Gallery – Polish Armed Forces in USSR
Telesfor Sobierajski drawing 15
They hired a wagon and set off south. When they arrived in Tashkent they were happy to see Polish soldiers but the army was incapable of coping with these thousands of freed deportees. They continued south to Samarkand and eventually ended up working in cotton fields.
Telesfor Sobierajski
During WWII
Uzbekistan
Telesfor Sobierajski drawing 16
Soon they were moved back to the river where they went through a period little better than a term in hell. The nights were bitterly cold, they had no means of lighting a fire and they also suffered from terrible hunger. Very often the only food was grass and if it contained a worm so much the better! Then they were sent out to collective farms and lived in kibutki (clay sheds). There was neither work nor food. Here they spent Christmas 1941.
Telesfor Sobierajski
During WWII
Uzbekistan
Telesfor Sobierajski drawing 16
Not long after, Telesfor took heed of some advice and said goodbye to his family - and particularly his mother who died there. He reached the vast army camp at Guzar, then moved to Vrevsk. Here Telefor contracted typhoid, along with many others and was cared for by Polish mothers who did all they could to help. From Krasnovdsk he sailed across the Caspian Sea and landed in Pahlevi on 23 March 1942. The rest of Telesfor's story can be read in "Stalin's Ethnic Cleansing".
Telesfor Sobierajski
During WWII
Uzbekistan
Alicja R Edwards Art Work – Malaria
Alicja R Edwards Art Work – Malaria
Alicja Edwards
During WWII
Iran
12th May 1942. Blagoveshchenskoye/Dzalalabad.
12th May 1942. Blagoveshchenskoye/Dzalalabad.
During WWII
Uzbekistan
12th May 1942. Blagoveshchenskoye.
12th May 1942. Blagoveshchenskoye.
During WWII
Uzbekistan
February 1942.
February 1942.
During WWII
March 1942.
March 1942.
During WWII
May 1942.
May 1942.
During WWII
June 1942.
June 1942.
During WWII
July 1942. Krasnovodsk.
July 1942. Krasnovodsk.
During WWII
Uzbekistan
Unknown date. Probably Middle Asia 1.
Unknown date. Probably Middle Asia 1. - drawing of a donkey in the mountains
During WWII
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
Unknown date. Probably Middle Asia 2.
Unknown date. Probably Middle Asia 2 - drawing of donkeys in the mountains
During WWII
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
Suez Canal
Suez Canal - dated 2.1.1944
During WWII
Egypt
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
Zenon Baziuk
Zenon Baziuk - Brother of Anna, Jan and Danuta. Junacka, Mechanical Aviation High School
Mary-Anne Morgan
During WWII
Cadets on Lake Nazareth
Cadets on Lake Nazareth - Anna Baziuk is second front.
Mary-Anne Morgan
During WWII
Palestine
Women's Army Auxiliary Service
Jan Baziuk
Jan Baziuk - Junacka Airforce School. Brother of Anna, Zenon and Danuta
Mary-Anne Morgan
During WWII
Junak Airforce School
First photo after the gulags, 1942
First photo after the gulags, 1942 - First picture taken after release from Russian imprisonment.
Anna Kaczanowski
During WWII
Iran
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
Kazimierz Kaczanowski Polish 2nd Corps
Kazimierz Kaczanowski Polish 2nd Corps
Anna Kaczanowski
During WWII
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
Getting ready for journey to Iraq – Sept 16, 1942
Getting ready for journey to Iraq – Sept 16, 1942
Anna Kaczanowski
During WWII
Israel
Palestine
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
Getting ready for Iraq, 17.09.1942
Getting ready for Iraq, 17.09.1942 - Camp Barbara, Palestine
Anna Kaczanowski
During WWII
Israel
Palestine
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
Iraq, 1942
Iraq, 1942
Anna Kaczanowski
During WWII
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
Khanaquin, Iraq, 1942
Khanaquin, Iraq, 1942 - Kazik and an unknown soldier.
Anna Kaczanowski
During WWII
Iraq
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
Bagdad, Iraq – 1943
Bagdad, Iraq – 1943 - Kazik is on the right, with unknown soldiers.
Anna Kaczanowski
During WWII
Iraq
Bagdad
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
Kazik in Bagdad in 1943
Kazik in Bagdad in 1943 - Kazik (on the left) with friends.
Anna Kaczanowski
During WWII
Iraq
Bagdad
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
Kazik, 2nd Corps Heavy Artillery
Kazik, 2nd Corps Heavy Artillery - Kazik in the middle. Other soldiers unknown.
Anna Kaczanowski
During WWII
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
Kazik, Heavy Artillery
Kazik, Heavy Artillery - Kazik is 3rd from the right.
Anna Kaczanowski
After WWII
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
Military driver’s licence, 20.8.1942
Military driver’s licence, 20.8.1942
Anna Kaczanowski
During WWII
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
Khanquin, Iraq 19.02.1943
Khanquin, Iraq 19.02.1943 - General Anders or General Sikorski, from the back.
Anna Kaczanowski
During WWII
Iraq
Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)
1942 Quastina, 5th Company
1942 Quastina, 5th Company
Andrew Syska
During WWII