World War II victims database

Seventy years after the outbreak of World War II, Poland will launch a database of some 2 million victims of the fighting. The database will be available on straty.pl, and will include the location and circumstances of the victims' death.

Statue of the Little Insurgent old towne Warsaw

Families or loved ones will have the option to add to the list of victims. Officials hope that the database will grow to 4 million names within a year or two. 'Launching such a database is a big event,' said historian Wojciech Roszkowski. 'Up until now, researchers trying to determine the number of victims always hit a wall. They weren't able to determine in various places how many were really died.'