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An auxiliary role towards the archival resource of the Institute of National Remembrance and the Arolsen Archives database is played by the public online database of the Personal Losses and Victims of Repression under German Occupation programme (www.straty.pl), which is run by the Polish-German Reconciliation Foundation and supervised by the Institute of National Remembrance.
The database contains over 5 million records related to the fate of Polish citizens repressed by the Third Reich, and is created on the basis of documentation stored in Polish and foreign archives, museums, memorial sites and institutions dealing with the history of World War II. It contains records regarding forced labourers, displaced persons, prisoners of war, fallen soldiers, prisoners of German prisons and concentration camps, victims of executions. Currently, the programme is supplemented with, among others, the names of Polish citizens who were buried in the territory of the Third Reich. Each record entered in the programme contains information about repression and a source basis indicating the institution which is the disposer of a given document.