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Witness (date and place of birth)
- Anonim (62)
  
  Bazylewska Ludwika (30)
  
  Deja Stanisław; 23.04.1907, Kowala (23)
  
  Sulima Jan (11)
  
  Szczerbiński Jan (11)
  
  Mielniczuk Józef (10)
  
  Zając Władysław; 1898? (10)
  
  Bochen Stanisław; 1901? (9)
  
  Gałecki Wiktor; 1901? (9)
  
  Stopa F. (9)
  
  Sobczański J. (7)
  
  Sowiński Władysław (7)
  
  Stawiarski Eugeniusz (7)
  
  Baćmaga Walenty, 11.02.1902, Zakrzów (6)
  
  Fejkiel Władysław; 01.01.1911, Krościenko (6)
  
  Grodzicki Kazimierz (6)
  
  Kuryłowicz Adam; 21.12.1890, Kłyżów (podkarpackie voivodeship) (6)
  
  Marcinkiewicz Stefan (6)
  
  Myłyk Feliks; 03.02.1913, Chorzów (6)
  
  Rott Wiesław; 14.06.1914, Lublin (6)
  
  Russanowska B. (6)
  
  Szelest Kazimierz; 25.03.1917, Kraków (6)
  
  Zduńczuk Dionizy; 1898? (6)
  
  Iwanicka Maria; 27.01.1913 (5)
  
  Kieta Mieczysław; 30.12.1920, Kraków (5)
  
  Konferowicz Wacław; 13.05.1912, Ostrów Mazowiecka (5)
  
  Kruszyna Stanisław (5)
  
  Kwiatkowski Jan; 1911? (5)
  
  Madej Józef (5)
  
  Mankiewicz Franciszek; 1898 (5)
  
  Maroński Stanisław (5)
  
  Pietnowski Kazimierz; 14.11.1913 (5)
  
  Pilecki Jan; 27.01.1913, Warsaw (5)
  
  Piątkowska Antonina; 24.12.1900, Warsaw (5)
  
  Porębski Henryk; 01.07.1911, Solka (Romania) (5)
  
  Raczyński Mikołaj; 1897? (5)
  
  Sendecki Sylwester; 1903? (5)
  
  Zielonka Jan (5)
  
  Łukasiewicz Henryk (5)
  
  Czardybon Bernard; 18.06.1901, Chorzów (4)
  
  Dziopek Jan; 27.10.1889, Borek Stary (4)
  
  Gozdur Stanisław; 11.11.1891, Wola Solecka (4)
  
  Grabosz Ludwika; 1879? (4)
  
  Klimkiewicz Stanisław; 1895? (4)
  
  Kłodziński Stanisław; 04.05.1918, Kraków (4)
  
  Lizis Teofil (4)
  
  Nass Róża; 09.01.1907, Biała (Bielsko-Biała) (4)
  
  Olszówka Erwin; 24.09.1916, Chorzów (4)
  
  Rajewski Ludwik; 16.12.1900, Łódź (4)
  
  Rogalski Władysław; 1879? (4)
  
  Sendler Irena; 15.02.1910, Warszawa (4)
  
  Skrzyniarz Adam (4)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć county) (4)
  
  Smoleń Kazimierz; 15.11.1917, Łysa Góra (Brześć district) (4)
  
  Szymanowski Jan (4)
  
  Tomasik Marcin (4)
  
  Wojcikowski Stanisław (4)
  
  Wolny Stefan; 30.10.1903, Kamieńskie (Ukraine) (4)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now in Ukraine) (4)
  
  Woycicki Alfred; 21.06.1906, Lwów (now: Ukraine) (4)
  
  Łącki Mikołaj; 30.10.1888, Loyew (Belarus) (4)
  
  Adler Rubin; 24.11.1909, Końskie (świętokrzyskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Anonym (3)
  
  Banach Ludwig; 24.08.1917, Bydgoszcz (3)
  
  Banach Ludwik; 24.08.1918 (3)
  
  Barzał Czesław; 09.10.1915, Ostrów Mazowiecka (3)
  
  Bas Ludwik; 18.12.1912, Kraków (3)
  
  Bech Leon; 24.03.1989, Wola (3)
  
  Blinstrub Aniela; 1892? (3)
  
  Bochenek Marta; 19.09.1892 (3)
  
  Bogdanowicz Jan; 17.12.1894, Warsaw (3)
  
  Brach Jan; 1919? (3)
  
  Branny Paweł; 13.05.1888, Żuków Dolny (Český Těšín, Czech Republic) (3)
  
