Gallery – Polish Armed Forces in USSR

My father with a friend in the Middle East, year unknown.

Stan Gazdowicz

During WWII

Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)

Polish soldiers on parade, Middle East

Stan Gazdowicz

During WWII

Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)

Polish soldiers on parade, Middle East

Stan Gazdowicz

During WWII

Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)

Polish soldiers on parade, Middle East

Stan Gazdowicz

During WWII

Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)

My Father is third from the right, Does anybody recognise any of the other people in this photo? 1942/1943 ?

Stan Gazdowicz

During WWII

Iran

Do you recognise anyone in this photo? 1942/1943 ?

Stan Gazdowicz

During WWII

Iran

Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)

Boleslaw Kolodziej and friend - WWII - General Anders - 2nd Corps - Middle East

Zbyszek (Bob) Styrna

During WWII

Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)

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

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

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

Alicja R Edwards Art Work – Malaria

Alicja Edwards

During WWII

Iran

12th May 1942. Blagoveshchenskoye/Dzalalabad.

During WWII

Uzbekistan

12th May 1942. Blagoveshchenskoye.

During WWII

Uzbekistan

February 1942.

During WWII

March 1942.

During WWII

May 1942.

During WWII

June 1942.

During WWII

July 1942. Krasnovodsk.

During WWII

Uzbekistan

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 - drawing of donkeys in the mountains

During WWII

Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)

Suez Canal - dated 2.1.1944

During WWII

Egypt

Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)

1945 Drivers Licence from El Quassasin

Andrew Syska

During WWII

Egypt

Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)

Soldierès Diary / Kalendarz Zolzierza, scan1, 1942

Andrew Syska

During WWII

Russia

Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)

Soldierès Diary / Kalendarz Zolzierza, scan2, 1942

Andrew Syska

During WWII

Russia

Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)

Soldierès Diary / Kalendarz Zolzierza, scan3, 1942

Andrew Syska

During WWII

Russia

Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)

Soldierès Diary / Kalendarz Zolzierza, scan4, 1942

Andrew Syska

During WWII

Russia

Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)

Soldierès Diary / Kalendarz Zolzierza, scan5, 1942

Andrew Syska

During WWII

Russia

Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)

Soldierès Diary / Kalendarz Zolzierza, scan6, 1942

Andrew Syska

During WWII

Russia

Polish 2nd Corps in Italy (Gen. Anders)

1942 Quastina, 5th Company

Andrew Syska

During WWII

1945 Camp Barbara, V Company

Andrew Syska

During WWII