, Ostrów Mazowiecka (2)
  
  Brach Jan; 1919? (2)
  
  Brojanowska Jolanta (2)
  
  Brudkowska Aglaida; 19.10.1914, Żytomierz (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Brudkowska Aglaida; 19.10.1914, Żytomierz (now: Ukraine) (2)
  
  Chrościcki Julian; 26.05.1892, Szymony (2)
  
  Cyba Eugeniusz; 07.12.1921, Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Cypel Władysław; 25.05.1909, Warsaw (2)
  
  Cypel Władysław; 25.05.1909, Warszawa (2)
  
  Cytron Tobiasz; 30.10.1908, Białystok (2)
  
  Czapliński Jan (2)
  
  Dembiczak Danuta (2)
  
  Denisow Piotr; 1894? (2)
  
  Drabek Jaroslav; 06.04.1901, Chrudim (Czech Republic) (2)
  
  Drozdowska-Rogowicz Wanda; 11.11.1906 (2)
  
  Drygulska Jadwiga (2)
  
  Dubicki Bogusław; 1910? (2)
  
  Dubiel Stanisław; 13.11.1910, Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Dąbski Stefan; 26.12.1919, Joanin (2)
  
  Filipak Olga (2)
  
  Fliegel Jerzy; 02.11.1915, Ruda Śląska (2)
  
  Frankiewicz Janina; 13.08.1912, Wieliczka (2)
  
  Gelade Eliasz; 1894? (2)
  
  Giedroyć Kazimierz; 29.09.1908, Grodno (now in Belarus) (2)
  
  Gitler-Barski Józef; 03.03.1898, Warsaw (2)
  
  Glickson Jerry (2)
  
  Gliński Bogdan; 08.12.1921, Sancygniów (2)
  
  Grabczyński Jan; 21.05.1908, Tarnów (dolnośląskie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Grabowski Stanisław; 14.05.1900, Grądziki (Ostrów Mazowiecka county) (2)
  
  Grzesiński Marian (2)
  
  Głowa Stanisław; 15.09.1898, Igołomia (2)
  
  Habrajski Józef; 08.03.1915, Radzionków (2)
  
  Hys Stanisław; 19.07.1910, Sobolew (mazowieckie voivodeship) (2)
  
  Izbicki Michał; 05.02.1919, Janów (2)
  
  Janssens Jean; 30.03.1904 Ougrée (Belgium) (2)
  
  Jaworska Bogna; 28.04.1925, Blachownia (2)
  
  Jeleń Piotr; 15.01.1921, Kraków (2)
  
  Jeleń Piotr; 1919? (2)
  
  Jędrusiak Michalina, 29.09.1906, Kraków (2)
  
  Kahl Tadeusz; 27.07.1908, Kraków (2)
  
  Kajszczak Marian (2)
Subject
- Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (184)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (145)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (143)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (117)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (116)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (114)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (113)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (108)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (69)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (58)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (56)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (51)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (44)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (41)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (41)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (40)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (39)
  
  The Lublin region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (39)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (36)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (34)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (33)
  
  In exile – Siberia (32)
  
  Treblinka – extermination camp (32)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (31)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (28)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (27)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (27)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (26)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (25)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (25)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (23)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (22)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (22)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (20)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (20)
  
  The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews (20)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (19)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Radom Ghetto (18)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (18)
  
  In exile – Ural (18)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Kraków (18)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (16)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (16)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – the Stanisławów area (16)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (15)
  
  Poles who saved Jews in the Kielce region (15)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (15)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (15)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (14)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (13)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Upper Silesia (13)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Podlasie region (12)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (12)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (11)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (11)
  
  The Polish Righteous Among the Nations (11)
  
  The city condemned to death (11)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Mazovia (11)
  
  Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Gliwice (10)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (10)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Radom Ghetto (10)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (9)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Częstochowa region (9)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (9)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Białystok Ghetto (9)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Tarnów Ghetto (9)
  
  The Pomerania region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (9)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Nowogród region (8)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Yaroslavl Oblast (8)
  
  Wawer Massacre '39 (8)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (7)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (7)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Volhynia (7)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Łódź region (7)
  
  Radom – daily terror (7)
  
  Soviet prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (7)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (7)
  
  The Holocaust – the liquidation of the Częstochowa Ghetto (7)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – the Lublin region (7)
  
  A shattered childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (6)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (6)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (6)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Radom region (6)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Kłobuck Ghetto (6)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (6)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Tarnopol region (6)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Wilno region (6)
  
  Radom bathed in blood – the prison in the former convent buildings (6)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (6)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Upper Silesia (6)
  
