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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Zdanowicz Michał; 1899.12.11 (2)
  
  Adamowicz Alfons; 15.12.1906, Białystok (1)
  
  Badurak Brosnislaw, 1905 (1)
  
  Badurak Brosnisław; 1905 (1)
  
  Bińczak Bolesław; 11.10.1899, Dąbrówka (1)
  
  Bojar Michał; 19.09.1901, Krasne (1)
  
  Bongold Jakub; 1900 (1)
  
  Brzeziński Roman; 16.07.1916 (1)
  
  Chomicz Eustachy; 1905 (1)
  
  Chyliński Julian; 1898? (1)
  
  Cichowski Julian; 1900? (1)
  
  Cybulski Józef (1)
  
  Czabućko Michał; 03.08.1898, Kruciłowicze (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Czaplicki Stanisław, 1902.02.06 (1)
  
  Dawidowski Franciszek (1)
  
  Deręgowski Antoni (1)
  
  Dopierała Wincenty; 1908 (1)
  
  Dreszler Bernard, 1894 (1)
  
  Drzewoszewski Józef (1)
  
  Dubieszko Stanisław; 1902? (1)
  
  Dziedzic Tomasz (1)
  
  Dąbrowski Jan (1)
  
  Esman Wladysław (1)
  
  Falińska Danuta; 28.01.1924, Podwołoczyska (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Fałdyga Adam, 1893 (1)
  
  Feldman Tyburcjusz, 1895 (1)
  
  Ficek Władysław, 1898.05.21 (1)
  
  Fijakowski Błażej (1)
  
  Filipowicz Władysław, 1894.09.22 (1)
  
  Franczak Stanisław (1)
  
  Frelka Stefan; 16.12.1901 Skrzetusz (1)
  
  Gajewski Marian; 15.08.1896 (1)
  
  Gaudurski Szczepan, 1895 (1)
  
  Gielwert Edward; 1899? (1)
  
  Glejzer Władysław; 1889 (1)
  
  Glezner Zygmunt; 17.09.1911, Warsaw (1)
  
  Gorczyca Stanisław; 06.02.1900 (1)
  
  Gołost Aleksander; 05.12.1902 (1)
  
  Gołuzd Stanisław (1)
  
  Gralak Stanisław; 14.07.1915 (1)
  
  Grot Józef; 11.01.1897 (1)
  
  Górecki Apolinary, 1898 (1)
  
  Główczyk Jan, 1894 (1)
  
  Halicki Stanisław, 1912.03.12 (1)
  
  Hamuda Czesław (1)
  
  Hauptman Karol (1)
  
  Helgard Fritz; 1913? (1)
  
  Hoffman Felicjan; 1909? (1)
  
  Hoffman Wincenty (1)
  
  Hoffman Zofia (1)
  
  Iwaszkiewicz Zofia; 09.12.1912 (1)
  
  Jackowski Eugeniusz; 12.12.1901 (1)
  
  Jakubowski Joachim; 1897 (1)
  
  Janczulewicz Hieronim; 1899 (1)
  
  Janicki Marian; 1914? (1)
  
  Januchowski Antoni; 1900 (1)
  
  Karpowicz Alfons; 16.09.1904 (1)
  
  Kasprzyk Walenty; 1905? (1)
  
  Kasza Michał; 1915? (1)
  
  Kaszlikowski Stanisław; 1909? (1)
  
  Kazimierczak Józef; 06.12.1897 (1)
  
  Kluczyński Rajmund; 1900, Warsaw (1)
  
  Kobylarz Tadeusz, 1913? (1)
  
  Kowalski Ludwik; 1901? (1)
  
  Kowalski Teodor; 1918 (1)
  
  Krzymowski Bolesław (1)
  
  Król Czesław; 1902 (1)
  
  Kujawa Florian; 1913? (1)
  
  Kulesza Stefan; 1904? (1)
  
  Kulikowski Witold; 1899? (1)
  
  Künstler Stanisław (1)
  
  Latawiec Ludwik; 1897 (1)
  
  Lech Konstanty; 1902.03.02 (1)
  
  Lenczowski Bolesław (1)
  
  Ley Waldemar; 1915? (1)
  
  Makowski Józef; 1913 (1)
  
  Malinowski Nicefor (1)
  
  Maniak Stefan; 1900? (1)
  
  Matuszewski Alojzy; 1898 (1)
  
  Mendyk Feliks (1)
  
  Mirańczyk Stanisław (1)
  
  Misiak Konstanty; 1888 (1)
  
