Marsz śmierci
Subtitle: ewakuacja więźniów z Mińska do Czerwieni 24-27 czerwca 1941 r.
By: Joanna Stankiewicz-Januszczak.
Series: Historia najnowsza
Publisher: Oficyna Wydawn. Volumen; Rada Ochrony Pamięci Walk i Męczeństwa
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Warszawa
Language: pol
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Death marches -- Belarus -- Minsk Region.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Soviet.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Polish.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Lithuanian.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Belarus -- Minsk Region.
Genres: Personal narratives, Polish.; Personal narratives, Lithuanian.
Description: more info on the summary
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The FOREWORD of the author follows the INTRODUCTION, where I inform READERS how I was searching the survivers of the the ex-prisoner’s, who took part in”March of Death” and how I obtained the books on the subject and extracted from the chapters about “March of Death” to have the material on this subject as a whole.; title: Two drawings show the way prisoner’s marched and the place where the actual monuments are situated.; title: Part One - opens with the story “Bloody Travel by Stages”, based on the diary writen in 1941 with up to date commentaries by Joanna Stankiewicz.; title: Next comes the chapter,  How they shot us excerpt from the book by a Lithaunian Colonel Jonas Petruitis edited in 1942 in Wilno, and translated into Polish.; title: Followed by another extract from the book ”Road to Czerwień” by other Litauanian Colonel Juozas Tumas, edited in Canada.; title: The story of future Commandant of Nowogródek region of Polish Home Army was first published in London 1944 in the book “Katyń w świetle dokumentów” (Katyń in the documents).; title: Part II contains a chapter “Mohylew Highway” from the book entitled “If I will forget them...” by Grażyna Lipińska, edition SPOTKANIA, Warszawa 1990.; title: Part III contains the stories collected in interviews:; title: 1.Janina Badocha “ That wasnt a terrible dream” (a thriller); title: 2.Władysław Bruliński “Et contra spem spero’”(And I hope against the hope – a Latin saying).; title: 3.Jan Buczyński "The testimony of truth"; title: 4.Kazimiera Chylińska “I remember”; title: 5.Stanisław Cieciuch "A long ago souvenirs”.; title: 6.Stefan Darmochwał “The tragic moments of my life”.; title: 7.Konstanty Gierżydowicz “Such fate they prepared for us”.; title: 8.Jan Jankowski “The bits of souvenirs”.; title: 9.Tadeusz Kisielewski “Tajbo Stare (the names of a village) and its inhabitents”.; title: 10. Kazimierz Królikowski “Such was reality”.; title: 11.Leon Łajewski "It was like that”; title: 12.Michał Łukaszewicz “Thanks to Providence”.; title: 13. I survived the hell”.; title: 14. Piotr Przestrzelski “Such was our youth”.; title: 15.Jan Staniszewski “I wanted so much forget it”; title: 16. Mikołaj Złocki “But I survived it”; title: 17.Zabłocki “Story told by his wife”.; title: At the end of the book there is a list of known to me prisoner’s, who took part in the “March of Death” Polish citizens and separately Lithuanians, and list of persons still living in 1990-ties.; title: Each story contains short CW and date, place and circumstances of arrests, the jails in which prisoner’s remained and the most detailed description of the life in Mińsk jails, where most of the prisoner’s had been brought in the years turn 1940 and 1941, from different jails on the territory occupied by the Red Army on September 17th 1939. There were thousands of prisoner’s, which had to be judged at the beginning of 1941.; title: In Mińsk there existed two jails for political prisoner’s: the Central Jail in the Sapieha`s Family Castle and second “Amerykanka” (because of its modern shape and conditions) “Okrąglak”(round-shaped). In this second jail prisoniers were not only kept, but also persecuted and the; title: Supreme Court worked there some two weeks on the turn of January and February 1941. Lot of prisoner’s have been sentenced to death by President of Military Coledge of Supreme Court of Soviet Union Wasilij Ulrych very experienced judge for political processes since; title: 1935-37, when he sentenced to death: Tuchaczewski, Bucharin. Zinoview and other communist leaders.; title: In most of the stories you will find the description of the judgement and the names of other prisoniers being in the same cell (compartment,) what has permitted me to search for them and find them or their families when the prisoner’s were already dead.; title: At the end of the book there is the list and adresses of the persons who survived the “March of Death”, the list of the persons who took part in the “March of Death’ and a very detailed list of Litauens in the “March of Death”, as well as some photos of the celebration of the; title: Anniversary of the March (each year since 1994 last Saturday or Sunday of June.); title: After the book was edited I received one more story from Arizona in USA.