Gallery – Soviet Forced Labour

Death, from dysentery, occurred in Krasnoborsk hospital, USSR on 1941-06-05, 2 months before the 'Amnesty'. (Jan Wójcik did forestry work in Piermogorskaja Zapan' - camp 108 in Archangielsk. His son, Pietruś, died on the same day, aged 8, in the camp.) The death certificate was issued on 1942-09-14, to his widow Józefa Wójcik, in Teheran Civilian Camp No. 3.

Stanisława Wherrett

During WWII

Persia

Teheran

pogrzeb zesłańca

Sybirak Assoc - Wrocław

Poland

pawłodarski, Kazachska SRS

list z zesłania

Sybirak Assoc - Wrocław

During WWII

Poland

Kazachska SRS

zaświadczenie szkolne

Sybirak Assoc - Łódź

Poland

irkucki

zesłańcy

Sybirak Assoc - Wrocław

During WWII

Poland

kartka pocztowa

Sybirak Assoc - Wrocław

Poland

świadectwo szkolne

Sybirak Assoc - Łódź

Poland

polska deportowana

Sybirak Assoc - Wrocław

Poland

izbicki

kpr. rez. Gajewski Walerian. Personal report #14816 p.4 from the Anders collection (Hoover Institution archive). Dated on 08.08.1942

kartka pocztowa

Sybirak Assoc - Wrocław

Poland

świadectwo szkolne

Sybirak Assoc - Łódź

Poland

polska deportowana

Sybirak Assoc - Wrocław

Poland

izbicki

1941 Jerzy Kozak and his grandfather (Joachim not sure) in Darovatka. Same man is in the next group photo with Maria + Zenobiusz. Same plank/board pattern, in both photos, likely taken same time. Deported from Sarkowka on Feb 10, 1940

Inscription on photo bottom right - “exile”

Personal collection

During WWII

Archangel Labour/Gulag Camps 1940-41, my family were split between Siencybino (No 2 on the map highlighted) where my Grandfather and family were and Szenczuga (No 1) In the Konosha District

During WWII

Russia

Letter from Tomasz Prociuk, exiled with his mother Katarzyna and brother Jurek in Kazakhstan from 1940-45, to his father Aleksander Prociuk, who was in a German POW camp after the September 1939 campaign.

Halina Prociuk

During WWII

Kazakhstan

kartka pocztowa

Sybirak Assoc - Wrocław

Poland

Kazachska SRS

1941 - Kozak family in Darovotka - Maria top middle, Zenobiusz bottom right. Likely grandfather (Joachim not sure) bottom left. Same plank/board pattern, in both photos, likely taken same time. Deported from Sarkowka on Feb 10, 1940. Photo taken before release on November 22, 1941.

During WWII

Russia

Darovatka

Aniela Zak 1884-1942 wife of Adam Zak (pictured) who perished in Siberia in 1942.

ziemianka

Sybirak Assoc - Wrocław

During WWII

Poland

Kazachska SRS

Ksawery Harajda in Siberia

Izabela Madajska-Kociuba

During WWII

kartka pocztowa

Sybirak Assoc - Łódź

During WWII

Poland

Irkuck, irkucki, irkucki

zesłańcy

Sybirak Assoc - Wrocław

During WWII

Poland

Kazachska SRS

Wladyslaw Beznowski (back right), Genia Beznowska (front right), with friends. Czary, Siberia 1941.

Apolonia Kojder

During WWII

Russia

North Battleford, Saskatchewa

kartka pocztowa

Sybirak Assoc - Łódź

During WWII

Poland

Irkuck, irkucki, irkucki

This map of Northern Kazakhstan shows where Julia, Jadwiga and Wladyslaw Pacewicz were deported to - Kazakhstan, Kiellrowski region, village Krasnodolsk. On the map there is a railway line going south from Petropavlovsk "Kiellrowska". In this region there is still a Polish Catholic Parish and many Polish descendants still living there. Map in the Sybirak Museum, Białystok

Anna Pacewicz

After WWII

Poland

Białystok

zesłańcy

Sybirak Assoc - Wrocław

During WWII

Poland

korespondencja do zesłanej

Sybirak Assoc - Wrocław

During WWII

Poland

Working book in Kohloz

Danuta Morgan

During WWII

Kazakhstan

1941 letter to family in USSR_front

Maria Brodowicz

During WWII

Soviet Union

1941 letter to family in USSR_back

Maria Brodowicz

During WWII

Soviet Union