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.
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),
The Polish state was born in 966 with the baptism of Mieszko I, duke of the Slavic tribe of Polans and founder of the Piast dynasty.
Polish independence ended in a series of partitions (1772, 1793 and 1795) undertaken by Russia, Prussia and Austria, with Russia gaining most of the Commonwealth's territory including nearly all of the former Lithuania (except Podlasie and lands West from Niemen river), Volhynia and Ukraine.
Polish nationalists were to remain among the staunchest allies of the French as the tide of war turned against them, inaugurating a relationship that continued into the twentieth century.
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