Gallery – Soviet Forced Labour
Post card received by Morawski Family
Post card received by Morawski Family
Barbara Charuba
During WWII
Poland
Poldniewica, Szaryński Rajon, Gorkowskoja Oblast
A song about the Polish exiles in Poldniewica
A song about the Polish exiles in Poldniewica
Barbara Charuba
During WWII
Poland
Poldniewica, Szaryński Rajon, Gorkowskoja Oblast
“”"Amnesty”" document of K. Morawski and his daughter Barbara”
“”"Amnesty”" document of K. Morawski and his daughter Barbara”
Barbara Charuba
During WWII
Poland
Poldniewica, Szaryński Rajon, Gorkowskoja Oblast
Director’s certificate, Polish orphange in Wabkend
Director’s certificate, Polish orphange in Wabkend
Barbara Charuba
During WWII
Uzbekistan
Buhara
Workers at the work camp in Russia
Jozef is in the bottom row, first on the right, holding an axe.
Daniela Toth
During WWII
Russia
Jozef at work, cutting wood
Jozef at work, cutting wood
Daniela Toth
During WWII
Russia
Working book in Kohloz
Working book in Kohloz
Danuta Morgan
During WWII
Kazakhstan
Michal Szypowski as German POW
Michal Szypowski as German POW - Photo taken at Stalag XI B (Follingbostel, Germany), circa 1941-42.
Krystyna Szypowska
During WWII
Germany
Fallingbostel
September 1939 Campaign
Ksawery Harajda in Siberia
Ksawery Harajda in Siberia
Izabela Madajska-Kociuba
During WWII
Ksawery Harajda in Siberia
Ksawery Harajda in Siberia
Izabela Madajska-Kociuba
During WWII
Franciszek and Helena Kojder (back left)
Wladyslaw Beznowski (back right), Genia Beznowska (front right), with friends. Czary, Siberia 1941.
Apolonia Kojder
During WWII
Russia
North Battleford, Saskatchewa
Franciszek and Helena Kojder (back left)
Wladyslaw Beznowski (back right), Genia Beznowska (front right), with friends. Czary, Siberia 1941.
Apolonia Kojder
During WWII
Russia
North Battleford, Saskatchewa
Zosia Krukowska
Children in a Siberian Labour Camp The back of the photograph says... Na wygnaniu w tajgach W Archangelskiej oblasci. Zaozeirze 23.V.1941 roku. The autographs of the girls are: Teresa Jaworska, Olenka Rewajanka, Z. Rewanjanka, Halina Sobocka, Danuta Sobocka, Halina Makowska, Blan..a (..could be another n or rz) and my mother Magdalena Krukowska. My mother is the middle girl standing in the back row with the very thick braids. This photo was taken a couple of days before her 16th birthday. Does anyone recognize any of these names or faces?
Zosia Krukowska
During WWII
Russia
Archangelsk
Rail construction in Siberia
Rail construction in Siberia
Zbyszek (Bob) Styrna
During WWII
Russia
Jan Wójcik’s death certificate, issued in Tehran
Death, from dysentery, occurred in Krasnoborsk hospital, USSR on 1941-06-05, 2 months before the 'Amnesty'. (Jan Wójcik did forestry work in Piermogorskaja Zapan' - camp 108 in Archangielsk. His son, Pietruś, died on the same day, aged 8, in the camp.) The death certificate was issued on 1942-09-14, to his widow Józefa Wójcik, in Teheran Civilian Camp No. 3.
Stanisława Wherrett
During WWII
Persia
Teheran
Jan Wójcik’s death certificate, issued in Tehran
Death, from dysentery, occurred in Krasnoborsk hospital, USSR on 1941-06-05, 2 months before the 'Amnesty'. (Jan Wójcik did forestry work in Piermogorskaja Zapan' - camp 108 in Archangielsk. His son, Pietruś, died on the same day, aged 8, in the camp.) The death certificate was issued on 1942-09-14, to his widow Józefa Wójcik, in Teheran Civilian Camp No. 3.
Stanisława Wherrett
During WWII
Persia
Teheran
Handwritten Diary
Image of some pages of the handwritten diary of Zygmunt Palka.
Adrian Palka
During WWII
Russia
Stiepanówka in the Urals, USSR
Slave labour camp in which Władysław & his family stayed after being deported by the Russian NKVD in February 1940. Photo taken in 1940.
Barbara Ryszkowska
During WWII
Russia
Stiepanówka, Oblast Mołotowska
Stiepanówka in the Urals, USSR
Slave labour camp in which Wacława and her family stayed after being deported by the Russian NKVD on 10 February 1940. Photo taken in 1940.
Barbara Ryszkowska
During WWII
Russia
Stiepanówka, Oblast Mołotowska
Jan Raczkowski – details from IPN database
Details on his arrest and his imprisonment in the USSR
Henry Robaszewski
During WWII
Russian document
One of the Russian documents from the collection of Katarzyna Prociuk, exiled to Kazakhstan 1940-1945.
Halina Prociuk
During WWII
Kazakhstan
Red Cross document
Red Cross letter from Aleksander Prociuk, a POW in Germany, looking for his wife Katarzyna who had been deported to Kazakhstan.
Halina Prociuk
During WWII
Germany
Letter from exile (3)
Letter from Tomasz Prociuk, exiled with his mother Katarzyna and brother Jurek in Kazakhstan from 1940-45, to his father Aleksander Prociuk, who was in a German POW camp after the September 1939 campaign.
Halina Prociuk
During WWII
Kazakhstan
Letter from exile (3)
Letter from Tomasz Prociuk, exiled with his mother Katarzyna and brother Jurek in Kazakhstan from 1940-45, to his father Aleksander Prociuk, who was in a German POW camp after the September 1939 campaign.
Halina Prociuk
During WWII
Kazakhstan
Letter from exile (2)
Letter from Tomasz Prociuk, exiled with his mother Katarzyna and brother Jurek in Kazakhstan from 1940-45, to his father Aleksander Prociuk, who was in a German POW camp after the September 1939 campaign.
Halina Prociuk
During WWII
Kazakhstan
Letter from exile (1)
Letter from Tomasz Prociuk, exiled with his mother Katarzyna and brother Jurek in Kazakhstan from 1940-45, to his father Aleksander Prociuk, who was in a German POW camp after the September 1939 campaign
Halina Prociuk
During WWII
Kazakhstan
Jerzy Prociuk
Jerzy Prociuk was deported to Kazakhstan with his mother Katarzyna and brother Tomasz 13 April 1940, and repatriated to Poland in 1945.
Halina Prociuk
During WWII
Poland
kartka pocztowa
kartka pocztowa
Sybirak Assoc - Łódź
During WWII
Poland
Korszunówka, irkucki
kartka pocztowa
kartka pocztowa
Sybirak Assoc - Łódź
During WWII
Poland
Korszunówka, irkucki
list z zesłania
list z zesłania
Sybirak Assoc - Łódź
During WWII
Poland
Korszunówka, irkucki