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On Sun. 12 Nov 1944 1,014 arrested Polish Home Army and other partisan.....

1944-11-12

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1,014 arrested Polish Home Army and other partisan fighters were placed on a special train at Bialystok, Poland for the NKVD-run Ostashkov Special Camp in Tver Oblast, Russia.

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