Hall of Testimonies

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 explains the roundabout trip that the orphans took from Tengeru, Tanzania to London, England.

Jozefa describes how they attended school in the open air, and had no supplies, before the school, church and hospital were built.

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 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 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 …

Jozefa explains how she only learned in recent years about how her father died – he was one of the deportees that was on the ship that was sunk by …

Jozefa explains how she and her sister ended up in a Russian orphanage after they were released from the hospital where their mother and older sister died. A Polish officer …

Jozefa describes conditions in the Gulag and the family members who died there.

Jozefa describes what she remembers of relations with Ukrainians in the Kresy before the deportation of her family.

Stefan recounts the offensive on Monte Cassino in May 1944

Description of the barracks at the camp in Norylsk.

Describes an event in 1936 where he received an award at a scouting jamboree.

Bozena has a doll with her at the camp in Siberia, and the Camp Commander’s wife tells her mother that she will give a cup of milk per day to …

Bozena describes a scene that has remained vivid in her memory, of the moment when the train moved off.