Halina (Januszewicz) Kozłowska - Leaving Kolhoz
Describing the journey from the kolkhoz to the southern area of the USSR.
Halina (Januszewicz) Kozłowska - Piano farewell
Describing how her brother had played 3 long overtures on the piano, while the NKVD officer and soldiers listened, transfixed, and let him play.
Halina (Januszewicz) Kozłowska - Russian invasion
Describing the scene as Russian tanks rolled into the city
Halina (Januszewicz) Kozłowska - Home in Kresy
Describing the pre-war family mansion.
Halina (Januszewicz) Kozłowska - Deportation
Describing their arrival in Barnaul and the Ukrainians who had been deported there previously.
Halina (Januszewicz) Kozłowska - Telling a mother her son died
Describing having to tell a mother that her son had died during the night.
Henryk Franciszek Kustra - Australia part 2
Frank describes how the builder he worked for in Australia was a driver in Iran, and had driven the Polish refugees from the Pahlavi to Teheran.
Henryk Franciszek Kustra - Deportation part 3
Being called a capitalist by the Russians.
Henryk Franciszek Kustra - Deportation part 2
Soviet soldier tells us we are lucky to be going to Kazakhstan.
Henryk Franciszek Kustra - Deportation part 1
Being taken from home by force, in the middle of the night.
Henryk Franciszek Kustra - Surviving Kazakhstan
Praying with the Muslims.
Henryk Franciszek Kustra - Australia
An Australian at the Cairo hospital said I should come to Australia after the war.
Henryk Franciszek Kustra - Italian Campaign
Our job was to drive around with the radio truck.
Henryk Franciszek Kustra - Middle East
Being told all that they will be learning, now that they will be educated.
Nina (Germanowicz) Czarna - Back from the exile
Nina (Germanowicz) Czarna - Polish woman in USSR
Nina (Germanowicz) Czarna - Pre-war Kresy
Julia (Niewiadomska) Gawryłow - Deportation
Julia (Niewiadomska) Gawryłow - Religion in the USSR
Julia (Niewiadomska) Gawryłow - Kazakhstan
Walentyna (Kowalska) Góriańczyk - School and Soviet invasion
Walentyna (Kowalska) Góriańczyk - The deportation
Walentyna (Kowalska) Góriańczyk - Conditions in deportation train
Irena (Gadomska) Jankowska - The fear