Antoni Goleniowski - Memoir
A typed/condensed version of my Grandfather's original handwritten Memoir
Barbara Witrzens - USSR
Barbara talks about her father following the family to the USSR following their deportation and then enlisting in Anders Army.
Stefan Halamaj - Deported to USSR
Stefan describes the Soviet invasion, being recruited by the Soviets at school as a trade apprentice but then being deported in a wagon to the USSR.
Jan Kazmierow - The morning of deportation
Jan describes the Soviet soldiers smashing up pictures of Saints on the morning of deportation.
Jan Kazmierow - Dead Polish soldiers in deportation train
Jan describes seeing dead Polish soldiers in the open carriages after the train stopped during deportation.
Jan Kazmierow - Sister dying on the sledge
Jan describes his sister dying on the sledge on the way to the Russian camp.
Stanisław Migut - Life in Uzbekistan
Stanisław Migut - Father in the hospital
Stanisław Migut - Life in Nowosibirsk pt 2. Jews
Stanisław Migut - Life in Nowosibirsk
Stanisław Migut - Sibir Pt 2
Stanisław Migut - Sibir
Krystyna (Kuchcicka) Tomaszewicz - Drownings on Barges
Krystyna describes the 3 day trip on a barge and how many people drowned, since it was very crowded and there were no barriers to prevent them falling into the …
Henryka (Zalewska) Żukowska - Russian told them to take all
Henryka describes how a Russian soldier helped the family by telling them to bring as many things as possible. This helped them survive by having items to barter for food.
Henryka (Zalewska) Żukowska - Sister taken from the hospital
Describes the conditions on the train and how her sister’s condition worsened and she was taken from the train to a hospital.
Jan/John Migut - Russians come 10 Feb 1940
Jan describes how the Russians came to get them and others, and take them to the train station.
Jan/John Migut - Girl in potato sack
Jan tells how a man on the train tried to save his daughter by putting her in a potato sack and lowering her outside the train at one of the …
Jan/John Migut - Describes the barracks
Jan describes how the barracks looked and the conditions they had to sleep in.
Andrzej Wieslaw Dębicki - Saved from going to Katyn
He was saved from being sent to Katyn with the other officers because a soldier he had known in Zakopane came up to him and told him to remove the …
Andrzej Wieslaw Dębicki - Dantes Inferno on barges
Andrzej describes the scene on the barges that took them into the depth of Siberia, and compares it with Dante’s inferno.
Bożena Wojciechowska-Osiecka - Poem
Stefan Bogusław Mączka -
Agnieszka (Mysliwa) Smolinska - Gave birth on the train
Agnieszka recounts how she gave birth to her daughter on the 4th day on the train – on 14 February 1940 – while the train was still on the Polish …
Aleksandra (Jarmulska) Rymaszewska - Propganda photos of joyful deportees
Describing how staged photos of the deportees were taken by the Soviets, for propaganda reasons.
Władysław Niezgoda - Life with Belorussians up to the deportation
Describing how the Poles and Belorussians co-existed in that area, then the Russian invasion and the day of deportation.