  Miszewski Jan; 1899? (1)
  
  Mąkosza Tadeusz (1)
  
  Młynarycz Józef; 1922? (1)
  
  Nojek Leonard; 1893 (1)
  
  Nowak Jan (1)
  
  Nowak Jan; 1890 (1)
  
  Oldak Wacław; 1905? (1)
  
  Olejnik Marcin; 22.07.1910, Lublin (1)
  
  Olejnik Marian; 22.07.1910, Lublin (1)
  
  Osterweil Jakub; 1896 (1)
  
  Ozga Józef; 1897? (1)
  
  Pieniak Franciszek (1)
  
  Pierzyński Piotr; 1893 (1)
  
  Poczobutt-Odłanicki Antoni, 1904 (1)
  
  Podgórski Antoni; 1896.08.07 (1)
  
  Podhajski Wincenty; 1898 (1)
  
  Polak Wawrzyniec (1)
  
  Pytlak Jan; 1896 (1)
Subject
- Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (113)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (18)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (5)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (2)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (2)
  
  In exile – Siberia (2)
  
  Deported – the Volgograd Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (1)
  
  In exile – Volgograd Oblast (1)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Murmansk Oblast (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (1)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Vologda Oblast (1)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (112)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (70)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (58)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (45)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (41)
  
  Gryazovets (Russia, Vologda Oblast), NKVD POW camp no 150 (37)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), transit camp (33)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (28)
  
  Ukmergė (Lithuania), internee camp (28)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (26)
  
  Połąga (now in Lithuania), internee camp (24)
  
  Aleksandrov near Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (23)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (23)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (21)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (now in Lithuania), internee camp (20)
  
  Kalvarija (Lithuania), internment camp (17)
  
  Ulbroka (Latvia), internee camp (16)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (12)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (12)
  
  Kola Penninsula (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (10)
  
  Kulautuva (Lithuania), internment camp (9)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (9)
  
  Vladimir (Russia, Vladimir Oblast) (9)
  
  Wojtkuszki (Lithuania), internment camp (9)
  
  Kollag (Russia, Murmansk Oblast) (8)
  
  Moscow (Russia) (7)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast) (7)
  
  Mołodeczno (now in Belarus) (6)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), forced labor camp for POWs (6)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (6)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania) (6)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (5)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (5)
  
  Lilaste (Latvia), internment camp (4)
  
  Litene (Latvia), internment camp (4)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (4)
  
  Moscow (Russia), "Butyrka" NKVD prison, Novoslobodskaya Street 45c5 (4)
  
  Olita (Lithuania), internee camp (4)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (4)
  
  Wilno (now in Lithuania), Łukiszki prison, Więzienna Street ( Lukiškių Street 6) (4)
  
  Žagarė (Lithuania), internee camp (4)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (3)
  
  Grodno (now in Belarus) (3)
  
  Kaunas (Lithuania) (3)
  
  Leningrad (Saint Petersburg, Russia) (3)
  
  Lida (now in Belarus) (3)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (3)
  
  Nowogródek (now in Belarus) (3)
  
  Yaroslavl (Russia, Yaroslavl Oblast) (3)
  
  Babynino (Russia, Kaluga Oblast, Babyninsky District) (2)
  
  Barnaul (Russia, Altai Krai) (2)
  
  Białystok (2)
  
  British Mandate of Palestine (Israel) (2)
  
  Busk (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (2)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (2)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (2)
  
  Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (2)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (2)
  
  Kyiv (Ukraine) (2)
  
  Murmansk (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), NKVD prison, Radisheva Street 32 (2)
  
  Murmansk Oblast (Russia) (2)
  
  Niesłuchów (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (2)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (2)
  
  Putyvl (Ukraine), NKVD camp for POWs (Sofronievsky Monastery) (2)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (2)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (2)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Tomsk (Russia, Tomsk Oblast), NKVD prison, Leninsky Prospekt 44 (2)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (2)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (2)
  
  Vologda (Russia, Vologda Oblast) (2)
  
  Vorkuta (Russia, Komi Republic) (2)
  
  Warsaw (2)
  
  Wilejka (now in Belarus), prison, 1 Maja Street 50 (2)
  
  Yangiyul (Yangiyo‘l, Uzbekistan) (2)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (2)
  
  Akzal (Kazakhstan, East Kazakhstan Oblast) (1)
  
  Alma-Ata (Almaty, Kazakhstan) (1)
  
  Angielówka (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (1)
  
