Ewa (Borkowska) Mikusiński - Almost missed getting fathers news
Ewa describes how they were already at the station, waiting to board a train south, when someone from the farm came to find them and bring a letter from her …
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.
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.
Stanislawa Teresa (Jakubowska) Pawlik - Train south 84 loaves
Describing how her father and brother-in-law organized the trip south, and how at one stop a Russian soldier allotted a loaf of break for each of the 84 persons traveling …
Leszek Makiewicz - Ship then train
Remembering the ship across the Caspian Sea, then the train from Pahlevi to Teheran.
Stanislaw Kocinierski - Father died on the train
Describing how his father got pneumonia and died on the train heading for Uzbekistan.
Stanislaw Kocinierski - Uzbekistan
Describing their life in Uzbekistan.
Wieslaw Adamowicz - Girl and brother die on barge
Describing how they travelled for 6 days on barges on the Amudaria River. During this time, the girl lying next to him died, and he never even saw what she …
Maria (Załuska) Strońska - Prayers in Guzar
Describing how important religion was to the deportees.
Tadeusz Szunejko - Reaching Pahlevi
Describing the scene when they reached shore and what happened then.
Tadeusz Szunejko - Playing anthem for Polish troops
Describing how he played the Polish hymn for soldiers at the railway station and they showered him with bread and money.
Tadeusz Szunejko - Father disappeared en route to Uzbekistan
His father was unwell on the train journey south. He got off at one station, to get food and water for the family, and they never saw him again. Red …
Andrzej Wieslaw Dębicki - Finding Poles in Uzbek Village
Describes how the younger, healthier soldiers were given money and transportation in order to scour the Uzbek countryside, looking for Polish citizens among the villages, so that they could provide …
Stanisław Lasek - Going south was a mistake
Stan explains how his father’s decision to take the family south was a mistake. In the north, they had access to mushrooms and berries in the forest that helped them …
Stanisław Lasek - Brother and sister die on the trip south
Stan describes how his brother Wojciech died on the train and his body was thrown onto a cart – the family have no idea where he was buried. The next …
Jan Kazmierow - Catching turtles in Turkmenistan
Jan describes how he and his brother Tomasz kept up their health in Turkmenistan by catching and eating turtles.
Krystyna Teresa Andrecka - Hardships endured through USSR
Krystyna retells the hardships of her mother and grandmother’s journey from USSR to Persia, being packed in wagons, starving and having to eat grass and dogs to survive.
Janina (Jane) Kulibaba - Polish deportees heading to southern USSR; Polish orphanage in Jangi Jul
Janina (Jane) Kulibaba - Leaving the camps
Ludwik Cytera - Written biography of Ludwik Cytera
This is the life story of Ludwik Cytera as discovered and written up by his grandson Christopher Cytera.
Mark Gigiera - Biography of Mark Gigiera
Mark Gigiera's story of arrest, Work in Siberia ....