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Document 63

Report by USSR NKVD UPV on the Number of Polish POWs Held in NKVD and Narkomchermet Camps According to Rank or Profession

Not earlier than 8 April 1940, Moscow

Top Secret

Status as of 8 April This Year

1. Starobelsk Camp

Total held in the camp	3,894	people
Of these:	a) Generals	8	″
	b) Colonels	55	″
	c) Lieutenant colonels	126	″
	d) Majors	316	″
	e) Captains	843	″
	f) Other officers	2,527	″
	g) Priests	9	″
	h) Landowners	2	″
	i) Prominent government officials	5	″
	j) Police	1	″
	k) Son of a colonel	1	″
	l) Valet of Mościcki Name unknown; he was one of several valets serving Ignacy Mościcki, president of Poland from 1926 to 1939.	1	″

Comment: The policeman and the colonel's son have been left in the camp for operational consideration.

2. Kozelsk Camp

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Total held in the camp	4,599	people
Of these:	a) Admiral	1	″
	b) Generals	4	″
	c) Colonels	26	″
	d) Lieutenant colonels	72	″
	e) Majors	232	″
	f) Captains	647	″
	g) Naval captains	12	″
	h) Naval captains 1st rank	2	″
	i) Naval captains 2nd rank	3	″
	j) Other officers	3,480	″ “Other officers” included the only woman prisoner in Kozelsk camp, Polish Air Force Lieutenant (sometimes listed as Cadet Ensign) Janina Lewandowska. Her remains were found in the Katyn exhumations of April–June 1943.
	k) Priests	8	″
	l) Landowners	9	″
	m) High government officials	61	″
	n) Soldiers and noncommissioned officers (to be sent to Construction Site no. 1) Construction Site no. 1. was the road from Rovno to Lvov.	5	″
	o) Others (being verified for a decision on their further referral)	37	″

3. Ostashkov Camp

Total held in the camp	6,364	people
Of these:	a) Army officers	48	″
	b) Police and gendarmerie officers	240	″
	c) NCOs of the police and gendarmerie	775	″
	d) Rank-and-file police and gendarmerie	4,924	″
	e) Prison guards	189	″
	f) Intelligence agents and provocateurs	9	″
	g) Priests	5	″
	h) [Military] settlers	35	″
	i) Merchants	4	″
	j) Transferred from former Polish prisons	4	″
	k) Judiciary workers	5	″
	l) Soldiers and NCOs	72	″
	m) Others (being verified for a decision on their further referral)	54	″

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Total Prisoners of War Held in NKVD Camps	14,857	people This figure is for 1 April, so it does not include the transports sent from the camps between 1 and 8 April; see KD2/34, n. 1; KDZ2/77, n. 2.
Of these:	a) Admirals	1	″
	b) Generals	12	″
	c) Colonels	81	″
	d) Lieutenant colonels	198	″
	e) Majors	548	″
	f) Captains	1,490	″
	g) Naval captains	12	″
	h) Naval captains 1st rank	2	″
	i) Naval captains 2nd rank	3	″
	j) Other officers	6,055	″
	k) Priests	22	″
	l) Landowners	11	″
	m) High government officials	66	″
	n) Police and gendarmerie officers	240	″
	o) NCOs of the police and gendarmerie	775	″
	p) Rank-and-file police and gendarmerie	4,925	″
	q) Prison guards	189	″
	r) Intelligence agents and provocateurs	9	″
	s) [Military] settlers	35	″
	t) Merchants and major property holders	4	″
	u) Transferred from former Polish prisons	4	″
	v) Judiciary workers	5	″
	w) Son of a colonel	1	″
	x) Soldiers and NCOs (being sent to Construction Site no. I)	77	″
	y) Others (being verified for a decision on their further referral)	92	″

Camps for Prisoners of War Employed by Narkomchermet

I. Karakuba Camp

The Yeleno-Karakuba labor camp was the basis for establishing two independent camps, the Yelenovsk and Karakuba camps see KD2/34, n. 3.

Total held in the camp	820	people
Of these:	a) NCOs and rank and file	816	″
	b) Police and gendarmerie	4	″

2. Yelenovka Camp

Total held in the camp	1,070	people
Of these:	a) Officers (left by the head of the Stalin Oblast UNKVD)	1	″
	b) NCOs and rank and file	1,068	″
	c) Refugees	1	″

3. Zaporozhye Camp

The Krivoy Rog labor camp was the basis for establishing the Oktiabrruda, Dzherzhinskruda, Leninruda, and Nikopol-Marganets camps; see KD2/34, n. 3.

Total held in the camp	1,544	people
Of these:	a) NCOs and rank and file	1,516	″
	b) Refugees	28	″

4. Oktiabrruda Camp

Total held in the camp	2,662	people
Of these:	a) NCOs and rank and file	2,662	″

5. Dzberzbinskruda Camp

Total held in the camp	2,925	people
Of these:	a) Officers	2	″
	b) Police and gendarmerie	55	″
	c) NCOs and rank and file	2,834	″
	d) Refugees	34	″

[6.] Nikopol Camp

Total held in the camp	1,146	people
Of these:	a) NCOs and rank and file	1,103	″
	b) Refugees	43	″

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Total Prisoners of War Held in Narkomchermet Camps and Operations:	10,167	people
Of these:	a) NCOs and rank and file	9,999	″
	b) Newly discovered officers	3	″
	c) Police and gendarmerie (newly exposed)	59	″
	d) Refugees	106	″

[7.] Rovno Camp

Total held in the camp	12,702	people
Of these:	(a) Officers	4	″
	(b) Police and gendarmerie	11	″
	(c) NCOs and rank and file	12,593	″
	(d) Others (being verified for decision on their further destination)	94	″

Total Held in Prisoner-of-War Camps

37,726

people

Head of USSR NKVD UPV GB Captain (Soprunenko)

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Document TitleReport by USSR NKVD UPV on the Number of Polish POWs Held in NKVD and Narkomchermet Camps According to Rank or Profession

AuthorNKVD - People's Commissariat of Internal; Affairs (Narkomvnudel)

RecipientN/A

RepositoryRGVA

ID #f.1/p, op.01e, d.3, ll.142-146

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DateN/A

AOC VolumeKatyn: A Crime Without Punishment

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