  Aralsk (Kazakhstan) (1)
  
  Arzamas II (train station, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Arzamassky District) (1)
  
  Ashgabat (Turkmenistan) (1)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (1)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (1)
  
  Bryansk (Russia, Bryansk Oblast) (1)
  
  Czepony (Lithuania) (1)
  
  Czorsztyn (1)
  
  Daugavpils (Latvia), internment camp (1)
  
  Dereczyn (now in Belarus) (1)
  
  Domanice (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Garwolin (mazowieckie voivodeship) (1)
  
  Georgievka (Koksaek, Kazakhstan) (1)
  
  Georgiyevka (Kalbatau, Kazakhstan) (1)
  
  Hermanów (Tarasiwka, now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (1)
  
  Hrubieszów (1)
  
  Husiatyn (now in Ukraine) (1)
  
  Ivanovo (Russia, Ivanovo Oblast) (1)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (1)
  
  Janowa Dolina (Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (1)
  
  Jaryczów Stary (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (1)
Victims
- Internees (166)
  
  The Poles (164)
  
  Policemen (108)
  
  Prisoners of War (88)
  
  The Inteligentsia (86)
  
  Border Guard (59)
  
  Civilians (56)
  
  The Civilian Population (53)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (49)
  
  The Jews (34)
  
  Border Protection Corps (30)
  
  Belarusians (27)
  
  Ukrainians (20)
  
  Deportees (19)
  
  The sick (18)
  
  The Sick (17)
  
  Women (16)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (14)
  
  Children (11)
  
  Russians/Soviets (9)
  
  Lithuanians (8)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (7)
  
  The Church (7)
  
  The Russians (6)
  
  Germans (5)
  
  The elderly (4)
  
  The Elderly (4)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (4)
  
  Estonians (3)
  
  Landowners (3)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (3)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (2)
  
  Latvians (2)
  
  Prison Guard (2)
  
  The British (1)
Perpetrators
- Lithuanians (59)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (54)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (34)
  
  Red Army (33)
  
  Denunciation (18)
  
  Collaboration (11)
  
  Latvians (8)
  
  Collaborators (3)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (2)
  
  Soviet Militia (2)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (1)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (1)
Crimes
- Forced labor (139)
  
  Biological extermination (134)
  
  Brutal interrogation/Tortures (89)
  
  Deportation/Exile (75)
  
  Arrest (73)
  
  Cattle wagons (51)
  
  Beating (40)
  
  Punishment cell (29)
  
  Robbery (21)
  
  Judicial crime (20)
  
  Disarmament (12)
  
  Death by shooting (7)
  
  Deportation (6)
  
  Roads of death (6)
  
  Execution (5)
  
  Armored weapons (3)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (3)
  
  Air raids (2)
  
  Cremation (1)
  
  Cremation of corpses (1)
  
  Displacement (1)
  
  Expulsion (1)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (1)
  
  Forced voting (1)
Place
- Internment camp (128)
  
  Forced labor camps for POWs (76)
  
  NKVD camp for POWs (65)
  
  Transit camp (45)
  
  (Soviet) forced-labor camp (18)
  
  Kolkhoz (13)
  
  Prison (13)
  
  NKVD custody suite (7)
  
  Sovkhoz (3)
  
  Mine (2)
  
  Spetsposelok (special settlement) (2)
Content
- Health service (124)
  
  Anders' Army (61)
  
  Polish culture in exile (52)
  
  Sikorski–Mayski Agreement (49)
  
  Amnesty (42)
  
  Communist propaganda (38)
  
  September Campaign/1939 Defensive War (22)
  
  Epidemics (18)
  
  Hindering reaching Anders' Army (8)
  
  Fourth deportation (5)
  
  Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (5)
  
  Students' Army Corps (3)
  
  Underground Activity/Diversionism and Sabotage (3)
  
  Women's Auxiliary Service (WAS) (3)
  
  First deportation (2)
  
  Second deportation (2)
  
  Underground culture and education (2)
  
  AB Action (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion) (1)
  
  Military hospital (1)
  
  Partisan warfare (1)
  
  Underground media (1)
Object type
- Account (55)
  
  Testimony from court/criminal proceedings (1)
Object Creation Date
- Start date: End date:
File creator ^?
- Independent Historical Office of the Command of the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union/Documentation Office of the Polish Army in the East (166)
Medium
- Text (166)
  
  Image (10)
Testimony availability ^?
- Full content available online (165)
  
  Full content available only at the Library of the Pilecki Institute (1)