Testimonies – German & Soviet Invasion

Interwar Poland did not distinguish between who came from what army. Father was an invalid, so he went before the commission and received a war invalid’s status, and got a …

Father was a policeman. As a young man, he had been part of the Polish Military organization “PAW” and was in the reserves when the war broke out. He was …

Father was a policeman. As a young man, he had been part of the Polish Military organization “PAW” and was in the reserves when the war broke out. He was …

Father was a policeman. As a young man, he had been part of the Polish Military organization “PAW” and was in the reserves when the war broke out. He was …

Father was a policeman. As a young man, he had been part of the Polish Military organization “PAW” and was in the reserves when the war broke out. He was …

And returning to how our journey began … my mother’s family lived in the West. At the onset of war, they were all escaping from the Germans. So my mother’s …

Everyone believed that there, in the eastern territories, the German army would be stopped. On the 17th, the Soviets invaded Tarnopol. The Soviet Worker’s Army. And I remember two things …

Speaking of war … my mother had 4 young brothers, my father had 3. They started taking all these young men into the army. Everyone was so upset by it …

Father came home from work early, from the county Office. They had given him a three-month salary and said that something strange was happening on the border, so all works …

Speaking of war … my mother had 4 young brothers, my father had 3. They started taking all these young men into the army. Everyone was so upset by it …

Father came home from work early, from the county Office. They had given him a three-month salary and said that something strange was happening on the border, so all works …

Father came home from work early, from the county Office. They had given him a three-month salary and said that something strange was happening on the border, so all works …

Father came home from work early, from the county Office. They had given him a three-month salary and said that something strange was happening on the border, so all works …

They had new lessons for us in Political Upbringing. With the addition of the Byelorussian children, there was no room at the school, so we went to class in two …

– From Lwów, to the Siberian Gulag, Monte Cassino, Loreto and Lago di Como. In his own words, my father describes the outbreak of WW2 and his arrest by the …

This is a memoir of Krystyna's time in Kazakhstan and her eventual coming to New Zealand as one of the Polish children who stayed at Pahiatua.

Autobiography of Zbigniew Pniewski . Nr ewidencyjny 3 DSK/Serial Nr in 3 DSK 1920/8 Escaped Poland in 1940, in order to avoid conscription into the German Army - made his …

Available on this web linkl : https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80016763 Object description Polish civilian teacher in Baranowicz, Poland, 9/1939-4/1940; deportation from Poland to Soviet Union, 4/1940-4/1943; inmate in Ashkhabad Prison, Turkmen Soviet Socialist …