  Upper Silesia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (6)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (5)
  
  Humiliation, starvation, and death – the Kielce Ghetto (5)
  
  In exile – Mari El Republic (5)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Greater Poland (5)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Kielce region (5)
  
  Soviets in German captivity (5)
  
  The persecuted church (5)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (5)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz I (345)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (338)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (333)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (277)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (199)
  
  Warsaw (175)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (173)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (167)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (147)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (111)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (109)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (107)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (100)
  
  KL Plaszow (87)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (86)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (84)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (73)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (72)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (71)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (70)
  
  KL Majdanek (70)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (66)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (65)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (63)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (61)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (58)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (55)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (54)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (53)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (52)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (51)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (50)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (48)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (48)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (45)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (43)
  
  Kraków, ghetto (41)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (40)
  
  Kraków (39)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (39)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (38)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (37)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (36)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt (35)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (34)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (32)
  
  Lublin (31)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof (30)
  
  Radzymin (30)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (29)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (29)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (29)
  
  KL Theresienstadt (Czech Republic) (28)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (28)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (28)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (28)
  
  Bydgoszcz (27)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (27)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (26)
  
  KL Flossenbürg (Germany) (26)
  
  Łódź (26)
  
  German extermination camp of Bełżec (25)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (25)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine), NKVD prison, Wałowa Street 6 (25)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I (24)
  
  Radom (24)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (24)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (24)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (23)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (23)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (22)
  
  KL Kaiserwald (Latvia) (22)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (22)
  
  Bochnia, train station (21)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (21)
  
  Raisko (Rajsko), agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (21)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (21)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (21)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (20)
  
  German extermination camp of Majdanek (20)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little Red House” (20)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II (20)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (20)
  
  Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (20)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (20)
  
  Sevzheldorlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (20)
  
  Białystok (19)
  
  Bliżyn, forced labor camp (19)
  
  Budy, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (19)
  
  Częstochowa (19)
  
  KL Bergen-Belsen (Germany) (19)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (19)
  
  KL Stutthof (18)
  
  Rajsko, agricultural labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (18)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship) (18)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (17)
  
  Częstochowa, Ghetto (17)
  
  Kiev (Ukraine), Lukyanivska Prison, Dehtiarivska Street 13 (17)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (17)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (17)
Victims
- The Jews (2549)
  
  Civilians (2267)
  
  The Civilian Population (2068)
  
  The Poles (1960)
  
  Women (1187)
  
  Children (720)
  
  The Inteligentsia (651)
  
  The sick (498)
  
  The Sick (472)
  
  Russians/Soviets (431)
  
  Ukrainians (418)
  
  Prisoners of War (404)
  
  The Russians (377)
  
  The elderly (269)
  
  The Elderly (244)
  
  Belarusians (227)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (171)
  
  Deportees (154)
  
  The Church (133)
  
  Hungarians (124)
  
  Germans (122)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (104)
  
  Czechs (99)
  
  Policemen (97)
  
  The French (87)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (79)
  
  Slovaks (77)
  
  Belgians (71)
  
  The Dutch (64)
  
  Greeks (53)
  
  Lithuanians (53)
  
  The Disabled (48)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (47)
  
  The Communists (46)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (37)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (35)
  
  Internees (34)
  
  Landowners (28)
  
  Italians (22)
  
  Border Guard (18)
  
  Latvians (18)
  
  Romanians (17)
  
  Americans (16)
  
  Border Protection Corps (15)
  
  The British (14)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (13)
  
  Norwegians (12)
  
  Estonians (10)
  
  Finns (3)
  
  Prison Guard (3)
  
  the Chinese (3)
  
  Serbs (2)
  
  Bulgarians (1)
  
  Georgians (1)
  
  Scouts (1)
Perpetrators
- SS (777)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (286)
  
  Collaboration (196)
  
  Military Police (188)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (161)
  
  Red Army (137)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (121)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (103)
  
  Denunciation (95)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (68)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (64)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (54)
  
  Soviet Militia (54)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (36)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (31)
  
  Lithuanians (29)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (26)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (25)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (24)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (17)
  
  Latvians (15)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (13)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (12)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (12)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (12)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (11)
  
  Security Office (8)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (8)
  
  Waffen-SS (7)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (6)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (5)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (4)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (4)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (3)
  
  Collaborators (3)
  
  Postal Protection (3)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (3)
  
  Assault Units (Sturmabteilung, SA) (1)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (1339)
  
  Execution (1243)
  
  Death by shooting (1084)
  
  Beating (1057)
  
  Biological extermination (993)
  
