Hall of Testimonies

My arrest, prison in Minsk, sentence to 5 years hard labour, deported to Sevzheldorlag, a penal labour Gulag camp, release on amnesty and journey to join and fight in WW2-Italy.

Mark Gigiera's story of arrest, Work in Siberia ....

Memoir written by John ( Jan) Drewniak about his and his family experience in World War 2. In 1941 Jan was conscripted into the Russian Army from his hometown Postolowka …

Available on this web linkl : https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80016763 Object description Polish civilian teacher in Baranowicz, Poland, 9/1939-4/1940; deportation from Poland to Soviet Union, 4/1940-4/1943; inmate in Ashkhabad Prison, Turkmen Soviet Socialist …

Autobiography of Zbigniew Pniewski . Nr ewidencyjny 3 DSK/Serial Nr in 3 DSK 1920/8 Escaped Poland in 1940, in order to avoid conscription into the German Army - made his …

Krystyna was one of the first of the Polish Children from Pahiatua to graduate from University in New Zealand at the age of 20. This is a talk she gave …

This is a memoir of Krystyna's time in Kazakhstan and her eventual coming to New Zealand as one of the Polish children who stayed at Pahiatua.

Maciej Zwierz was accepted to the Army Medical Academy (Szkola Podchorazych Sanitarnych (SPS-Ujazdow, Warsaw from 1935 to 1939. This is his account from his memoirs.

Dr.Maciej Zwierz later Dr. Matthias Zeville 1918 - 1988 was in the Army Medical Academy..... Szkola Podchorazych Sanitarnych or SPS - Ujazdow, Warsaw He was in PROMOCJA XIV – 1935-1939 …

– From Lwów, to the Siberian Gulag, Monte Cassino, Loreto and Lago di Como. In his own words, my father describes the outbreak of WW2 and his arrest by the …

They had new lessons for us in Political Upbringing. With the addition of the Byelorussian children, there was no room at the school, so we went to class in two …

Father came home from work early, from the county Office. They had given him a three-month salary and said that something strange was happening on the border, so all works …

Father came home from work early, from the county Office. They had given him a three-month salary and said that something strange was happening on the border, so all works …

Father came home from work early, from the county Office. They had given him a three-month salary and said that something strange was happening on the border, so all works …

Speaking of war … my mother had 4 young brothers, my father had 3. They started taking all these young men into the army. Everyone was so upset by it …

Father came home from work early, from the county Office. They had given him a three-month salary and said that something strange was happening on the border, so all works …

Speaking of war … my mother had 4 young brothers, my father had 3. They started taking all these young men into the army. Everyone was so upset by it …