The investigation is conducted by the Branch Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Gdańsk. The decision to begin the instigation was made on December 12, 2000.

In the course of the investigation, it was stated that some people - both women and men, especially of a young age (below 20) - who lived in the territory of the Gdańsk Pomerania were illegally deprived of freedom and then placed in special, provisionally organized, places directly after the occupation of a given township by the Soviet secret services (NKWD) or the Soviet Army. Once a larger number of people were concentrated in one of such places, they were then transported to the NKWD camps in Grudziądz, Ciechanów, Działdowo and Iława, from where they were deported to the Soviet Union (Syberia). The deported people were then placed in labour camps for the periods varying from some to a couple of dozen months.

August 22, 2002