Hall of Testimonies

Describes how he was arrested by the Soviets, who were previously their allies, and was sent to the Gulag for 2.5 years.

Describing how he was heading back to home base after the Sept campaign and ended up joining the Home Army and being assigned a unit.

Describes his participation in the September campaign

I remember that there were wooden bunks, loaded up like sardines – children, the elderly. There was only a hole that was hacked out of the floor, to be used …

Explaining how they tried to distinguish the sounds of the tanks in order to avoid shooting on an Ally

Describing how they waited for the ship to take them from France to England, how they boarded, and then were bombed by a German plane moments after pulling away from …

Escaping Poland and traveling across Europe to join the Polish Army in France

Genowefa sings a wartime song that her father used to sing.

The situation was so bad that she nearly committed suicide

Describing the consecutive repressions by the Soviets, the Nazis, then the Soviets again, as well as the Ukrainians.

Describing how her family was attacked by Ukrainian neighbours

Explaining how the children were carefree and unconcerned with the worries of the adults, and how they would eat what they found growing wild in the jungle.

Explaining what her parents did in Uzbekistan, and how they sent her and her sister to an Orphanage so that they could have more food.

Describing the life-long effects that the constant hunger of her youth had on her life.

Answering whether the family spoke of these experiences when they got together socially.

Describing his first job in London England

Describing how the cadets reacted to the fact that the war was over.