  Arrest (958)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (836)
  
  Deportation (519)
  
  Robbery (477)
  
  Gas chambers (402)
  
  Cremation of corpses (380)
  
  Cremation (360)
  
  Deportation/Exile (335)
  
  Mass graves (265)
  
  Hanging (234)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (218)
  
  Judicial crime (217)
  
  Cattle wagons (212)
  
  Punishment cell (205)
  
  Economic exploitation (170)
  
  Racial policy (169)
  
  Displacement (157)
  
  Round-up (152)
  
  Expulsion (142)
  
  Medical experiments (137)
  
  Destruction and robbery of cultural heritage/Destruction of property (127)
  
  Disarmament (122)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (122)
  
  Administrative persecution (105)
  
  Burning people alive (103)
  
  "Dosing" (98)
  
  Death marches (68)
  
  Air raids (62)
  
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Kahl Tadeusz 27.07.1908, Kraków

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death

1941.10.30-1945.06.15

KL Buchenwald (Germany) KL Ravensbrück (Germany) KL Buchenwald (Germany) Kraków, Pędzichów Street 11 (Dietla Street 11) Kraków, Gestapo headquarters, Pomorska Street 2 KL Mittelbau-Dora (Germany) KL Wiener Neustadt (subcamp of KL Mauthausen-Gusen, Austria) Magdeburg (Germany) KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz I, roll call square KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) Kraków, Nowowiejska Street German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Nordhausen (Germany) Nauen (Germany) Ocker (Germany) Wittenberga (Niemcy)

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

Jurewicz Maria 14.10.1907

The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia

1940.04.29-1942.02

Grodno (now in Belarus) Zieniewicze (now in Belarus) Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 Lubcz (now in Belarus) Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD remand center, Fralankowa Street 50 Nowogródek (now in Belarus) Orsha (Belarus), prison (Jesuit College), Lenin Street 6a Lida (now in Belarus) Karabas (Kazakhstan), train station Taraz (Jambyl, Kazakhstan) Brześć (now in Belarus) Minsk (Belarus) Kara-Balta (Kyrgyzstan) Frunze (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan) Potma (Russia, Republic of Mordovia) Sosnovka (Kyrgyzstan) Baranowicze (now in Belarus) Stołpce (now in Belarus) Wilno (now in Lithuania) Werenowo (now in Belarus) Petropavlovsk (Kazakhstan)

Mołczadski Mordka

The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast

1939.09.17 - 1941.09.09

Horodyszcze (now in Belarus, Brześć Oblast, Pińsk region) Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD prison, Brestskaya Street 258 Baranowicze (now in Belarus), NKVD remand center, Fralankowa Street 50 Orsha (Belarus) Osinovka (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Kargopolag (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast)

Kozicz Ryszard 1898?

In exile – Vologda Oblast

1940.02.10-1942.02.02

Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Rafałówka (now in Ukraine) Morzhenga (Russia, Vologda Oblast), railway station Obirkovo (Russia, Vologda Oblast, Babushkinsky District) Totma (Russia, Vologda Oblast) Vologda (Russia, Vologda Oblast), corrective colony, Levitsheva Street 1 Vologda (Russia, Vologda Oblast), corrective colony, Levicheva Street 1

Stoeger Samuel 14.05.1911, Kraków

Dispersed terror – the KL Auschwitz branch in Gliwice

1944.07.29-1945

Kraków, ghetto KL Plaszow Arbeitslager Gleiwitz I (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) Pionki, forced labor camp KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III KL Blechhammer KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager Arbeitslager Gleiwitz IV (Gliwice IV - filia KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau

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1940.03.20-1942.02.10

Równe (Ukraine), prison, 3 Maja Street (Soborna Street 16) Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) Korzec (now in Ukraine) Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) Chardzhou (Türkmenabat, Turkmenistan) Guzar (Uzbekistan)

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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)

Wolman Jakub 13.07.1914

Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp

1940.04-1945.01.27

KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp I KL Buchenwald (Germany) KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I KL Auschwitz I, roll call square KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Familienlager Theresienstadt KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) Rajsko, Waffen-SS and Police Institute of Hygiene (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Bratislava (Slovakia) Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp Žilina (Slovakia) Bronna Góra (Belarus)

Rajewski Ludwik 16.12.1900, Łódź

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death

1940.05.10-1944.10.25

Warsaw, Daniłowiczowska Street KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) KL Auschwitz I KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) KL Ravensbrück (Germany) Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 Bochnia, train station KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) KL Auschwitz I, roll call square KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Dresden (Germany) Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp KL Gross-Rosen

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