Gallery – Soviet Forced Labour

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Eva (Borkowska) Mikusinski wrote/drew this while in exile, and sent it to her family back in Poland. She was given the letters and drawings when she visited the family in recent years, and was amazed that they had kept these since the war.

Ewa Mikusinski

During WWII

Kazakhstan

Dated 9-10-1941

Ken Fedzin

During WWII

Dawidkowce

kpr. rez. Gajewski Walerian Personal Card from the Anders collection (Hoover Institution archive)

kpr. rez. Gajewski Walerian. Personal report #14816 p.1 from the Anders collection (Hoover Institution archive). Dated on 08.08.1942

kpr. rez. Gajewski Walerian. Personal report #14816 p.4 from the Anders collection (Hoover Institution archive). Dated on 08.08.1942

Adam Zak 1919-1941
(son of Jan Zak) Perished in Siberia

Ipn File - Adam Zak 1919-1941
(Son of Jan Zak) perished in Siberia

Archangel Labour/Gulag Camps 1940-41, my family were split between Siencybino (No 2 on the map highlighted) where my Grandfather and family were and Szenczuga (No 1) In the Konosha District

During WWII

Russia

Russian Amnesty Database Records (31/08/41) of what they called ‘Special Settlement’ areas basically their Gulag Labour Camps.

Jan Zak 1882-1942 & Aniela Zak 1899-1942 (Arrived in the region 23/02/40)

Aniela Zak 1884-1942 wife of Adam Zak (pictured) who perished in Siberia in 1942.

Jan Zak 1882-1942 my maternal Grandfather, he is one of 17 Zaks (of 128 listed on IPN Records) of my family that were associated with the Exile of Poles to Siberia.

Maria Dobrowolska nee Zak (my mother)
Born 10/04/1924 Leszniòw Poland
Died 5/5/1986 Leicester England
Survived Exile to Siberia and settled in England