Eugenia (Piotuch) Smolnicki - Lost will to live then got Pelegra
Eugenia’s health just kept getting worse and worse, and she was ready to give up completely. Then the lady who had lead her group out of Russia appeared, and told …
Halina (Januszewicz) Kozłowska - Telling a mother her son died
Describing having to tell a mother that her son had died during the night.
Halina (Januszewicz) Kozłowska - Identifying the dead
Describing how the deceased were identified, guessing at the age of the person.
Ludwik Hajduk - Life in the Junaks
Describing the bi-weekly medical tests, as well as the frequent haircuts. They would save the hair clippings and stuff leather balls with them.
Stanisław Migut - Evacuation to Africa
Maria Nowotarska Kołodzińska - English version of Polish song
Maria explains the song in English.
Maria Nowotarska Kołodzińska - Maria sings a Polish Song
Maria sings the song the lady taught her in the Persian hospital. Full text of the original song, by Teofil Lenartowicz (words) and Ignacy Komorowski (music): “Idzie sobie pacholę Przez …
Maria Nowotarska Kołodzińska - Hospital in Persia
Maria describes her stay in the hospital in Persia and talks about the lady who saved her from despair.
Roger Scazighino - Getting from India to Teheran
Describing the problems their mother had in getting them from India to Teheran.
Sławomir Jerzy Sadowski - Outdshoorn and further fates in Africa
Sławomir Jerzy Sadowski - Fates of the deported family
Joanna (Michalak) Synowiec - The fate of a Polish child in Iran, 1942
Maria (Żak) Szklarz - Evacuation with Anders Army
Henryk Franciszek Kustra - Middle East
Being told all that they will be learning, now that they will be educated.
Zbigniew Gondek - Classes in Middle East
Organization of classes in Middle East
Teofila (siostra Maria Dionette) Werner - Recollections of the camp in Iran, 1942
o. Łucjan Królikowski - Acceptance to priesthood studies
Zbigniew Ostrowski - Evacuation to Persia – mother’s dilemma
Józek Jagiełło - Chasing scorpions
Jozef describes daily life in Teheran and how he and his friends chased scorpions for fun
Józek Jagiełło - Ship to Bombay
Jozef describes the crossing to Bombay and how incredibly hot it was on the ship
Eugenia (Piotuch) Smolnicki - Young boy posessed by the devil
One night, every child in the room witnessed what seemed to be a boy possessed by the Devil
Eugenia (Piotuch) Smolnicki - Arrived in India - each Indian carried a small suitcase
Arriving in India, the children walked the kilometer or so to the camp. Walking beside each child was an Indian, who carried the child’s small suitcase. It was quite a …
Maria (Tarasiewicz) van der Linden - Living skeletons in Meshed hospital
Maria tells how she and her brother were examined in an American hospital in Persia.
Maria (Kapera) Cendrowska - Mother died in Teheran
Describing how her uncle found her mother in Teheran – she was very ill – and he told her that her eldest son had joined the Polish Army, and the …
Halina (Myszak) Babinska - Mother dies in Pahlevi
Halina’s mother became more and more ill as they were evacuated to Persia, and she died on the beach in Pahlevi just hours after they arrived there. When she died, …