List of Polish Martyrdom sites
|
|
List of Polish Martyrology sites lists the sites, where Poles were detained, imprisoned, forced to slave labor and exterminated. This includes also concentration camps and camp complexes where persons of Polish nationality and citizens of Poland of other nationalities were detained as World War II combatants and victims of war and post-war repressions.
The article List of concentration camps for Poles contains the following lists:
- Sites of internment camps of the Security police (UB)
- Nazi concentration camps primarily for Poles (Polenlager)
- Extermination camps for children younger than 14 years old
A significant number of Poles were detained in German WWII concentration camps, see List of Nazi camps
List of Gulag camps marks those that detained people of Polish nationality. Poles populated Gulag camps in three major waves, see Polish minority in Soviet Union article.
List of camps linked to Katyn Massacre
As soon as September 19, 1939, the First Rank Commissar of the State Security, Lavrenty Beria (the People's Commissar for Internal Affairs) called the Board of the NKVD of the USSR for Prisoners of War and the Interned (Head: State Security Captain, Peter K. Soprunenko) ordered to set up camps for Polish prisoners. These were:
- Jukhnovo (rail station of Babynino),
- Yuzhe (Talitsy),
- Kozelsk,
- Kozelshchyna,
- Oranki,
- Ostashkov (Stolbnyi Island on Seliger Lake near Ostashkov), Putivl (rail station of Tetkino),
- Starobelsk,
- Vologod (rail station of Zaenikevo),
- Gryazovets.
Other
External reference
- Detainment of Poles related to WWII (http://www.abc.com.pl/serwis/du/2001/1154.htm)