  Chlebowski Jan; 24.06.1907, Przemyśl (podkarpackie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Duda Konrad; 02.02.1914, Wartogłowiec (Tychy) (3)
  
  Dąbrówka Zofia; 1892? (3)
  
  Dąbski Stefan; 26.12.1919, Joanin (3)
  
  Fastman Ludwik; 31.07.1899, Drohobycz (now in Ukraine) (3)
  
  Filipowska (Freund) Ilza; 14.01.1902, Wrocław (3)
  
  Gil Piotr; 1897? (3)
  
  Grabczyński Jan; 21.05.1908, Tarnów (dolnośląskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Głowa Stanisław; 15.09.1898, Igołomia (3)
  
  Hołuj Tadeusz; 23.11.1916, Kraków (3)
  
  Hys Stanisław; 19.07.1910, Sobolew (mazowieckie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Igielski Jan; 12.01.1915, Stróże (Nowy Sącz county) (3)
  
  Jamróz Halina; 1919? (3)
  
  Janiszewska Barbara (3)
  
  Jastrzębska Eugenia; 1906? (3)
  
  Jurkowski Bronisław; 25.03.1890, Długie Kamieńskie (3)
  
  Juszczyński Antoni Michał; 01.06.1884, Warsaw (3)
  
  Kaczanowski Jan; 1913?, Rytwiany (3)
  
  Kiczmachowski Edward; 29.07.1920, Strasburg (3)
  
  Kiełbowski Paweł; 1892? (3)
  
  Kocińska Alicja (3)
  
  Koczorowski Józef; 01.02.1919, Poznań (3)
  
  Kopta Marian; 08.12.1911, Kraków (3)
  
  Korganow Marek; 11.03.1931, Warsaw (3)
  
  Kotlarski Mieczysław; 09.10.1913, Osieczna (wielkopolskie voivodeship) (3)
  
  Koziej Józef; 01.01.1901 (3)
  
  Kościuszko Janina; 17.05.1897, Chrzanów? (3)
  
  Kullanda Henryk (1)
Subject
- The Kielce region – the pacification of Polish rural areas (629)
  
  The Kielce region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (585)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death (426)
  
  The Radom region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (413)
  
  The epilogue to September 1939 – Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity (406)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German death factory (398)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Kielce region (297)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic (272)
  
  A shattered childhood – the Lublin region (253)
  
  In the inhuman land – enslavement, starvation, disease (241)
  
  In exile – Central Asia (183)
  
  The city condemned to death (167)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the fate of children in occupied Poland (162)
  
  Mazovia – the pacification of townships and rural areas (162)
  
  In exile – Arkhangelsk Oblast (161)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Mokotów (161)
  
  Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw (146)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Śródmieście (134)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp (125)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region (118)
  
  Across the Baltic States – the fates of the internees (113)
  
  Kielce - everyday terror (113)
  
  In exile – Siberia (112)
  
  The Katyń Massacre – reclaimed memory (112)
  
  Disrupted childhood – the Radom region (111)
  
  Street executions in Warsaw (110)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Mokotów (110)
  
  Clandestine teaching in occupied Poland (105)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of the Old Town (102)
  
  Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture (100)
  
  Ostrów region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (96)
  
  The tragedy of the Radom Arms Factory (91)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Arkhangelsk Oblast (86)
  
  A race against time – the road to Anders' Army (85)
  
  Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks (81)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Warsaw (78)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Śródmieście (76)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Ravensbrück (71)
  
  In exile – Ural (68)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Mazovia (67)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Ostrów region (64)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland (63)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Kielce region (60)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka – daily terror (55)
  
  To freedom – escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau (54)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Żoliborz (54)
  
  Stadion Leśny, Słowik, Herby – execution sites in Kielce (52)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Ural (51)
  
  Deadly medicine – Auschwitz-Birkenau (50)
  
  Majdanek – terror and extermination (50)
  
  In exile – Komi Republic (47)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Far East (47)
  
  Warsaw death ring – mass executions (45)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of the Old Town (44)
  
  The first at Auschwitz – transport from Tarnów (43)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Świętokrzyskie region (42)
  
  Warsaw '44 – the pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (41)
  
  Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city (41)
  
  Clandestine teaching – the Lublin region (39)
  
  Ochota '44 – genocide in Warsaw (39)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lublin region (39)
  
  Firlej near Radom – the training ground of death (37)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich (37)
  
  The persecuted church (37)
  
  Lebensraum – deportations from Lesser Poland (35)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Central Asia (34)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Powiśle and Czerniaków (34)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Lwów region (33)
  
