Anna (Slawetska) Bortnowska - Orlenta
The Polish Army invented a formation called Orlenta in order to allow children who were too young to join Junacy a chance to also be evacuated to Persia.
Józef Jankowski - Józef Jankowski
Józef Jankowski - Józef Jankowski
Janina (Jane) Kulibaba - Transport conditions during Soviet deportation from Stanisławó
Janina (Jane) Kulibaba - Polish deportees heading to southern USSR; Polish orphanage in Jangi Jul
Maria Skałka (s. Maria Lucia) - 10 Feb 1940 deportation from Ostrów, Lwow voivodship
Teresa (Niedzielska) Sokołowska - Conditions of life of the deportees in the Archangielsk region
Teresa (Niedzielska) Sokołowska - Deportees’ fight for survival
Teresa (Niedzielska) Sokołowska - Children part with their mother – Polish orphanage in USSR
Teofila (siostra Maria Dionette) Werner - Starting school in Polish refugee camp at Santa Rosa
Maria Skałka (s. Maria Lucia) - Memoiries of the Santa Rosa Polish refugee camp
Maria Skałka (s. Maria Lucia) - Fates of the families of soldiers of the Polish Army in USSR
Maria Skałka (s. Maria Lucia) - Post-war reunion of family members
Teofila (siostra Maria Dionette) Werner - Civilians evacuated from the USSR with the Polish Army
Teofila (siostra Maria Dionette) Werner - Visiting Poland 33 years after her deportation to Siberia
Teofila (siostra Maria Dionette) Werner - Recollections of the camp in Iran, 1942
Joanna (Michalak) Synowiec - The fate of a Polish child in Iran, 1942
Janina (Jane) Kulibaba - Leaving the camps
Jozefa (Kasznia) Kapera - Do for Others like they did for Her
Jozefa describes how it has always been natural for her to do community work – like her years of work with the Polish Girl Guides in the UK – because …
Jozefa (Kasznia) Kapera - Route from Tengeru to UK
Jozefa explains the roundabout trip that the orphans took from Tengeru, Tanzania to London, England.
Jozefa (Kasznia) Kapera - Start of School in Masindi
Jozefa describes how they attended school in the open air, and had no supplies, before the school, church and hospital were built.
Jozefa (Kasznia) Kapera - Orphans all treated for Tracoma by Dr Sadoski
Jozefa describes how all the orphans had Tracoma (eye disease) by the time they reached Masindi. Dr. Sadoski recognized the symptoms and managed to treat them all.
Jozefa (Kasznia) Kapera - Russian then Polish orphanage in USSR
Jozefa describes how she and her younger sister ended up in a Russian orphanage, after their mother and sister died in hospital. A Polish Officer found them there and took …
Jozefa (Kasznia) Kapera - Uzbekistan_mother and sister die in hospital
Jozefa describes how the remaining 4 members of her family – her mother, her 2 sisters and she herself – were taken from the collective farm to a hospital in …