Bolesław Makowski - Reaching Polish Army
Describing how he reached the Polish Army in Uzbekistan.
Zbigniew Wacław Wiśniowski - Zbigniew Wacław Wiśniowski
Czesław Borek - Accused of escape - defended by NKVD officer
Czeslaw explains how he and a friend were wrongly accused of having escaped from a work camp, and an NKVD officer defended them against this accusation.
Romuald E Lipiński - Kirgistan 2
Edward Bator - Joining the Polish Army
Traveling south to join the Polish Army
Ludwik Hajduk - Mother dies in Uzbekistan
His mother died, shortly after receiving a letter from her husband saying that they will soon join the Polish Army. She was buried next to her son Kazimierz in a …
Antoni Stelmach - Leaving the USSR
Antoni describes how his mother decided they should find the Polish Army, so they headed south and eventually evacuated to Persia.
Roman Marchwicki - Reaching the Army
Leokadia (Muchowska) Opioła - Amnesty Trip south
Describing how difficult the trip south was, and how many families were separated on the way.
Czesława Grzybowska - Journey to Krasnowodsk
Władysław Kuźma - Life in the USRR after the amnesty
Barbara (Kowalska) Kowalska - Father’s trauma
Zofia (Mertens) Teliga - Life after the amnesty
Zofia (Mertens) Teliga - Surviving USSR
Barbara (Lenkowska) Czartoszewska - Problems escaping USSR
Maria Nowotarska Kołodzińska - Leaving the camp on a raft
Maria explains how they heard about the ‘amnesty’, describes how her family built a raft to take them down the river, and how her father saved her from drowning.
Roger Scazighino - Samarkaand and the Polish Army
Describing the journey south to join the Polish Army
Roger Scazighino - Orphanage to Bombay
Describing how his mother was convinced to send them to India, and their overland trip by lorry from Uzbekistan to India.
Maria (Sztela) Juralewicz - Father dies on the train
Irena describes how their father suddenly died on the train, on the trip south, hours after her mother was left behind at one of the stations.
Maria (Sztela) Juralewicz - Learning that mother died in Buchara
Irena describes how a former neighbour from the Kresy was a witness to her mother having died in Buchara, Uzbekistan.
Artur Rynkiewicz - Wood for the stove on the train
Explaining how much wood they loaded into the goods wagon to keep the iron stove going throughout their journey south.
Artur Rynkiewicz - Getting food on the journey south
Explaining how he would have to leave the train at various stations, risking being left behind, in order to get some food for the others.
Sławomir Jerzy Sadowski - Fates of the deported family
Teresa (Niedzielska) Sokołowska - Children part with their mother – Polish orphanage in USSR
Maria Skałka (s. Maria Lucia) - Fates of the families of soldiers of the Polish Army in USSR