Barbara (Rodziewicz) Witrzens - USSR 2
Barbara talks about her father and brother leaving with Anders Army but that she and her mother remained in Siberia for 6 years.
Barbara (Rodziewicz) Witrzens - Mother Arrested
Barbara talks about her mother being arrested in Siberia by the NKVD for teaching Polish children the Polish language.
Stanisław Migut - Evacuation to Africa
Stanisław Migut - Life in Uzbekistan
Stanisław Migut - Father in the hospital
Stanisław Migut - Life in Nowosibirsk pt 2. Jews
Maria (Sztela) Juralewicz - Attending Russian School
Maria describes the Russian school that she attended in Siberia and some of the subjects that she liked best.
Barbara (Wojcik) Wierzbicka - Child stolen by Russian lady
Barbara describes an event during her time in Siberia, when a Russian lady kidnapped her and kept her hidden for 2 weeks, while the whole camp looked for her.
Jan/John Migut - Uzbek Cemetary
Jan tells how the Uzbeks would bury their dead in a sitting position and place food on their lap. In order to survive, they dug up the food.
Jan/John Migut - Uzbek Kindergarten
Jan explains what the children did in kindergarten, and sings a song that he learned there.
Maria (Tarasiewicz) van der Linden - Snowstorm buries their Kazak dwelling
Maria describes how the hut was buried in a snowstorm and they were saved 3 days later, when others dug them out.
Maria Nowotarska Kołodzińska - Surviving Kazakhstan - sourcing food
Maria describes the different ways in which the children would find sources of food while they were in Kazakhstan.
Wojciech Narębski - Disease and Hospital
Agnieszka (Mysliwa) Smolinska - Uzbek Turtles saved them
Agnieszka describes how they would gather turtles and how they would prepare them in soups and other ways. Gathering and cooking turtles provided them with the food they needed to …
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 …
Diakon Czesław Pukacz - Life on the Uzbek collective farm
Czeslaw describes how they lived while they were at the collective farm.
Władysław Niezgoda - Bike taken to Siberia exchanged for a goat
Describes how the bike that he managed to take to Siberia, because it had been packed in a box, was exchanged for a goat, which provided milk for his infant …
Jerzy Wiktor Bockenhein - Christmas dinner in a can and ice in the house
Describing how his mother cooked some wheat in a can for their Christmas Eve dinner. Also describes how the hut they lived in would be buried in snow right to …
Jerzy Wiktor Bockenhein - Children would steal bread from the wagon
Describing how the children would sneak pieces of broken bread from the delivery wagon. (Note: Jerzy has had a stutter since the start of the war, when a bomb landed …
Zofia (Dudek) Kogut - Mother lost in the woods overnight
While in Siberia, her mother once went looking for mushrooms in the woods with another lady, and they became lost. They did not find their way back until morning. Had …
Zofia (Dudek) Kogut - Caught a rooster and cooked it
During their time in Kazakhstan, they had to do whatever was possible in order to find food. Once, a rooster wandered into their hut, and they quickly killed it and …
Bernarda (Karbowa) Andrejczuk - How were the Russians in Siberia
Bernarda describes how the Russian people who preceded them to the camp, and were still stuck there, were in the same situation as they were – sometimes their conditions were …
Irena Jabłońska - Orphans put to work
She remained in Irtysz (sp?) and she had frost bitten legs – her toes were black. The head of the orphanage was a Polish lady, and she helped cure her …
Irena Jabłońska - Russian orphanage
She was in an orphanage with mostly Russian children, and describes how there were 20 of them sleeping in one room, 4 to a bed (not really a bed, rather …
Romuald Mańkowski - Conditions in gulag
Describing the living conditions in the Gulag, and how they got worse after the Germans attacked the Russians.