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 …
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.
Teresa (Niedzielska) Sokołowska - Children part with their mother – Polish orphanage in USSR
Teresa (Niedzielska) Sokołowska - Deportees’ fight for survival
Romuald Mańkowski - Conditions in gulag
Describing the living conditions in the Gulag, and how they got worse after the Germans attacked the Russians.
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.
Edward Bobel - Work and life in exile
Edward Bobel - Meeting with one of Katyn killers (NKVD)
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.
Leonarda (Rynkowska) Rewkowska - Horrible journey
Leonarda (Rynkowska) Rewkowska - Under Soviet tyrrany
Józefa (Hryniewiecka) Rogacewicz - Hunger in exile
Helena (Lenkiewicz) Szołomicka - Exchange trade in exile
Helena (Lenkiewicz) Szołomicka - Chlidren’s drama in exile
Helena (Lenkiewicz) Szołomicka - Priests arrested
Maria (Lipska) Taraszczuk - Dreams in exile
Maria (Lipska) Taraszczuk - Barracks
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.
Czesław Budre - Return to Lida
Czesław Budre - First memories
Łucja (Czeszko) Budre - Religion under soviet rules
Łucja (Czeszko) Budre - Cold and insects
Nina (Germanowicz) Czarna - Back from the exile