Gallery – Polish Armed Forces in USSR
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)
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)
July 1942. Krasnovodsk.
July 1942. Krasnovodsk.
During WWII
Uzbekistan
June 1942.
June 1942.
During WWII
May 1942.
May 1942.
During WWII
March 1942.
March 1942.
During WWII
February 1942.
February 1942.
During WWII
12th May 1942. Blagoveshchenskoye.
12th May 1942. Blagoveshchenskoye.
During WWII
Uzbekistan
12th May 1942. Blagoveshchenskoye/Dzalalabad.
12th May 1942. Blagoveshchenskoye/Dzalalabad.
During WWII
Uzbekistan
Alicja R Edwards Art Work – Malaria
Alicja R Edwards Art Work – Malaria
Alicja Edwards
During WWII
Iran
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
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 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