  Radom – daily terror (33)
  
  Resistance movement in Auschwitz (33)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Siberia (33)
  
  Warsaw '44 – uprising in Praga (33)
  
  In exile – Vologda Oblast (32)
  
  Treblinka – extermination camp (32)
  
  Intelligentsia at gunpoint – terror against the Polish elite (27)
  
  Michniów – the annihilation of Polish villages (27)
  
  Michniów – the extermination of the Polish countryside (27)
  
  Warsaw '44 – pacification of Żoliborz (27)
  
  Selection – ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (26)
  
  Soviets in German captivity (26)
  
  Soldier's House, Fort VII, Żabikowo – the trail of death in Greater Poland (24)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Povolzhye (Volga Region) (24)
  
  Mass extermination – KL Plaszow (23)
  
  Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau – witnesses to Annihilation (23)
  
  The Częstochowa region – the pacification of townships and rural areas (23)
  
  Clandestine teaching – Warsaw (22)
  
  Executions in Mazovia (22)
  
  The Gulag Archipelago – Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (22)
  
  The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews (22)
  
  Pruszków – the town of the displaced (21)
  
  The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews (20)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Kraków (19)
  
  Poles saving Jews – the Ostrów region (19)
  
  The extermination of Jews under German occupation – Upper Silesia (19)
  
  Their lives forfeit – the underground movement in the Radom region (19)
  
  Humiliation, hunger and death – the Radom Ghetto (18)
  
  Wawer Massacre '39 (17)
  
  Forced laborers in the Third Reich – the Radom region (16)
  
  Poles saving Jews – Upper Silesia (16)
  
  Poles who saved Jews in the Kielce region (16)
Event Date
- Start date: End date:
Location
- KL Auschwitz I (554)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) (460)
  
  German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau (441)
  
  Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp (433)
  
  KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (425)
  
  Totskoye (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (327)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall (300)
  
  Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) (296)
  
  Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD POW camp (287)
  
  Warsaw (271)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V (220)
  
  Pruszków, Dulag 121 (207)
  
  Lugovoy (Kazakhstan) (182)
  
  Kozelsk (Russia, Kaluga Oblast), NKVD POW camp (Optina Pustyn) (176)
  
  Guzar (Uzbekistan) (174)
  
  Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) (170)
  
  KL Ravensbrück (Germany) (162)
  
  Lwów (now in Ukraine) (162)
  
  KL Gross-Rosen (144)
  
  Kotlas (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (140)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 (140)
  
  Shepetivka (Ukraine), transit camp (139)
  
  KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) (136)
  
  KL Majdanek (134)
  
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (129)
  
  Kielce (125)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, gas chamber and crematorium I (120)
  
  Sevpechlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (112)
  
  Warsaw, Ghetto (112)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 (106)
  
  Odrowąż (Końskie district) (99)
  
  Margilan (Uzbekistan) (95)
  
  KL Auschwitz I, roll call square (93)
  
  Radom, prison (Benedictine convent), Malczewskiego Street 1 (89)
  
  Radom (88)
  
  Siedlce (88)
  
  Kielce, the Prison on Castle Hill, Zamkowa Street 3 (85)
  
  Ostrów Mazowiecka (85)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine), prison no 1, Sverdlov Street 99 (Poltavsky Shlyakh Street 99) (83)
  
  Lublin (81)
  
  German extermination camp of Treblinka (80)
  
  Talitsa (Russia, Ivanovskaya Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (80)
  
  KL Dachau (Germany) (79)
  
  Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (78)
  
  Ukhta (Russia, Komi Republic) (78)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Little White House” (75)
  
  Tarnopol (now in Ukraine) (72)
  
  Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 (72)
  
  Włodzimierz (Włodzimierz Wołyński, now in Ukraine) (72)
  
  KL Auschwitz III (Monowitz) (68)
  
  Arkhangelsk (Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast) (67)
  
  KL Buchenwald (Germany) (67)
  
  Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 (66)
  
  Równe (Ukraine) (65)
  
  Vorkutlag (Russia, Komi Republic) (65)
  
  Farab (Kazakhstan) (64)
  
  Warsaw, St. Adalbert's church, Wolska Street 76 (64)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Zigeunerfamilienlager (63)
  
  Kraków (63)
  
  Busko-Zdrój (62)
  
  Kharkiv (Ukraine) (62)
  
  Skarżysko-Kamienna (62)
  
  Brześć (now in Belarus) (61)
  
  Treblinka, German extermination camp (60)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" (58)
  
  Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) (57)
  
  Firlej (Radom), municipal cemetery, Ofiar Firleja Street 45 (57)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Ramp III (57)
  
  Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) (56)
  
  Brody (now in Ukraine), forced labor camp for POWs (55)
  
  Ponoy (Russia, Murmansk Oblast), POW forced labor camp (53)
  
  Radom, Arms Factory "Łucznik", Poniatowskiego Street (1905 Street 1/9) (53)
  
  Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship), penal institution, Konarskiego Street 2 (53)
  
  Zwoleń (mazowieckie voivodeship) (52)
  
  Kowel (now in Ukraine) (51)
  
  Novohrad-Volynskyi (Ukraine), transit camp (50)
  
  Pavlishchev Bor (Russia, Smolensk Oblast), Yukhnovo R-43 camp (50)
  
  Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 (50)
  
  Łuck (now in Ukraine) (50)
  
  Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk, now in Ukraine) (49)
  
  Bochnia, train station (48)
  
  Minsk (Belarus) (48)
  
  Dubno (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (47)
  
  Bydgoszcz (46)
  
  Jalal-Abad (Kyrgyzstan) (46)
  
  KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna (46)
  
  Suzdal (Russia, Vladimir Oblast), NKVD special camp (Spaso- Evfimiev Monastery), Lenin Street 135k8 (46)
  
  Chokpak (Kazakhstan) (45)
  
  Równe (now in Ukraine), POW forced labor camp (45)
  
  Warsaw, SS-Stauferkaserne, Rakowiecka Street 4 (45)
  
  Warsaw, aleja Szucha (45)
  
  Wyłkowyszki (Lithuania), internment camp (45)
  
  KL Plaszow (44)
  
  Michniów (44)
  
  Ostashkov (Russia, Tver Oblast), NKVD camp for POWs (44)
  
  Volochysk (Ukraine), transit camp (44)
  
  KL Mauthausen-Gusen (Austria) (43)
  
  North-Pechora Gulag camp (Russia, Komi Republic) (43)
  
  Białystok (42)
  
  Radom, Gestapo headquarters, Kościuszki Street 6 (42)
Victims
- The Poles (7505)
  
  The Civilian Population (7027)
  
  Women (2925)
  
  Children (2615)
  
  The Jews (2099)
  
  The Inteligentsia (1346)
  
  The Sick (1129)
  
  Prisoners of War (1028)
  
  The Russians (762)
  
  Deportees (727)
  
  The Elderly (664)
  
  Ukrainians (612)
  
  Public servants/Civil servants (426)
  
  Families of "enemies of the people" (352)
  
  Belarusians (324)
  
  The Church (320)
  
  Policemen (312)
  
  Military settlers/Civilian settlers (248)
  
  Germans (169)
  
  Foresters/Forestry workers (164)
  
  Hungarians (132)
  
  Internees (127)
  
  The Roma and Sinti (125)
  
  Czechs (121)
  
  The French (101)
  
  Slovaks (80)
  
  Lithuanians (79)
  
  Members of Polish pre-war organizations (78)
  
  Border Guard (77)
  
  Belgians (74)
  
  The Dutch (68)
  
  Landowners (65)
  
  The Communists (63)
  
  The Disabled (60)
  
  Border Protection Corps (58)
  
  Veterans of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 (55)
  
  Greeks (54)
  
  Latvians (28)
  
  Italians (24)
  
  Romanians (23)
  
  Americans (22)
  
  Estonians (20)
  
  The British (17)
  
  Norwegians (14)
  
  Prison Guard (8)
  
  the Chinese (7)
  
  Finns (6)
  
  Scouts (2)
  
  Serbs (2)
Perpetrators
- SS (1484)
  
  The Secret Police of Nazi Germany (Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo) (976)
  
  Military Police (959)
  
  People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, NKVD) (672)
  
  Collaboration (468)
  
  The "Kalmyks"/ The "Cossacs"/ The "Russians"/ The "Ukrainians" (466)
  
  Red Army (339)
  
  The Wehrmacht, the Unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany (277)
  
  The Volksdeutsche/The Volksliste (225)
  
  NKVD Chief Directorate of Railways (NKVD train guards) (171)
  
  Soviet Militia (166)
  
  Denunciation (162)
  
  Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) (132)
  
  German Air Force (Luftwaffe) (109)
  
  Soviet Border Guard (74)
  
  The Russian Liberation Army (the Vlasov Army) (74)
  
  Lithuanians (58)
  
  The State Protection Police (Schutzpolizei, Schupo) (58)
  
  Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) (57)
  
  Blackmailers, the so called szmalcowniks (29)
  
  The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei) (27)
  
  Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) (23)
  
  The Russian National Liberation Army (RONA) (23)
  
  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (22)
  
  Special Services (Sonderdienst) (20)
  
  Latvians (18)
  
  The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) (18)
  
  Military Tribunal of the NKVD (17)
  
  The Factory Protection Police (Werkschutzpolizei) (15)
  
  SS-Totenkopfverbände (14)
  
  Waffen-SS (13)
  
  Railroad Police (Bahnschutzpolizei) (12)
  
  Lebensborn (Fount of Life) (11)
  
  Einsatzgruppen (9)
  
  The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Weiβruthenische Hilfspolizei, Schutzmannschaften) (8)
  
  Border Police (Grenzpolizei) (7)
  
  Administrative Police (5)
  
  Technical Support (Technische Nothilfe) (5)
  
  Security Office (4)
  
  Postal Protection (3)
  
  Assault Units (Sturmabteilung, SA) (2)
  
  The Navy of Nazi Germany (Kriegsmarine) (1)
  
  Werwolf (1)
Crimes
- Execution (3574)
  
  Forced Labour (3540)
  
  Arrest (3213)
  
  Shooting (3135)
  
  Biological extermination (2479)
  
  Beatings (2347)
  
  Brutal Interrogation/Tortures (1814)
  
  Deportation/Exile (1321)
  
  Deportation (1232)
  
  Robbery (1186)
  
  Robbery and damage to cultural goods/Damage to property (769)
  
  Cremation (748)
  
  Mass graves (742)
  
  Cattle wagons (638)
  
  Expulsion (554)
  
  Gas chambers (515)
  
  Punishment cell (513)
  
  Judicial crime (500)
  
  Round-up (491)
  
  Hanging (469)
  
  Economic exploitation (371)
  
  Burning people alive (320)
  
  Disarmament (298)
  
  Air raids (289)
  
  Medical experiments (193)
  
  Racial policy (189)
  
  Administrative persecution (165)
  
  The liquidation of ghetto (165)
  
  Roads of death (162)
  
  Rape (137)
  
  "Dosing" (131)
  
  Armoured Weapon (114)
  
  Death marches (110)
  
  Artillery fire (105)
  
  Desacration of corpses (90)
  
  Sovietization (73)
  
  The hate campaigns/propaganda (67)
  
  Human shields (62)
  
  Forced service in the Red Army (59)
  
  Forcing acceptance of Soviet citizenship (55)
  
  Germanization (44)
  
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Marchwicki Wojciech 31.05.1892

Auschwitz-Birkenau – the German factory of death

1941.01-1945.05.05

KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall

Ajdelman Gania 23.02.1924, Lubartów (lubelskie voivodeship)

Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp

1941.12-1945.05.16

Budzyń, German forced labor camp KL Majdanek Bełżyce, Ghetto Poniatowa, German forced labor camp KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Sauna Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau

Ciechanowiecki Adam 18.05.1900, Warsaw

Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp

1942.03-1945.01.13

KL Auschwitz I Paris (France) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) Drancy (France), transit camp KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ramp II KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bauhof KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), "Canada" KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau

Gordon Jakub 30.06.1910, Wilno (now in Lithuania)

Auschwitz-Birkenau - extermination camp

1942.07.12-1945.01.27

Treblinka, German extermination camp Jeziory (Belarus) Treblinka, German extermination camp Jeziory (now in Belarus) Grodno (in present-day Belorussia), Ghetto KL Sachsenhausen (Germany, Oranienburg) Grodno (Belarus), Gestapo headquarters, Horodniczańska Street Kielbasin (Belarus), transit camp KL Auschwitz I KL Auschwitz I, Block 10 KL Auschwitz I, Block 11 and Death Wall KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KL Auschwitz II (Birkenau), gas chambers and crematoriums II, III, IV, V Auschwitz-Birkenau, German extermination camp German extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Skarżysko-Kamienna German extermination camp of Treblinka Łosośna Wielka

Frączek Maciej 1909?

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Blicharz Magdalena 1902?

Majdanek – terror and extermination

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Szymanik Sebastian 1907?

Lebensraum – the Germanization of the Zamość region

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Jakubik Franciszek 1908?

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Rzeźnik Adam 1920?

Majdanek – terror and extermination

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Madej Roman 1914

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Deryło Antoni 1910?

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Kitaj Adam 1903?

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Kowalczyk Feliks 1915?

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Furgała Franciszek 1914?

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Buczko Józef 1890?

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Blicharz Jan 1907?

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Koszerny Jan 1918?

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Sarzyńska Katarzyna 1930?

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