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Witness

Grabowski Ludwik 12.06./06.12.1882, Józefin (Halinów county)

Topic

Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks

Date

1944.03.07-1944.04.26

Location

Warsaw, Wspólna Street 53 Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 KL Ravensbrück (Germany) Sosnowiec (śląskie voivodeship), industrial labor camp (subcamp of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau) KL Gross-Rosen

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Witness

Podsiadła Stefania

Topic

Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks

Date

1941.01.11-1944.07.28

Location

Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 Odrowąż (Końskie district) KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2)

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Witness

Skibniewski Franciszek

Topic

Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks

Date

1942.12.15-1943.03

Location

Warsaw, Pawiak prison, Dzielna Street 24/26 Warsaw, 7th Blue Police Station, Krochmalna Street 56 Osuchowskie Woods Chojnowski Forest Stefanów (Żabieniec, Piaseczno county)

Witness

Damięcki Dobiesław 02.04.1899, Karniewek

Topic

Politics of the master race – institutions, economy, culture

Date

1939.09-1941

Location

Warsaw Warsaw, Polish Theater, Karasia Street 2 Odrowąż (Końskie district) Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2) KL Auschwitz-Birkenau

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Witness

Starzewski Stefan 02.04.1891

Topic

Wola '44 – genocide in Warsaw

Date

1944.08.05-1944.08.06

Location

Warsaw, Karol and Maria Children's Hospital, Leszno Street 136 (Leszno Street 30) Warsaw, St. Lazarus' Hospital, Leszno Street 127 (Leszno Street 15)

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Witness

Klemensiewicz Wacław 19.05.1886, Olkusz

Topic

Wawer Massacre '39

Date

1939.10.10-1944.09.15

Location

Anin (Warsaw), Poprzeczna II Street 3 Wawer, Błękitna Street/ Spiżowa Street (Warsaw, Cemetery of People Executed in Wawer on 27 December 1939, 27 Grudnia Street)

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Witness

Przyborowska Maria 29.07.1898, Warsaw

Topic

Pawiak, Szucha, Gęsiówka – Warsaw death blocks

Date

1939.10.01-1942.07.02

Location

Warsaw, Ghetto, Nowolipki Street 29 Palmiry Odrowąż (Końskie district) KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Warsaw, Poznańska Street Radom, train station, Podjazdowa Street (Beliny-Prażmowskiego Street 2)

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Witness

Borzykowski Tuwia (Tadeusz) 1911

Topic

Warsaw Ghetto – hell in the center of the city

Date

1940.10.02-1942.05.08

Location

Warsaw, Ghetto, Franciszkańska Street 22 (Franciszkańska Street 18) Treblinka, German extermination camp Warsaw, Ghetto, Franciszkańska Street 30 (Wałowa Street 7) Skarżysko-Kamienna

Witness

Machałowski Jan 22.02.1912, Warszawa

Topic

Mass extermination – KL Gross-Rosen

Date

1942.10.30-1945.06.15

Location

Warsaw, Gestapo detention center, aleja Szucha 25 KL Auschwitz-Birkenau KL Gross-Rosen KL Buchenwald (Germany) Warsaw KL Dachau (Germany) Leipzig (Germany)

Witness

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Topic

Mass extermination – KL Plaszow

Date

1943.03.13-1944.05.14

Location

Kraków, ghetto KL Plaszow Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Montelupich Street 7 Warsaw

Witness

Stankowski Kazimierz

Topic

Poles saving Jews – Lesser Poland

Date

1944-1945

Location

Lichwin (Tarnów district), Nowy Świat KL Gross-Rosen Warsaw Radzymin Tarnów (małopolskie voivodeship)

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Witness

Sendler Irena 15.02.1910, Warszawa

Topic

The Polish Righteous Among the Nations

Date

1939-1945

Location

Warsaw, Puławska Street 97 Chotomów, convent of the Sisters of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Żeligowskiego Street 18

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Witness

Torliński Leon 04.11.1913; Władysławowo (Wielka Wieś)

Topic

The Polish Underground State and its bid to help Jews

Date

1944.07.01.-1945.06

Location

Sandomierz Kielce Poznań Warsaw Chorzów (śląskie voivodeship) Kudowa-Zdrój Duszniki-Zdrój

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Witness

Karaś Maria 11.08.1919, Warsaw

Topic

The Polish Righteous Among the Nations

Date

1939-1945

Location

Warsaw Łysobyki (Jeziorzany) Starobilsk (Ukraine), NKVD prison, Kirov Street 32 Thuringia (Germany)

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Witness

Flint Szmul 1920?

Topic

The Gulag Archipelago – Komi Republic

Date

1940.05.20-1941.09.12

Location

Warsaw Białystok, prison, Szosa Południowa (Kopernika Street 21) Buzuluk (Russia, Orenburg Oblast) Zgierz (łódzkie voivodeship)

Witness

Świtkowski Maciej

Topic

Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region

Date

1939-1942

Location

Olesin (Mińsk Mazowiecki district) Radzymin Warsaw Dębe Wielkie (Mińsk Mazowiecki district)

Witness

Paziewska Regina

Topic

Poles saving Jews – Warsaw

Date

1942-1949

Location

Warsaw, Children's Home no. 6, Rynek Nowego Miasta Square 4 Pruszków Częstochowa

Witness

Mycielska Danuta

Topic

Poles saving Jews – Warsaw

Date

1939-1945

Location

Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście Street Nieborów (Łowicz district) Warsaw, Powązki Military Cemetery, Powązkowska Street 43/45 Sierakowice Prawe Sierakowice Lewe Września (Września district), Opieszyn Palace, Opieszyn Street 1 Warsaw, Visitationist Church, Krakowskie Przedmieście Street 34 Warsaw, Military Cemetery at Powązki, Powązkowska Street 43/45

Witness

Rechles Jaffa

Topic

The efforts of the Catholic Church to aid Jews

Date

1939.09-1956

Location

Warsaw, Ghetto Firlej (Lubartów district) Lubartów, train station, Przemysłowa Street 3 German extermination camp of Bełżec

Witness

Henkel Andrzej

Topic

Poles saving Jews – the Mazovian region

Date

1939-1945

Location

Warsaw German extermination camp of Treblinka Małkinia, train station Radzymin Gdańsk Wojewódki Górne Sokołów Podlaski, ghetto Piaśnica