Stanisław Żurakowski - Evacutation and happiness
Stefan Waydenfeld - Amnesty and release
Janina (Szrodecka) Kwiatkowska - Problems after the amesty
Aniela (siostra) Nowak - Evacuation
Jan Kołodziński - Brothers death in train accident
Jan describes how his 17 year old brother, who had gone to get food for the family, tried to jump onto the train that was moving away from the station, …
Jan Kołodziński - Journey to Iran on trucks
Jan describes the journey over the mountains, in the back of lorries, and how he would have frozen to death if a kind lady had not lent him a blanket.
Irena (Chojnacka) Kuś - Guzer Junaczki Finds Fella then Persia
Irena joins the Cadets in Guzar and is assured food, clothing, and a place to sleep. She also locates her Aunt Felicia who joined the Women’s Auxiliary Army service. The …
Dioniza (Gradzik) Choros - Amnesty and finding the Polish Army
Dioniza describes how they learned that they were free to leave, and how they organized the trip south,.
Czesław Zychowicz - Evacuation from USSR
Dorota (Klausner) Leviner - Amnesty and first days of freedom
Dorota (Klausner) Leviner - The road to Buzuluk
NN. Szkopiak - Evacuation
Ryszard Saper - Polish Embassy in Kuybyshev
Wanda (Jabłońska) Gillon - Amnesty and leaving the camp
Wanda describes how the families grouped their valuables in order to pay for transportation to the southern USSR.
Elzbieta (Komar) Watrach - Train accident_Mother injured
Describing the train accident that occurred on the way to Krasnowodsk, and how seriously her mother was injured. In order to board the ship, friends disguised her mother by sitting …
Diakon Czesław Pukacz - Life on the Uzbek collective farm
Czeslaw describes how they lived while they were at the collective farm.
Ryszard Lange - Trip south and train accident
Describing how they made their way south from Kazakhstan, and the train collision that happened on the way.
Aleksandra (Jarmulska) Rymaszewska - Saved from the firing squad
Describing how she would have been shot by the Soviets, for stealing a railway tie, if it had not been for some quick thinking on the part of a fellow …
Władysław Niezgoda - Amnesty and leaving the camp
Describing how they learned of amnesty and how they organized to leave the camp, as well as the challenges along the way.
Anna (Slawetska) Bortnowska - Amnesty
A neighbour from Osmiana who joined the Polish Army and was on leave to look for his family, found them along with 17 people from Osmiana
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.
Regina (Rozwadowska) Gasztold - Father found them in Teheran
Regina describes how, by pure chance, her father found them in the camp in Teheran
Edward Moczulski - Joining Army
Describing how each member of the family had a function in the Army
Bernarda (Karbowa) Andrejczuk - People dying on the southbound train
Bernarda describes how people would die and their bodies were left on the side of the tracks, with no proper burial. Her parents would not have survived the trip south, …
Jerzy Wiktor Bockenhein - Grandmother dies and 10 year old sister buried her
Describes how he, his mother and his grandmother were all in hospital with typhoid. He was lying in the bed with his mother, and she was in a worse state …