Boguslaw Buchinger - Mother knew of amnesty
Describing how his mother knew of the amnesty but did not feel that she could take a chance to travel south with two children who were so young.
Michal Cendrowski - Uzbek weddings
Describing how they would get food whenever there was an Uzbek wedding
Edward Moczulski - Joining Army
Describing how each member of the family had a function in the Army
Teresa (Pyrska) Kosierb - Uzbek Orphanage
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.
Jadwiga (Rzeczycka) Rybiński - Left behind at station
Explaining how she would leave the train in search of food or hot water, and how she was left behind at one of the stations.
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
Roman Marchwicki - Reaching the Army
Czesława Grzybowska - Journey to Krasnowodsk
Jozefa (Kasznia) Kapera - Orphanage in Russia where Polish Officer found them
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 (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 …
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 …
Janina (Jane) Kulibaba - Leaving the camps
Teofila (siostra Maria Dionette) Werner - Recollections of the camp in Iran, 1942
Teofila (siostra Maria Dionette) Werner - Civilians evacuated from the USSR with the Polish Army
Maria Skałka (s. Maria Lucia) - Fates of the families of soldiers of the Polish Army in USSR
Teresa (Niedzielska) Sokołowska - Children part with their mother – Polish orphanage in USSR
Janina (Jane) Kulibaba - Polish deportees heading to southern USSR; Polish orphanage in Jangi Jul
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.
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
Stefan Waydenfeld - Amnesty and release
Stanisław Żurakowski - Evacutation and happiness
NN. Szkopiak - Evacuation
Aniela (siostra) Nowak - Evacuation